Archive Detail
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Covid-19: Nike closes hundreds of stores | Washington, March 15 (TIWN) Amid the coronavirus spread, hundreds of Nike stores across the world will be temporarily shut down from Monday onwards, the company announced. | 15-Mar-2020 |
N.Korean nuclear negotiator appointed as | Seoul, March 15 (TIWN) A North Korean nuclear negotiator has been appointed as the Ambassador to Austria, replacing a son-in-law of the country's founder Kim Il-sung, state media said in a report on Sunday. | 15-Mar-2020 |
US set to prevent COVID-19 outbreak | Washington, March 14 (TIWN) The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a relief package for Americans hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. | 14-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19 toll exceeds 600 in Iran | Tehran, March 15 (TIWN) The death toll due to the COVID-19 outbreak has risen to 611, Iranian authorities said on Saturday, while the total number of confirmed cases reached 12,729, official IRNA news agency reported. | 15-Mar-2020 |
US House passes coronavirus relief packa | Washington, March 15 (TIWN) The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a relief package for Americans hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. | 15-Mar-2020 |
Saudi Arabia suspends international flig | Riyadh, March 14 (TIWN) Saudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for two weeks over coronavirus concerns, the state-run SPA news agency reported on Saturday. | 14-Mar-2020 |
Indo-American Democratic Orgn endorses c | Washington, March 14 (TIWN) The Illinois-based Indo-American Democratic Organization (IADO) has made dozens of endorsements for local, state and federal races in the state, with a number of community members among those endorsed. | 14-Mar-2020 |
Hasina inaugurates B'desh's 1st expressw | Dhaka, March 13 (TIWN) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the country's first-ever expressway connecting Dhaka to Faridpur's Bhanga Upazila. | 13-Mar-2020 |
2 arrested in B'desh for selling fake an | Dhaka, March 13 (TIWN) Police in Bangladesh has arrested two men for selling a fake anti-coronavirus vaccine, it was reported on Friday. | 13-Mar-2020 |
NZ fundamentally changed after Christchu | Christchurch, March 13 (TIWN) A year on from the Christchurch terror attack on two mosques that killed 51 people, New Zealand has "fundamentally changed", Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday. | 13-Mar-2020 |
Over 95% of large companies outside Hube | Beijing, March 13 (TIWN) Over 95 per cent of large companies in China located outside Hubei province, whose capital Wuhan is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, and 60 per cent of small to medium-sized businesses have resumed activities, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday. | 13-Mar-2020 |
Aus Home Affairs Minister tests positive | Canberra, March 13 (TIWN) Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton announced on Friday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. | 13-Mar-2020 |
Elderly Italian couple die from Covid-19 | Rome, March 12 (TIWN) After spending 60 years of their lives together, an elderly Italian couple succumbed to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) just two hours apart. | 12-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19: Air India suspends flights to | New Delhi, March 12 (TIWN) In the wake of deadly coronavirus spread across the world, national passenger carrier Air India has decided to immediately suspend its flights to Italy and South Korea, two of the worst affected countries, sources said on Thursday. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Poland reports first death due to COVID- | Poznan, March 12 (TIWN) First death in Poland due to coronavirus was reported on Thursday. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Activists ask UN to break silence on gen | New Delhi/Geneva, March 12 (TIWN) In a strong indictment of the United Nations for its apathy towards Baloch people, human rights activists have set up a pavilion right outside the United Nations office in Geneva, highlighting their genocide committed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Pakistan Air Force fighter jet crashes n | Islamabad, March 12 (TIWN) An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Wednesday crashed near Shakarparian here during rehearsals for the March 23 parade, an air force spokesperson confirmed. | 12-Mar-2020 |
US rejects formation of parallel governm | Washington, March 11 (TIWN) The United States has rejected the formation of an Afghan government led by opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah parallel to that of President Ashraf Ghani. | 11-Mar-2020 |
Kim Jong-un guides another long-range ar | Pyongyang, March 11 (TIWN) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided another firepower strike drill of long-range artillery sub-units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on Monday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. | 11-Mar-2020 |
