India’s Private Airline Fined For Leaving Passengers Behind

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – India’s air traffic regulator, yesterday, imposed a monetary fine of one million Indian Rupees (about 12,252 U.S. dollars), on the private airline “Go First,” for leaving 55 passengers behind. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), there were around 180 seats in…

Pakistan Strongly Condemned Israel’s Attack On West Bank

ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan yesterday, strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the occupied northern West Bank, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry. The Israeli armed forces stormed the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank on Thursday, and killed nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, and wounded 16,…

India Released 17 Pakistani Prisoners

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – India, yesterday, released as many as 17 Pakistani nationals, who had completed their respective jail terms, confirmed the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. They were released through the Attari-Wagah Border, that divides the two countries, and is adjacent to India’s northern state of…

Three-Metre-High Flood Submerged Indonesia’s North Sulawesi, One Killed

JAKARTA, Jan 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – One person died, after floods, 80 to 300 cm high, destroyed dozens of homes in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi yesterday. “Heavy rains in several areas of Manado City have caused the Tondano River to overflow, and flooding cannot be avoided,” said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the…

Nepal’s Deputy PM Loses Citizenship Case

KATHMANDU, Jan 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nepal’s Supreme Court, yesterday, scrapped Rabi Lamichhane’s status as a member of the House of Representatives, on the grounds that he did not have Nepali citizenship, when he contested the elections, thus rendering his post as deputy prime minister and home minister, void. “As Lamichhane…

Indonesia To Focus On Developing Tourism Villages

JAKARTA, Jan 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia set to focus on developing and promoting tourism villages this year, as such an alternative tourism has been proven to be able to survive during a pandemic, the country’s Tourism and Creative Economy Minister, Sandiaga Uno, said yesterday. A tourism village is usually described…

Brunei’s Popular Public Service APP Goes Offline Following Data Breach

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 28 (NNN-ANN) – QueUp, a widely-used mobile application for making public service appointments, will be made offline, following a data breach incident, local media reported yesterday. Rhymin & Partners, the developer of QueUp, made the offline announcement, saying, they “have taken the first line of action…

Dust storm hit SE Mongolian province

ZAMIIN-UUD, Mongolia, Jan 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – A dust storm hit the south-eastern Mongolian province of Dornogovi yesterday, causing low visibility on roads. The unstable weather was expected to prevail during the weekend, the provincial weather monitoring agency said, in a statement. Dornogovi, located in the Gobi Desert region of southern…

Traffic Accidents Killed 89 During Lunar New Year Holiday In Vietnam

HANOI, Jan 27 (NNN-VNA) – As many as 152 traffic accidents occurred during the Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam, killing 89 people and injuring 111 others, according to the country’s Traffic Police Department, yesterday. The number of traffic accidents and deaths during the seven-day holiday decreased seven percent and…

Malaysia strongly condemns desecration of holy Quran in The Hague

PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), Jan 27 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia has condemned in the strongest terms the latest despicable act of desecrating the Holy Quran by an anti-Islam extremist and far right leader, Edwin Wagensveld, in The Hague, the Netherlands on Sunday (Jan 22).  Malaysian Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) in a statement Friday…
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