As the coronavirus crisis rages, a Chinese woman working in Paris takes to a computer to consult a doctor thousands of kilometres away in Shanghai about a worrisome cough and headache.The physician......
Oil titans Russia and Saudi Arabia have accumulated vast financial cushions that will help them weather a lengthy price war. It's a battle of nerves — so who will blink first?Global oil prices......
Police on Monday recovered the bodies of five people — a mother and her four minor sons — from a hut in a village near Thatta's Jhimpir town.According to officials , the bodies of a 42-year-old woman......
A bubble blowing, bald Australian batsman has become an instant hit in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 edition.Ben Dunk broke his own record of most sixes in a PSL game within a week when he......
A mechanism for the release of Taliban prisoners has been reached and a presidential decree will be issued in this regard on Tuesday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Monday.Ghani’s remarks came......
World oil prices crashed on Monday, fuelling a vicious selloff on stock markets — which were already buckling under intense pressure over the spreading deadly coronavirus.Stocks tanked as the global......
At least 27 people died from methanol poisoning in Iran after rumours that drinking alcohol can help cure the novel coronavirus infection, state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.The outbreak of......
Four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 went on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, with families of the 298 victims calling for justice.The suspects —......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday expressed his "heartfelt wish" for lasting peace in Afghanistan, saying that stability in the neighbouring country would not only bring relief for the Afghani......
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt early on Monday targeting his convoy in the capital Khartoum, state television and a cabinet source said.Hamdok, who was......
The top court in India's most populous state ordered authorities on Monday to remove large displays of the names, pictures and addresses of dozens of anti-government protesters, amid fears that they......
A push to digitise land records in India to establish ownership and minimise conflicts has raised concerns over privacy for poorer communities and could make them more vulnerable to evictions, legal......
The Supreme Court on Monday — hearing over 70 appeals against the Peshawar High Court's (PHC) decision to acquit convicts sentenced by the military courts — directed the defence ministry to present a......
Islamabad's Kohsar Police on Monday registered a case against various individuals – including local religious leaders and JUI-F's Maulana Abdul Majeed Hizravi – for trying to disrupt yesterday's......
TODAY is the day after International Women’s Day. By now, the Aurat March would have taken place, hopefully without incident. And Pakistan’s honour would likely have survived a public gathering of......
Afghan President-elect Ashraf Ghani on Monday delayed his planned inauguration ceremony until the afternoon, as his rival Abdullah Abdullah also postponed a scheduled competing swearing-in......
Two terrorists were killed on Monday as security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Tank district of DI Khan to foil a "major terrorist activity", a press release from the......
At least 20 people were killed on Monday after a passenger coaster travelling from Rawalpindi to Skardu fell into River Sindh in Rondu tehsil of Skardu district.According to Deputy Commissioner......
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: While one more patient of novel coronavirus has been found in Sindh, taking the number of cases to four in the province and seven in the country, the National Institute of Health......
Equity markets collapsed on Monday as the rapidly spreading coronavirus fans fears over the global economy, while a crash in oil prices added to the panic with energy firms taking a hammering.As the......
Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange was paused for 45 minutes on Monday after the market fell 2,106 points soon after opening.According to reports from the market, activity was paused after a......
Oil prices plummeted around 30% on Monday, with US oil heading for its biggest loss on record, after Saudi Arabia slashed prices and set plans for a dramatic increase in crude production in......
TODAY is the day after International Women’s Day. By now, the Aurat March would have taken place, hopefully without incident. And Pakistan’s honour would likely have survived a public gathering of......
PESHAWAR: Frequent anti-polio campaigns have been causing increase in refusal cases with people turning against the oral polio vaccine (OPV) after developing apprehensions as to why the government is......
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has again criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government as ‘inefficient’ and ‘incompetent’ which is unable to run the country or......
NEW DELHI: Fit-again all-rounder Hardik Pandya returned to India’s one-day squad on Sunday but opener Rohit Sharma, who is recovering from a calf injury, was left out of the three-match series......
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Climate Change and Pakistan Environmental Agency (EPA) have started to take action against violators of ban on plastic bags in rural areas of Islamabad.The decision to ban use......
LAHORE: The Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority and Lahore Institute of Public Health (Trust) on Sunday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for activation of 54 filtration plants in Lahore before......
