NEW YORK — T.S. Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to United Nations, said that India has repeatedly been cautioning against the possible terrorist entities and individuals who have the accessibility of gaining chemical weapons. “Since we joined the Council in Jan. 2021, India has repeatedly been cautioning against the possibility of terrorist entities and individuals gaining access to chemical weapons,” said Tirumurti addressing a United Nations Security Council briefing on Syria (Chemical Weapons). “We are concerned at the frequent reports of a resurgence of terrorist groups in the region. As we have learned from the consequences of complacency against terrorism in the past,…
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s official residence in Islamabad has been put on the market for rent, reeling under a financial crunch. It has been reported that after the government of Pakistan, led by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, in August 2019 announced that they are planning to convert the Prime Minister’s House into a university, the residence was vacated by Khan. The federal government has now dropped the plan and decided to instead rent out the property. The federal cabinet, which had earlier announced a state-of-the-art federal educational institution at the Prime Minister House, has, as per the sources cited by…
MUMBAI, India — The demand for air travel between India and the Gulf country has grown, with Qatar relaxing the travel restrictions internationally. Go First, formerly known as GoAir, has announced flights between three Indian cities of Mumbai, Kochi, and Kannur to the capital of Qatar, Doha, from Aug. 5, noting the surge in demand. In May 2021, GoAir was rebranded as Go First. In 2017, it was the fifth largest airline in India with an 8.4 percent passenger market share. It started operating in Nov. 2005. As of March 2020, the airline operates over 330 daily flights to 36 destinations, including…
NEW DELHI — The Indian government has announced that the government will spend $3.37 billion on the growth and development of the Civil Aviation sector in the next 4-5 years. The Central government informed this development in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. In a written reply in the upper house, the Indian Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Vijay Kumar Singh, said that the government has taken several measures for reforms in the country’s Civil Aviation sector by providing top-class infrastructure and facilities. “The Airports Authority of India has taken up development program to spend…
The Fiverr freelancer marketplace teamed up with customer relationship management company Salesforce on Aug. 1 on a pilot program to train Israelis with disabilities as Salesforce administrators. This is the newest project of Fiverr Empower, which the Israeli-founded company launched in 2020 — during a time of global upheaval and unemployment — to help people with disabilities build their professional experience and find freelance employment opportunities through the Fiverr platform. During the six-week program, students will learn Salesforce’s tools and systems from Salesforce mentors while getting trained by Fiverr mentors on how to best use the Fiverr platform. After the…
LONDON — The United Kingdom will move India, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the ‘red’ to ‘amber’ list on Aug. 8, as the Covid-19 situation in these countries has improved. The list was created for international travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Travel to a ‘red list’ country isn’t advised. As per the amber list rules, before traveling to England, you must take a Covid-19 test. The list has a third category—green—with countries that pose the least Covid-19 risk. All changes will come into effect from Aug. 8, as per UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. “We are committed to…
MUMBAI, India — Indian Government-owned banking institution, State Bank of India (SBI), on Aug 3 reported its highest quarterly net profit of INR 6,504 crore ($876.13 million) in the April to June quarter, marking an increase of 55 percent in the year-ago period. Operating profit increased by 5 percent to INR 18,975 crore ($2.55 billion) in the first quarter of FY22 from INR 18,061 crore ($2.43 billion) in the first quarter of FY21. Net interest income increased by 3.7 percent year on year. On the other hand, non-interest income at INR 11,803 crore ($1.58 billion) grew by 24 percent, said the country’s…
“Alt-meat” innovator Redefine Meat announced the commercial launch of its first five products in select restaurants and hotels in Israel. Derived from plants but designed to satisfy carnivores rather than vegans, the Redefine Meat lineup consists of a premium 170-gram (6-ounce) burger, “pork” sausage, “lamb” kebab, Middle Eastern pastry-wrapped cigar and ground “beef” for open-flame grilling. Redefine Meat, based in Rehovot, is expected to reach Europe later this year, and the United States and Asia in 2022. The company, founded in 2018, also revealed that it will launch its first whole-cut range later this year following pilot-testing success. Redefine Sausage’s…
NEW DELHI — India’s ace shuttler P.V Sindhu has now won silver and bronze at the Olympics, and there is no stopping her before the next summer games three years from now. The 26-year-old had a billion eyes on her Tokyo campaign, which she was knocked out of in the semi-final against world number one Tai Tzu Ying (18-21, 12, 21). She then played He Bing Jao in the bronze play-off on August 1, which she stormed through in straight sets (21-13, 21-15), finishing third at the Badminton tournaments. Having returned to the country after clinching bronze at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, Sindhu said she is…
A Spanish photographer has recently joined the battle against climate change and man-made pollutants that impact the earth’s oceans and seas. Toni Bertran is determined to capture colorful and fascinating sea creatures to remind humanity to do more to protect the natural world. “We still know surprisingly little about this watery realm — so far, only 5 percent of our oceans have been explored. What we do know is that life under the waves is as rich, varied and fascinating as life on land,“ says Fauna & Flora International (FFI) — the world’s oldest international wildlife conservation organization. Toni Bertran said he…