Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are closing out 2024 by hitting a new long-term high in electoral support, with a 26-point lead over the Liberals amid calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign. According to the latest weekly voting tracking from Nanos Research, the federal Conservatives currently have 47 per cent of support, compared to 21…
South Korean authorities began handing over the bodies of plane crash victims to their families on Tuesday, as investigators raced to determine why the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 landed and burst into flames. American investigators, including those from Boeing, arrived at the crash site southwest of Muan, officials said, as South Korean authorities began evaluating…
NEW DELHI: Nearly three years after repealing reform-oriented farm laws due to farmers’ protests, the Center has now come up with a draft national policy framework on agricultural marketing that suggests states move towards “unified unification “. national agricultural products market“through a single license/registration and single fee system.Allow the creation of private wholesale markets; allow…
The summary The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will peak early Friday. It will be the first meteor shower of 2025. The next spectacle will not be overshadowed by moonlight, as the crescent moon will set before the peak of the rain. Ring in the new year with the first meteor shower of 2025. The annual…
The Rocky View School Division (RVSD) on Tuesday identified the woman who was killed Sunday night in Calgary as Ania Kaminski, an elementary school teacher in Cochrane, west of the city. “We offer our deepest condolences to everyone affected by the death of Ania Kaminski,” read a statement posted on the school division’s website. According…
A Gilgit-Baltistan Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan to 34 years in prison for threatening security institutions at a party rally in July. In July 2023, Khurshid, who is also the PTI regional president, was disqualified by the GB Chief Court for allegedly obtaining a license from the GB…
MUMBAI: Kashinath Bhoir has not returned to the Versova jetty for a week – he and many other fishermen have ventured nearly 100 nautical miles (about 185 kilometres) into the sea to secure their catch. Dnyanesh, his brother, says the fog that covered a vast expanse of the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai…
Norovirus, sometimes called “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” (because it causes vomiting and diarrhea), is on the rise across the country, even as the seasonal flu is taking off and walking pneumonia continues. Wastewater data and reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown a significant increase in norovirus in recent…
No one can stop China’s “reunification” with Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s speech on Tuesday, setting out a clear warning to what Beijing sees as pro-independence forces inside and outside the island of 23 million people. Last year, Beijing increased military pressure near Taiwan, sending warships and planes almost daily…
At least 11 people, including six policemen, were injured on Tuesday when Karachi police tried to disperse city-wide sit-ins against the recent killings in Parachinar, located in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The religious political party Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) had called for protests throughout the country to express its solidarity with the people of Parachinar,…