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The Ozone layer is healing! It has been 32 years since the famous Montreal Protocol that pointed out the culprit behind the depletion of the Ozone layer. On World Ozone Day, the United Nations is letting everyone know that the precautions are paying off. What was the Montreal Protocol? It is nothing but an international treaty made in 1987 wherein nations came together to slash the usage of Ozone-depleting chemicals. Most of these chemicals formed a part of the cooling industry. In a statement, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said in regards to the healing Ozone layer, ‘The Montreal Protocol has been…

Pakistan plans to send its first astronaut to space by 2022 with the help of its close ally China, Minister for Science and Technology has said. The selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Sunday. China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, Mr. Fawad was quoted as saying by the News International reported. He said that initially 50 individuals would be selected after which the list will be shortened to 25 in 2022. And out of them only one would be sent to space. The…

Pakistani singer Rabi Pirzada’s move to threaten Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Kashmir issue with snakes and crocodiles has backfired as she has been fined by the authorities for posing with reptiles. According to reports in Pakistani media, the singer has been asked to pay fines by the wildlife department for illegal captivity of the reptiles. In a video posted earlier this month on her YouTube channel, Pirzada, raising the Kashmir issue, can be seen holding a snake, saying: “All these are gifts for PM Modi. My friends will feast on you.” She began the video by saying…

U.S. stocks fell and haven assets like gold and the Japanese yen gained after a weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities sent crude prices surging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 86 points or 0.3%. The S&P 500 lost 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.6%. Ten of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500 fell except for energy shares, which climbed 2.3%. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose 10% to $66.37 a barrel. It had earlier jumped as much as 19.5% to $71.95 a barrel but retraced some of those gains after initial concerns over how badly oil output would…

A video showing a Saudi man carrying a baby while firing a revolver in the air after which another man places the weapon in the infant’s mouth has gone viral on social media platforms. In the video, a man is seen holding a crying baby in one hand and firing a revolver with the other. After firing a few shots in the air a second man is seen taking the weapon, emptying the bullets and placing the weapon in the mouth of the wailing infant. The video sparked outrage on social media as various activities and individuals demanded to serve action on…

A meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), chaired by the Cabinet Secretary, Shri Rajiv Gauba, was held today to review the prevailing flood situation in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Cabinet Secretary took stock of the current situation, preparedness, rescue, and relief operations and directed that immediate assistance, as sought by the states, be provided to meet the crisis. It was informed by both the States that due to extremely heavy rainfall and the consequent discharge of water from the Gandhi Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh and other reservoirs in the two states, there has been…

The UAE authorities distributed 650 food basket baskets weighing more than 50 tonnes to people in the Governorate of Hadramaut, Yemen. The Emirati Red Crescent handed over the relief aid packages which benefited 3,250 needy families in the region of Tarim as part of efforts to cater to humanitarian and developmental needs in Yemen. Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/StarvisionN Like & Follow us on Facebook – www.facebook.com/starvisionnewsenglish

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting global energy supplies and warned on Sunday that US bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in the range of its missiles. Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attacks that knocked out more than half of Saudi oil output or more than 5% of global supply, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the assault was the work of Iran, a Houthi ally. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, speaking on state TV, dismissed the U.S. allegation as…

Two Bahraini students attending a US-based university miserably failed in their attempts to invade the football pitch and take selfies with Swedish soccer superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Zlatan is the third-most decorated active footballer in the world, having won 31 trophies in his career. The pair, identified as Yousif Shabib (19) and Sayed Alawi (20), raced towards the 38-year-old star player after the game between LA Galaxy and Colorado but were stopped by security staff. The video of their failed attempt has gone viral across social media networks and leading news websites. Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/StarvisionN Like & Follow us on…

HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Works and Youth Affairs and President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports received in his office Mr Alejandro Blanco, President of Spain’s Olympic Committee in the presence of HH Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid Al Khalifa, member of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Head of the Coordination, Execution and Follow-up Committee, Mr Mohammed Hassan Al Nusf, President of Bahrain Olympic Committee and Mr Abdullah Al Zain, General Manager of the Personal Office. During the meeting, HH Shaikh Nasser discussed with the Spanish official the ways of cementing bi-lateral cooperation between…