Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data showed Saturday, amid growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to control the worst......
The Sindh government on Saturday imposed a ban on pillion riding on Muharram 9 and 10 to avoid any untoward incident and maintain law and order condition in the province.According to a notification......
More than 9,000 anti-G7 protesters joined a mass march over a bridge linking France and Spain on Saturday as leaders from the Group of 7 nations descended for their summit in the Atlantic resort of......
Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) has replaced its top manager with immediate effect, appointing Shahid Yousaf as managing director and chief executive,The state-owned operator announced the decision on......
Karachi police on Saturday said Ferozabad Station Investigation Officer Farooq Azam and his team have been booked and arrested for allegedly extorting money from family members of a suspect in the......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday drew attention to the increasingly apparent divisions within India after an 11-member contingent of its opposition parties was prevented from......
The administration of Indian-occupied Kashmir on Saturday sent back a delegation of India’s top opposition leaders, including former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, shortly after they landed in......
A sessions court in Lahore on Saturday restrained police from arresting retired Capt Mohammad Safdar, the husband of PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz, after his accepting his application for......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the United Arab Emirates’ highest civilian honor during a visit on Saturday to the oil-rich Gulf nation, reinforcing ties between the countries even as he......
Hong Kong riot cops fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles on Saturday, as a standoff in a working-class neighbourhood descended......
Google on Friday told employees to focus on work instead of heated debates about politics with colleagues at the internet company, which has long been known for encouraging people to speak their......
President Arif Alvi has said that India is playing with fire by revoking the special autonomy of occupied Kashmir and the same fire will eventually "burn the secularity" of the Indian state, it......
Prime Minister Imran Khan held a telephonic conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss India's actions aimed at altering the disputed status of Indian occupied Kashmir and changing......
Arun Jaitley, India's former finance minister and a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first-term cabinet, has died. He was 66.A statement by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences......
LAHORE: Expressing concern over the government’s decision to impose a blanket ban on polyethylene bags instead of making regulations for sustainable environment protection, plastic bags manufacturers......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench has set aside sentence of life awarded to a person by a trial court and acquitted him in a case of honour-related murder of his younger sister here last year.The......
CHITRAL: The model trial magistrate court (MTMC) judge Nasir Khan imposed a penalty of Rs110,796 on two women for attacking a lady polio worker during the National Immunisation Days on March 25, this......
The leaders of the G7 club of rich countries meet in southern France on Saturday, with the burning Amazon, diving stock markets and their own stark divisions giving little grounds for optimism.US......
Serena Williams has the US Open spotlight as she chases tennis history, but a host of Grand Slam winners and high-ranked rivals are also taking aim at the title.The 37-year-old American will be the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on Friday approved dissolution of the Fata Development Authority (FDA) and handing over of 383-kilometre highways in the merged tribal districts from the......
LADHA: Shamankhel clan of Mehsud tribe from Bangiwala village in Sararogha tehsil of South Waziristan has announced to boycott the anti-polio vaccination campaign starting from Aug 26 in protest......
LAHORE: PML-N President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Friday skipped the hearing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Lahore Waste Management Company......
North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea after vowing to remain the biggest "threat" to the United States and branding Secretary of State Mike......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan has convened a meeting of the administration committee for Aug 26 to take up the matter of Islamabad accountability court’s former......
LODHRAN/MULTAN: Former PTI secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen says he is unhappy over delay in the establishment of South Punjab Secretariat.“I suggested Multan for the establishment of the......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man allegedly chopped off one foot of his sister over suspicion about her activities at Kot Chhuta tehsil on Friday.Station House Officer (SHO) Abdul Shakoor Qaisrani told Dawn......
LAHORE: The Punjab Mass Transit Authority increased on Friday the fare of Lahore and Rawalpindi metro buses from Rs20 to Rs30.The decision is expected to help the government reduce Rs800m in the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday asked the provincial government to ensure compliance with the production order of jailed lawmaker Faryal Talpur.Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani had issued a......
RAWALPINDI: A breach in the left bank canal of Khanpur Dam on Friday forced the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to reduce the supply of water to Rawalpindi and Islamabad.The main 19.6km-long......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday asked local government representatives, cantonment board and Defence Housing Authority as well as district administrations to drain out......
LONDON: The World Health Organisation says it’s theoretically possible to wipe out malaria, but probably not with the imperfect vaccine and other control methods being used at the moment.Dr Pedro......
WASHINGTON: “Kashmir is silent as a graveyard,” Vrinda Grover, an Indian human rights lawyer tells The New York Times, which published a 1,500-word report on Kashmir on Friday, along with pictures......
JERUSALEM: A rare homemade bomb attack in the occupied West Bank killed an Israeli teen and seriously wounded her father and brother on Friday as they visited a spring near a Jewish settlement,......
