Coroner Alexandra Cunninghame found that three students, aged 18 to 21, and one 40-year-old personal trainer killed themselves after buying kits from businesses linked to Canadian Kenneth Law. Canadian police believe Law sent as many as 1,200 “suicide kits” to people in more than 40 countries between 2020 and his arrest last year — specifically […]
China is on a bold mission to become the first country to bring Martian samples back to Earth by 2030! Wu Weiren, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a leading scientist at the China National Space Administration, revealed that China is on track to become the first country to return Martian samples […]
The Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza, further destabilising the Middle East as the war in the Palestinian enclave rages on after nine months. Israel says the Houthis have launched 200 attacks against it since the Gaza war […]
“At least 532 people have been arrested over the violence,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP. “They include some BNP leaders,” he added, referring to the opposition Bangladesh National Party. He said the detainees included the BNP’s third-most senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and party spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed. He added […]
The court’s Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated the quotas, directing that 93% of government jobs will be open to candidates on merit, without quotas, the reports said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government scrapped the quota system in 2018, but the lower court reinstated it last month, sparking the protests and […]
After the outage was resolved, companies were dealing with backlogs of delayed and canceled flights and medical appointments, missed orders, and other issues that could take days to resolve. Businesses also face questions about how to avoid future blackouts triggered by technology meant to safeguard their systems. A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike […]
American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and Allegiant Air grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several low-cost carriers. It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off were related to an earlier Microsoft cloud outage. In Australia, media, banks, […]
Hasina’s government has ordered schools and universities to close indefinitely and stepped up efforts to contain weeks of rallies demanding equal access to public sector jobs. Riot police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds while protesters and students allied to the premier’s ruling Awami League have battled on the streets with […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, has topped Asia’s richest individuals list for July 2024, with assets valued at $122.8 billion. The list, released by international media, places Indian industrialist Gautam Adani in second place with a net worth of $85.7 billion. Indonesian businessman Prajogo Pangestu ranks third, holding assets worth $61.8 […]
The Royal Oman Police have responded to a shooting incident that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque in the Al-Wadi Al-Kabir area,” police said in a statement. The force gave an initial toll of four killed and “several others” wounded at the mosque in eastern Muscat. Pakistani envoy in Oman Ali Imran Chaudhry confirmed […]
