Twitter losing $4m a day, Musk warns of bankruptcy
Reuters
11 November 2022 Technology
Facebook parent Meta to cut off 11,000 staff
AFP, Paris, France
9 November 2022 Business
US midterm: Control of Congress unclear in close battle
AP, Washington
9 November 2022 United States
Work together or face "collective suicide": UN chief at COP27
AFP, Egypt
7 November 2022 Climate action
Car bombs in Somalia leave at least 100 dead, 300 injured
Reuters, Mogadishu
30 October 2022 Africa & rest of the world
India successfully launches 36 OneWeb satellites
Star Digital Report
23 October 2022 India

Young Brits want to ditch monarchy: poll

Young people in Britain no longer think the country should keep the monarchy, a poll yesterday showed.
21 May 2021

BBC in a tight spot

The British government on Friday warned of potential action against the BBC, after unprecedented criticism from the royal family about its use of deception to secure a 1995 interview with princess Diana, piling pressure on the corporation as it fights attacks on several fronts.
21 May 2021

Gaza’s war in numbers

243 Palestinians including 66 children killed in Israeli air strikes in the besieged coastal enclave since May 10.
21 May 2021

Mamata to contest from Bhawanipore in by-polls

Mamata Banerjee, who swept the Bengal election but lost her own contest in Nandigram, is set to return to the seat she gave up in favour of challenging her former aide Suvendu Adhikari in his stronghold.
21 May 2021

Putin to ‘knock out the teeth’ of foreign aggressors

President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that Moscow would “knock out the teeth” of any power that tried to take a chunk of Russia’s territory
21 May 2021

Former top magazine editor acquitted of rape in India

An Indian yesterday court acquitted the former editor of a leading news magazine accused of raping a female colleague seven years ago in a high-profile case that made headlines across the country.
21 May 2021

Noted environmentalist Sunderlal dies at 94

India’s best-known environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, who coined the slogan that ‘ecology is the permanent economy’ long before the issue of climate change issue emerged, succumbed to Covid-19 at a hospital in Rishikesh yesterday at the age of 94.
21 May 2021

India asks social media firms to remove reference to 'Indian variant' of coronavirus

India's information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters.
21 May 2021

Israeli police, protesters clash at Al-Aqsa Mosque soon after ceasefire

Protesters have thrown stones and soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas amid unrest around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque today, just hours after Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire, reports DW.
21 May 2021

Young British people want to ditch the monarchy, poll suggests

Young people in Britain no longer think the country should keep the monarchy and more now want an elected head of state, with their mood souring over the last couple of years, a poll on Friday showed.
21 May 2021

Myanmar junta-appointed electoral body to dissolve Suu Kyi’s NLD

Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission will dissolve Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party (NLD) because of what it said was fraud in a November election, news outlet Myanmar Now said on Friday, citing a commissioner.
21 May 2021

Narada case: Calcutta High Court orders house arrest of 2 ministers of Mamata’s cabinet

The Calcutta High Court today ordered house arrest of four political leaders, including two senior West Bengal ministers who were held in the Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft.
21 May 2021

Israel-Hamas truce takes hold after 11 days of fighting

An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday and US President Joe Biden pledged to salve the devastated Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid after the worst fighting in years.
21 May 2021

US Senator Bernie Sanders moves to block Biden’s $735 million weapons sale to Israel

US Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution blocking a $735 million weapons sale to Israel on Thursday, mirroring a symbolic action by the House of Representatives in response to conflict between Israel and Gaza's Hamas leaders.
21 May 2021

Putin threatens to 'knock out the teeth' of foreign aggressors

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would "knock out the teeth" of any power that tried to take a chunk of Russia's territory.
20 May 2021

Microsoft to unplug Internet Explorer as it seeks edge in browser war

Microsoft Corp is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser.
20 May 2021

Record 55m people internally displaced worldwide

Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors said yesterday.
20 May 2021

‘Roof knocking’

A text message, a phone call, or an initial strike on the roof. Israel says it gives Gaza civilians warnings to evacuate before bombardment, but activists say it is not nearly enough.
20 May 2021

Biden sticks to the playbook, but why?

With his muted response to the Gaza conflict, President Joe Biden is largely sticking to a time-worn US playbook despite pressure from progressive Democrats for a tougher line toward Israel and from America’s allies for a more active role to end the violence.
20 May 2021

‘Mama, Baba, Boom!’

The Mashharawi family have already fled their home to a relative’s apartment in the Gaza Strip and are prepared for another dash at any time.
20 May 2021