Archive Detail
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Russia to support Belarus with $500 mn i | Moscow, May 30 (TIWN) Russia will support Belarus with $500 million in credit over the coming weeks, the leaders of the two countries have agreed. | 30-May-2021 |
6 people dead in Colombia protests | Bogota, May 30 (TIWN) At least six people have died in protests in the Colombian city of Cali, local media reported. | 30-May-2021 |
Myanmar Junta 'kills' rebel outfit's sec | Kolkata, May 30 (TIWN) The outlawed Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) in Myanmar has alleged its second-in-command, 'Major General' Sao Khun Kyaw, was assassinated on May 26 by killers sent by the military junta. | 30-May-2021 |
French Cos pledge support for India's he | New Delhi, May 29 (TIWN) The Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry (IFCCI) has raised over EUR 6.1 million (Rs 55 crore) from French companies based in India to support its ongoing fight against the Covid pandemic. | 29-May-2021 |
NZ extends travel bubble suspension with | Wellington, May 29 (TIWN) New Zealand on Friday extended the suspension of its quarantine-free travel with Australia's Victoria state until June 4 after recent reports in Melbourne of a growing number of Covid-19 cases. | 29-May-2021 |
Crowdfund offers fee for jailing Belarus | Minsk, May 29 (TIWN) One of Belarus' most famous entrepreneurs is launching a crowdfunding venture to put long-time President Alexander Lukashenko behind bars, the media reported on Fridau. | 29-May-2021 |
German man lands in court for hoarding N | Berlin, May 29 (TIWN) An 84-year-old man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of hoarding a stash of Nazi-era weapons, including an army tank, in the basement of his residence in the city of Kiel. | 29-May-2021 |
Malaysia hands over 8 alleged militants | Kuala Lumpur, May 29 (TIWN) Malaysian police on Friday handed over eight suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Islmaist terrorist group to the Philippines Army. | 29-May-2021 |
President of Tibetan govt in exile seeks | Kolkata, May 28 (TIWN) The Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGiE) will offer a "mutually beneficial" solution to the "Sino-Tibet conflict" through negotiated dialogue with China, its new Sikyong (President) Penpa Tshering has said. | 28-May-2021 |
Ultra-low doses of inhaled nanobodies ef | New York, May 27 (TIWN) Inhalable nanobodies targeting the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can prevent and treat severe Covid-19, according to a study in hamsters. | 27-May-2021 |
Indian-origin man among 9 victims of mas | New York, May 27 (TIWN) An Indian-origin man, who saved at least one person in a California mass shooting, was among the nine people killed by a railway worker who killed himself in San Jose, according to officials. | 27-May-2021 |
Sri Lanka fears oil spill from burning c | Colombo, May 27 (TIWN) Sri Lankan authorities fear a possible oil spill from a Singaporean container ship on fire off the country's western coast as the upper deck of the vessel was completely destroyed, officials said on Thursday. | 27-May-2021 |
Namibian Prez tests Covid positive | Windhoek, May 27 (TIWN) The President of Namibia, Hage Geingob, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said on Thursday. | 27-May-2021 |
Islamabad rejects Pentagon claim of acce | Islamabad, May 26 (TIWN) After the Pentagon official claimed that Pakistan has allowed the US to use its airspace and ground routes as part of its Afghanistan campaign, a debate is underway in Islamabad regarding giving such an access to the US. | 26-May-2021 |
62 freed from Taliban prison in Baghlan | Kabul, May 26 (TIWN) Afghan commandos have freed 62 people, including 36 security force members, from a Taliban prison in northern Baghlan province, the Defence Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. | 26-May-2021 |
Syria's polling stations opened for Pres | Damascus, May 26 (TIWN) Syria's polling stations opened on Wednesday across government-held areas in a Presidential election which is expected to give incumbent Bashar al-Assad a fourth term in office. | 26-May-2021 |
US journo detained at Yangon airport sho | Yangon, May 26 (TIWN) Authorities in Myanmar detained an American journalist, an employee at a local English-language publication, at the Yangon airport shortly before boarding a flight back home, according to his employer on Tuesday. | 26-May-2021 |
B'desh detects 1st case of black fungus | Dhaka, May 26 (TIWN) Bangladesh has reported a patient who recovered from the coronavirus infection in Satkhira as the first case of mucormycosis or black fungus, a top official said on Tuesday. | 26-May-2021 |
