WASHINGTON: A team of international scientists have identified the merger of two black holes yet again -- just three months after their first detection, researchers announced Wednesday.Scientists......
The FBI and US federal prosecutors said Wednesday that threats against Muslims would not be tolerated, after alleged incidents in the wake of the Orlando gay club massacre, which was carried out by a......
ISLAMABAD: PTI's chief whip in the National Assembly, Shireen Mazari, has served Defence Minister Khawaja Asif with a legal notice for 'sexist and derogatory remarks' and has demanded Rs100 million......
PRETORIA: A sobbing Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday hobbled on his stumps across a courtroom to demonstrate his physical vulnerability to a judge who will decide next month how long he goes to prison......
QUETTA: The National Accountability Bureau on Wednesday arrested Saleem Shah, a key accused of the Balochistan corruption scandal case.Shah was the administrator of Khaliqabad Kalat Municipal......
PESHAWAR: The border authorities of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday formally agreed over ceasefire at Torkham and waved white flags on both sides of the border, it has been learnt.According to......
KARACHI: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials on Wednesday barred supermodel Ayyan Ali from flying abroad by stopping her on Karachi airport, DawnNews reported.Ayyan, who is facing money......
NEW DELHI: Two years after it was declared polio free, India said Wednesday it was launching an emergency vaccination drive after discovering a strain of the disease that is not covered by its......
The 17-member Pakistan Test squad that embarks on the tour of England this weekend contains only three players from the last English tour in 2010. The forthcoming four-Test series will see the......
LILLE: Russia coach Leonid Slutsky has named an unchanged starting line-up for Wednesday's Euro 2016 Group B meeting with Slovakia in Lille.Slutsky has opted to keep faith with the team that started......
KARACHI: A First-Information Report (FIR) was registered Tuesday against Aminul Haq, in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement's media cell, for spreading propaganda against Rangers officials on social......
The Orlando shooter turned out to be a Muslim. In all honesty, that threw me off a little.It surprised me because there has never been a terror attack of this scale on the LGBTQ community in the West......
LONDON: Jose Mourinho faces a trip to the seaside in his first Premier League game in charge of Manchester United as they face Bournemouth in the Premier League fixtures unveiled on Wednesday.His......
LAHORE: A girl was killed by her brother for insisting on marrying a man of her choice, police said Tuesday, marking the country's latest gruesome “honour killing” following a string of incidents......
ORLANDO: The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub knew of his plans for the attack which was the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, a law enforcement source......
WASHINGTON: Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered......
BERLIN: Germany will not recognise polygamy or marriages involving minors, its justice minister said Tuesday, as concern rises over such cases amid a record influx of refugees, many from Muslim......
ISLAMABAD: An Afghan official on Wednesday said renewed clashes at Pakistan-Afghan border crossing have killed an Afghan border guard and wounded five others, with Pakistan saying it has dispatched......
Pakistan’s World Cup winning captain Imran Khan on Tuesday rated India’s ace batsman Virat Kohli as one of the best in the world, even better than his compatriot Sachin Tendulkar.Kohli has been......
ISLAMABAD: As investigators probe connections between the Orlando killer and the militant Islamic State (IS) group, analysts say the militants are struggling to gain a foothold in one country......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's benchmark index jumped as much as 3 per cent in early trade on Wednesday, climbing to a record high after the country's stock market was reclassified overnight and included in......
LAHORE: Prominent cleric and head of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Tahirul Qadri on Wednesday announced a "grand protest" against what he called the failure of authorities to deliver justice in the......
PARIS: Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal was upstaged by a team of Icelanders and Hungary beat Austria on a day of surprises at the European Championship on Tuesday.The smallest country ever to play at a......
PESHAWAR: The establishment of the first-ever cadet college for girls and setting up 200 smart schools are prominent features of the development schemes for elementary and secondary education......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs21.576 billion for healthcare in the next financial year with Rs11 billion going to the ongoing and new schemes.The allocations are 18.29......
PESHAWAR: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation will support research on climatic change and its impact on farming community to improve agricultural productivity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.This......
PESHAWAR: A woman judge of Peshawar High Court, Justice Irshad Qaiser, retired here amidst tributes paid to her by her colleagues as well as members of the bar.A full court reference was held at the......
CHITRAL: The over 20 hours of power outages have led to a roaring business of glacial ice in Chiral town brought from the Lowari Pass.The consumers said as refrigerators could not run by low voltage......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday declared quota for daughters of government officials in the MBBS programme at Fatima Jinnah Medical College Lahore illegal.IHC Chief Justice......
