Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.A proposed......
A UK jury on Tuesday found MQM supremo Altaf Hussain not guilty on two counts in the incitement to violence trial.Hussain was charged with "encouraging terrorism" in an incendiary speech relayed......
President Dr Arif Alvi said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had not undertaken any consultation regarding the appointment of the new army chief with him, adding that he (prime minister) would......
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Tuesday that the government had decided to set up a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis, an important......
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to ease coronavirus curbs in cities with a positivity rate of less than 10 per cent in light of "improved disease trends".However,......
Punjab police rounded up on Tuesday 10 more primary suspects in the case of lynching of a man over blasphemy allegations in a village of Punjab's Khanewal district last week.According to a statement......
Russia said on Tuesday it was pulling back some of its forces near the Ukrainian border to their bases, in what would be the first major step towards de-escalation in weeks of crisis with the......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday again directed former Gilgit-Baltistan chief justice Rana Shamim to submit a written statement regarding an affidavit of his in which he accused former chief......
World number one Novak Djokovic has claimed he is not anti-vaccination but would rather skip Grand Slams than be forced to get a Covid jab.The Serbian was deported in extraordinary circumstances on......
A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a......
Faced with truckers' protests popping up across the nation, and hampering cross border trade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the only Canadian leader since his father 50 years ago to......
The Taliban on Monday warned that it would reconsider its policy towards the United States if President Joe Biden did not reverse his "unjustified" decision to return only half of Afghanistan's $7......
Television host and journalist Syed Iqrarul Hassan on Tuesday accused officials of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of detaining him and members of his team for hours at their Karachi office and......
NEW DELHI: India’s batting coach played down concerns on Monday about the recent poor batting form of Virat Kohli, saying he was on the brink of scoring some “big runs”.Kohli, 33, last scored an......
LAHORE: The training programme of Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s top javelin thrower, and his junior compatriot Mohammad Yasir in South Africa is yet to start as the athletes are still waiting for the......
BEIJING: Teen sensation Kamila Valieva has been cleared for takeoff in women’s figure skating in a ruling in a Russian doping case that has caused havoc with one of the marquee events of the Beijing......
LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators’ opener Jason Roy has been fined five per cent of his match fee for breaching the code of conduct after being given out during the Pakistan Super League match against Lahore......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Monday was informed that the area that was being used by the management of Monal Restaurant would be converted into a Visitors Information Centre for children’s......
ISLAMABAD: The alleged killer of Noor Mukadam has accused her father Shaukat Mukadam of implicating him in the murder case.Zahir Jaffer, as per police challan, has confessed to killing Noor Mukadam......
LAHORE: Six more prime suspects were arrested in the case of lynching of a man suspected of blasphemy at a village of Khanewal district on Monday, taking the total number of arrested suspects to......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party on Monday announced that it would participate in the Pakistan Peoples Party’s Feb 27 long march on Islamabad against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.The......
PESHAWAR: Following the completion of the re-polling in the first phase of the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the opposition Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has emerged on top by......
HYDERABAD: Negotiations between protesting heirs of five Bhand community members — backed by Sindh United Party (SUP) — and Zardari clansmen accused of the murders made some progress on Monday when......
PARIS: French police on Monday shot dead a man who lunged at officers with a long-bladed knife marked with an anti-police slogan at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station, the interior minister said.The......
OTTAWA: Ontario’s premier announced on Monday that Canada’s most populous province will lift its Covid-19 proof-of-vaccination requirements in two weeks not because of the protests that have blocked......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranked fourth in the world vis-à-vis the number of videos taken down by TikTok — over six million — during the July-September quarter of last year for violating its......
MANAMA: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in Bahrain on Monday for the first-ever official visit by an Israeli head of government to the Gulf state, a reporter said.Bennett’s visit is the latest......
QUETTA: Three students who went on hunger strike until death, along with other protesting medical college students, were shifted to hospital late on Monday after their health deteriorated.The male......
ISLAMABAD: Taking exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s criticism of the 18th Amendment, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday warned that any tinkering with the present constitutional......
MOSCOW: Russia held the door open on Monday to further talks on resolving its standoff with the West and said some of its military drills were ending, signalling a possible easing of the crisis over......
ABU DHABI: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday visited the United Arab Emirates for the first time in nearly a decade, to revive relations that were long strained by regional......
IS there really no end to our days of shame? The savagery that we witnessed just two months ago in Sialkot erupted once again, this time in Mian Channu, Khanewal district, where, on Saturday, a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday announced that Pakistan has achieved another milestone by administering 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine.Also on Monday,......
AT the heart of the petition filed by the MQM challenging the constitutionality of the Sindh Local Government Act, 2013, lay a simple question: can a provincial government arrogate to itself the......
LAHORE: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has announced that Afghan trucks carrying wheat from India through Pakistan to the war-torn country would be allowed to pass toll-free.Islamabad......
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration cannot yet release half of the $7 billion it has set aside for Afghanistan as it involves a lengthy judicial process, says a senior US official.US President Joe......
HAS fascism run its course in India, as Arundhati Roy told Karan Thapar in an interview last week? In her view, India’s masses have stepped in to ensure its eventual defeat. The inevitability is......
KARACHI: Trading in the shares market remained gloomy on Monday because of increasing geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine, said a note by Topline Securities.The KSE-100 index stayed in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance on Monday did not approve four key government bills, including those on fiscal responsibility and debt limitation and management of......
ISLAMABAD: Prices of all key petroleum products are estimated to go up by Rs6-12 on Tuesday (today) for the next 14 days, mainly because of higher international oil prices and application of......
KARACHI: Cryptocurrency has more risks than benefits, but the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has been working to develop an understanding of the possible future currencies, according to SBP Governor......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa on Monday met President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran.Although the army chief’s meeting with the prime minister took place on the sidelines of......
ISLAMABAD: Power companies’ policy of disconnecting supply to entire localities in high-loss areas is in violation of the basic human rights since regular bill-paying consumers cannot be treated on......
THE WHO refers to malnutrition as deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of nutrients, and not just the insufficiencies. But in South Asia, as in most developing countries,......
