Karachi police attacked over religious congregation restrictions

An officer in-charge of Pirabad police station in Orangi Town locality here was attacked by a mob after authorities tried to restrict Friday congregational prayers. Although, April 10 was the third Friday after the Sindh government imposed a lockdown in view of the coronavirus outbreak, many people still insisted on offering the Friday congregational prayers and violated the government's directives that have restricted the maximum...

India slams Pak after delayed SAARC corona fund contribution

After Pakistan pledged to donate USD 3 million to SAARC COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, India on Friday highlighted the "early commitment" made by other member countries and said the 'degree of seriousness' of each nation can be gauged by its behaviour. Pakistan's foreign office on Thursday announced that it will contribute USD 3 million towards the South Asian Association for Regional Corporation (SAARC) COVID-19...

সীমান্তে পাকিস্তানি গোলায় ৩ ভারতীয় নিহত

পাক-ভারত সীমান্তে গোলাবিনিময়ে তিন ভারতীয় বেসামরিক নাগরিক নিহত হয়েছেন।  রবিবার (১২ এপ্রিল) দুই পক্ষের সামরিক কর্মকর্তারা এমন তথ্য দিয়েছেন। বার্তা সংস্থা রয়টার্সের...

ISKP leaves its terror footprints in Afghanistan

The attack, which was led by a man from Kerala, focused attention on the radicalisation of a section of the population in this Indian state. While the entire world is fighting a battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, three persons having allegiance to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), attacked a historic gurudwara in Kabul on 25 March. Twenty-five persons were killed in the attack, while several were injured, instilling fear in this...

Former Pakistan Minister Rehman Malik urges UN chief to probe COVID-19 origin

In a bid to find the origin of the disease, former interior minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik has urged the United Nations to form a high-powered commission to investigate whether Coronavirus, which has now hit almost all nations across the globe, is a man-made or a naturally grown virus, media reports said. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, he said the proposed commission on Covid-19 under...

How China muzzled its Bat Woman: Beijing authorities hushed up the findings of a scientist who unlocked the genetic make-up of the coronavirus within days of the outbreak - which is vital for tests and vaccines

A Chinese scientist who is the one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses was 'muzzled' after unravelling the genetic composition of the new disease, which is crucial for developing diagnostic tests and vaccines. The revelation will fuel fresh concerns over China's cover-up of the pandemic after it erupted in the city of Wuhan. Critics argue that Communist Party chiefs frustrated efforts to contain the outbreak...

Kabul Sikh Temple attack: Two close aides of mastermind Aslam Farooqui arrested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=T5w_0PIOeAk&feature=emb_logo In yet another breakthrough in the gurudwara attack in Kabul city of Afghanistan, security forces in Afghanistan have arrested two aides of Islamic State Khorasan Province chief Aslam Farooqui. Aslam is believed to be the mastermind behind the attack on the Sikh gurudwara. Sources said the arrested people were identified as Bangladeshi citizen...

মুসলিমদের মধ্যে করোনা সন্ত্রাস দেশে দেশে; অভিযুক্ত তবলিগ জামাত !

তবলিগ জামাতের সরকারি নিষেধাজ্ঞা অমান্য করার কূফল ভুগতে হচ্ছে বাংলাদেশ, ভারত ও পাকিস্তানকে। মালেশিয়ার ছবিটাও একই। সেখান থেকেই তবলিগের করোনা ছড়ানোর প্রক্রিয়া শুরু।...

সময়ের আগে লকডাউন তুলে নিলে পরিস্থিতি ভয়াবহ হবে: WHO

করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ মোকাবিলায় দেশে দেশে জনসাধারণের চলাচলের ওপর বিধিনিষেধ আরোপ করে সবাইকে ঘরে থাকতে বলছে WHO কর্তৃপক্ষ। সংক্রমণ নিয়ন্ত্রণে না আসায় এই লকডাউন বা...

India hits back Pakistan hard Keran CFV: Militant Launchpad, ammunition Depots on other side of LoC destroyed in Keran Sector: Army

https://youtu.be/oGsOUSG5fq4 The Indian Army Friday said that it has destroyed the ammunition dump of militants and the launchpad's along the line of control at Keran sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. According to Wire Service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Indian defence spokesperson Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that launchpads and ammunition dumps of militants was destroyed on the other side of LoC as Indian army...

