India’s Chief Cricket Selector Quit After TV Sting

NEW DELHI, Feb 18 (NNN-PTI) – Chief selector at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Chetan Sharma, yesterday resigned from his post, following a sting operation by a local television news channel, multiple local media reported. During the sting operation, Sharma allegedly made controversial comments about cricketers…

Nearly 250 Shops Gutted In Massive Fire In India’s Assam

NEW DELHI, Feb 18 (NNN-PTI) – Nearly 250 shops were gutted, yesterday, in a massive blaze that broke out inside a marketplace, in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, officials said. No casualties were reported in the incident. The fire broke out on Thursday night, at the Chowk Bazaar market in…

Indian Gov’t Reduced Reserve Price Of Wheat To Curb Inflation

NEW DELHI, Feb 18 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government decided yesterday, to further reduce the reserve price of wheat from Mar 31, to check the inflationary trend in food economy. According to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, states may be allowed to purchase wheat from the…

Bulgaria finds 18 dead migrants reportedly from Afghanistan suffocated in truck

Police and emergency medical services on site after 18 people were found dead in an abandoned truck SOFIA, Feb 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country. Bulgaria’s deadliest such incident comes as the Balkan…

Vietnam To Issue Biometric Passports From Next Month

HANOI, Feb 18 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam will issue passports embedded with electronic microprocessor chips, containing biometric information from next month, so as to facilitate international travel for its citizens, local media reported yesterday. The Nhan Dan (People) newspaper, cited a statement by the Immigration Department, under the Ministry of Public…

US-China rift: Pres Biden says United States not looking for a new Cold War as search ended for debris from downed Chinese balloon

  WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden said he would talk to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the wake of the US Air Force shooting down what Washington says was a high-tech Chinese spy balloon earlier this month.    “I expect to be speaking with President Xi…

Uzbekistan To Commission Solar, Wind Power Plants With Total Capacity Of 4,300 MW This Year

TASHKENT, Feb 18 (NNN-UzA) – Uzbekistan plans to commission solar and wind power plants, with a total capacity of 4,300 megawatts by year’s end, a presidential decree released yesterday, said. It further said, the Uzbek government will allocate 15.4 billion U.S. dollars to renewable energy source projects, which include the…

Cambodia Slashed PCR COVID-19 Test Fee To 50 USD For Outbound Travellers

PHNOM PENH, Feb 18 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia, yesterday, decided to lower the fee for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test, with a certificate, to 50 U.S. dollars, from the current 130 dollars for outbound travellers, Health Minister, Mam Bunheng, said. For all authorised COVID-19-testing laboratories in the country, the…

Kyrgyzstan Declares State Of Emergency In Naryn Oblast Due To Avalanches

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Feb 18 (NNN-KNA) – Kyrgyzstan has declared a state of emergency in Naryn Oblast, due to avalanches, the press service of the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, reported yesterday. In connection with the avalanches on the Bishkek-Naryn-Torugart highway, and due to the continuing danger of avalanches, the governor…

China, Vietnam Vowed To Bolster Economic Cooperation

HANOI, Feb 18 (NNN-VNA) – A conference was held between China’s Yunnan provincial department of commerce and the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, yesterday, to strengthen cooperation in a wide range of economic, investment and trade issues. As bilateral trade between Vietnam and China…
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