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NEW DELHI: India’s August retail inflation remained below the central bank’s target of 4% for the second consecutive month, but vegetable prices continued to soar, dampening hopes of a dovish stance in the next monetary policy meeting. Annual retail inflation was at 3.65% in August, higher than the revised 3.60% in July and economists’ forecast of 3.5%. India’s […]
WASHINGTON: Two astronauts, a billionaire and an engineer, completed the first private spacewalk in orbit on Thursday outside a SpaceX capsule. They wore a new type of spacesuit in a high-risk feat once limited to astronauts from government space agencies. As part of the Polaris Dawn mission, the astronauts each spent about 10 minutes outside […]
NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges, a prosecutor said on Thursday, as the Manhattan district attorney’s office prepares to retry the former movie mogul following the reversal of his rape conviction. Jurors in Manhattan found Weinstein, 72, guilty on rape charges in 2020, but the New York Court of Appeals threw out […]
PESHAWAR: More than 100 Pakistan police who provide security for polio vaccination teams in restive border areas went on strike on Thursday after a string of deadly militant attacks this week. Police officers who are routinely deployed to protect polio workers going door-to-door frequently come under attack by militants waging a war against security forces. […]
MOSCOW: The Russian interior ministry has placed six foreign journalists on its wanted list for illegally crossing the Russian frontier to report inside the Kursk region after a Ukrainian cross-border incursion, the TASS news agency reported on Thursday. Russia’s FSB security service said last month it had opened criminal cases against several of the journalists, who include a […]
NEW DELHI: India and China agreed to redouble efforts to ensure complete disengagement on the contested Himalayan frontier, New Delhi said on Thursday after India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Russia. “Both sides agreed to work with urgency and redouble their efforts to realize complete disengagement in the […]
KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Thursday that letting Ukraine use longer-range weapons to strike targets inside his country would put NATO “at war” with Russia. The stark warning came as US and UK officials discussed Kyiv’s demand for them to ease rules on firing Western weapons into Russia, more than two […]
The US State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Chinese research institute and several companies it said have been involved in supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme. Washington similarly targeted three China-based companies with sanctions in October 2023 for supplying missile-applicable items to Pakistan. Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement that the Beijing […]
ISLAMABAD: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is expected to visit Pakistan in the first week of October, marking his first official trip to the country, diplomatic sources revealed on Thursday. Anwar Ibrahim will be accompanied by a high-level delegation during the visit. This will be the first visit by a Malaysian prime minister to Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, on Thursday sharply criticised the practice of reserving government jobs for bureaucrats’ children, emphasising the need for a transparent, merit-based hiring system. “Are bureaucrats’ children somehow special? How can someone claim a job and say their future generations must also benefit?” Justice Isa remarked during a hearing […]