India’s Overall Exports Grew By 31.87 Percent In Jun, Touches 49.85 Billion USD

NEW DELHI, Jul 16 (NNN-PTI) – India’s overall exports in Jun stood at 49.85 billion U.S. dollars, up by 31.87 percent, compared to the same month last year, data released by the federal ministry of commerce and industry showed, yesterday. According to the ministry, overall imports in Jun, 2021, are…

Nepal Extends Lockdown In Kathmandu Valley For 10 More Days

KATHMANDU, Jul 16 (NNN-XINHUA) – The authorities in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, yesterday, decided to continue the ongoing lockdown till Jul 25, to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but with further relaxation in the prohibitory orders. The last round of lockdown expires midnight last night, local time, and the three districts in…

India’s Top Health Research Scientist Says COVID-19 Third Wave Likely To Hit By Aug End

NEW DELHI, Jul 16 (NNN-PTI) – Head of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, at India’s top health research body, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr Samiran Panda, said the third wave of COVID-19 is likely to hit India at the end of Aug. Panda, however, said, there are chances that…

Lebanese PM-Designate Hariri Announces Resignation

BEIRUT, Jul 16 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, announced yesterday, his resignation, after failing to line up a non-partisan cabinet, in the crisis-torn country, al-Jadeed TV channel reported. “I have just met with the President, who informed me about his rejection to some of the names mentioned in…

Afghan Provincial Governor, Taliban Agree On Truce To End Fighting In Qala-E-Naw City

QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Jul 16 (NNN-XINHUA) – The governor of western Badghis province, Hasamudin Shams, made unofficial ceasefire with the Taliban outfit, in the provincial capital, Qala-e-Naw city, yesterday, to end the clash there. “From 10:00 a.m. local time today (Thursday), a ceasefire came into effect between Security and Defence Forces…

Iran’s President-Elect Reaffirms Support For Palestine Against Israel

TEHRAN, Jul 15 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian President-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, announced that, Iran will continue its consistent policy of supporting Palestine. Iran will keep defending Palestine against Israel, until the “liberation of Jerusalem (al-Quds) from the Zionist (Israel) occupation,” Raisi said, in separate telephone conversations with Ismail Haniyeh, chief of Gaza’s…

Over 4,800 Livestock Killed In Floods In Mongolia

ULAN BATOR, Jul 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – At least 4,837 heads of livestock were killed, after rain-triggered floods hit the central-western Mongolian province of Arkhangai, early this week, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency said, today. Eleven of the animals killed in the floods were cattle and the rest were sheep…

Five Civilians Killed As Mortar Hits Residential Area In Eastern Afghanistan

MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan, Jul 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Five civilians lost their lives and 12 others sustained injury, as a mortar mine fired by militants, slammed into a residential area in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province, yesterday, the provincial government said in a statement today. “Taliban rebels fired a mortar mine late yesterday…

Smuggled Drugs To S. Korea Nearly Triple In H1

SEOUL, Jul 15 (NNN-YONHAP) – Smuggled drugs caught by the South Korean authorities nearly tripled in the first half of the year, as contactless smuggling through international mail and express cargo jumped, amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, customs office data showed today. Smuggled drugs, confiscated by the customs agency, reached…

Mongolia Logs 1,439 New COVID-19 Cases

ULAN BATOR, Jul 15 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) – Mongolia confirmed 1,439 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 143,128, the country’s health ministry said today. A total of 9,350 samples were tested across the country in the past day. Meanwhile, COVID-19 death toll rose…