. NEW DELHI For a doctor, it was another 18-hour day trying to rescue patients who could not be saved. For a crematorium official, it was one more procession of victims. For the family of a young academic, it was a time to mourn their second loss to the virus this month. India reported more than 4,500 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday for the prior 24 hours, the highest single-day death toll in any country since the pandemic began and a grim marker of the scale of the outbreak ravaging this nation of 1.3 billion people. The previous high for daily fatalities in the pandemic, 4,400, occurred in the United States on Jan. 20, according to data from The Washington Post.
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In the second part of his two-volume memoirs, former PM Goh Chok Tong spoke about two persons close to him whose political careers had been a fascinating part of Singaporeâs political history. His attempts to bring some light to some questions surrounding Ong Teng Cheong and Dr Tan Cheng Bock are hardly satisfactory. His memoirs â
Tall Order and
Standing Tall (the second volume just out) â represented the best opportunity for him to speak his mind on what happened, now that he is out of office for so long and in the twilight of his years. His words would have helped clear some of the toxic cobweb surrounding the fates of Ong and Dr Tan. But, regrettably, he either ducked the issues or, for lack of a better word, whitewashed them.
2021-05-12 06:36:20 GMT2021-05-12 14:36:20(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 12 (Xinhua) Two civilians were killed and three others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Afghanistan s eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, local police confirmed.
The incident occurred when a wagon vehicle touched off the IED planted by Taliban militants in Sherzad district, in the southwestern of provincial capital Jalalabad early Wednesday, Farid Khan from provincial police told Xinhua. The wounded were transported to a district hospital by the police.
Militants in Afghanistan have been using homemade IEDs to make roadside bombs and landmines to target security forces, but the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians.
2 civilians killed, 3 injured in bomb blast in Afghanistan ANI | Updated: May 12, 2021 13:03 IST
Jalalabad [Afghanistan], May 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Two civilians were killed and three others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Afghanistan s eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, local police confirmed.
The incident occurred when a wagon vehicle touched off the IED planted by Taliban militants in Sherzad district, in the southwestern of provincial capital Jalalabad early Wednesday, Farid Khan from provincial police told Xinhua. The wounded were transported to a district hospital by the police.
Terrorists in Afghanistan have been using homemade IEDs to make roadside bombs and landmines to target security forces, but the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians.