Day: September 19, 2019

Imelda leaves 2 dead in Texas; others stranded and trapped

Water rescues begin as Imelda soaks east Texas

8:45 pm September 19, 2019

HOUSTON: Rain from Tropical Depression Imelda deluged parts of Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, prompting hundreds of water rescues, a hospital evacuation and road closures in areas east of Houston that were hit hard by Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Forecasters warned that Imelda could bring up to 35 inches (90 centimeters) of rain in […]

Pilot saved from power line after Belgian F-16 crashes in France

8:41 pm September 19, 2019

Rennes (France): An F-16 jet of the Belgian air force crashed Thursday in western France, with both pilots successfully ejecting but one spending two hours hanging from a power line before being cut down, officials said. Parts from the stricken plane, which was not carrying weapons and was flying from Belgium to a French base […]

NY Fed injects USD 75 bn into US money markets

8:38 pm September 19, 2019

New York: For a third straight day, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Thursday injected billions into US money markets to preserve the Fed’s control over short-term interest rates but requests for funds increased. The New York Fed said it pumped USD 75 billion into the markets, the maximum it announced for the […]

Vaping-related illness sickens over 500 in US

Monitoring platforms to ensure sellers don’t offer e-cigarettes: E-commerce firms

8:36 pm September 19, 2019

New Delhi: E-commerce majors Flipkart and Amazon on Thursday said they are monitoring their platforms to ensure sellers do not offer e-cigarettes to comply with the government’s ban on such cigarettes in the country. The government has issued an Ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such “alternative” […]

Indonesia moving to ban sex outside marriage

8:28 pm September 19, 2019

Jakarta: Indonesia is set to vote on a plan to outlaw gay and pre-marital sex while beefing up its blasphemy laws in a shakeup fuelled by religious conservatism and slammed by rights groups Thursday. The proposed criminal law overhaul could affect millions in the world’s biggest Muslim majority country, including heterosexual couples who might face […]