Pakistan interior minister Sarfaraz Bugti has blamed India’s Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence agency for a suicide blast in Balochistan on Friday that killed 60 people and injured 60 others. The Indian government is yet to make an official statement on Bugti’s allegation. A bomb explodes during a procession on Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, in Balochistan province …
Pakistan on Saturday accused India’s intelligence agency of being involved in two suicide blasts on Friday as the death toll rose to 65. The explosion took place near a mosque in Balochistan’s Mastung district after a bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle where people were gathering for a procession to mark the birthday …
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The sounds of mourning have coursed through the small Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq since late Tuesday, when a fire destroyed a wedding hall in the middle of a reception, touching not only this village, but Iraq’s entire Christian community. As of Friday night, at least 119 people were dead and an unknown …
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The second of two much-delayed and over-budget ferries will not be completed until May 2025 and the cost of both vessels has soared further, it has emerged. The Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa, which are being built at the troubled Scottish government-owned shipyard Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow, were originally due to be in service …
A Treasury minister refused to rule out further tax rises before the next general election despite a report concluding the tax burden is on course to rise by more in the current parliament than during any other since the Second World War. Andrew Griffith, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, was asked this morning if …
Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson have overseen the largest set of tax rises since the Second World War, according to economic analysis. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimates that – by the time of the next general election – the tax burden will have risen to around 37% of national income. This equates to …
NEW DELHI : Indian benchmark indices fell the most in six days on Thursday on continued selling by foreign institutional investors (FII) amid rising oil prices and US bond yields and weak Asian markets like Hang Seng and Nikkei 225 which plunged almost a per cent and a half each. Indian investors were left poorer …
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The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $925 million after no players hit it big Wednesday night, continuing a stretch of lottery futility that has lasted for more than two months. The winning numbers were: 1, 7, 46, 47, 63 and red Powerball 7. The jackpot for the next drawing Saturday night remains the world’s ninth-largest …
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Esha Singh loves to cook and dance; she is even carrying a rice cooker in Hangzhou to cook some homemade food. On Wednesday, with the heat on in the sanitised Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre range, she conjured a perfect recipe for a medal and danced her way from mid-table to the top two to continue …
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The post has also attracted some hilarious responses. It seems someone has flashed the Bat Signal in Bengaluru, because Batman is in the city – or at least the Batmobile is. A video posted by a user on X, formerly Twitter, shows four automobiles being driven out of what appears to be the garage of …
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Hungry and exhausted Armenian families jammed roads on Tuesday to flee homes in the defeated breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a departure blighted by an explosion at a fuel depot that killed dozens and injured more than 100. The crisis prompted the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to announce that Washington would provide $11.5 million …
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University students in the UK are facing “unprecedented rent rises” amid record demand for accommodation, while the value of the maintenance loan designed to cover living costs stagnates, according to a report. Many students are struggling to find affordable rooms, as rents have jumped by more than 8% overall this year compared with 2022-23, a …
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