FILE PHOTO: A man sits next to an iPhone 16 advertisement as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing, China, Sept. 20, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo Indonesia has banned Apple‘s iPhone 16 from being sold or operated in the country. Indonesia’s Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita declared…
Prabowo Subianto (Picture credit: X) Prabowo Subianto, former defense minister, was sworn in as the eighth president of Indonesia on Sunday in Jakarta.Subianto took his oath on Quran in a ceremony attended by lawmakers and international dignitaries, with thousands of supporters cheering in the nation’s capital.Leaders and officials from over 40 countries, including the United…
Indonesia has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the country’s communications ministry has cited concerns that the browser could be used to access pornography and online gambling websites, which are illegal in Indonesia. With the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia enforces strict rules against sharing obscene…
Representative Image New Delhi: India on Tuesday imposed restrictions on the import of certain gold jewellery and articles except those coming under the India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). In a notification, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) brought gold jewellery studded with pearls, diamonds and precious & semi-precious stones in the ‘restricted’ category…
NEW DELHI: Flash floods, landslides, and a destructive stream of cold lava from Mount Marapi, an active volcano in Sumatra, Indonesia, resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people and left 19 missing over the past weekend. Cold lava, also known as “lahar” in Javanese, comprises a mixture of water and rock fragments that…
NEW DELHI: Mount Ruang, a remote volcano in Indonesia‘s North Sulawesi province, erupted multiple times on Tuesday, according to the country’s volcanology agency. The eruptions led to the evacuation of over 6,000 people, the closure of a nearby international airport, and the elevation of the alert level to its highest, according to an AFP report.Ruang…
