India Achieves Guinness World Record For Constructing Longest Piece Of Road

NEW DELHI, Jun 9 (NNN-PTI) – Indian Road Transport and Highways Minister, Nitin Gadkari, said yesterday that, India has entered the Guinness World Records for constructing the longest piece of bituminous concrete, laid continuously. The record has been achieved for constructing 75 km of continuous bituminous concrete in a single…

Iran Urges IAEA To Avoid “Politicising” Nuke Programme

TEHRAN, Jun 8 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to avoid “politicising” issues concerning Iran’s nuclear programme, Iran’s Press TV reported, yesterday. Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy chief of the Iranian Judiciary and a former envoy to the IAEA, was quoted by Press TV as saying that, Iran…

Malaysia Reports 1,128 New COVID-19 Infections, Nine New Deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia reported 1,128 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,517,447, according to the health ministry. There is one new imported case, with 1,127 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Nine more deaths have been reported,…

NASA To Launch Three Rockets From Northern Australia

CANBERRA, Jun 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, announced that the country will launch NASA rockets for the first time in 27 years, within a month. Albanese and the head of the Australian Space Agency (ASA), Enrico Palermo, today said, three NASA suborbital sounding rockets, will lift off…

S.Korea Reports 13,358 New COVID-19 Cases

SEOUL, Jun 8 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 13,358 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,188,200, the health authorities said today. The daily caseload was up from 6,172 the previous day, but it was lower than 15,790 tallied…

Yemeni Gov’t Agrees To UN Proposal On Lifting Siege Of Taiz: Report

SANAA, Jun 8 (NNN-YPA) – The Yemeni government delegation, yesterday, accepted a revised proposal, presented by the UN envoy over lifting the Houthi siege on the city of Taiz, state-run Yemen TV reported. The delegation spent the past days negotiating this issue with Houthi representatives in Jordan’s capital Amman, under…

Afghan Forces Destroy Daesh Weapon Cache In Eastern Parwan Province

KABUL, Jun 8 (NNN-ANA) – Security forces have found and destroyed a weapon cache of the Daesh in Afghanistan’s eastern Parwan province, provincial police spokesman, Mohammad Kamran Habibi, said yesterday. Quoting the official, the local Tolo television channel reported that, the weapon cache was discovered in a house in the…

India Meteorological Department Issues Orange Alert For Heatwave In The North

NEW DELHI, Jun 8 (NNN-PTI) – India Meteorological Department (IMD), yesterday issued an orange alert, for some of the northern parts of the country, over a heatwave condition, India’s state-run broadcaster – All India Radio (AIR) said. “North Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Bundelkhand region, will experience heatwave conditions, where…

Vietnam’s Pharmaceutical Import Up 20.7 Percent In Five Months

HANOI, Jun 8 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam spent over 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, importing evidence-based medicines, in the first five months of this year, up 20.7 percent from the same period last year, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade, yesterday. Its main suppliers included the United States, Germany,…

World Bank Cuts India’s Economic Growth Forecast

NEW DELHI, Jun 8 (NNN-PTI) – The World Bank, yesterday, cut India’s economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.5 percent, as rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions taper recovery. “In India, growth is forecast to edge down to 7.5 percent in the fiscal year 2022/23, with…