LAHORE: Farmers on Tuesday termed the provincial budget an effort to “supplement and complement” the federal budget rather than an exercise into new ventures, which are badly required at the......
MUZAFFARGARH: Sixteen people have been booked for holding a panchayat (a village jury) at Ber Band village of Shehr Sultan that allegedly gave a verdict to kill a man and a woman for contracting love......
LARKANA: Two persons were gunned down and seven others sustained bullet wounds in an attack and ensuing gun battle involving Mahar and Abro tribesmen near Malahi Shaikh village on the outskirts of......
KARACHI: A study recently conducted on food on sale in and outside 10 public sector hospitals of the city has shown that it was unfit for human consumption and that the germs contaminating the food......
KARACHI: As the monsoon is around the corner, which provides breeding grounds to lethal naegleria fowleri germs, the provincial government has not released funds and resources required for efficient......
KARACHI: Some 96 councillors elected to the reserved seats of the City Council chanted slogans against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday when after waiting for more than four hours......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the interior ministry to strike the name of model Ayyan Ali off the exit control list by Wednesday if it failed to obtain interim order from the......
KARACHI: A consignment containing 148 live black scorpions, to be sent to Hong Kong, was seized by the anti-narcotics force at the airport here on Wednesday.It’s the first seizure of scorpions in the......
SUKKUR: Jubilant activists and supporters of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) marched through the streets of Sukkur when the party high command announced the names of Arsalan Islam Shaikh and......
WASHINGTON: Orbital ATK’s unmanned Cygnus space capsule departed from the International Space Station on schedule on Tuesday, three months after delivering 3,400 kilos of supplies, material for......
ANKARA: The EU’s top diplomat in Turkey has stepped down after a row with Ankara over his criticism of the government’s conduct in a landmark migrant deal, his office said on Tuesday.The departure of......
BRUSSELS: Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new Nato force on Russia’s border from next year, but some eastern allies said the alliance’s effort must go......
RENNES: A man with known psychiatric problems stabbed a 19-year-old girl three times in western France on Tuesday, telling police he had heard voices ordering him to make a sacrifice for Ramazan, the......
ROME: A marble sculpture of the head of Rome’s first emperor was welcomed back to the Italian capital on Tuesday, some 40 years after it was stolen and trafficked out of the country.The portrayal of......
NEW DELHI: To better understand and predict South Asia’s seasonal monsoon, scientists are getting ready to release robots in the Bay of Bengal in a study of how ocean conditions might affect rainfall......
KIEV: Russia and Ukraine swapped prisoners for the second time in less than a month Tuesday as relations between the sworn foes showed rare signs of calming in the midst of war.The exchange involved......
ORLANDO: The US gunman who launched the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 at a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalised by Islamist propaganda, officials said, amid reports he was a......
NEW DELHI: A Hindu fringe group celebrated the 70th birthday of Donald Trump in the Indian capital on Tuesday, calling the US presidential contender the “saviour of humanity” who could end the global......
ARCH-RIVALS Ethiopia and Eritrea traded blame on Tuesday for one of the fiercest border clashes since a 1998-2000 war, with Addis Ababa warning any further conflict is “up to Asmara”. The neighbours......
MILON Hossain and his two friends were having fun standing by a road at Mominpur Adibashipara around 7:30pm on Saturday. Minutes before, he closed his small hardware shop at Mominpur Bazaar in......
IN late April, a 17-year-old girl named Kriti Tripathi leaped to her death in Kota, India, shortly after passing the country’s examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of......
JAKARTA: Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan’s reverse whodunnit mixes murder mystery with family drama and myth and was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.Eka Kurniawan made literary......
LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook said he was looking forward to the challenge of facing Pakistan following his side’s commanding Test series win over Sri Lanka.Rain meant only 12.2 overs were......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has rubbished claims by banned Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria that he was discriminated against by the board because he is a Hindu.The PCB’s media director......
KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday finalised its coaching team for their England tour, appointing Australian Steve Rixon to lift their dwindling fielding standards.Rixon was appointed on the recommendation......
ZURICH: Global football governing body FIFA said that World Cup 2018 host nation Russia was putting in place a “comprehensive security concept” to prevent a repetition of the hooliganism which has......
LYON: A superbly-executed strategy by coach Antonio Conte helped Italy to a well-deserved 2-0 win over Belgium in their Euro 2016 opener with outstanding goals by Emanuele Giaccherini and Graziano......
HOUSTON: Porto midfielder Jesus Manuel “Tecatito” Corona scored a superb individual goal as Mexico snatched a 1-1 draw with Venezuela to qualify for the Copa America Centenario quarter-finals as......
