The blast took place at about 6:30 am local time in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city. Media reports said a market in the district was hard hit. PTI | , Beijing PUBLISHED ON JUN 13, 2021 11:28 AM IST At least 11 people were killed and 37 others seriously injured in a huge gas explosion in central China’s Hubei Province on Sunday, official media reported.The blast took place at about 6:30 am local time in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city. Media reports said a market in the district was hard hit.Eleven people were killed and 37 others injured…
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Australia’s Victoria state expects to announce further easing of COVID-19 restrictions this week, acting Premier James Merlino said on Sunday, as the state reported one new locally acquired infection for a second straight day.Also Read: Australia’s Victoria detects Delta Covid-19 variant in latest outbreakThe latest infection was a close contact of a previously reported case and had already been quarantined, Victoria’s health department said.Australia’s second-most-populous state has recorded 92 cases in its latest wave of COVID-19 infections, which triggered a two-week snap lockdown late last month. Victoria emerged from the lockdown on Friday as new cases declined, but some physical…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year hold on power was set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged to heal a nation bitterly divided over the departure of the country’s longest serving leader.Also Read: Israeli lawmakers to vote Sunday on coalition formed against PM NetanyahuNetanyahu, 71, the most dominant Israeli politician of his generation, had failed to form a government after Israel’s March 23 election, its fourth in two years. The new cabinet, which will be sworn in after a Knesset confidence vote it is expected to win, was…
Pakistan has placed strict restrictions on travellers from 26 countries including India to contain the spread of Covid-19 cases in the country.The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a nerve centre to synergize effort against Covid-19 has placed these countries in the “C category” and revised the inbound air/land travel categories with an immediate effect, Dawn reported.”Countries in A category are exempted from the mandatory Covid-19 test, travellers from areas in B category require a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that must be taken within 72 hours of the travel date while countries in C category are restricted and…
Pakistan’s “mango diplomacy” found no takers in several countries, including the United States and China, which declined to accept the fruits citing their coronavirus quarantine regulations, news agency ANI has reported.According to ANI, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) sent boxes of the fruit to heads of more than 32 countries on Wednesday but the US and China among others have declined to accept them. The agency cited The News International as saying that Canada, Nepal, Egypt and Sri Lanka have also expressed their regrets at accepting the gift.Also read | Mango diplomacy: How the first crate of Pakistani mangoes impacted Mao’s…
A US lobster fisherman has lived to tell the tale after he claimed he was swallowed by a humpback whale and spat out in less than a minute. Michael Packard told local paper Cape Cod Times he was diving for lobster off the coast of the northeastern state of Massachusetts when the humpback whale trapped him in its mouth before coughing him back up.”I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out,” the 56-year-old wrote on Facebook hours after. “A humpback whale tried to eat me. I…
International Albinism Awareness Day is observed by the United Nations on June 13 every year. This year, the theme of the celebration is ‘Strength Beyond All Odds’.According to the global body, the theme was chosen to highlight the achievements of people with albinism around the world, show that people with albinism can defy all odds, celebrate how people with albinism worldwide meet and exceed expectations in all domains of life and encourage everyone during this time of a global pandemic to join the global effort to build back better.Here is all you need to know about albinism:-Albinism is a rare…
Investigators digging under the house of a suspected serial killer on the outskirts of Mexico City said Saturday they have found 3,787 bone fragments so far, apparently belonging to 17 different victims.Prosecutors in the State of Mexico, which borders Mexico City, suggested the grisly finds may not end there. In excavations carried out since May 17, authorities have dug up the floors of the house where the suspect lived. They now plan to extend the search to the soil beneath several other rooms he rented out on the same property.ID cards and other possessions from people who disappeared years ago…
Megha Rajagopalan wasn’t watching the Pulitzer announcement ceremony because she wasn’t expecting to win. Rajagopalan, the international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, got to know her series exposing China’s Uighur Muslims detention camps won the Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category after editor-in-chief Mark Schoofs called her. “I’m in complete shock, I did not expect this,” Rajagopalan, who is based in London, said according to BuzzFeed.Rajagopalan won the Pulitzer Prize with contributors Alison Killing, a licensed architect, and Christo Buschek, a programmer, for a series exposing the scale of the internment of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. This was the…
Ottawa [Canada], June 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada reported 1,115 new daily cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing the cumulative total to 1,400,827, including 25,910 deaths, according to CTV.With the considerable decline in infection rates nationally, the overall number of people experiencing severe and critical illness is also steadily declining.Several provinces in the country are enjoying relaxed pandemic restrictions this weekend as the country’s drive to fully vaccinate Canadians against Covid-19 is “accelerating fast.”More than 28.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses had been administered so far across the country.As of June 5, about 70 percent of the eligible population, aged 12 years or…