Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60, his spokesman announced on Wednesday.Renowned with Brazil's Pele as one of the greatest footballers of all time, the Argentine......
About 181 staff members of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (Pims) have tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the past two weeks, the hospital's Joint Executive Director Dr Minhaj......
Intensive care units across Pakistan are nearing capacity as a second, deadlier wave of the coronavirus builds momentum and officials struggle to counter public indifference to the pandemic.Several......
India banned 43 mobile apps on Tuesday, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress, in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China after the neighbours’ months-long standoff on......
A lawyer caused a brief panic in the Supreme Court on Wednesday when he revealed during a hearing that he was suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.The episode occurred while......
Six major generals have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced on Wednesday.In a tweet, the military's media wing said those promoted......
India's ruling Hindu nationalist party has approved legislation in the country's most populous state that lays out a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force......
Pakistan’s Christian transgender people, often mocked, abused and bullied, say they have found peace and solace in a church of their own.Shunned by other churches, they can raise their voices high......
Pakistan has handed over a dossier on India’s terror campaign to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to prevail on New Delhi to desist from its illegal and aggressive......
Pakistan has reported more than 3,000 daily coronavirus cases and 59 deaths during the last 24 hours. This is the highest daily total of infections the country has reported since July 9.Data from the......
KARACHI: The ongoing renovation work of Ali Mohammad Qambrani Boxing Stadium at Kakri Ground, Lyari has entered the final stage of completion on the direction of Deputy Commissioner and Administrator......
PESHAWAR: Traders took to the streets here on Tuesday against the sealing of shops, business centres and banquet halls over the violation of standard operating procedures enforced to stem the spread......
PESHAWAR: As access to Internet is not available in most parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the elementary and secondary education department has proposed that students go to school for a little time once......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has invited Afghanistan’s national team on a full-fledged tour for the first time, a senior board official said on Tuesday, following a visit to Kabul by......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Education and Labour Saeed Ghani has said that the provincial government had proposed closure of primary schools in the first phase of a national strategy to contain the......
OKARA: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Qasim Ali Khan has strictly ordered the district judiciary to hear all the cases in their courts as it was the duty of the judicial officers and......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday expressed resentment over a committee for an inordinate delay in making recommendations for finalisation of the results of sixth population census and......
KARACHI: Flyovers and underpasses on 11 out of 24 level crossings on the KCR track will be constructed by the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), it emerged on Tuesday.Officials said that participants......
LAHORE: As the Punjab cabinet on Tuesday approved the release of PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz on a five-day parole to participate in the last rites of his (Shehbaz’s)......
LAHORE: The police department, for the first time, has blacklisted 16 station house officers of the provincial capital for having ‘tainted’ record and banned their appointment as SHOs in three major......
PARIS: French authorities on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the forceful removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris that prompted outrage over the “brutal” tactics used.Interior......
ADDISABABA: Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights watchdog accused a Tigrayan youth group on Tuesday of killing hundreds of civilians as federal and local forces both claimed advances in a three-week war......
ISLAMABAD: Former naval chief and chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Admiral Fasih Bokhari died in Islamabad on Tuesday.He had joined the Navy in 1962 and served as the naval chief......
ISLAMABAD: Kaavan - the capital’s lone elephant set to leave for Cambodia on Nov 29 - was given a farewell by President Dr Arif Alvi and First Lady Samina Alvi at Marghzar Zoo on Tuesday.The......
ISLAMABAD: In a move to resolve the disagreement over the establishment of an import and export yard at Chaman Dry Port between the Ministry of Railways and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the......
KARACHI: Consumer confidence in the third quarter of 2020 improved by 12.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter, Pakistan Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) survey conducted by the Dun & Bradstreet and Gallup......
ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed chairman of Pakistan Television Naeem Bukhari has hinted at ‘blackout’ of the opposition on PTV.When a reporter asked the new chairman outside the Supreme Court building......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has described absence of local government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as brazen disregard of law, regretting that neither the KP chief minister nor his cabinet members......
ISLAMABAD: To curb increasing rape incidents in the country, the federal cabinet on Tuesday approved in principle two anti-rape ordinances that “change the definition of rape” and are aimed at......
THE planned futuristic Saudi city of Neom on the Red Sea coast was the venue of the G20 virtual summit last week, but something of greater importance happened there on Sunday night that may mark a......
