Asian Lite News Archive

Category: World News

  • 463 mn children unable access remote learning: UNICEF

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    The world is rapidly moving towards sophisticated technologies of learning, which are said to change the course of education. Regarding this, a recent report by UNICEF reveals that just like any other advancements remote learning also is benefitting a privileged group of population alone. At least 463 million children are unable to access remote learning…

  • Abe plans to resign over health concerns

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    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has planned to step down “because of health issues”, state-media reported on Friday. According to a report in NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster, Abe is scheduled to hold a news conference later in the day to provide further details of his decision. The development comes after Abe’s visit to a Tokyo…

  • Usain Bolt tests COVID-19 positive

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    Legendary sprinter Usain Bolt has tested positive for coronavirus days after partying with guests, including English footballer Raheem Sterling, for his 34th birthday in Jamaica, according to media reports. As per a Daily Mail report, a radio station in Jamaica, ‘Nationwide90fm’, said that Bolt has contracted the disease and will spend time in self-isolation as…

  • Global cloud market grows 26% in 2019

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    The worldwide Public Cloud services market grew 26 percent (year-over-year) in 2019 with revenues totaling $233.4 billion, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) report. The Public Cloud services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The combined revenue of the top five public…

  • ‘Children Over 12 Should Wear Masks’

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidance saying children over the age of 12 should wear masks, in line with the recommended practice for adults in their country or area. It admits little is known about how children transmit the virus but cite evidence that teenagers can infect others in the same way as…

  • Global COVID-19 cases cross 23 Million

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    The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 23 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 8,03,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday morning, the total number of cases stood at 2,31,30,345 and the fatalities rose to 8,03,397, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed…

  • WHO hopes pandemic can be over in two years

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    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years. Addressing a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Friday, the WHO chief said that the Spanish flu of 1918 had also taken two years to overcome, but current advances in technology…

  • Turkey discovers its biggest natural gas reserve

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    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that Turkey has discovered significant natural gas reserves in the Black Sea. “Our Fatih drilling ship has discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves in Tuna-1 well,” Erdogan said in a televised speech from the Dolmabahce Palace here. “Turkey has made the biggest natural gas…

  • Kamala’s story is American story: Biden

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    Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden has said that his running mate, Kamala Harris will make a “great Vice President” with a powerful voice for the nation. In his speech on Thursday night while formally accepting his nomination at the last day of the Democratic National Convention, he spoke of her various identities that mesh…

  • Free Jaggi March in London Turns Out To Be A Damp Squib

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    The last-minute appeals through some selected Gurudwaras were also miserably failed to fill the coaches. The general mood in London is now against movements preaching violence and dividing communities …. reports Asian Lite News Despite a massive campaign and spending thousands to book coaches to ferry people to London, the Free Jaggi protest march in…

  • India Raps Khalistani Plan For Free Jaggi Protest in London

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    Prominent Khalistani supporters in Britain are planning to submit a memorandum to No 10 Downing Street seeking the release of Jagtar Singh Johal aka Jaggi who is in custody in Punjab over terror related charges. Johal was arrested for his alleged involvement in the murders of retired Indian army officer Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja, RSS leader…

  • KISS Seeks to Checkmate Naxalism with Quality Education

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    Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, (KISS), located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, has led to the reduction of the levels of Maoist related violence systemically by spreading the message of aspiration through education … A Special Report by Asian Lite Newsdesk India, the symbol of peace and tolerance, has suffered myriad strands of violence both before…

  • Abbas denounces Israel-UAE deal

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    Palestine has slammed the US-brokered historic peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel for full normalisation of relations between the two countries. Hours after the development on Thursday, the Palestinian presidency described the agreement as “disgraceful”, considering it a “blow to the Arab Peace Initiative and the decisions of the Arab and…

  • Russia registers world’s first Covid-19 vaccine

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    In what could alter the course of the Covid-19 pandemic that is still creating mayhem across the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the country has registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine that “forms stable cell and antibody immunity”. According to a report in the Tass news agency, Putin said that the vaccine…

  • Tim Cook becomes Billionaire

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    Apple CEO Tim Cook has for the first time become a billionaire as the Cupertino-based iPhone maker broke all previous records and is now the world’s most valued company at over $1.84 trillion. The net worth of Cook has crossed the $1-billion mark, officially making him a billionaire. Cook, however, still has a long way…

  • Lebanon government resigns after Beirut blast

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    Lebanon’s government has resigned amid mounting anger over the explosion on August 4 that devastated parts of Beirut and left more than 200 people dead. The announcement was made in a national TV address by Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday evening, the BBC reported. Many people have accused the country’s leaders of culpability through…

  • Russia ready to register world’s first Covid-19 vaccine

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    Russia is reportedly going ahead with its plan to register the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine this week before it starts mass vaccination in October, despite safety concerns raised from several quarters, including the WHO. Russia’s Deputy Health Minister Oleg Gridnev recently revealed plans to register a Covid-19 vaccine on August 12, Sputnik news agency reported.…