5G: British politician sceptical about UK accepting Chinese COVID-19 aid

British politician and broadcaster Nigel Paul Farage feels that accepting COVID-19 aid from China may lead Beijing having a hand in UK's 5G network. After news that the UK will receive 300 ventilators from China to combat coronavirus, Nigel Farage wondered if the deal would involve Huawei having a deeper hand in the British 5G networks, reported LBC. Nigel admitted "sure we want ventilators from everywhere" but proposed...

India pulls a COVID drug act: Sends planeloads of medicines to neighbours

After lending a helping hand to the US with the anti-malaria-drug hydroxychloroquine, India has started to fly off consignments of other life-saving drugs as gifts to neighbouring countries to fight coronavirus. The South Block on Thursday (April 9) said after an Air India plane with 10 tonnes of medicine, was sent to Sri Lanka on Tuesday, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Mauritius, and some African countries...

WHO an 'accomplice' to China in covering up COVID-19: ex-official

John Bolton, a former advisor to US President Donald Trump, has accused WHO of acting as "an accomplice" of China in concealing information regarding the deadly virus and asked for the resignation of the agency's Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Taking to Twitter on Monday, the Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, who has repeatedly blamed China for 'lying' about the novel...

Coronavirus: Why China's claims of success raise eyebrows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IZm9OI-hoI China has reported no new deaths from coronavirus anywhere in the country, for the first time since the beginning of the outbreak. But as the BBC's Robin Brant writes, there are lingering questions over how far these figures, and therefore China's narrative on the outbreak, can be trusted. For months now, every morning at 03:00, officials in China have put together the latest figures...

Taiwan warned, WHO ignored and Covid-19 became pandemic

The coronavirus, which originated in China, could have been stopped from turning into a pandemic if the World Health Organisation paid heed to Taiwan's early warnings regarding the human to human transmission of the virus. However, the WHO chose to ignore the warnings by Taiwan at China's behest and now the whole world is paying the price of it. Emerging from China's infamous wet market, the virus has so far infected at least...

Coronavirus: Trump accuses WHO of being China-centric, threatens to cut funding

Geneva-headquartered World Health Organization receives vast amounts of money from the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would put a hold on America’s funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of becoming China-centric during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re...

China Investigates Party Member Critical of Xi Over Outbreak

A prominent Communist party member who criticized Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is being investigated on suspicion of a “severe violation of discipline and law,” a joint government-party watchdog said. Ren Zhiqiang is a former head of state-run real estate conglomerate Huayuan Group and a party member who has become known for his outspokenness on sensitive topics such as press...

বিল গেটস ফাউন্ডেশনের অর্থায়নে চলছে করোনার ভ্যাকসিনের পরীক্ষা

গোটা বিশ্বকে বিপর্যস্ত করে দিয়েছে আণুবীক্ষণিক করোনাভাইরাস। বিশ্বজুড়ে করোনাভাইরাসের প্রতিষেধক হিসেবে ভ্যাকসিন ও ওষুধের খোঁজ চলছে। এরই মধ্যে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের...

Trump sets stage for UNSC meet on Covid-19 on April 9; pans WHO, China

https://youtu.be/ooD-9QnA3j0 After US President Donald Trump virtually blamed the World Health Organisation for playing the Chinese side on the coronavirus pandemic, heat will now mount on Beijing at an informal discussion on the virus outbreak in the UN Security Council on Thursday, April 9, at 3 pm (EST). The informal discussion will be preceded by a briefing by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “The WHO really...

বিশ্ব স্বাস্থ্য সংস্থার প্রধান করোনার প্রহেলিকায় চীনকে জুজু দেখানোয় এখন বিচারের কাঠগড়ায় !

https://youtu.be/ooD-9QnA3j0 আন্তর্জাতিক কাউন্সিল অফ জুরিস্ট (আইসিজে) জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার কাউন্সিলকে বিশ্বজুড়ে মারাত্মক করোনভাইরাস ছড়িয়ে দিয়ে মানবতার বিরুদ্ধে গুরুতর অপরাধ...

