Daily Archives: June 16, 2023
Philip Green to be Australia’s new envoy to India
NEW DELHI: Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Friday announced the appointment of Philip Green as Australia's next High Commissioner to India.
Cyclone Biparjoy lashes Gujarat, weakens into storm; heads to Rajasthan
AHMADABAD: The intensity of Cyclone Biparjoy, which lashed Saurashtra-Kutch region, has reduced from 'very severe' to 'severe' category hours after making landfall...
5 militants killed in encounter at LoC in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district
KUPWARA: Five militants were killed in an ongoing encounter at the Line of Control in Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said on Friday.
Docs accused of leaving scissors inside body after surgery in Jaipur hospital, patient dies
JAIPUR: A family has accused Jaipur's Fortis Hospital of negligence during a heart surgery and claimed that the doctors left surgical scissors...
Body of Indian national recovered from collapsed building structure in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The body of a 20-year-old Indian national has been recovered, almost eight hours after a building structure collapsed at a site...
Bill Cosby sued for sexual assault by 9 more women
CARSON CITY: Nine women have filed a lawsuit in Nevada accusing comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the latest in a long...
N Korea fires two missiles after Seoul, Washington stage drills
SEOUL: North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, the South Korean military said, less than an hour...
Chinese hackers ‘break into’ networks of global institutes
WASHINGTON: Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds...
Boris ‘deliberately’ misled House over lockdown breaches
LONDON: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately and repeatedly misled Parliament when he denied knowledge of Covid law-breaching parties in Downing...
100 sq km of land regained, claims Ukraine
KYIV: Ukraine has regained control of over 100 square kilometres, or 38 square miles, of territory in its counteroffensive against Russian forces,...