Aus state to reform sexual assault law | Sydney, May 25 (TIWN) The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) will adopt affirmative consent as part of a reform to its sexual assault laws, Attorney General Mark Speakman announced on Tuesday. | 25-May-2021 |
'EU-Russia economic cooperation increasi | Brussels, May 25 (TIWN) Economic cooperation between Europe and Russia is becoming increasingly difficult, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. | 25-May-2021 |
HK residents will require vaccination to | Hong Kong, May 25 (TIWN) Hong Kong residents will need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 if they want to travel abroad, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on on Sunday. | 25-May-2021 |
Iranian Parliament calls to limit cooper | Tehran, May 24 (TIWN) The Iranian Parliament on Sunday called to to limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), even though a resolution is in sight regarding talks with the US about ending sanctions linked to Tehran's nuclear programme. | 24-May-2021 |
Pak FM calls for UN's decisive role in r | Islamabad, May 24 (TIWN) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to take decisive measures and ensure implementation of the UN Charter and the UN Security Council Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir and play a key role in resolving the longstanding dispute. | 24-May-2021 |
Trump sued for calling Covid-19 'China v | Washington, May 24 (TIWN) Former US President Donald Trump has been sued by a Chinese-American civil rights group for calling Covid-19 the "China virus". | 24-May-2021 |
Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel- | Gaza, May 22 (TIWN) An Egypt-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, ending an 11-day bloodshed in the Gaza Strip. | 24-May-2021 |
Bangladesh beats India on per capita inc | Kolkata, May 21 (TIWN) Once described as a "bottomless basket" by US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Bangladesh is fast emerging as a bull economy, outpacing giant neighbour India in many indices of economic or human development. | 22-May-2021 |
Biden to receive S.Korean Prez at WH | Washington, May 24 (TIWN) S President Joe Biden will receive his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House on Friday for talks dominated by the North Korean nuclear threat. | 24-May-2021 |
Israel says Blinken to visit 'soon' as c | Tel Aviv, May 22 (TIWN) Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would visit the region in the coming days, as an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire to halt 11 days of bloody fighting between the Jewish state and Hamas was enforced on Friday. | 22-May-2021 |
German Chancellor candidates hold 1st TV | Berlin, May 22 (TIWN) The top three candidates vying to succeed Angela Merkel as the next german Chancellor in the September federal elections held their first televised debate hosted by the public broadcaster WDR. | 22-May-2021 |
Covid caused 1 mn extra deaths in 29 cou | London, May 20 (TIWN) Nearly 1 million extra deaths relating to the Covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income countries in 2020, finds a study published by The BMJ on Thursday. | 20-May-2021 |
Special envoy to monitor probe into atta | Male, May 20 (TIWN) Maldives President Ibrahim Solih has appointed British national Abbas Faiz as the government's special envoy to oversee the investigation into to a terror attack on former President Mohamed Nasheed, local media reported on Thursday. | 20-May-2021 |
Strong links between our hormones and Co | London, May 20 (TIWN) The human body's endocrine system that makes hormones is strongly involved in the SARS-Cov-2 infection -- the virus behind Covid-19 -- so much so that evidence of an "endocrine phenotype" of Coronavirus has emerged, according to a statement by the European Society of Endocrinology. | 20-May-2021 |
Aid ship carrying migrants sent around S | Rome, May 20 (TIWN) Italy has instructed the aid ship Sea-Eye 4, with over 400 migrants on board, to dock in the Sicilian town of Pozzallo, even though the vessel was headed for Palermo at the other end of the Mediterranean island. | 20-May-2021 |
Thailand clocks 3,394 new Covid cases, 2 | Bangkok, May 20 (TIWN) Thailand on Wednesday reported 3,394 new Covid-19 cases and 29 more deaths as the country continued to grapple with its worst virus outbreak so far. | 20-May-2021 |