ON VIKING: Six EU countries on Friday agreed to take in 356 migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after a two-week standoff again exposed the failure of European leaders to quickly......
PARIS: A cheap, once-a-day pill combining aspirin with drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol cuts cardiovascular disease as a whole by a third, and heart attacks by more than half,......
OL PEJETA: Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction,......
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces surrounded a Turkish observation post in the northwest on Friday after overrunning nearby areas, sparking anger from Ankara which vowed not to leave its......
LEEDS: Australia are closing in on the victory that will see them retain the Ashes after opening up a 194-run lead over England on day two of the third Test at Headingley, in command at tea on 82-3......
LAHORE: Young Pakistan all-rounder Shadab Khan on Friday said though he eagerly waits to play Test cricket on home soil, it is also a pleasure that at least shorter-version international cricket has......
NORTH SOUND: Ravindra Jadeja played a key role in extending India’s first innings as they were eventually dismissed for 297 on the stroke of lunch on the second day of the first Test against the West......
MUZAFFARABAD: More than four hundred journalists from different parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir have arrived here to take part in a “symbolic march” towards the Line of Control (LoC) on......
GWADAR/QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani on Friday laid the foundation stone of phase III of the Green Energy Project being executed under the Gwadar Development......
KARACHI: Local cement sales are expected to decrease in the coming months as producers are shutting down production lines, bringing the total sector’s capacity utilisation down to 50 per cent in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and traders’ representatives met on Friday in search of an agreement on implementation of a fixed tax regime for traders, as well as continuing......
ISLAMABAD: The private sector and lending agencies on Friday pointed out critical deficiencies in proposed Alternative and Renewable Energy (ARE) Policy 2019 and called for incentives to localise......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Friday issued draft tax return forms for 2019 to seek feedback from all stakeholders.A notification SRO951 of 2019 is issued here proposing amendments......
KARACHI: The spectacular rally for the first four days of the week that sent the KSE-100 index up by 3,121 points and 10.85 per cent ceased to a halt on Friday as bulls appeared to take a......
COLOMBO: New Zealand’s seam bowling pair of Tim Southee and Trent Boult struck twice each to reduce Sri Lanka to 144 for six wickets in their first innings on a rain-truncated second day in the......
KARACHI: The federal government announced on Friday an ambitious Rs125 billion Sindh barrage project on the River Indus, winning support from the provincial government to build a huge structure 45km......
ISLAMABAD: Intervening in the Karachi’s worsening cleanliness problem, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday issued directives for early removal of waste and garbage from the city, urging elected......
MOSCOW: Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear reactor on Friday, sending it on an epic journey across the Arctic, despite environmentalists warning of a “Chernobyl on ice”.Loaded with......
HONG KONG: Thousands of people held hands across Hong Kong late on Friday in a dazzling recreation of a pro-democracy “Baltic Way” protest against Soviet rule three decades ago.The city’s......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally requested the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide information about all Pakistani nationals who have obtained iqama (work permit) in a bid to hide their illegal......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday suspended all amendments recently introduced in the constitution of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) through a notification issued by the ministry of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday held the video clip related to accountability court judge Mohammad Arshad Malik could only benefit former prime minister Nawaz Sharif if properly produced......
SRINAGAR: Occupation forces used tear gas against stone-throwing residents in India-held Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar on Friday, after a third straight week of protests in the restive Soura......
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban and the United States have reached an agreement on a time frame of pullout of foreign forces from Afghanistan, Taliban chief spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said on......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza on Friday refused to administer the oath of office to the newly appointed members of the Election Commission of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: In a major drive against benami properties, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday directed deputy commissioners and heads of development authorities to identify benami properties or......
ALMOST everybody you talk to in Pakistan laments the decrepit state of our ‘institutions’ and attributes most of the ills of the country over 70-plus years to the neglect and degradation of the......
FOR three years now, Brexit has been sucking the oxygen out of daily life and politics in Britain.And it’s not just politics: the media and dinner party conversations are almost entirely dominated by......
IT is most unlikely that the Modi government did not reckon with the international as well as domestic consequences of the measures it took on Aug 5 to dismember the historic status of Jammu &......
POSITION yourself at a traffic light or a roundabout in a Pakistani city today and you will witness every possible violation of the traffic code quite independent of the status of the violator and......
ALMOST everybody you talk to in Pakistan laments the decrepit state of our ‘institutions’ and attributes most of the ills of the country over 70-plus years to the neglect and degradation of the......
IT is most unlikely that the Modi government did not reckon with the international as well as domestic consequences of the measures it took on Aug 5 to dismember the historic status of Jammu &......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered all deputy commissioners and heads of development authorities to identify benami properties within their jurisdictions in a month, a notice issued by the Prime......
