Washington, Feb 16 (UNI) The administration of US President Donald Trump has fired more than 300 employees of the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), CNN reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The layoffs took place on Thursday night. Among those dismissed were staff working at key facilities, including those who oversee contractors who…
Tokyo, Feb 16 (UNI) Japan is again asking the United States for a waiver from the tariffs Washington is imposing, including the so-called “mutual tariffs,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said after his conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “I conveyed our position that Japan…
Bamkao, Feb. 16 (UNI) At least 48 people, most of them women, were killed on Saturday when an “illegally operated gold mining site” collapsed in western Mali, according to consistent eyewitness accounts from the area. The tragedy occurred in Bilalkoto, a village in the commune of Dabia, located in the Kenieba district of the Kayes…
Islamabad, Feb. 16 (UNI) Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in environmental samples collected from eight districts of Pakistan between Jan. 15 and Jan. 24, 2025, the National Institute of Health (NIH) said in a statement on Saturday. According to the latest data released by the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at…
Sydney, Feb 16 (UNI) Police in Melbourne are searching for two people after a man was seriously injured in a shooting in the city’s southeast. Victoria Police said on Sunday that an altercation broke out when three men attended a property in Pakenham, 50 km southeast of central Melbourne, shortly after 1 a.m. local time…
Jammu, Feb 16 (UNI) A man on Sunday died on the spot when his car crashed with a truck on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near Chenani in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. Police said that a man died after car crashed with truck on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. “The body was taken to the Government Medical…
Munich/New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Fiji’s PM and FM Sitiveni Rabuka, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of IAEA, and Battsetseg Batmunkh, the Foreign Minister of Mongolia, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. In posts on X, the EAM said that he and…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed shock and grief over the loss of lives in a stampede in the New Delhi Railway Station on Saturday night and said, “the incident highlights failure of railways and insensitivity of government”. Rahul Gandhi termed the incident as “extremely…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 16 (UNI) The Indian men’s hockey team began its FIH Pro League 2024-25 campaign with a 1-3 defeat to Spain at the Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday. Sukhjeet Singh netted the lone goal for world No. 5 India, while Borja Lacalle (28′), Ignacio Cobos (38′) and Bruno Avila (56′) found the target for…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI) The toll in the stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station has gone up to 18, with 12 others sustaining various degree of injuries, a hospital official said on Sunday. Five children and 11 women are among the dead, said the Chief Casualty Medical Officer at LNJP Hospital. “The death…
