New York: A former Asian Championships bronze medal winner has allegedly admitted to murdering his wife and mother in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. American media reported that local police were responding to an emergency call in which the 62-year-old Iqbal Singh admitted to the two murders. According to NBC, Iqbal called the Delaware County 911 centre […]
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Jeanette Epps set to become first Black woman ISS crew member
Washington: NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is set to become the first Black woman to serve as an International Space Station (ISS) crew member after the US space agency assigned her to a 2021 mission aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Epps will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month expedition to the […]
TikTok sues Trump government over ban in US
San Francisco: China-based TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit against the August 6 executive order by the Donald Trump government that prohibited the company to do any business in the US. In a blog post, the ByteDance-owned Short-video making app said that it does not take suing the government lightly. “However, we feel we have […]
Snubbed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan tightens noose around terrorists
Islamabad/New Delhi: After a major snub from the leader of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Saudi Arabia, the Imran Khan government in Pakistan on Saturday once again claimed that it is cracking down on its terror groups operating against India. Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday released a list of 88 members of terrorist […]
Snubbed by MBS, Pakistan colludes with his rivals in House of Saud
New Delhi/Riyadh: After Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman snubbed Pakistan Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, who was seeking to ease tensions between the two countries, Islamabad has begun to collude with the rival factions within the Saudi royal family. Sources in Riyadh told IANS that Gen Bajwa who visited Saudi Arabia on […]
Pakistan Army, ISI chiefs in KSA on damage control trip
Islamabad: After Pakistan flexed its muscles and expressed disregard over the performance of the Saudi-led Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the Kashmir dispute, and Saudi Arabias subsequent rigid response and immediate demand for return of its financial aid to the cash-strapped Pakistan, Islamabads powerful military establishment is in Riyadh to mend the strained ties […]
China builds toilet on mosque site in Xinjiang province, orders forcible abortion of Uyghur Muslim women
New Delhi/Urumqi: Authorities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime have built a public toilet on the site of a mosque after demolishing it in Xinjiang province and also ordered forcible abortions of pregnant women as part of a campaign against the Uyghur Muslims. As per the reports of Radio Free Asia (RFA), a public toilet […]
3rd stage of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine may begin in 7-10 days
Moscow: The third stage of the research on the world’s first registered vaccine against the novel coronavirus, called Sputnik V, may begin in 7-10 days, a report has said. According to the Tass news agency, several tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in this research of the vaccine created by the Gamaleya […]
California becomes 1st US state with over 600k Covid-19 cases
San Francisco: California, the current epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, has became the country’s first state to have more than 600,000 confirmed cases, authorities said. A report released by the California Department of Public Health on Friday showed an increase of 7,934 Covid-19 cases, which included 3,505 new infections in 24 hours […]
New Zealand confirms 7 new COVID-19 cases
Wellington: New Zealand reported seven new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The new confirmed cases, all from community transmission, took the overall caseload total to 1,258, reports Xinhua news agency. Six were already linked to previous cases in the cluster outbreak, and one remained under investigation, it was […]