Ex-Scottish leader to stand trial on sex | Edinburgh, March 11 (TIWN) Former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond will stand trial on Monday over allegations that he sexually assaulted 10 women while serving as First Minister. | 11-Mar-2020 |
Sudanese PM survives assassination attem | Khartoum, March 10 (TIWN) Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Monday survived an assassination attempt in the capital Khartoum, state TV said in a report. | 10-Mar-2020 |
Demand for oil dives for first time sinc | Paris, March 10 (TIWN) Demand for oil worldwide will see a sharp decline in 2020 as the novel coronavirus continues to dampen markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report on Monday. | 10-Mar-2020 |
Covid-19 could mean $3bn revenue loss fo | New Delhi, March 9 (TIWN) At a time when world growth is projected to slow down further as the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic spreads across continents, a new report has suggested that the prolonged duration of the outbreak will significantly set back the airports in the Asia Pacific region from the previously forecast growth prospects and result in $3 billion revenue loss. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Joe Biden gets Kamala Harris' endorsemen | Washington, March 9 (TIWN) California Senator Kamala Harris on Sunday endorsed current front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic party's US presidential candidate, saying the country and the people "need him now more than ever". | 09-Mar-2020 |
Pak to draw anti-locust plan with other | Islamabad, March 9 (TIWN) The agriculture ministers of Pakistan, India, Iran and Afghanistan will connect via video-conferencing on March 11 to chalk out a strategy to deal with the worst locust invasion to hit the region in nearly three decades as swarms of the insects were decimating entire harvests in these countries. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Joe Biden gets Kamala Harris' endorsemen | Washington, March 9 (TIWN) California Senator Kamala Harris on Sunday endorsed current front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic party's US presidential candidate, saying the country and the people "need him now more than ever". | 09-Mar-2020 |
Pak-Iran trade resumes after 13 days | Islamabad, March 9 (TIWN) Trade activities between Pakistan and Iran has resumed after a suspension of 13 days amid fears of the coronavirus outbreak that has sp far infected 5,823 and killed 145 people in Iran. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Thailand, Malaysia bar cruise ship over | Bangkok, March 8 (TIWN) Thailand and Malaysia have barred a cruise ship carrying about 2,000 people from docking due to fears about the novel coronavirus, an official said here on Sunday. | 08-Mar-2020 |
'Govt to give Pakistani cinema status of | Islamabad, March 8 (TIWN) The Imran Khan government has announced that Pakistani cinema will be given the full-fledged status of an industry, a top official said. | 08-Mar-2020 |
'Prisoner swap can't be precondition for | Kabul, March 8 (TIWN) Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday again refused to accept the release of thousands of Taliban prisoners as a precondition for talks with the militant group, in a move that was likely to delay intra-Afghan peace negotiations set for March 10. | 08-Mar-2020 |
US ready to resume nuclear talks with N. | Seoul, March 7 (TIWN) The US stands ready to resume denuclearization negotiations with North Korea as soon as possible and hopes to hear back from Pyongyang on the same, a senior American official said. | 07-Mar-2020 |
China COVID-19 toll hits 3,042, WHO says | Beijing, March 7 (TIWN) The coronavirus death toll in mainland China on Friday increased to 3,042 with an overall 80,552 infections, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the outbreak was "not a drill" as the number of global cases surpassed 95,000 with more than 3,000 fatalities. | 07-Mar-2020 |
Brexit preps cost UK govt over $5 bn | London, March 7 (TIWN) Departments of the UK government have spent more than 4 billion pounds ($5 billion) on preparations for leaving the European Union (EU), according to country's public spending watchdog. | 07-Mar-2020 |
Meghan Markle back in UK after quitting | London, March 7 (TIWN) Meghan Markle has returned to the UK and was seen for the first time at a public event with her husband, the UK's Prince Harry, since the couple announced that they were stepping back from royal life, a media report said. | 07-Mar-2020 |
N.Korea's 'first budget travel agent' di | London, March 6 (TIWN) Troy Collings, the head of the first budget travel agency to North Korea, has died of a heart attack at the age of 33, a media report said on Friday. | 06-Mar-2020 |
Facebook removes Trump campaign ads arou | San Francisco, March 6 (TIWN) Facebook has removed several advertorials run by US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign which were promoted as 2020 US census ads. | 05-Mar-2020 |
New mechanism to treat cardiovascular di | New Delhi, March 5 (TIWN) Researchers have identified a new mechanism for the regulation of blood pressure, which paves the way for advances in treating cardiovascular disease (CVD). | 05-Mar-2020 |
