World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned about the early stages of Covid 19 third wave amid delta surge. The head of WHO on Wednesday said that Delta variant's spread, along with increased social mobility and the incompatible use of confirmed public health measures, is driving an increase in both numbers of cases and deaths. WHO chief said the virus is continuing to evolve. Delta variant is now in more than 111 countries, WHO chief. "The Delta variant is now in more than 111 countries and we expect it to soon be the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating worldwide if it isn't already," he said.

As per the reports, on Wednesday, the Taliban targeted Salma Dam, also known as the India-Afghan friendship dam in Chesht district of Herat province, Afghanistan. The National Water Authority of Afghanistan said that the rockets and artillery shells have landed close to the dam; the dam has not been hit. India-funded Salma dam in Herat province is one of the largest dams in Afghanistan. It has a water storage capacity of 640 million cubic meters and an irrigation capacity of 2,00,000 acres of farmland from the Chisti Sharif district of Herat to the Zulfiqar area on the Iran Border. The Dam generates 42 megawatts of power and helps irrigate 75,000 hectares of land. The National Water Authority of Afghanistan has warned that if the Taliban attacks continue on the Salma dam, Afghanis...

A Palestinian journalist Tala Halawa was dismissed by The BBC for a tweet from the year 2014, in which she criticized an attack on Gaza. Halawa had joined BBC three years after the tweet. On Wednesday, Tala took to Facebook to express her disappointment over her dismissal from BBC. “I was judged based on a single offensive and ignorant tweet posted seven years ago during the traumatic Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip in 2014, specifically during the Shujaiyya attack where 55 Palestinian civilians, including 19 children and 14 women, were killed in 48 hours by Israeli strikes," Halawa wrote. “Israeli settlers had also kidnapped and burnt alive 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem. I was a young Palestinian woman tweeting in the heat of the moment as I witnessed horrif...

Two Pakistani security personnel were killed during an improvised explosive device explosion in Balochistan province, an army statement said on Thursday. The Army launched a search operation following the incident to apprehend the perpetrators, the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in the statement. “Such cowardly acts by inimical elements, backed by hostile intelligence agencies cannot sabotage the hard-earned peace and prosperity in Balochistan," Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying. A spike in militant incidents targeting security forces has recently been witnessed in the country. On Tuesday, two security personnel including an officer, and three militants were killed in a clash in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.buy elavil online www...