Five policemen, teacher sacked in IIOJK over terror allegations
Listen to article SRINAGAR: Five policemen and a teacher were sacked by the government in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) on Saturday over anti-India and terrorist allegations. According to a notification issued by the regional General Administration Department, these employees were dismissed because “law enforcement and intelligence agencies found them thickly involved in activities […]
Serbian president calls men beating women for Olympic medals ‘madness’
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said men beating women for medals is “madness” after a controversial Olympic boxing match between a female and a transgender athlete. “Imagine this disease and madness that began to rule the world, when men come, beat women, and get medals. Madness began to rule the world, and everyone went crazy,” Vucic […]
Trump agrees to debate VP Harris on Sept 4 – World
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has agreed to an offer from Fox News to hold a debate with Democratic US Vice President Kamala Harris on September 4, he said in a post on Truth Social late on Friday. “Rules will be similar to the rules of my debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been […]
Simone Biles secures third gold at Paris Olympics in vault final
Listen to article PARIS: Simone Biles won the vault final on Saturday to clinch her third gold medal at the Paris Olympics, dominating the competition with her signature Biles II vault to beat Brazilian silver medallist Rebeca Andrade with American Jade Carey taking bronze. Biles soared high into the air as she performed her explosive Yurchenko double […]
Khelif secures boxing medal for Algeria amid gender controversy
Listen to article PARIS: Imane Khelif beat Hungary’s Luca Anna Hamori by unanimous decision in a welterweight quarter-final fight at the Paris Games on Saturday to ensure Algeria’s first Olympic boxing medal since 2000. Khelif, a silver medallist at the 2022 worlds, and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting have been in the spotlight in recent days as part […]
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience – World
Student leaders rallied Bangladeshis on Saturday for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government weathered a worsening backlash over a deadly police crackdown on protesters. Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem last month that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina’s […]
Israeli airstrike on Gaza school kills 15 displaced Palestinians
CAIRO/ RAMALLAH: An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two strikes in the occupied West Bank killed nine fighters including a local Hamas commander, Hamas said. The Israeli military said the first of two West Bank airstrikes hit a vehicle in […]
Doctor reveals simple exercise tweak that can significantly extend your lifespan
LONDON: Although you might think training as hard as you can is best for your fitness and health, a doctor has revealed how one small change to your exercise can make you live much longer Making a simple change to how you exercise could make you live much longer, according to an NHS doctor. While […]
Pakistan ‘fully supports’ Iran’s call for OIC extraordinary meeting after Hamas political chief killing – World
Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday said that Pakistan fully supported Iran’s call for an “extraordinary meeting” of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike in Tehran, the Foreign Office (FO) said in a press release. The Islamic Republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, […]
Amid gender row, boxing body to award prize money to Carini despite Olympics loss to Khelif – Sport
The International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy’s Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds on Thursday, $50,000 in prize money, it said Friday. Carini pulled out in the first round after the Algerian, who is at the heart of a gender row, […]