2 killed in Karachi building collapse | Karachi, March 5 (TIWN) Two people were killed and several others injured on Thursday when a five-storey residential apartment in Karachi collapsed, authorities said, adding that there were some 10-15 persons trapped under debris | 05-Mar-2020 |
‘BJP ready to pay up to Rs. 35 cro | AGARTALA/ NEW DELHI, March 5 (TIWN): BJP’s MLA purchasing scandal once again under scanner as national news media NDTV reported that BJP is ready to pay Rs. 35 crores to purchase MLAs. Congress in a press meet said that BJP has two techniques, one is to purchase MLAs along with CBI, ED like threats. “The attempt to topple the 15-month-old Congress government in Madhya Pradesh - pushed to the brink after 10 of its MLAs were confined at a five-star resort near Delhi and reportedly offered up to Rs 35 crore - was allegedly hatched by a group of BJP leaders, including MLA and former cabinet minister Narottam Mishraâ€, reported by NDTV. This report has raised question on statewide colour-changed MLAs who joined BJP ! The genuine question is, whether they joined for ideology or for money and then fooled the people with emotion of BHAJAPA ideology ?? | 05-Mar-2020 |
Upright, Honest IAS officer AMC CEO Sail | AGARTALA, March 5 (TIWN): Tripura is witnessing changes in bureaucracy and administration under the new guidances from New Delhi to clean the State Administration. In past 1 week, Police arrested Minister Santana Chakma’s bodyguards for heroin smuggling, followed by removal of tainted OSD Dilip Roy to KTD Police Training Academy, then shuffling senior bureaucrats including all powerful Alok Kumar to New Delhi, then yesterday’s tough stand by AMC CEO Sailesh Yadav against the erring MLAs Ram Prasad Pal & Aashis Saha for supporting illegal encroachers in Agartala.In a rare incident, when spineless bureaucracy had hit the State Tripura’s administration, Agartala Municipality Commission Sailesh Kumar Yadav has displayed the constitutional given power to an IAS Officer when he denied to bow head before BJP’s hooligan MLAs and kept the honour of his position. | 05-Mar-2020 |
Coronavirus cases double to 30 in Sweden | Stockholm, March 4 (TIWN) The number of COVID-19 cases in Sweden on Tuesday has doubled to 30 from a day earlier, the Public Health Agency announced on Tuesday. | 03-Mar-2020 |
Turkey can't pressurise Europe on migrat | Rome, March 4 (IANS/AKI) Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot "blackmail" Europe on migration, Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday after Erdogan warned that "millions" of migrants would soon head to the European Union. | 03-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19 death toll in US rises to 9, co | New York, March 4 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump said he is considering tightening travel restrictions as the coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak continues to claim more American lives, taking the US death toll to nine and spreading across major urban areas including New York on Tuesday. | 03-Mar-2020 |
119 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infe | Beijing, March 4 (TIWN) Chinese health authority on Wednesday said it received reports of 119 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and 38 deaths on Tuesday on the Chinese mainland. | 03-Mar-2020 |
Pope Francis tests negative for COVID-19 | Vatican City, March 3 (TIWN) Pope Francis has tested negative for the coronavirus after he fell ill and was forced to cancel a religious retreat near Rome, a media report said on Tuesday. | 03-Mar-2020 |
Reach of 'fake news' websites during ele | New York, March 3 (TIWN) The reach of the so called "fake news" websites during elections may not be as widespread as commonly feared as researchers have found that visits to untrustworthy websites only account for a small portion of a voter's news diet. | 03-Mar-2020 |
Global ocean covered entire Earth 3.2 bi | New York, March 3 (TIWN) Early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld" without a continent in sight- a discovery that can scientists to better understand how and where single-cell organisms first emerged on Earth. | 03-Mar-2020 |
Will debate Delhi violence on March 11: | New Delhi, March 3 (TIWN) Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted on Tuesday that the government is ready to debate on the Delhi violence on March 11, a day after Holi. | 03-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19 toll surges to 2,943 in China | Beijing, March 3 (TIWN) The death toll due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China has risen to 2,943, authorities said on Tuesday, while the number of confirmed cases has reached 80,151. | 02-Mar-2020 |
N.Korea fires two short-range projectile | Seoul, March 2 (TIWN) North Korea on Monday fired two unidentified short-range projectiles into the East Sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the first such launches since it warned of "a new strategic weapon" earlier this year. | 02-Mar-2020 |