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‘Division Amongst Us’: Imran Khan Attacks OIC as Saudi Arabia Unwilling to Accept Kashmir Request New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for failing to speak in one voice over Kashmir as Saudi Arabia continues to show reluctance to accept Islamabad’s request for an immediate meeting on the issue. Indirectly chiding Saudi Arabia and UAE for diluting Pakistan’s stand, Khan said: “The reason is that we have no voice and there is a total division amongst [us]. We can’t even come together as a whole on the OIC meeting on Kashmir.” Source: News 18

Yemen al-Qaeda leader al-Rimi killed in US operation, says Trump President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces have killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in an operation inside Yemen. Al-Rimi claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at US Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three US sailors. Source: Aljazeera

Robert Pattinson is world’s most handsome man according to science Robert Pattinson has been declared the most handsome man in the world, according to a scientific study. According to UK outlet the Daily Mail, in October 2019, Bella Hadid was declared the most beautiful woman in the world. And now, Robert Pattinson has been declared the “most handsome man,” reported E!News. The 33-year-old actors’ eyebrows, eyes, jaw, nose, lips and general facial shape were measured against the features of other male celebrities, and he apparently came the closest to the ancient Greeks’ idea of ‘perfection.’ A technique believed to be...

Christina Koch returns to Earth after a record 328 days in space After 328 days in space, NASA astronaut Christina Koch is back on Earth. She returns holding the record for the longest stay in space by a woman, and she has earned bragging rights for another major milestone: she and fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir completed the first all-female spacewalk during Koch’s extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Koch, along with European astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, left ISS at 12:50AM ET. Around 4AM ET, their Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft touched down in Kazakhstan, and they were taken...

Cognizant’s co-founder to step down from board BENGALURU : Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. vice-chairman and co-founder Francisco D’Souza will exit the board on 31 March. D’Souza, who co-founded the company in 1994, was the longest-serving chief executive of the IT services firm from January 2007 through March 2019 when Brian Humphries took over. Cognizant has also appointed Vinita Bali to its board as an independent director, effective 24 February. Bali was the managing director and chief executive officer of Britannia Industries from 2005 to 2014. Source: Livemint

World Bank Chief Economist Pinelopi Goldberg Announces Resignation World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg has announced resignation in a letter written to her colleagues, international news agencies reported. Goldberg, who was appointed the chief economist at the World Bank in 2018, said in the letter that she wants to go back to teaching at Yale University and that she will put down her papers on March 1. According to media reports, Goldberg in her letter wrote that working at the World Bank has been a ‘rewarding experience’ for her as she deeply cares about the issues pertaining to create...

Vehicle scrappage policy in its final stage, says Nitin Gadkari NEW DELHI : The long-delayed vehicle scrappage policy is in its last lap and will be finalized soon, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Gadkari was speaking at the Auto Expo 2020 in Greater Noida. The proposed policy that has been in works for over six months is seen as an attempt by the government to boost automobile demand, which has been hit by weak consumer demand amid a slowdown in the broader economy. It is also expected to remove old, polluted vehicles off the roads. Source:...

AirAsia probe: Payments in high-value deals not a bribe, says Mahathir Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday payments received to offset the costs of a high-value order could not be constituted as a bribe. Mahathir was replying to questions by reporters on the controversial sponsorship deal that executives of Malaysia’s AirAsia Group Bhd struck with the budget carrier’s sole plane supplier Airbus. Source: Livemint

Philip Barton is new UK envoy to India Philip Barton, who served as the British high commissioner in Islamabad between 2014 and 2016, and held the post of private secretary to former prime ministers John Major and Tony Blair, has been appointed the new high commissioner to India. He replaces Dominic Asquith, the Foreign Office announced on Thursday. Asquith returns to London after a nearly four-year stint in New Delhi, during which he oversaw an exponential growth in the visas issued to Indian citizens, including students, whose numbers had declined since 2010. Source: Hindustan Times

Pompeo Condemns Violent Extremists Who Target Hindus in Pakistan, Muslims in Myanmar Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has condemned terrorists and violent extremists who target religious minorities, including Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in Myanmar. Pompeo made the comments on Wednesday while launching a 27-nation International Religious Freedom Alliance, which will try to adopt a collective approach in protecting and preserving religious freedom across the world. “We condemn terrorists and violent extremists who target religious minorities, whether they are Yezidis in Iraq, Hindus in Pakistan, Christians in northeast Nigeria, or Muslims in Burma,” Pompeo said. Source: News18.com