MUMBAI: Crowds of mourners gathered in India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday (Oct 10) for the funeral of industrialist Ratan Tata, hailed as a "titan" who led one of the country's biggest conglomerates. Tata, who died aged 86 on Wednesday, transformed the Tata Group into a sprawling international enterprise, with a portfolio ranging from software to...
ISLAMABAD: Two Chinese nationals who were killed in an explosion near Pakistan's Karachi international airport on Sunday (Oct 6) worked for a power plant, Pakistan's finance minister said on Tuesday. It was the most serious attack against Chinese nationals in Pakistan since a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project in March,...
KUALA LUMPUR: RHB Investment Bank Bhd (RHB IB) said the trading suspension requested by Public Bank Bhd and LPI Capital Bhd of their respective shares lends credence to media reports of a deal being struck. In a research note today, RHB IB said that based on its estimation, an all-cash deal would be earnings and return of equity (ROE) accretive,...
Humans can go about three days tops without water before our organ systems will start to shut down but is it true that there is a species of animal that can go its entire life without drinking water? The gerenuk, often called the giraffe-necked antelope, is a distinct species native to East Africa. Known for its long...
BERLIN: German police said Oct 8 they had shut down a "dizzyingly large" child pornography website with hundreds of thousands of users and arrested six people with links to the network. The men, aged 43 to 69, were suspected of being the "leading figures behind the darkweb platform", police in the North Rhine-Westphalia region said in a...
PETALING JAYA: The Lipis District Council is investigating a mamak restaurant after a viral video showing a man, believed to be an employee of a local eatery, using a broom to clean pots last Saturday (Oct 5). The council chairman Datuk Mohd Hafizi Ibrahim stated that action would be taken if the investigation confirms misconduct occurred...
PETALING JAYA: The Mid Valley outlet of Auntie Anne’s Malaysia will be closed for thorough disinfection and cleaning, the pretzel store said after a social media post of one of its staff kissing a pretzel dough went viral. Auntie Anne’s Malaysia said in an announcement that the staff who was formerly employed in the Kuala Lumpur...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) has seized 156 Social Visit Pass (Medical Treatment Pass category) application files, said to be linked to a "medical visa" syndicate involving Immigration Department officers. In a statement on Tuesday (Oct 8), the EAIC said that its team visited the Immigration Department's visa, pass and permit division in...
SEPANG: Two hundred students are heading to China to gain valuable TVET (technical and vocational education and training) exposure. The students will be heading to one of eight TVET institutions for a learning experience of two weeks and more under the Malaysia-China Youth TVET programme (MCYTT). Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who sent...
JOHOR BARU: The shift to a Saturday-Sunday weekend will impact about 2.5 million people statewide, including 587,343 school students, according to Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi (pic). The rest of the 1.94 million workforce consists of government and private sector employees. "In line with the Johor Regent Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim's decree, the state and...
