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Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry in coming hours- tracking centres
Published On: May 9, 2021 07:35 AM NPT By: Reuters
USA, May 9: Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere in the coming hours, European and U.S. tracking centres said on Saturday.
Car bombing at Afghan school in Kabul kills 55, injures over 150
Published On: May 9, 2021 07:26 AM NPT By: Reuters
KABUL, May 9: Explosions caused by a car bomb and mortarsoutside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 55 people and wounded over 150, mostly female students, officialssaid, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on Talibaninsurgents.
WHO panel OKs emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine
Published On: May 8, 2021 10:24 AM NPT By: Associated Press
GENEVA, May 8: The World Health Organization gave emergency use authorization Friday to a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm, potentially paving the way for millions of the doses to reach needy countries through a U.N.-backed program rolling out coronavirus vaccines.
How the U.S. locked up vaccine materials other nations urgently need
Published On: May 8, 2021 09:14 AM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, May 8: To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots.
Maldives former president Nasheed critical after bomb blast
Published On: May 8, 2021 09:00 AM NPT By: Reuters
MALDIVES, May 8: The Maldives speaker of parliament and former president, Mohamed Nasheed, was in critical care on Friday after being severely wounded in a bomb blast outside his home, hospital authorities said, in what police are treating as a terrorist attack.
Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time
Published On: May 8, 2021 07:19 AM NPT By: Associated Press
KATHMANDU, May 8: A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time on Friday, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.
Myanmar junta says no ASEAN envoy visit until stability restored
Published On: May 7, 2021 07:21 PM NPT By: Reuters
MYANMAR, May 7: Myanmar's ruling military, which is facing nationwide protests against the coup that removed the elected government three months ago, said on Friday it would not agree to a visit by a Southeast Asian envoy until it could establish stability.
COVID-19 spreads to rural India, villages ill-equipped to fight it
Published On: May 7, 2021 09:45 AM NPT By: Reuters
INDIA, May 7: Hopes that India’s rampaging second wave of COVID-19 is peaking were set back on Thursday as record daily infections and deaths were reported and as the virus spread from cities to villages that were poorly equipped to cope.
At least 25 dead during Brazilian police raid in Rio
Published On: May 7, 2021 07:19 AM NPT By: Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7: Police targeting drug traffickers raided a slum in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least one officer and two dozen others died after being shot, authorities said.
COVID spreading in rural India; record daily rises in infections, deaths
Published On: May 6, 2021 07:43 PM NPT By: Republica
NEW DELHI, May 6: Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of COVID-19 was about to peak were swept away on Thursday as it posted record daily infections and deaths and as the virus spread from cities to villages across the world’s second-most populous nation.
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