- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson will on Monday(12) impose further restrictions on parts of England as the Covid-19 outbreak accelerates. Johnson will hold a meeting of the government’s emergency COBRA committee and then address parliament, offering lawmakers a vote later in the week on the measures. He will then hold…
INDIA’s total coronavirus cases rose by 66,732 in the last 24 hours to 7.12 million on Monday(12), data from the health ministry showed. Deaths from Covid-19 infections rose by 816 to 109,150, the ministry said. On Sunday(11) the country’s total coronavirus infections topped 7 million as it added a million…
INDIA’s financial capital Mumbai and surrounding areas on Monday(12) witnessed its first major blackout in more than two years following a grid failure. The outage stranded thousands of train passengers, disrupted online college exams and affected mobile telephone services before power was restored to most parts of the city of…
Bangladesh introduced the death penalty for rape on Monday (12) after days of protests sparked by a string of sexual assaults, the government said. Demonstrations have broken out across the country after harrowing footage of a group of men stripping and attacking a woman went viral on social media. The…
Police in northwest Pakistan have made a string of arrests as they search for the killer of a two-year-old girl whose rape and murder have drawn comparisons to an infamous 2018 killing that sparked riots. The girl, Zainab, disappeared on Tuesday (6) while playing outside her village home in Charsadda…
UK trial on Friday(9) heard last desperate messages of Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in the container in Essex, southeast England, last October 23 after it had been transported on a cargo ship from Zeebrugge in Belgium. “I am sorry. I cannot take care of you. I cannot breathe.”…
BLACK and South Asian patients are more severely affected by Covid-19 than white patients as the way the body functions is a more important factor than poverty or existing health problems, says a new study. The study of 1,800 hospital patients, carried out at King’s College Hospital in south-east London,…
BRITISH finance minister Rishi Sunak extended help on Friday(9) for businesses and workers who are forced to stop work during local coronavirus lockdowns. The new scheme will begin on 1 November and will be available for six months, with a review point in January. Sunak said the government would pay…
AS MANY AS 2,000 Rohingya families were displaced following a turf war between criminal armed groups in Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh. Police and humanitarian workers said that at least eight people have been killed in clashes in recent days. Authorities have arrested 12 people after days of gunfire,…
BRITAIN’s gross domestic product rose by 2.1 per cent in August, official data shows, much lesser than expected. Finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce later on Friday(9) a plan to support jobs in businesses that may be ordered to close to slow a resurgence of Covid-19 infections. “The sharp slowdown…