  • China’s Plot For Economic Blackmail

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    ‘Hidden Hand – Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World’ by renowned academics Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, comes with a chilling caveat: While it focuses on the “what, why and how of the CCP’s influence, interference and subversion” in North America and Western Europe, the party’s “enterprise is geared towards reordering…

  • World leaders to jointly raise aid for Lebanon

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    International leaders will hold talks on Sunday to raise aid for Beirut, five days after the massive explosion which devastated the Lebanese capital. The virtual conference – set up by France and the United Nations – starts at 14.00 Lebanon time (11.00 GMT). US President Donald Trump has said he plans to join the call.…

  • Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll at one lakh

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    Brazil does not seem to have any respite in new detections and death rates. The Latin American nation has registered over 1,00,000 deaths and more than 3 million cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the government has reported. The Ministry of Health on Saturday stated that in the last 24 hours, 905 more deaths and…

  • Breakthrough in malaria research

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      An international team of scientists, including Dr Mahmood Alam from India, has discovered new ways in which the malaria parasite survives in the blood stream of its victims, a discovery that could pave the way to new treatments for the disease….reports Asian Lite News According to the World Health Organisation malaria currently infects more…

  • No more US troops to fight ISIS: Obama

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     US President Barack Obama said that local forces should be the main forces to fight the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) and currently there was no plan for his administration to send more troops abroad….reports Asian Lite News. Obama  told reporters after being briefed by US military leadership on the status of US-led coalition…

  • 14 killed in Kenya terror attack

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    At least 14 people were killed and 12 others injured when Al Shabaab militants opened fire near a market in Kenya, police said….reports Asian Lite News. Mandera county commissioner Alex Ole Nkoyo said unidentified gunmen hurled grenades into a residential building located near a livestock market in Mandera county in Kenya. Sources said the militants…

  • The Diabetic Foot

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    The story of how I discovered I had type-two diabetes will be similar for many who have the condition. A simple blood test by my local GP, with little prior knowledge of the condition, and a few days later I needed to take a regular cocktail of pills, adjust how I ate and prepare myself…

  • Modi to cement ties with Central Asia

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    India, Uzbekistan to boost anti-terrorism cooperation, defence, trade….reports Asian Lite News India and Uzbekistan agreed to boost cooperation in fighting terrorism and in the field of defence and cyber security as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, on his first stop on his Central Asian tour. Modi and Karimov also…

  • UK Remembers Srebrenica

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    Prime Minister David Cameron has announced an extra £1.2 million for the charity Remembering Srebrenica to help raise awareness of the Srebrenica genocide….writes Asian Lite News To mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide next week, the Prime Minister will announce £1.2million of additional support to UK charitable initiative Remembering Srebrenica. Established in 2013 with…

  • Walk Together to mark London 7/7

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      This will be defiant moment for the city of London. Faith leaders from the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths were joined by 7/7 survivor Gill Hicks to walk from Kings Cross to Tavistock Square in remembrance of those who lost their lives ten years ago…reports Asian Lite News. The faith leaders are supporting the #WalkTogether initiative,…

  • Asian drama to focus on radicalisation

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    This July will see the Belgrade Theatre turns a spotlight on radicalisation amongst young British Muslims with the premiere of a provocative new play by Asian Youth Theatre, ‘Somewhere To Belong’ at Coventry ….reports Asian Lite News This brand new collaboration between the Belgrade and Vamos Theatre Company, one of the U.K’s leading producers of masked theatre,…

  • A Good News -Now join the bandwagon

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    If you can’t beat it, join with it. Every third person in world overweight….reports Asian Lite News More than a third of the world’s population – 37 percent of men and 38 percent of women – is overweight, says a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Between 1980 and 2013,…

  • London leads ahead in job creation

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    New research published by the TUC has found that London is outperforming other parts of the UK in economic and jobs growth, while the economic recovery is weakest in the North West and Northern Ireland….reports Asian Lite News From 2010 to 2013, the London economy grew more than one and a half times as fast…

  • PM Convenes Emergency Meet Over Greece

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    Prime Minister David Cameron has chaired a meeting of senior ministers and officials to assess the impact on the UK of Greece’s “no” vote to its austerity package….reports Asian Lite News Bank of England governor Mark Carney and Chancellor George Osborne  were there, BBC reported. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to France on Monday…

  • Greek finance minister quits

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    Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis announced his resignation on Monday after the country voted “No” to a bailout offer in a landmark referendum….reports Asian Lite News. In a posting on his website, Varoufakis said the decision was made in view of “a certain ‘preference’ by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my…’absence’ from its…

  • US military developing hypersonic jet

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    Giving more teeth to its combat prowess, the US military is reportedly developing a hypersonic jet plane that could soar at up to five times the speed of sound….reports Asian Lite News. The jet will be faster than a bullet, which generally travels at Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound. The new hypersonic…

  • GALLERY: NEWS N Pics

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    Asian Lite News selects best pictures from world news events across the world

