NEW DELHI: According to Media here India plans to erect a fence along its vast and porous frontier with Myanmar and will scrap a free movement border zone agreement. The announcement by Home Minister Amit Shah comes after hundreds of troops from Myanmar who were fleeing insurgent attacks crossed into India. The government had “decided […]
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LOS ANGELES: Nominations for this year’s Oscars will be unveiled on Tuesday (23rd of Jan, 2024) with the “Barbenheimer” juggernaut expected to roll on to the climax of Hollywood’s awards season with multiple chances at glory. After a combined $2.4 billion global box office take, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” – two films linked only by their […]
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HAGLEY OVAL (Christchurch): Pakistan’s spinners ran through New Zealand to pick up a consolation 42-run win in the fifth and final Twenty20 international on Sunday and avoid a series clean sweep. The tourists lost the five-match series 4-1 but it ended on a positive note as they dismissed the Black Caps for a paltry 92 […]
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WASHINGTON: NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became the first motorized […]
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FLORIDA (NASA’s Kennedy Space Center): An all-European crew including Turkey’s first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday on a voyage chartered by Axiom Space. Dubbed Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), it is the company’s third launch to the space laboratory and the first where all three of the paid seats were bought by […]
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MELBOURNE: Top Seed Iga Swiatek became the latest top-10 seed to crash out of the Australian Open on Saturday as Carlos Alcaraz sent a chilling warning to his rivals. Poland’s Swiatek came into the third round match against 50th-ranked Linda Noskova on an 18-match unbeaten run, targeting a first title at Melbourne Park. But the […]
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ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee (NSC) Friday observed that Iran was a neighborly and brotherly Muslim country and existing multiple communication channels between the two countries should be mutually utilized to address each other’s security concerns in the larger interest of regional peace and stability. The committee, which met with Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Iranian diplomats engaged Friday in a flurry of diplomatic activity to normalize relations of the two countries and de-escalate tension. The signs of rapprochement became public when Iranian diplomat Seyed Rasoul Mousavi, in a post on X, told that “An hour ago, foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan had a very good […]
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YANBU (Saudi Arabia): Veteran Spanish driver Carlos Sainz won the gruelling Dakar Rally for a fourth time on Friday (19th Jan, 2024), becoming at 61 the oldest winner of the race. The two-time world rally champion had been all but guaranteed success when closest rival Sebastien Loeb was stranded in the desert for over an […]
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BEIJING: Pakistan’s plan to procure FC-31 stealth fighter jets from China will not only significantly enhance the Pakistan Air Force (PAF)’s capabilities, but also open up the international market for the Chinese aircraft, marking a win-win cooperation, Chinese military expert said. The FC-31 has strong comprehensive air combat capabilities, including its stealth advantages that allow […]
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