United Nations, Mar 15 (UNI) UN humanitarians said on Friday that 63,000 metric tons of food await an end to the Gaza aid blockade, enough for 1.1 million people for two to three months. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the 12-day aid blockage hinders relief operations. “This means, for…
Jerusalem, Mar 15 (UNI) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a complaint with the police on Friday against the former chief of the Israel Security Agency (ISA), Nadav Argaman, according to Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News. Netanyahu’s attorney claimed in a letter to Israeli police chief Daniel Levi that Argaman was attempting to extort him…
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 15 (UNI) The time has come for a Dalit revolution across the country for a comprehensive development of the Dalit and Adivasi communities, senior Congress leader and AICC Working Committee Member Ramesh Chennithala has said. Dalit communities are being further impoverished by governments by subverting various norms of reservation guaranteed for them in…
Baghdad, Mar 15 (UNI) Iraqi leaders met with Syria’s chief of foreign affairs authority, Asaad al-Shaibani, here on Friday to discuss bilateral relations and anti-terrorism cooperation. During a meeting with visiting al-Shaibani, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani reaffirmed Iraq’s firm and consistent stance in respecting the will of the Syrian people, stressing the need…
Chitradurga, Mar 15 (UNI) Karnataka’s Deputy Speaker, Rudrappa Lamani, was injured in a road accident near Hiriyur in Chitradurga district on Friday night. Lamani, who was en route to his native village in Haveri district, was involved in the accident near Javanagondanahalli in Hiriyur taluk. According to police, the incident occurred when Lamani alighted from…
London, Mar 15 (UNI) The captain of the cargo ship involved in the fatal collision in the North Sea has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, media reports said on Friday. According to BBC reports, Humberside Police confirmed that 59-year-old Vladimir Motin has been remanded in custody and is set to appear at Hull Magistrates’…
Los Angeles, Mar 15 (UNI) NASA and SpaceX launched a new crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a critical step to bring home NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore who have been stranded in space since last June. The spacecraft took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s…
Washington, Mar 15 (UNI) The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday it is imposing permanent restrictions on non-essential helicopter operations around the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and eliminating helicopter and passenger jet mixed traffic, following recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The FAA’s latest rules came over a month after…
Washington, Mar 15 (UNI) U.S. Senate on Friday approved a stopgap bill that will keep government funding at current levels until September just hours before current funding is set to expire, averting a government shutdown. The upper chamber voted 54-46 to pass the bill, which was already approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday….
Chennai, Mar 15 (UNI) In a major finding, scientists from Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, analysing radio signals from India’s Chandrayaan-2 (CH-2) Orbiter – which is in good health and providing data – have revealed that the Moon’s ionosphere exhibits unexpectedly high electron densities when it enters the Earth’s geomagnetic tail. This finding sheds new light…
