NEW DELHI: The Indian Test team leapfrogged the Australian Test team to become the number 1 Test nation ahead of their upcoming World Test Championship 2023 final. Australia’s reign at the top of the Men’s Test Rankings finally came to an end after 15 months with India going past the Aussies ahead of next month’s ICC…
DAMASCUS: Israeli strikes targeted north Syria’s Aleppo province late Monday, killing a solider and wounding seven people including two civilians and putting the area’s international airport out of service, state media reported.“At around 11:35 p.m. (2035 GMT)… the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with several missiles… targeting Aleppo international airport and a number…
RIYADH: The commander of US Central Command General Michael “Erik” Kurilla thanked Saudi Arabia for its support in evacuating US citizens from Sudan on Monday. During a phone call with the Royal Saudi Chief of General Staff Lieutenant-General Fayyadh bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili, Kurilla said the Kingdom had provided access, basing, and overflights as well as…
Singapore: India is fast emerging as a key global aviation market, according to the latest market analysis report of the International Air Transport Association ( ATA). India’s domestic air travel has continued to grow robustly and as of February, it was a mere 2.2 per cent shy of reaching pre-pandemic levels measured by passenger revenue kilometres…
JEDDAH: American food vlogger Mark Wiens, who has more than 10 million followers on YouTube, recently visited the Kingdom to give his views on some of its many culinary delicacies. The keen traveler was invited by the Ministry of Culture and Culinary Arts Commission to explore Saudi Arabia and experience the different cuisines its regions…
MANILA: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said China has agreed to discuss fishing rights in the South China Sea, as he pushed for a “direct communication line” with Beijing on maritime differences.China has agreed to “sit down” and talk about Filipinos’ fishing rights in the South China Sea, Marcos said, adding he has asked the…
Huge fire broke out at a fuel depot in Sevastopol city on the peninsula where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is based. A drone strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky before it was extinguished, the city’s Moscow-installed…
The business tycoon is the 22nd richest Indian according to the latest Forbes global billionaires list Yusuffali MA, Chairman of LuLu Group International, took to Twitter to share photos of his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. In his post, the UAE business tycoon said he was pleased to…
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday said it has already undertaken extensive fraud investigations, denied and revoked petitions. The computerised drawing of lots devised to select successful H-1B applicants every year has resulted in abuse of the system and a sharp increase in fraudulent efforts, a federal agency said Friday. In an unusual statement, US…
Zhurong should have woken from planned hibernation in December but a dust build-up has likely affected power generation. China’s Mars rover, which has been in longer-than-expected hibernation on the red planet since May 2022, has likely suffered excessive accumulation of sand and dust, its mission designer has said, breaking months of silence about the status…
