Month: September 2026

Nepal flood reconstruction bill to be $4.78 bn: foreign ministry

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Nepal flood reconstruction bill to be .78 bn: foreign ministry

Nepal, a largely rural nation of 30 million people, contributes a fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions compared to industrialised nations. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The reconstruction bill after deadly floods sparked by a glacial mountain collapse that hit Nepal last month would amount to $4.78 billion, the foreign ministry said on Friday (September…

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Yemen’s Houthis reach strategic island at mouth of vital shipping lane

September 11, 2026 admin

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Friday (September 11, 2026) reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, potentially tightening their grip on one of ⁠the world’s vital shipping routes. Earlier, two sources from the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised Yemeni government said its forces had withdrawn from Perim and…

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Over 90 Sikh pilgrims from Pakistan with visas, stopped from boarding indirect flight to India

September 11, 2026 admin

Over 90 Pakistani Sikhs with visas for pilgrimage to Sri Hemkund Sahib in Uttarakhand were stopped by the immigration authorities on Friday (September 11, 2026) from boarding an indirect flight to India, officials said. As many as 92 Pakistani Sikhs, including women and children, arrived at the Faisalabad International Airport (some 150 km from Lahore)…

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Akbaruddin Owaisi raises concern over irregularities in fee reimbursement scheme

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All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi speaking in Telangana Assembly on Friday (September 11, 2026) | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi has raised serious concerns over the irregularities in fee reimbursement scheme alleging that ineligible people are reaping the benefit of the government’s gesture…

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Eight transformer fuses stolen amid power cuts in Keralam’s Palakkad

September 11, 2026 admin

representational image (file) Unidentified persons stole eight electricity fuses from a transformer at Thriveni Nagar in Palakkad, Keralam, leaving people without power amid ongoing power cuts in the State, residents said on Friday. The residents have lodged a complaint with the Palakkad Town South Police, which has started a preliminary investigation into the incident. The…

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Solomon Pappaiah, veteran Tamil scholar and orator, passes away at 90 in Madurai

September 11, 2026 admin

Solomon Pappaiah. File | Photo Credit: R. Ashok Veteran Tamil scholar, celebrated orator, and cultural icon Solomon Pappaiah passed away at the age of 90 on Friday (September 11, 2026), following an age-related illness, while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Madurai. Prof. Pappaiah leaves behind a rich legacy that touched the hearts of…

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Yoon acquitted in case related to South Korean marine’s drowning in rare legal reprieve

September 11, 2026 admin

South Korea’s ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol. | Photo Credit: AP Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was acquitted on Friday (September 11, 2026) in a case related to a marine’s drowning death in a rare reprieve in one of the criminal cases brought against him following his ouster for imposing martial law….

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5 militants of banned ISKP killed in Pak’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

September 11, 2026 admin

The Counter Terrorism Department had received intelligence that ISKP militants were present in a compound near Shamshatu camp. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Five militants of the banned Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) have been killed in an operation by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an official said. A key…

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Ancient spice route may have shaped Keralam’s Malabari goat’s genetic legacy, study shows

September 11, 2026 admin

The Malabari goat | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Keralam’s ancient maritime connections may extend beyond spices, merchants and ports. A new study suggests that these trade networks may also have shaped the maternal genetic history of the Malabari goat, one of the State’s iconic indigenous breeds. Researchers from the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University…

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Emma Bonino, leader of abortion and divorce battles that changed Italy, dies aged 78

September 11, 2026 admin

Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalised abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, against the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party, +Europa, announced her death. “Her life was a long struggle against everything that…

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