IS Khorasan Pakistan chief Aslam Farooqui admits his ties with Pakistan’s ISI  !

Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) leader Abdullah Orakzai, a Pakistani national known as Aslam Farooqi (43 yrs) and 19 of his associates including Qari Zahid and Saifullah @ Abu Talha were arrested in the southern province of Kandahar during a complex operation by the special forces of NDS (National Directorate of Security) Afghanistan, for their involvement in deadly attack (March 25) on Kabul Gurudwara. Afghan security forces have revealed that...

চীনের ল্যাবেই তৈরি হয়েছিল করোনাভাইরাস, এলো নতুন প্রমাণ!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU&feature=youtu.be গেল বছরের ডিসেম্বরে চীনের উহানে প্রথম ধরা পড়ে প্রাণঘাতী করোনাভাইরাস। এরপর বিশ্বের অন্তত ২০০টি দেশে ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে এ ভাইরাস। এ ভাইরাসে এখন...

করোনা নিয়েও সর্বনাশা খেলায় মেতেছে পাকিস্তান !!

করোনা নিয়েও সর্বনাশা খেলায় মেতেছে পাকিস্তান। হু হু করে বাড়ছে করোনা আক্রান্তের সংখ্যা। শুরু হয়েছে মৃত্যুর মিছিল। পরিস্থিতিকে কাজে লাগিয়ে পাক-সেনাবাহিনী এই দুঃসময়েও...

করোনায় যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে ২৪ ঘণ্টায় ১১৬৯ মৃত্যু

করোনাভাইরাস মহামারীতে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে ২৪ ঘণ্টায় এক হাজার ১৬৯ জনের মৃত্যু হয়েছে। শেষ খবর পাওয়া পর্যন্ত এই সংখ্যা দুই লাখ ৪৫ হাজার ছাড়িয়ে গেছে। সব মিলিয়ে দেশটিতে...

Activist slams Pak for raking Kashmir amid COVID-19 pandemic

A Kashmiri political activist has denounced Pakistan for raking up the Kashmir issue at a critical time when the whole of the world is fighting COVID-19 pandemic. On Sunday, Pakistan's Foreign Office made public the contents of a letter written by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to the UN Secretary-General and the president of the United Nations Security Council on March 9 regarding what he described as the "dire"...

China's 'wet markets' are back

China's notorious 'wet markets' have reopened -- selling bats, pangolins and dogs for human consumption. The move is dangerous as scientists believe that the Covid-19 causing coronavirus first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans. Various reports suggest that a 55-year-old man from China's Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19...

COVID-19: Hindus denied food supplies in Pakistan's Karachi

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, thousands of poor people gathered at Rehrri Ghoth in Karachi to receive food supplies and daily essentials. https://youtu.be/-h41n6vTUTw However, those who belong to the Hindu community were told to go back since the rations were only meant for Muslims. Sindh government issued an order to distribute ration lockdown through local NGOs and administration to daily wage workers and laborers. The distribution of...

পাকিস্তানে লকডাউন চলাকালীন কোন হিন্দু পাবে না রেশন !

https://youtu.be/-h41n6vTUTw চীনের উহান শহর থেকে যে মারণ ভাইরাস করোনা ছড়িয়ে পড়েছিল তা ক্রমশই প্রাণ কাড়ছে একের পর এক মানুষের। গোটা বিশ্বের কাছে এখন একটাই ত্রাস COVID 19। সরকারি...

After 'passing on' COVID-19 pandemic, 'Zero' is Xi's new narrative

All countries around the globe today are reeling under coronavirus, with at least seven lakh people being infected and over 37,000 deaths due to the highly contagious bug. But China, among all the others, is the only one to have announced that no new cases of the infection have been reported since last week. Catholic Answers Forum, a non-profit organisation, in one of its report, titled "China Is Pushing a 'Zero' Myth on...

Chinese defy lockdown; clash with locals in Lamjung

Chinese nationals have clashed with locals at Thulobesi of Marsyangdi rural municipality-6 in the district on Tuesday morning. The situation took a nasty turn after locals protested when the construction materials were brought into the village during the lockdown. The clashes between the two groups occurred when the locals protested after the two trucks laden with construction materials arrived at the Nyadi Hydropower, said Dilmaya...