ATHENS: A fire broke out at a refugee centre on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s firefighting service said on Sunday, causing considerable damage to a warehouse but no injuries.It was the second......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will declare Rawalpindi as the model city for food safety and measures will be taken so people can get quality food items in the market.Talking to Dawn, PFA......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing & Town Planning, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the water mafia operating in district West of Karachi......
SHANGHAI: Ten people have died and 23 remain trapped after the collapse of a hotel that was being used to quarantine people under observation for the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Quanzhou,......
ROME: A quarter of the Italian population was in lockdown on Sunday as the government took drastic steps to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus sweeping the globe, while Iran recorded another......
THE winter season has almost drawn to a close but some parts of the provincial capital are still facing a shortage of natural gas. Many areas in the centre of the city do without gas for several......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Sunday that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government plans to award scholarships worth Rs12 billion during the current......
RIYADH: Saudi authorities cordoned off the eastern region of Qatif on Sunday in a bid to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus as the total number of cases rose to 11.The lockdown on Qatif, a......
The ubiquitous filth and poverty on the roads of Karachi appear less disturbing as the capsule elevator lifts up to the 22nd floor of the newly built United Bank Ltd (UBL) head office on I.I.......
LAHORE: Special Assistant the Prime Minister (SAPM) for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday the government was taking effective steps to empower women by ensuring their......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has included Pakistan in the list of 20 economies across the world that have been affected the most after China suffered......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday.During his visit, the prime minister will review the performance of the provincial government.He is expected to have a......
LONDON: England’s Jofra Archer is likely to miss the Indian Premier League (IPL) as national team coach Chris Silverwood wants the fast bowler to play cricket with Sussex to get up to speed before......
Hazra Begum has been living in fear since witnessing men chanting Hindu religious slogans hack, bludgeon and burn Muslims to death in Delhi’s worst sectarian riots in decades.Ten days after the......
LONDON: Five nations sealed their debuts in the revamped Davis Cup Finals in the weekend’s qualifiers while heavyweights Germany, Australia, United States and Croatia also booked their places in......
KABUL: The Taliban militant group said peace talks with the Afghan government this week were unlikely to take place because rivals for the presidency were both holding swearing-in ceremonies on......
AS in the case of Donald Trump’s speech in Ahmadabad, so too with the US-Afghan Taliban agreement, the text of the agreement does not appear on the website of the White House or the State Department.......
BISHKEK: Police in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday detained dozens of protesters — most of them women — at a rally to mark International Women’s Day after masked men attacked them and tore up their placards.A......
Of late, the key economic indicators and policy movements tend to give mixed sentiments, a kind of crisscross. The current account continues to build hope, exports appear to follow suit while......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Communications is seeking an end to the practice of extending unsolicited expensive loans to the National Highway Authority (NHA) by the federal government through its......
FOR Sawera, and her classmates, the sudden announcement of closure of her school sparked panic. But her concern was short-lived.March is a crucial time for students preparing for the upcoming......
The ubiquitous filth and poverty on the roads of Karachi appear less disturbing as the capsule elevator lifts up to the 22nd floor of the newly built United Bank Ltd (UBL) head office on I.I.......
Foreign investors are fleeing the stock market in droves.According to the National Clearing Company of Pakistan (NCCPL), net foreign outflows last week were $21 million. Foreigners dumped local......
RAWALPINDI: The government announced on Sunday that it had given one-time permission to Pashtun Tahafuz Movement-backed members of National Assembly Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar to travel to......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly will begin its session from Monday (today) with opposition parties flexing their muscles to take the government to task over a number of important issues, including......
As things stand today, the exclusion of women from the economic decision-making mainstream and sustainable development are two mutually exclusive components of an equation in which fairness,......
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan will take a final decision regarding the establishment of south Punjab sub-secretariat soon after meeting......
FIRST, a disclaimer: the premise for this piece is narrow, but it speaks to a larger problem within Pakistani public life. The number of people to whom this critique applies may not be large, but the......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Russia have agreed to work together to ensure that the international community does not accept or support the restoration of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”.In......
ISLAMABAD: Activists of rights organisations, political and religious parties and other civil society organisations on Sunday arranged parallel events in different cities to mark International......
AS in the case of Donald Trump’s speech in Ahmadabad, so too with the US-Afghan Taliban agreement, the text of the agreement does not appear on the website of the White House or the State Department.......
“I used to keep biscuits on the doorstep and leave,” said Bilquis, talking about her one-year-old son. “When I would come home, often he would be sleeping somewhere. Once I found him sleeping next to......
