- Monday, February 24, 2025
AROUND 40,000 businesses in South Africa were looted and burnt during riots that erupted after the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma on July 8, the government said. The rampage which covered KwaZulu-Natal province and Johannesburg witnessed ransacking of hundreds of shopping centres and warehouses. This has given another blow to…
LONDON headquartered multinational cinema chain Vue Entertainment Ltd has been fined £750,000 for safety breaches following the death of a film-goer who was crushed under a motorised reclining chair in 2018. The Birmingham Crown Court slapped the fine after Ateeq Rafiq, 24, died after being trapped under a cinema chair…
THE upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games had a Covid scare on Wednesday (21) after Chilean taekwondo player Fernanda Aguirre and Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs were ruled out after testing positive. While Aguirre tested positive in an on-arrival test at the airport in the Japanese capital, Jacobs’ result was revealed at the…
CHINA on Tuesday (19) rolled out a high-speed maglev train with a designed top speed of 600 kilometres (373 miles) an hour, which would make it the world’s fastest ground vehicle, as per the country’s official media. The new maglev transportation system made its public debut in the coastal city…
CHINA has denied allegations of carrying out a major cyber-attack against tech giant Microsoft, calling such claims “fabricated.” On Monday (19), the US and other western countries including the UK, EU, New Zealand and Australia accused China of hacking Microsoft Exchange - a popular email platform used by companies worldwide,…
INDIA on Wednesday (21) observed a subdued Eid-al-Adha amid the coronavirus pandemic restrictions and the leaders greeted their countrymen on the occasion. Across the nation, people mostly stayed indoors to offer namaz to observe the occasion since religious and festive gatherings on the streets remained prohibited in view of the…
MAMATA Banerjee, the chief minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, on Wednesday (21) called for the Indian opposition to unite against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Targeting the party of prime minister Narendra Modi in the wake of the ongoing Pegasus snooping row, Banerjee said a…
ABHINAV Bindra, India’s only individual gold medallist at the Olympics, feels the country’s shooting contingent at the Tokyo Games has a decent chance of winning the top medal. The 38-year-old, who won gold in shooting at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, told Gulf News in a recent interview that even…
THE Australian city of Brisbane will host the 2032 summer Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday (21) overwhelmingly approved the recommendation of its executive board. Brisbane, where hundreds of people gathered at the river-side South Bank erupted in cheering as the defining moments of the IOC session…
MORE than 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 119,000 from India, lost their primary and secondary caregivers to the Covid-19 disease during the first 14 months of the pandemic, a study published by medical journal The Lancet has said. The study, funded in part by the USA’s National Institute…
