Confined to their homes for over a week, some Italians are getting restless. More than 53,000 people have been fined for flouting the rules, as the government fires on all cylinders, hoping to......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday expressed the hope that Pakistan's "hot and dry" weather will help to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak, urging citizens to exercise social distancing and......
Pharmacies in Pakistan's major cities of Karachi and Lahore have run out of medicines having hydroxychloroquine phosphate, also known as cholroquine, it emerged on Friday, after news began......
Rozina Babar is at the heart of the new and thriving floriculture business that has come up in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region.“Flowers are a childhood love,” Babar said, recalling how......
Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, which has been used to treat malaria since the 1940s.The drug has recently been used to treat coronavirus patients in China and in France, where some......
KARACHI: The fifth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) ended prematurely just when chart leaders Multan Sultans along with Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi were gearing up......
India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.The four were hanged before dawn at......
The pharmaceutical industry expects it will take 12 to 18 months to roll out a coronavirus vaccine, executives said on Thursday, as they jointly pledged to make it available worldwide based on......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday submitted a requisition notice to the National Assembly secretariat, asking Speaker Asad Qaiser to convene a session of the lower house......
QUETTA: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has dispatched 900 containers to Balochistan for keeping pilgrims returning from Iran in quarantine for 14 days.A meeting presided over by......
RAWALPINDI: Police have taken precautionary measures against the coronavirus by displaying banners outside its establishments, including police stations, and warned that if any police official was......
ISLAMABAD: The chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is considering granting bail to under-trial prisoners arrested for minor crimes in the capital.IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah has......
PESHAWAR: Three doctors were quarantined after coming into contact with coronavirus patients in Mardan and Peshawar as four new cases were confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The newly-confirmed patients......
ISLAMABAD: While the country is facing a severe shortage of funds to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19), anti-tobacco advocates suggested to the government to impose a health levy on tobacco products......
ISLAMABAD: Doctors’ representatives from four public service hospitals in the federal capital on Thursday announced that they cannot continue working without personal protective equipment (PPE) and......
ISLAMABAD: To contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Pakistan Railways has decided to suspend 12 trains from March 22 (Sunday) and may close 20 more from April 1, depending on the gravity of the......
LONDON: Pakistani students in the United Kingdom have expressed anger and frustration over the government’s decision to demand a mandatory coronavirus certificate from travellers entering the country......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court suspended on Thursday a joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe the assets of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former opposition leader Syed......
NEW DELHI: Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar has offered an unusual take on the coronavirus fight by comparing it to Test cricket, urging patience and teamwork, and warning “we have to defend......
SYDNEY: Australia’s two-time World Cup-winning former skipper Ricky Ponting considers the 2008 ‘Monkeygate’ scandal the lowest point of his captaincy stint as he feels he was not in control of what......
ISLAMABAD: Former skipper Ramiz Raja said on Thursday that the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) has provided the country with some exciting and breakout batting talent.“For the past......
LONDON: English football will be suspended until at least April 30 due to the coronavirus crisis, but the current season can be extended indefinitely, the English game’s governing bodies said in a......
ATHENS: Tokyo 2020 organisers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on Thursday, amid the coronavirus spread that has cast doubt on the global,......
ANKARA: Two Turkish soldiers were killed in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, officials said Thursday, the country’s first reported casualties since a ceasefire began earlier this......
WASHINGTON: US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the Democratic presidential nomination race on Thursday and immediately endorsed rival Joe Biden as flag bearer heading into the November......
LONDON: The British government apologised on Thursday for its treatment of Britons of Caribbean origin who were wrongly detained or deported for being illegal immigrants, after the publication of a......
WASHINGTON: The US military is pausing the movement of any new troops into Afghanistan and is quarantining 1,500 troops and civilians who recently arrived to avoid any possible spread of the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Election Commission (EC) Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya announced on Thursday that the general election will not be held on April 25 as scheduled on account of the coronavirus......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday again called on India to lift communication blockade on occupied Jammu and Kashmir and ensure supplies of essential commodities in the valley to contain the spread of......
JERUSALEM: Hundreds of people defied restrictions on large gatherings to protest outside parliament on Thursday, while scores of others were blocked by police from reaching the area as they accused......
Shortage of protective gear is now being felt in many hospitals around the country as the number of patients testing positive for the potentially deadly coronavirus continues to increase.So far, four......
ISLAMABAD: The government has claimed to have completed the first phase of the implementation of the single national curriculum in the country by developing a uniform syllabus for class 1 to 5, but......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday decided to form a joint parliamentary committee of treasury and opposition members to seek opposition’s support in the fight against novel......
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of wheat harvesting season, Ministry of National Food Security and Research on Thursday proposed restrictions on intra-district movement of wheat crop and ban on private sector from......
KALAYA: Two constables were martyred in an attack on a police station in the Arghunja area of Orakzai tribal district’s upper subdivision on Wednesday night.Official sources said that armed men......
ISLAMABAD: Fissures have started to emerge in the judicial hierarchy after the recent elevation to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) Waqar Ahmed Seth has sent a......
ISLAMABAD: While stock exchange continues to bleed, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Thursday notified amendments in the base minimum capital (BMC) requirements,......
KARACHI: Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar said on Thursday that clear instructions had been issued to police to ensure that four or more persons should not travel in......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has estimated a revenue loss of over Rs300 billion during the April-June quarter of the current fiscal owing to a slowdown in economic activities because......
KARACHI: In a rare gesture, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday announced a “no criticism policy” against Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government over its......
LONDON: Credit rating agency Moody’s is carrying out a global review of its corporate ratings in light of the coronavirus and oil price slump, with a first mass wave of downgrades or downgrade......
ISLAMABAD: Projecting at least $10 billion losses to the national economy because of coronavirus pandemic, the government is considering an “economic emergency bailout package” within a week to......
KARACHI: Foreign investors have pulled out more than $1.388 billion from the country’s capital markets in the ongoing month with hot money outflows amounting to $1.28bn, the State Bank of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Projecting at least $10 billion losses to the national economy because of coronavirus pandemic, the government is considering an “economic emergency bailout package” within a week to......
ALL educational institutions, across the country, are currently closed. This is as it should be. The same is true of most schools in most countries across the world. The government has, for now, said......
THIS is a process of elimination which would have taken Agatha Christie only a few minutes to explain. The suspects are all there, identified by experts, and endorsed by your leaders in their......
ALL educational institutions, across the country, are currently closed. This is as it should be. The same is true of most schools in most countries across the world. The government has, for now, said......
THIS is a process of elimination which would have taken Agatha Christie only a few minutes to explain. The suspects are all there, identified by experts, and endorsed by your leaders in their......
