Hong Kong International Airport is planning to suspend all passenger flights for 36 hours as the Asian financial hub prepares for one of its strongest super typhoons in years, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Airport and aviation officials are set to stop all flights from as early as 6 … Read more
James DiamondSomerset, Wiliton BBC More than 100 pharmacies operate under the Jhoots brand, but with different management A pharmacy chain has serious questions to answer over allegations of financial mismanagement, according to MP Sadik Al Hassan. Staff at Jhoots Pharmacies run by Sarbjit Jhooty are owed £670,000 in unpaid wages, according to union Pharmacists Defence … Read more
Delhi zoo shut down due to bird flu in New Delhi on August 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The Delhi Zoo will be shut for visitors from Saturday (August 30, 2025) after two painted storks were found infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, officials have said. To prevent the disease from … Read more
File picture of Sikh pilgrims visiting the shrine of their spiritual leader Guru Nanak Dev, at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan. | Photo Credit: AP The Kartarpur corridor at Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district was shut for the day, a senior official said on Wednesday (May 7, 2025). The development came after … Read more
Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images India saw the fewest number of mobile internet shutdowns in eight years in 2024, rounding out a period where the country became the most frequent deployer in the world of the measure, according to data from the Internet Shutdowns Tracker maintained by the Software Freedom … Read more
As a prelude to prohibit heavy goods vehicle movement during the daytime on Kulur Old Bridge of National Highway 66 to facilitate its repairs for a month, the Dakshian Kannada district administration will do a three-day trial from August 19 to August 21. | Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH As a prelude to prohibit heavy … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in the country, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed a law clearing the way for the closure. Netanyahu’s pledge escalated Israel’s long-running feud against Al Jazeera but also threatened to heighten tensions with Qatar, which owns … Read more
Miles is grilled about the controversial “stay local” guidance which came in to replace “stay at home” messaging as infections eased in May 2020. The inquiry hears the Welsh government felt “it was not possible to legislate to define local, as it would mean different things in different parts of Wales”, for example in rural … Read more
Representational image of a puppy at an animal shelter The Tamil Nadu Animal Welfare Board (TNAWB) has shut down an unregistered pet shelter at Oragadam, Kancheepuram for keeping over 100 animals in poor and unhygienic conditions. As many as 124 animals, comprising 115 dogs and 9 cats, including purebred dogs, were rescued during this operation … Read more
File image for representation. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri He had already spent a whopping ₹37 lakh and completed 185 of the total 200 hours of flying training, when *Himangshu Datta’s academy was temporarily closed following a DGCA order after two air crashes. Without losing more time, he decided to seek admission elsewhere but his … Read more