Cannes Film Festival Announces Official Selection

PARIS, Apr 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The official selection for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival was announced yesterday, during a press conference in Paris, with 18 films selected to compete for the Palme d’Or. The films include Les Amandiers by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Close by Lukas Dhont, Crimes…

Bangladesh’s Bengali New Year Celebration Returns With In-Person Events

DHAKA, Apr 15 (NNN-BSS) – After two years of muted festivities, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people from all walks of life in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, yesterday participated in a mega colourful procession, featuring evocative masks, floats, and motifs of Bangladeshi culture. The procession greeted Pohela Boishakh, or the…

India’s Mahindra Raises Vehicle Prices By 2.5 Percent As Input Prices Surge

MUMBAI, Apr 15 (NNN-PTI) – India’s conglomerate Mahindra Group, announced a price hike of 2.5 percent for its range of vehicles, spread from 10,000 to 63,000 rupees on its ex-showroom prices, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange yesterday. The price revision is the result of continuous increase in prices…

Singapore Finance Minister Endorsed As Leader Of Ruling Party’s “4G” Team, Paving Way To Next PM

SINGAPORE, Apr 15 (NNN-CNA) – Singapore’s Finance Minister, Lawrence Wong, has been endorsed to be the leader of the fourth-generation (4G) team of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), which paves the way for him to be the next prime minister, the Straits Times reported. Lee Hsien Loong, the current…

Another Palestinian Killed By Israeli Soldiers In West Bank: Health Ministry

RAMALLAH, Apr 14 (NNN-WAFA) – A third Palestinian young man was killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday, during clashes in the town of Sliwad, north-east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health and eyewitnesses. Israeli soldiers shot and killed 20-year-old Omar Ellian, and wounded six…

18 Injured In Traffic Accident In S. Afghanistan

QALAT, Afghanistan, Apr 14 (NNN-ANA) – Eighteen people were injured, when a pick-up truck overturned, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Zabul yesterday, a local source said, today. “The injured people were shifted to a provincial hospital, following the accident, that occurred on a main road in Shar-e-Safa district, late yesterday,”…

Malaysia Reports 10,052 New COVID-19 Infections, 22 New Deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia reported 10,052 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,352,611, according to the health ministry. There are 21 new imported cases, with 10,031 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. A further 22 deaths have been…

Singapore Further Tightens Monetary Policy

SINGAPORE, Apr 14 (NNN-CNA) – The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), today announced that, it decided to further tighten monetary policy, in two ways. According to the newly-published MAS Monetary Policy Statement, first, the authority will re-centre the mid-point of the exchange rate policy band, at the prevailing level of…

India’s COVID-19 Tally Rises To 43,039,023

NEW DELHI, Apr 14 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,039,023 today, as 1,007 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. Besides, one death from the pandemic since yesterday morning took the total death toll to 521,737.…

S.Korea’s Import Price Keeps Rising On Expensive Crude Oil

SEOUL, Apr 14 (NNN-YONHAP) – Price for imported goods to South Korea kept rising last month, due to higher price for raw materials, especially crude oil, central bank data showed today. The import price index reached 148.80 in March, marking the highest since relevant data began to be compiled in…