- Monday, May 06, 2024
SINGAPORE has defended the execution judgement of a 33-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian drug trafficker. Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was sentenced to death in 2010 for importing 42.72 grams of heroin into Singapore in 2009 in a bundle-strapped to his thigh. Both the prime minister and the foreign minister wrote to their Malaysian…
THE Chief Justice of India on Saturday (13) asked the central government to come up with an emergency plan to tackle New Delhi's toxic air quality and dangerous smog conditions, calling the situation "very serious". On Friday (12), India's federal pollution control board ordered states and local bodies to be…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson said he was cautious about rising cases of Covid in Europe, warning of gathering "storm clouds" of a new wave of coronavirus infections. Britain has had much higher rates of Covid-19 than the rest of Western Europe since the summer when Johnson scrapped coronavirus restrictions…
COP26 climate talks were closing in on a global deal aimed at limiting devastating global warming, with UK organisers hoping for a final agreement to the marathon negotiations on Saturday (13). Delegates from nearly 200 nations are tasked with keeping alive the 2015 Paris goal of limiting temperature rises to…
INDIA stayed alive at the T20 World Cup with a quickfire eight-wicket rout of Scotland on Friday (5) as star spinner Ravindra Jadeja claimed: "If we play like this, nobody can beat us." KL Rahul smashed 50 off 19 balls as India raced to a target of 86 in 6.3…
FIRE tore through a hospital in western India on Saturday (6) killing at least 11 coronavirus patients, officials said. The blaze was the latest to hit pandemic wards across India. There were about two dozen patients at the intensive care unit in the hospital in Ahmadnagar district, Maharashtra state, when…
A senior GP was jailed for three years and four months after stealing £1.1million of NHS money to fund his addiction to online gambling. Dr Rumi Chhapia, 45, from Southsea, stole the funds from a company that oversaw a group of GP practices in Portsmouth. The money was taken from…
US company Ocugen has announced that it had asked authorities for emergency use authorisation for the Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, which was developed in India, for ages 2 to 18. Ocugen's data, gathered from clinical trials conducted outside of the US with only a small group of children, may not be…
INDIA's capital was blanketed by toxic air on Saturday (6) as pollution levels remained dangerously high for a second day after revellers defied a fireworks ban during a major Hindu festival and farmers in nearby states burnt stubble. New Delhi's overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 456 on a…
INDIA has proposed new rules to lower emissions and fight climate change, including setting a minimum share of renewable energy to be used by its industries, the federal power ministry said on Saturday (30). The proposals, aimed at promoting green Hydrogen as an alternative to the fossil fuels currently used…
