India’s COVID-19 Tally Rises To 10,892,746

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 10,892,746 today, as 12,143 new cases were registered, during the past 24 hours, the latest data from the federal health ministry, showed. According to the official data, the death toll mounted to 155,550, as 103 COVID-19 patients died since…

Car Bomb Wounds Seven Policemen In Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province

KANDAHAR, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least seven policemen were injured, as a car bomb rocked Arghandab district, in the southern Kandahar province today, police spokesman, Jamal Barikzai, said. Without providing more details, the official said, an investigation had been initiated into the incident. In the meantime, another official, who…

Five Killed In A Shootout At North India’s Wrestling Training Centre

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (NNN-PTI) – Five persons, including two female wrestlers, were killed and a couple of others injured, in a shootout late last night, in India’s northern state of Haryana, confirmed a local police. The shootout happened at a wrestling training centre, inside a college in the state’s…

Tokyo 2020 Organisers To Select Mori’s Successor “Soon”

TOKYO, Feb 13 (NNN-NHK) – Tokyo 2020 organising committee, will select a new president “as soon as possible,” to succeed Yoshiro Mori, who resigned yesterday, over sexist remarks. Toshiro Muto, the CEO of Tokyo 2020, told reporters after yesterday’s special meeting, at which Mori announced his resignation, that a selection…

S.Korea To Ease Social-Distancing Rules From Feb 15

SEOUL, Feb 13 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea decided today, to ease the social-distancing rules from next week, though it will maintain a ban on the gatherings of five or more people. The government’s five-tier social-distancing guidelines will be lowered to the third-highest Level 2, in the Seoul metropolitan area, and…

New Zealand’s Wellington Community Celebrates Chinese New Year In Central Park

WELLINGTON, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The community celebration of the Chinese New Year was held in Wellington’s Central Park, with Chinese music, traditions and blessings. Calligraphers from a Chinese cultural group, Ya Feng, wrote Spring couplets for Wellington residents, accompanied by Guzheng music, performed by an artist from the China…

Gas Cylinder Blast Kills Three People, Injures Seven In NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (NNN-APP) – A gas cylinder blast killed three people and injured seven others, in Pakistan’s north-west North Waziristan tribal district, rescue officials in the area said today. The blast occurred at a house in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, last night, the rescue department said. The…

Death Toll In Fireworks Factory Explosion In India Rises To 15

by Peerzada Arshad Hamid NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – The death toll in yesterday’s explosion inside a fireworks factory, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, has risen to 15, officials said. Thirty people, injured in the explosion, are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. The explosion took place at…

Update: India Glacier Burst Death Toll Rises To 38, Rescue Work Still On

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (NNN-PTI) – The number of dead bodies retrieved from a glacier burst in northern India rose to 38 yesterday, but only 11 of them could be identified, as yet. Even now, as many as 166 people, mostly labourers and workers, employed at two hydro-power projects, are…

Pakistan Kicks Off Urban Tree Plantation Drive To Curb Pollution

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, yesterday, launched a countrywide spring tree plantation drive, in urban areas, to curb the growing smog pollution in the country. Addressing the launching ceremony in the country’s east Lahore city, Khan said, planting trees is one of the long-term plans…