  • British leaders to mark Srebrenica genocide

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    Prince Charles among top British leaders will join ceremonies to mark the 20th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide….reports Asian Lite. On 11 July 1995 General Ratko Mladi? and his Bosnian Serb forces marched into the town of Srebrenica and systematically murdered 8372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys This year’s 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide will be…

  • Forth Bridge Gets UN Heritage Stamp

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    Heritage Sites including Scotland’s Forth Bridge named in Unesco list….reports Asian Lite News Unesco has designated several new World Heritage Sites in Britain, Norway, Germany, Israel, and the US during the 39th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in the western German city of Bonn. Norway’s Rjukan-Notodden industrial site includes a group of hydraulic centers and…

  • Iran, P5+1 to aim nuke deal on July 7

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    US Secretary of State John Kerr says Iran and P5+1 aiming to finish nuclear talks on July 7….reports Asian Lite News Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers aimed to finish the latest round of nuclear talks “in the timeframe” that all parties have set out, said US Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna. “That’s our…

  • Modi to cement ties with Russia, central Asia

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves on Monday on an eight-day tour that will take him to the five Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and to Ufa in Russia where he will attend the BRICS and SCO back-to-back summits….reports Asian Lite News Modi will he the first Indian prime minister in…

  • EU to respect the No Vote Of Greeks

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    Make quick ‘possible’ proposals for renegotiation: EU….reports Asian Lite News The European Union urged the Greek government to make “meaningful” and “possible” proposals in coming hours for renegotiation, following early results which have shown that Greece overwhelmingly rejected the bloc’s bailout offer. “The NO side has won the referendum with notable majority, we have to…

  • NEWS N PICS- Best pics from World Events

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    Asian Lite News complies the best pictures from today’s news event

  • RARE PIC of Space Station over the Moon

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    An Australian photographer has clicked a breathtaking image of the International Space Station (ISS) as it was passing over the Moon….reports Asian Lite News It took Dylan O’Donnell almost a year to get the stunning image, Daily Mail reported. The US space station completes an orbit of the Earth every 92.91 minutes and moves at…

  • Facebook reunites mother with son after 15 years

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    In a scene straight from a Bollywood movie, a Facebook photo has helped a Californian woman to reunite with her son after 15 years. Three-year-old Jonathan was allegedly kidnapped by his father and taken to Mexico 15 years back. Last year, Jonathan, now 18, posted a childhood photo with his brother on Facebook, thinking that…

  • Google Glass 2.0 coming soon?

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    Google may be testing the next version of the Google Glass called GG1, media reports said. Google has a new eye wearable device in the works under the latest US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing, which “might just be a new Google Glass”, Droid Life reported. The FFC tests electronic products to ensure that they…

  • China accused of stealing US secrets

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    US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has accused China of stealing commercial secrets and government information, saying the country is “trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move in America”, and urged vigilance, BBC reported. US officials, earlier this year, named China as the chief suspect in the massive hack of the records of a…

  • Kerala Beckons Chinese Visitors

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    Kerala Tourism has hit the streets of Shanghai in its bid to attract high-spending Chinese tourists from the world’s largest outbound tourism market to India’s southern state….reports Asian Lite News A road show and another tourism event at the sprawling Hotel Jinjiang Tower witnessed a huge footfall and a large presence of the Chinese media,…

  • Greece Begins Grexit Poll

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    Yes or No …Greeks vote in landmark referendum on EU debt deal…reports Asian Lite News Greek voters on Sunday began casting ballots in a landmark referendum on terms of agreement with creditors on the next deal with the country’s lenders. According to the Greek ministry of internal affairs and administrative reform, about 8.5 million people…

  • Putin ready for talks with US

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    The Russsian president congratulates Obama on the occasion of American Independence Day and  calls for talks as equals….reports Asian Lite News Russian President Vladimir Putin called for talks on an equal footing between Moscow and Washington, while congratulating Barack Obama, on the occasion of American Independence Day, the Kremlin has announced. “In his message of…

  • Cry for Me Argentina! Copa Goes to Chile

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    Chile crush Argentina to win first Copa America title….reports Asian Lite News Chile captured its first Copa America title by defeating Argentina 4-1 in the penalty shootout. On Saturday, Alexis Sanchez gave his country the victory after Argentines Gonzalo Higuain and Ever Banega failed to convert from 11 meters (36 feet), ending a drought of nearly…

  • Call to overhaul student visa rules

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    International students should be removed from the government’s net migration target. It is clear that international students are not long-term migrants. They come to the UK, study for a period, and then the overwhelming majority go home after their studies…reports Asian Lite News Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the head of Cambridge University, says it is “ludicrous”…

  • Net Villain of the year? Mrs May!

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    The Net industry is Britain has named Home Secretary Mrs Theresa May as Internet Villain of the Year….reports Asian Lite News The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) is the UK’s Trade Association for providers of internet services. She was named for the award for  pursuing “snooper’s charter” legislation without fully consulting the sector. ISPA brings together the…