Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has broken the record for the most ever participants in a single Twitter Space, his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said in a tweet on Thursday. As per PTI, 1,65,000 people participated in Imran Khan’s Twitter Space. Twitter Space is a fairly new feature introduced…
Queen Elizabeth II, after her own recent bout with Covid-19, empathized with patients, doctors and nurses at a London hospital last week as she listened to their stories about life on the front lines of the pandemic. The monarch spoke to patients and staff at the Royal London Hospital during a virtual visit that…
Groups of girls headed back to class in the Afghan capital Wednesday after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondary schools, more than seven months after seizing power and imposing harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. All schools were closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic when the…
As the Russia-Ukraine war drags on into the fourth week, Ukraine has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing to send militia from the Wagner Group to assassinate its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other high-ranking Ukrainian politicians. ALSO READ | Conspiracy theory: Putin’s killer Wagner Group…
As Ukraine mourns its dead, scores of empty strollers were lined up in the cobbled central square of the city of Lviv on Friday to commemorate the children killed in the country since Russia’s invasion. Lviv city hall placed 109 strollers, or prams, in neat rows — one for each child killed since the start of the…
Nineteen people died while nine were injured in an attack by Russian forces on a TV tower, Rivne Oblast Governor Vitalii Koval said. “There might be more victims, as the rescuers are still working at the scene. The strike happened on March 14 in Rivne, a regional capital in northwestern Ukraine,” he said. Rivne is…
India’s coal imports from Russia in March could be the highest in more than two years, data from research consultancies showed, as Indian buyers continue buying the fuel from a market that is now increasingly isolated by sanctions. MORE AND MORE RUSSIAN COAL Russia, usually India’s sixth largest supplier of…
Prince William has become the latest figure to trigger outrage for responding in a ‘racist’ manner to the crisis in Ukraine, which has been invaded by Russia. During a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London on Thursday, March 10, Prince Williams reportedly said, “It’s very alien to see war…
Indirect US-Iranian talks on saving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal broke off until next week as European officials voiced dismay on Friday at sweeping demands by Iran’s new, hardline government. The seventh round of talks in Vienna is the first with delegates sent by Iran’s anti-Western President Ebrahim Raisi on how…
India will soon have administered one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, but the milestone masks a yawning gap between the number of people who have been fully inoculated and those that have had just one shot. While it is likely to hit the billion-doses mark this week, the country has only given two shots to 20 per cent…