Mumbai hospitals: Near collapse as no beds, packed morgues
Packed morgues, bodies in wards, patients forced to share beds and medical workers run ragged: Mumbai’s war against coronavirus has pushed the Indian city’s hospitals to breaking point. Ravi, 26, had to change his mother’s diapers himself as she lay dying from the disease in the huge Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, better known as […]
2 Pakistani girls killed for ”honour” over leaked mobile video
Two Pakistani teenage girls have been shot dead over a mobile phone video in a remote backward North and South Waziristan tribal region, which was once the stronghold of Taliban. They are said to have been shot dead by a family member earlier this week in a village on the border of the North and […]
Shabana Azmi returns home from hospital: Thank you all for your prayers
New Delhi: After being admitted to the hospital for almost 12 days, actor Shabana Azmi was discharged on Saturday. The actor was admitted to the hospital after she met with a road accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on January 18. After reaching home in good health and spirits, Azmi took to Twitter to share the information […]
Emirates unveils plan to resume flights to 9 destinations
Emirates will fly to nine destinations as of May 21 It has today been announced that Emirates will resume regularly scheduled flights to nine destinations on three continents as of May 21, 2020. These destinations include: The airline will also offer connections in Dubai for customers travelling between the UK and Australia. Travellers will only be accepted […]
China sees post-lockdown rise in air pollution
A new study published by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) in Helsinki has found China’s levels of some air pollutants rising back to above last year’s levels after dropping when the government imposed strict lockdown measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. The rebound was likely due to industrial activity, […]
Another Indian expat in UAE loses job over Islamophobic posts
Ras Al Khaimah: An employee of a mining firm in Ras Al Khaimah has become the latest in a long line of UAE-based Indian expats to have lost their job because of Islamophobic social media posts. Brajkishore Gupta was fired without notice for calling Indian Muslims coronavirus spreaders and hailing Delhi riots as divine justice […]
Pandemic Dead Give New Delhi Gravedigger Sleepless Nights
Death had not fazed gravedigger Mohammed Shamim up to now, but since the grip of the coronavirus crisis has tightened in New Delhi, a shiver runs up even his spine each time he sees a hearse pull up at the cemetery he tends. “I’ve been burying the dead for the last two decades. But until […]
UK: Muslim woman gunned down in ‘drive-by shooting’
A 19-year-old Muslim woman was shot dead in broad daylight in Blackburn, England on Sunday. The victim has been identified by some social media users as Aya Hachem, a Lebanese-British Muslim. Hachem was reportedly shot by a man in a drive-by shooting as she was out grocery shopping. Lancashire Police said the formal identification was […]
Canberra heatwave breaks records amid wildfire threat
SYDNEY: Temperatures in the Australian capital Canberra have set a new monthly record amid an advancing wildfire that has prompted a state of emergency declaration, weather service Meteo France said Sunday. The city declared its first state of emergency in nearly two decades last week in anticipation of a heatwave and predictions that fires could […]
India and Bangladesh brace for strong cyclone
KOLKATA: Millions of people were being moved to safety as one of the fiercest cyclones in years barrelled towards India and Bangladesh on Tuesday, but with evacuation plans complicated by coronavirus precautions. “Amphan” is expected to pack winds gusting up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) per hour when it hits eastern India and Bangladesh on […]