NASA launches mission to study climate, | Washington, May 19 (TIWN) After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, NASA has launched a mission with scientific instruments aboard a self-propelled ocean glider and several airplanes to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change. | 19-May-2021 |
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal, 3 i | Kathmandu, May 19 (TIWN) An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the Lamjung district in northern-central Nepal on Wednesday, leaving at least three people injured, a local official said. | 19-May-2021 |
Indian expats in UAE warned against vax | Dubai, May 19 (TIWN) The Indian Consulate in Dubai has warned Indian expatriates against a WhatsApp message that is being circulated saying that the mission is seeking applications from those who want to have their parents in UAE on visit visas vaccinated against Covid. | 19-May-2021 |
Germany bans three organisations linked | Berlin, May 19 (TIWN) German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has banned three organisations known to have collected money for projects of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in Germany. | 19-May-2021 |
Covid-19 can infect cells in eye: Study | New York, May 18 (TIWN) A team of US researchers has, in an alarming study, found direct evidence that Covid-19 can infect cells in the eye. | 18-May-2021 |
On International Museum Day, Kunal Jaisi | Mumbai, May 18 (TIWN) On the occasion of International Museum Day on Tuesday, TV star Kunal Jaisingh recalled how he loved going on museum trips with his father. It is a reason working in the period drama "Kyun Utthe Dil Chhod Aaye" fascinates him, since the sets are full of antiques. | 18-May-2021 |
Covid monoclonal antibodies cut hospital | New York, May 18 (TIWN) Administering monoclonal antibodies -- a Covid-19 treatment given early after Coronavirus infection -- can reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death by 60 per cent in people most likely to suffer complications of the disease, according to study. | 18-May-2021 |
269 doctors die of Covid-19 in India | New Delhi, May 18 (TIWN) Doctors are risking their lives during the coronavirus infection with as many as 269 doctors having died during the second wave of the pandemic. K.K. Aggarwal, a Padma Shri awardee and former National President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), died of Covid-19 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. | 18-May-2021 |
Thailand reports record daily Covid case | Bangkok, May 18 (TIWN) Thailand on Monday reported nearly 10,000 new Covid-19 cases, a record single-day spike, after massive infection clusters were detected in the country's prison system, according to officials. | 18-May-2021 |
Turkey eases strict lockdown | Ankara, May 17 (TIWN) Turkey emerged from its strictest nationwide shutdown on Monday aimed at containing the coronavirus, but weeknight and weekend curfews will remain in place. | 17-May-2021 |
Vaccine mandates to be set locally: US C | Washington, May 17 (TIWN) Rochelle Walensky, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that mandates in the country for people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 have been left to individual companies and institutions. | 17-May-2021 |
'Oxygen for India' marathon fundraiser t | Toronto, May 17 (TIWN) The Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC), along with 80-odd community bodies, launched its 'Oxygen for India marathon fundraiser to collect $2 million to send oxygen equipment to India, even as Ontario announced to send 2,000 more ventilators to the Covid-battered country. | 17-May-2021 |
Aus state lifts temporary Covid measures | Sydney, May 17 (TIWN) The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) announced on Monday that the temporary Covid-safe measures in place for the Greater Sydney area have been lifted, despite the missing link between previous local cases. | 17-May-2021 |
US nurses' union condemns CDC's advice t | Washington, May 16 (TIWN) The US' union of registered nurses condemned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for lifting mask recommendations for vaccinated people in the country, stating that it would jeopardise the health of frontline workers, the media reported. | 16-May-2021 |
Reporter sentenced to prison in Belarus | Minsk, May 16 (TIWN) A correspondent for Deutsche Welle has been sentenced to 20 days in prison in Belarus, the German broadcaster said. | 16-May-2021 |
9 killed in Pak shootout | Karachi, May 16 (TIWN) At least nine people were killed and five others seriously injured in a shootout between two rival groups in Pakistan's Sindh province, local media reported on Sunday. | 16-May-2021 |