International

DHAKA: Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike on Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers say are among the lowest in the world. Most tea workers are low-caste Hindus, the descendants of labourers brought to the plantations by colonial-era British planters. The minimum wage for a tea …

SHENZHEN: Several regions of China including the major southwestern city of Chongqing baked in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) on Saturday, while the country’s national observatory continued its red alert for extreme heat. In Zhejiang, home to many factories and exporters, a meteorological official said that the eastern province has broken its previous record for high temperature days …

KABUL: Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of their return to power. Since seizing control on Aug 15 last year, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during two decades of US intervention …

Colourful stock market billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala — dubbed by local media India’s Warren Buffet — has died, his office said on Sunday, just a week after he launched the country’s newest airline. “Rakesh-ji passed away surrounded by his family and close aides,” a family member told Reuters, using a term for respect. The cause of death was not immediately announced. Calling …

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges on Saturday, as the severely injured author appeared to show signs of improvement in hospital. Hadi Matar, 24, was arraigned in court in New York state, with prosecutors outlining how Rushdie had been stabbed approximately 10 times in what they described as a planned, …

Pakistan independence Day will celebrate on Sunday at Frisco conversation center on Sunday 8/14 By: Raja Zahid A. Khanzada Dallas: Pakistan Society of North Texas, PSNT, is known as the largest representative organization of Pakistani’s in North Texas Dallas. This year, on Sunday, August 14, 2022, they managed to organize the 75th Pakistan Independence Day program in Frisco, Texas.  PSNT celebrate …

ROME: An Italian man had to be rescued after becoming trapped in a collapsed tunnel near the Vatican, suspected of being part of a gang burrowing its way to a nearby bank, police said on Friday. Firefighters spent eight hours digging him out from under a road in the west of Rome, before he was finally freed on Thursday evening …

NEW YORK: Health officials identified the virus that causes polio in New York City’s wastewater, suggesting local transmission of the virus, state authorities said on Friday, urging unvaccinated New Yorkers to get vaccinated. “The NYC Heath Depa­rtment and the New York State Department of Health have identified poliovirus in sewage in NYC, suggesting local transmission of the virus,” the city’s …

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday linked global peace with the impartiality of multilateral forums, collective defense of the common good and the supremacy of international law, as the head of the army became the first-ever Pakistani dignitary to be invited by the British monarch as a chief guest to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. …

BEIRUT: Thousands of people staged protests across parts of rebel-held northern Syria on Friday after the Turkish foreign minister called for reconciliation between Syrian opposition groups backed by Ankara and the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. More than 11 years after civil war broke out in Syria, the north-western region, near the Turkish border, is the last area …