BASSETERRE: Marlon Samuels produced his best batting effort in a One-day International against Australia to lead the West Indies to a six-wicket victory in the fifth match of the Tri-Nation series at......
KARACHI: Omar CC chalked up their second victory in the Omar Associates Trophy 31st Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Festival when they easily beat Mohammad Hussain CC by 52 runs at the KG Ground......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has allocated Rs161 billion for its 2016-17 Annual Development Programme (ADP), which is eight per cent smaller than the outgoing year’s allocation.The provincial......
LAHORE: Punjab is developing database and putting in place efficient systems to tackle problems in the way of proper implementation of tax on agriculture income from 2017-18.“We are working on it –......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday decided to review all existing preferential trade pacts through which Pakistan conducts its trade on preferable terms with other countries on bilateral basis.The......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly standing committee on finance recommended that 10.5 per cent excise duty on carbonated soft drinks be maintained, while import of urea be opened for private sector to......
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has been given a tax collection target of Rs86.5 billion for the next fiscal year, with the addition of three new services under general sales tax (GST).The......
KARACHI: The State Bank has formulated product disclosure requirements (PDRs) for all types of personal, housing and auto finance products which will help consumers to make informed decisions and......
KARACHI: Stocks staged a strong rally on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index showed massive gains of 537.79 points (1.5 per cent) to close at 37,517.75.Investors, mainly ‘individuals’ fell over one another......
DUBAI: Iran said it had reached an agreement with Boeing Co for the supply of jetliners on Tuesday, reopening the country’s skies to new US aircraft for the first time in decades under an......
ISLAMABAD: Country’s agriculture will be one of the major sectors, likely to be adversely affected by climate change, and a crop simulation model-based study shows that wheat yields will be......
MULTAN: Active trading on the cotton market helped prices to remain steady on Tuesday while the picking of new crop started in Punjab as well.Floor brokers said prices could increase in the future......
LONDON: Gold hit its highest in almost six weeks on Tuesday as worries about a potential British exit from the European Union and expectations the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates at its June......
NEW DELHI: India’s consumer prices rose faster than expected in May due to higher food costs, official figures showed on Monday, which will likely lead the central bank to hold off lowering interest......
MINGORA: Three suspected terrorists were killed in a joint operation of security forces and police in the Totano Bandai area of Kabal tehsil on Tuesday morning.According to police, the operation was......
ISLAMABAD: Despite strong resistance by the regulator, the government on Tuesday ordered increasing the price of re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) by about $1.2 per unit by allowing a series......
QUETTA: Five suspected militants, four of them belonging to two banned militant organisations and one to the Afghan intelligence agency NDS, were killed in a shootout with security forces in Quetta’s......
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Zahid Hamid hinted on Tuesday at postponement of the population census till next year.Responding to a calling attention notice moved by retired Lt Gen Abdul Qayyum Khan of the......
NEW DELHI: A US-backed move to make India a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will be good neither for Pakistan nor for China, and it would set off nuclear instability in South Asia, The......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali said on Tuesday that Pakistan was not passing through a normal time as the country was facing aggression from so many corners.“These are......
ISLAMABAD. The eighth meeting of the parliamentary committee on Panama Papers turned out to be a non-starter.Going by the statements coming from both the government and opposition, neither side had......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan reiterated its commitment to nuclear test moratorium at a key ministerial meeting in Vienna as India chose to stay away from the venue, a document shared with Dawn showed.The......
PESHAWAR/LANDI KOTAL/QUETTA: Cross-border firing erupted at Torkham as Islamabad blamed Kabul for an escalation in tensions following an attack on Pakistani troops a day earlier that left an army......
ISLAMABAD: During an otherwise lacklustre sitting on Tuesday, lawmakers in the National Assembly questioned each other’s connection with the ‘common man’.The opposition asked when the government......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Rs505 billion budget for the financial year 2016-17 sets aside Rs161bn for the annual development programme (ADP), including Rs36bn foreign assistance, and proposes to......
EVEN as the initial news flashes emerged about a gunman going on a rampage in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, one was compelled to wonder how long it would be before someone expressed the......
WITHIN days of the new budget getting rolled out amid much fanfare, questions over key numbers have revived an uncomfortable truth — that Pakistan’s economic trends continue to raise baffling......
The Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia is not one pilgrims or foreign tourists normally visit. Set against the Persian Gulf, it is the heart of the kingdom’s oil industry. Unsurprisingly, it is also......
THE horror of the recent Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub that left almost 50 dead and dozens injured has shaken the United States. It is the biggest act of terrorism on American soil since the......
