LONDON: The UK’s new Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme, which will be available to Qatari nationals in October and people in other Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Jordan in February, is at the vanguard of government plans to transform the country’s immigration services, a spokesperson for
GENEVA: Routine vaccination of children is picking up again after a dramatic drop during the Covid-19 crisis, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that dangerous gaps remain. Four million more children received routine childhood vaccines last year than in 2021, according to data published by the
DARFUR: The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan has taken control of a town in South Darfur, triggering clashes, looting and a new wave of displacement, conflict monitors and a witness said on Tuesday. Clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army around
ONTARIO: More than 42000 Canadian Sikhs flooded the Khalistan Referendum voting centre in Malton, Ontario, in the aftermath of the assassination of the Canadian national, pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, by two men. The second phase of Canada Khalistan Referendum voting was held within a month
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the plea of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi challenging the Gujarat High Court order which declined to stay his conviction in the criminal defamation case, in which he was sentenced to two years in jail by Surat
NEW DELHI: A Pakistani woman and her Indian husband have gone into hiding after threats from religious zealots, police said on Tuesday. Pakistani Seema Haider who married Sachin Meena after converting to Hinduism have reportedly been missing from their Greater Noida home near capital Delhi. Seema met
WASHINGTON: In what proves the optimization of capabilities of Kashmiri people in a free and a democratic society as compared to the choked environment in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a Kashmiri scientist, Dr Zaffar Ahmad Handoo, was presented the Society of Nematologists Fellow
MIRPUR: Brisk preparations have begun by Kashmiris, residing on both sides of the line of control and around the world to observe the 76th anniversary of Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan on July 19. Various social, political, and civil society organizations in Jammu & Kashmir are diligently
NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court has said that it will commence final hearing on August 7 in clutch of petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the case of gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members during the
JAKARTA: Southeast Asian countries struggling for unity on how to achieve peace in Myanmar were expected on Thursday to release a statement on their deliberations at a conference this week, with little sign of progress on their conflict-ridden neighbour. The 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations,