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Colombo: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has warned that companies and individuals that do not comply with all regulations on foreign exchange transactions will be punished sternly, local media reported on Monday. The CBSL said that a major factor contributing to the current crisis in the country is the lack of foreign exchange […]

Hyderabad: From competing in Limca races to being the only person of Indian origin to win the half marathon in Antarctica, Mohan Ambati’s journey is a fascinating one. “It was a unique experience. It was like I was on a different planet, rather than a continent,” said Ambati, 53, a Hyderabadi settled in the United […]

Mancherial: A migrant labourer of remote Chintaguda village in Jannaram mandal was killed after being stranded in flood-affected Fujairah city in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday. His colleagues informed his family members about the incident on Sunday. The normal life of the city was hit by the floods over the last one week. The […]

New Delhi: Nearly 25 tonnes of space junk from a recently-launched Chinese rocket crashed down over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak which is the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The US Space Command confirmed in a tweet late on Saturday that China’s Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket re-entered over the Indian […]

Washington: President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no […]

Madrid: Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox, its health ministry said Saturday. These are believed to be the first confirmed deaths from monkeypox since its outbreak in the European Union. The ministry gave no details on the deceased. It reported its first death from the disease on Friday. The […]

Hyderabad: Did you know yesterday i.e., July 29 was 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours? Yes, the Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed. Scientists point out that the length of day is the time it takes for planet Earth to rotate once on its […]

Madrid: The Spanish Health Ministry has confirmed the first death from monkeypox in the country. The news came less than a week after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, reporters Xinhua news agency. Until now, 4,298 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Spain, and 120 people were admitted to […]

San Francisco: In a worrisome trend, a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD) has claimed that the police used blood samples from new-born babies to fund DNA samples and probe crimes committed more than 25 years ago. The OPD officials learned that the State Police has successfully subpoenaed a newborn […]

New York: In the US, about 1 in 5 of those surveyed (19 per cent) are somewhat (14 per cent) or very worried (5 per cent) about getting monkeypox in the next three months, while 81 per cent are not too (41 per cent) or not at all worried (40 per cent), reveals a new […]

Hyderabad: We have often discussed what it might look like if the world ends. And now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has just given a glimpse into how the ‘last selfies’ on the Earth before the end of the world would look like. A series of haunting images were posted on TikTok by ‘Robot Overloads’ predicting it […]

Washington: A set of compelling evidence has once again emerged that backs the claims that Wuhan’s Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak that has so far claimed over 6 million lives. Two peer-reviewed studies, published in the journal ‘Science’ take different approaches but come to the same result […]

Washington: A watch said to have belonged to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sold for a whopping $1.1 million at an auction in the US despite apprehension by members of the Jewish community, a media report said. The timepiece made by German watch firm Huber, which has a swastika and the initials AH engraved on it, was […]

Brasilia: Brazil has confirmed the country’s first monkeypox-related death, according to the Health Ministry. The case was reported on Friday in Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeast Minas Gerais state, and the victim was a 41-year-old man, who was undergoing treatment for other serious clinical conditions, including cancer, and whose health deteriorated after getting infected, […]

Madrid: Prosecutors in Spain said on Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud. Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to pay the Spanish […]

Washington: At least eight people were killed in Kentucky after heavy rain caused “historic” flooding in the eastern part of the US state. The flooding also left more than 25,000 homes and businesses without power as of Thursday, Xinhua news agency quoted state Governor Andy Beshear as saying to the local media. Expecting deaths to […]

Geneva: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Europe and the Americas have been the hardest hit by the global monkeypox outbreak. Addressing reporters here, the WHO chief said these two regions have reported 95 per cent of the diagnosed cases, and warned against stigma and discrimination against people […]

Kathmandu: Nepal Police has continued its raids against illegal call centres owned by Chinese nationals. On Wednesday night, a raid was conducted at a call centre in Kathmandu’s Thamel area following which four Chinese nationals were arrested. The raid in Thamel, a popular tourist area, was the fourth to be carried out within a week. […]

Luanda: A rare 170-carat pink diamond, weighing 34 grams, thought to be the largest in the last 300 years, has been discovered in Angola. The pink stone has been named the “Lulo Rose”, after the mine in Angola where it was found. It will be sold later this year through an international tender to be conducted […]

Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed and 23 others injured in separate bombings in two towns of southern Somalia, officials said. In the first incident, 13 people lost their lives while five others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Marka town, of the Lower Shabelle region, reports Xinhua news agency. Governor […]

Beijing: Nearly a million people in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province where the Covid-19 pandemic was first recorded, have been placed under a lockdown after four asymptomatic cases were detected, the media reported on Thursday. According to a BBC report, the lockdown has been imposed in the city’s Jiangxia district and the residents have […]

London: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif wants early general elections and has discussed with the senior party leadership the option of quitting the government in the Centre, media reports said. Nawaz Sharif has discussed this several times with top leaders of the party including Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and also with the […]

St. Paul: The last two former Minneapolis police officers to be sentenced for violating George Floyd’s civil rights are scheduled to learn their penalties on Wednesday, which could set in motion another round of plea deal discussions in state court over a killing that sparked a reckoning on racial injustice. J. Alexander Kueng and Tou […]

Manila: The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology revised down to 7 the magnitude and relocated the epicentre of the earthquake that rattled Abra province in the northern Philippines on Wednesday. The institute first reported the magnitude as 7.3, and the epicenter was Lagangilang town. An updated report changed the epicentre to Tayum town. The […]