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Sydney, Nov 21 (UNI) Australian police have arrested and charged 19 people after disrupting a major international cannabis operation. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Thursday announced that a strike force established in December 2023 has seized cannabis worth more than 80 million Australian dollars (52.1 million U.S. dollars) and arrested…
Helsinki, Nov 21 (UNI) A volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula triggered evacuations on Wednesday, local media reported. Icelandic radio RUV reported that Grindavik town and the Blue Lagoon resort have been fully evacuated due to the eruption in the Sundhnuks crater series. Benedikt Ofeigsson, head of deformation at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, said the…
Islamabad, Nov 21 (UNI) At least 33 people were killed and 30 others injured in a gun attack carried out on passenger vans in the Kurram district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, according to a Tehsil Headquarters Hospital official Dr Muhammad Ishaq. The medical superintendent of the hospital Alizai said the injured were…
Georgetown/New Delhi, Nov 21 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with Dominica’s highest national award – ‘Dominica Award of Honour’, for his statesmanship, support to Dominica during the Covid 19 pandemic and his commitment to strengthening India and Dominica ties. The award was conferred by Sylvanie Burton, President of Dominica on Wednesday, on the…
Los Angeles, Nov 21 (UNI) NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface, the agency said on Wednesday. NASA expects to assign demonstration missions to current human landing system providers, SpaceX and Blue…
Georgetown/New Delhi, Nov 21 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the highest national award of Guyana, ‘The Order of Excellence’, by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali at a ceremony at the State House. The award was conferred on PM Modi for his “visionary statesmanship, for championing the rights of developing countries on the global…
Baku, Nov 21 (UNI) Reminding the developed nations of their emission history, India has iterated its demand for sanction of at least 1.3 Trillion US dollars including 600 billion US dollars as climate finance aid to developing countries who have been suffering from the impacts of climate change. The statement reads, “For the developing countries,…
Gaza, Nov 21 (UNI) At least 15 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in two Israeli airstrikes in the southern and central Gaza Strip, and Israeli shelling continued in northern Gaza, sources said. Israeli aircraft targeted a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, local sources and eyewitnesses…
Georgetown/New Delhi, (UNI) With Guyana’s discovery of huge petroleum reserves in its offshore waters, India will cooperate in the field of energy as a “natural partner”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today during talks with President Irfaan Ali, that saw the two sides ink nine MoUs and one exchange agreement. Since starting production in 2019,…
Islamabad, Nov 20 (UNI) The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday granted bail to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Toshakhana 2.0 case. IHC’s Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb approved PTI founder’s bail plea, ordering the latter to submit surety bonds of Rs 1 million each for securing the bail, The Express Tribune reported….
