A massive landslide triggered by monsoon rains swept away dozens of tea estate workers in southwestern India, police said Sunday.
The landslide in Idukki district, around 250 km from Kerala state's capital Thiruvananthapuram, occurred Friday but the (...)
Normal air services to and from Calicut airport in Kerala, disrupted after an Air India Express plane from Dubai crash-landed on Friday night, have resumed with the completion of follow up operations to the incident.
The first flight to land in (...)
The black box and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from the site of an Indian passenger aircraft crash in a southern state, a top official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Saturday.
The Air India Express plane, which (...)
With India registering 61,537 more cases, the coronavirus tally neared 2.1 million on Saturday, while 1.42 million people have so far recuperated from COVID-19 pushing the recovery rate to 68.32 percent, the health ministry said. The death toll due (...)
At least 17 people were killed after an Air India Express Flight IX 1344 from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway while landing around 7:40 p.m (India time) on Friday. The Air India Express plane, with 191 onboard, broke in two as it skidded (...)
India reported Friday that its coronavirus cases have doubled in three weeks to over 2 million, a sign the world's second-most populous country is struggling to slow the spread of the virus, Kyodo reported.
India reached the threshold after logging (...)
Facebook Inc.'s Instagram photo-sharing app is launching its clone of TikTok in more than 50 countries.
The new Instagram feature will let users record and edit 15-second videos with audio, and will let users add visual effects. Users will be able (...)
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH/ JEDDAH — In order to commemorate ‘Kashmir Siege Day', the Embassy of Pakistan in Riyadh held a webinar on Wednesday. The objective of the webinar was to highlight different aspects of the Kashmir dispute, human rights (...)
Coronavirus cases in India breached the two million mark on Thursday, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health.
The last million cases were recorded in just 20 days, faster than the United States and Brazil which have higher (...)
Microsoft Corp is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global business the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing five people with knowledge of the talks.
Microsoft has said it is seeking to buy the assets of TikTok in North America, (...)
Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the largest global jewelry retailer, has opened two new showrooms in India as part of its global expansion plans. The new showrooms were opened at Kumbakonam in Tami Nadu and Chandigarh in Punjab. Malabar Group (...)
The global death toll from coronavirus surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday as the total number of confirmed cases around the world hits more than 18 million, an increase of more than 1.7 million since last week, according to the latest figures.
Almost (...)
Facebook's Instagram is officially launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok Instagram Reels, AP reported.
The new Instagram feature will let users record and edit 15-second videos with audio, and will let users add visual effects. (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya on the land where the historic Babri Masjid once stood.
The medieval mosque was razed to the ground on Dec. 6, 1992 by mobs (...)
Ebrahim Alkazi, India's legendary thespian, passed away on Tuesday. He died of a "massive heart attack" at Escorts Hospital in New Delhi, Indian Express reported quoting his son and theater director Feisal Alkazi. He was 95.
Alkazi, credited for (...)
Jammu and Kashmir's Lieutenant Gov. Girish Chandra Murmu revealed that Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has witnessed tremendous development in the last year while stressing the new highways, state-of-art hospital facilities, educational institutions and (...)
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI — In what can be described as Pakistan's response to India's decision to strip the Indian side of Kashmir of its autonomy last year, Prime Minister Imran Khan unveiled on Tuesday a new "political map," integrating disputed (...)
CAIRO — In a tit-for-tat move, Egypt canceled all its Kuwait-bound flights after the Gulf nation included Cairo on the list of 31 coronavirus "high risk" countries and suspended its flight operation until further notice.
Egypt's national carrier, (...)
NEW DELHI — India's top minister has tested positive for coronavirus as the country struggles to stem the spread of the deadly disease.
Making the announcement on Twitter on Sunday, Amit Shah, India's interior minister, widely regarded as de facto (...)
South Africa has surpassed 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, but President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday he sees promising signs that the rapid growth of cases has stabilized and that the country's strained health system is managing to cope.
Health (...)
Kuwait has banned commercial flights to 31 countries, calling them high risk due to the spread of the coronavirus until further notice, the Kuwait news agency KUNA reported.
The ban was announced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the (...)
An unarmed Muslim man was savagely battered with a hammer near the Indian capital over suspicion of smuggling cow meat as the police watched the gruesome incident, the local media reported on Saturday.
The suspects thrashed the man, identified as (...)
The Union Territory of Ladakh is all set to transform for the better with the innovative and diligent implementation of the programs adopted by the new Union Territory. The successful implementation would bring about a sea change in the lives of old (...)
India has extended the suspension of all international passenger flights until Aug. 31 as it battles a surge in coronavirus cases.
India's aviation regulator, Director-General of Civil Aviation, announced the decision on Friday in a statement.
"The (...)
Anticipating a steady rise in passenger arrivals at international airports from Aug. 1, India's Civil Aviation Ministry here on Thursday reiterated that anyone traveling to India "shall give an undertaking, before boarding flights, that they would (...)
