NEW DELHI: Former Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh once offered a moving answer when asked about returning to his ancestral village in Pakistan. Born in Gah, a village now in Punjab’s Chakwal district, Singh’s connection to the place was irrevocably marked by tragedy. When one of his daughters asked him if he wanted to…
The man accused of killing a New York City subway passenger by setting her on fire was charged Friday with four counts of murder and one count of arson, prosecutors announced. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, a Guatemalan national, had been charged by police with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with setting the…
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly are in Florida to meet with officials from President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. A statement from LeBlanc’s office says the duo traveled to Palm Beach, where they planned to use those conversations to highlight “Canada’s efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration and the…
A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death on Friday, state media reported. On November 11, Fan Weiqiu, 62, deliberately ran over people exercising outside a sports complex in his small SUV, the worst attack in China since 2014. He…
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) revoked phase 3 of the Phased Response Action Plan (GRAP) via Delhi-NCR.“By observing a downward trend in the ICA levels of Delhi on December 27, 2024, the GRAP Sub-Committee further reviewed the air quality scenario in the region as well as the IMD/IITM forecasts and observed the following,”…
An investigation into the fatal crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in Kazakhstan earlier this week came after the passenger plane experienced “external physical and technical interference,” the airline said Friday. The Embraer 190 crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, killing 38 of the 67 people on board while en route from…
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating after a police office near Thunder Bay, Ont., shot and wounded a man who fired at a police cruiser with a shotgun. The 58-year-old man was seen at 2:18 pm on Thursday walking along Highway 11/17, about 30 kilometers west of Thunder Bay on Pebblestone Road. Callers to…
LARKANA: The stage is set at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto to commemorate the 17th death anniversary of former prime minister and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto amid extensive security on December 27 (today). People in caravans began to arrive from different parts of the country. A huge pandal was set up at the site where a…
Tributes pour in for Dr Manmohan Singh Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim paid tribute to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh by saying “Farewell, my mitra, my bhai, Manmohan”, while reminiscing about the times they shared.Dr Manmohan Singh passed away on Thursday evening at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi at…
One of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia, is “undergoing a suffocating siege,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said Friday after Israeli forces stormed inside and evacuated workers. health workers, patients and families. “The surgical and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance and emergency units have been completely burned and the fire is now spreading…
