Shakir Husain

2 weeks ago | bernama.com | Shakir Husain

Firefighters work to put out a fire at the site where an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane crashed in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Amit Dave By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, June 12 (Bernama) -- An Air India flight bound for London and carrying 242 people, including 12 crew members, crashed on Thursday shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in the western state of Gujarat. The flight AI171 departed at 1.38 pm local time, the airline said.

2 weeks ago | bernama.com | Shakir Husain

By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, June 12 (Bernama) -- More than 200 bodies have been recovered from the site where an Air India plane bound for London crashed on Thursday afternoon. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was carrying 169 Indian nationals, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian when it went down in a residential area near Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat state.

2 weeks ago | bernama.com | Shakir Husain

By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, June 10 (Bernama) -- Malaysia and Pakistan have stressed the need for the global financial crime watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to be free of political agenda. FATF's functioning and bilateral matters featured in the discussion when Malaysian High Commissioner to Pakistan Datuk Azhar Mazlan called on Pakistani Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch in Islamabad recently.

4 weeks ago | bernama.com | Shakir Husain

By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, May 30 (Bernama) -- Japan will offer US$1 billion to Bangladesh in budgetary support and to upgrade a key railway line. The financial package was agreed during Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus’s visit to Tokyo, where he held talks on bilateral and regional issues with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday. “Of the total, Japan will provide US$418 million as a Development Policy Loan for Bangladesh's economic reforms and climate resilience.

1 month ago | bernama.com | Shakir Husain

By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, May 29 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian fintech firm has partnered with an Algerian conglomerate to launch a digital payment platform in Algeria, marking a major stride in advancing Malaysia-Algeria fintech collaboration. Malaysia's BerryPay and Algeria's DIGITEC, a subsidiary of ABD Invest Group, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create a payment solutions platform tailored to Algerian needs.