SINGAPORE-Only 500 visitors aday will be allowed to visit Kusu Island for the upcoming pilgrimage season, said the Singapore Land Authority( SLA) on Sunday( Sept 12). During the season from Oct 6 to Nov 4, each hourly ferry trip to and from the island will carry no more than 50 passengers, the SLA said in a statement. The first ferry will depart from Marina South Pier at 7am, and the last at 4pm. This is similar to the arrangements for pilgrims amid Covid-19 last year. Every year, the pilgrimage

) President Yousaf Hussain on Tuesday urged the government to double the income tax exemption limit to Rs

The latest data showed the trade deficit in goods doubled to$ 10. 232bn in 1QFY22 against$ 5. 283bn in the same period of last year.... “ Therefore, adjustment with vaccines import, the current account deficit for the quarter has reduced to$ 2. 4bn, ” it added. Moreover, the sudden surge in import bill is function of abnormal surge in commodity prices.... While, chemicals, steel and food prices are also on rise....

DUBAI( Reuters)-Iran's military launched an annual exercise near the mouth of the Gulf on Sunday

imposing stock limits on pulses till October, in a bid to prevent hoarding and check price rise. The

KOTA BARU: All states in the country have exceeded the Annual Felling Ration( CTT) set by the

KUALA LUMPUR: Members of Parliament facing charges in court will be barred from attending parliamentary sittings under a new amendment which the Cabinet has agreed to in principle. They will also be barred from all other activities, in both the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara, under proposed amendments to the Houses of Parliament( Privileges and Powers) Act 1952( Act 347), says Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar. The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department( Parliament and Law) said the ma

OnFebruary 21-22, 2022, the Valdai Discussion Club held its regular annual 11th Middle East

In 2020, amid the disruptions of the pandemic and the social upheaval following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the United States saw the largest increase in its homicide rate in modern history.... Still, homicides across those cities are 24% higher than in same period of 2019.“ I would call the result heartening, ” said Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St.... Most cities have not returned to the homicide levels

Those increased purchases have clogged ports and warehouses and exacerbated supply shortages of semiconductors and other parts.... Many economists envision as many as four Fed rate hikes in 2022. Those rate increases would likely increase borrowing costs for home and auto purchases as well as for business loans, potentially slowing the economy.... Once the supply chains were unsnarled, he said, prices would come back down. Yet for now, the supply problems have persisted, and though there are s