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Pakistan caretaker PM Anwarul Haq Kakar calls inflated electricity bills “non-issue”

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Anwaar ul Haq Kakar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Pakistan Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar called the matter of inflated electricity bills, which have led to the countrywide protests, a “non-issue”, Dawn News reported on September 2. Mr. Kakar also said it was raised by some political parties and was a “tool in their…

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All You Need To Know About Russia’s ‘Superweapon’

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The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile blasts off during a test launch. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) of Russia, commonly known as “Satan II” in Western media and once described as invincible by President Vladimir Putin, has been deployed for combat duty, the head of the state space agency Roscosmos said Friday. “The Sarmat…

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Pregnant Woman, Accused Of Shoplifting, Shot Dead By Cops In US’s Ohio

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The officer standing in front of the hood of the car fires through the windshield. Ohio: The Ohio police have released new footage of the incident in which a 21-year-old pregnant woman, Ta’kiya Young, was fatally shot dead by a cop after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in Columbus last week,…

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North Korea fires cruise missiles into the sea after U.S.-South Korean military drills end

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes what it says the test-firing of strategic cruisemissiles. | file photo | Photo Credit: AP North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing activities in response to the United States-South Korea summer military drills. South Korea’s military detected the launches…

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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ex-Harrods Owner Whose Son Died With Princess Diana: 5 Points

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Mohamed Al-Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the son of a schoolteacher. Mohamed Al-Fayed was an outspoken and successful Egyptian business tycoon. His death comes almost 26 years to the day after the car crash in Paris that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Here are…

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Morning Digest | India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 launches today; ED arrests Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in bank fraud case, and more

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Preparations in the final phase for India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya L1 onboard the PSLV-C57, ahead of its launch on Sept. 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 to be launched at 11.50 a.m. today India’s first solar observatory mission, named Aditya-L1, will be launched onboard the Polar Satellite Launch…

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Russia deploys ICBM that Putin says will make enemies ‘think twice’

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In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in northwestern Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said on September 1 that the country has deployed an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin once said will…

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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Billionaire Whose Son Died With Princess Diana, Dead At 94

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Al-Fayed died on Wednesday – a day before his son and Princess Diana’s 26th death anniversary London: Mohamed al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire who bought the Harrods department store and promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that the British royal family was behind the death of his son and Princess Diana, has died, his family said….

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Poland Denies Military Helicopter Breached Belarus Airspace

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Belarus said the incident took place over the Grodno region on the border. (Representational) Warsaw, Poland: Poland on Friday denied a military helicopter had breached Belarus’s airspace, calling Minsk’s claims “lies and provocations” at a time of escalating tensions between the neighbours. Relations between Minsk and Warsaw, frozen for years, have hit new lows since…

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Nigeria’s Tinubu to attend G20 summit to promote investment

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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu. File. | Photo Credit: AP Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu plans to attend the G20 summit in India to try to promote foreign investment in Africa’s largest economy and mobilize global capital to develop infrastructure, his spokesman said on Friday. Mr. Tinubu has embarked on the country’s boldest reforms in decades, which…

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