The dates and venues for this year’s ODI World Cup in India will be revealed around the Test championship final, a top official said on Saturday.It remains unusual that a schedule has not been......
A passenger on an Asiana Airlines flight told police he opened a door on the plane minutes before it landed in Daegu, South Korea, on Friday because he was “uncomfortable”, Yonhap News Agency......
Bayern Munich snatched their 11th consecutive Bundesliga title in dramatic fashion with a final day 2-1 win at Cologne on Saturday courtesy of Jamal Musiala’s 89th minute goal, grabbing the trophy......
Former executive director of Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Dr Seemin Jamali passed away in Karachi on Saturday, her younger brother Yousaf Agha confirmed to Dawn.com.According......
The Ministry of Finance on Friday issued a rebuttal to Pakistani-American economist Atif Mian’s criticism of its economic policy, terming it “misplaced” and a “purely theoretical point of view”.Mian,......
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays homage on Saturday to his executed Islamic predecessor in an attempt to rally his conservative base on the eve of a historic runoff vote.Erdogan’s visit to......
Russia on Saturday dismissed criticism from US President Joe Biden over Moscow’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, saying Washington had for decades deployed just such nuclear......
At least nine people have lost their lives, and 25 others sustained injuries in a snow avalanche that hit Astore district, Gilgit Baltistan on Saturday, according to officials.Deputy Inspector......
Senior puisne judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the head of a three-member judicial commission formed to probe alleged audio clips leaked on social media, stayed the body’s proceedings on Saturday — a day......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday expressed resentment over local administration for awarding a charged parking contract in the busy area of Saddar without any auction.When a two-judge......
PARIS: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday the city planned to ban single-use plastic when it holds the 2024 Olympic Games as part of efforts to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis.“We have......
JAMSHORO: Working towards many sustainable development goals and addressing water management and climate change challenges, the US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water is doing some......
MANCHESTER: Manchester United will be back in action in next season’s Champions League after they hammered Chelsea 4-1 on Thursday to secure a top-four finish in the Premier League.Casemiro, Anthony......
GWADAR: A giant blue whale has been found dead in Balochistan’s waters near the coast of Jiwani in Gwadar district.The carcass was found by local fishermen on Friday morning.The dead whale was swept......
LAHORE: Senior journalist and former chief reporter of Dawn Ashraf Mumtaz breathed his last after a cardiac arrest here on Friday. He was 70. Senior journalist Ashraf Mumtaz. —......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday rejected the bail bonds of former prime minister Imran Khan in three cases relating to the May 9 riots as the guarantor showed reluctance to take......
PESHAWAR: Around 85 people arrested in connection with May 9 and 10 violent protests here were granted bail by different courts on Friday.An anti-terrorism court ordered the release of 44 suspects......
KHYBER: Two policemen lost their lives in a ‘mysterious’ grenade blast inside the police training centre in Shah Kas area of Jamrud tehsil on Thursday night.However, Khyber district police officer......
LAHORE: A special court on Friday issued warrants for the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in a case of embezzlement of development funds.The other day, the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s failure to clear over Rs500 million dues of the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) operators has caused fears of the suspension of the bus service, which......
LONDON: A newly released cache of FBI files has revealed a potential plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 visit to California.The possible threat followed a phone call made by “a......
PHNOM PENH: About 40 crocodiles killed a Cambodian man on Friday after he fell into their enclosure on his family’s reptile farm, police said.Luan Nam, 72, was trying to move a crocodile out of a......
SEOUL: South Korean police on Friday detained a man who opened a door of an Asiana Airlines plane minutes before it was due to land in the city of Daegu, causing panic among the passengers, officials......
LONDON: A UK court jailed a British man for life on Friday for travelling to Syria to join the militant Islamic State group nearly a decade ago.Judge Mark Lucraft handed Shabazz Suleman, from High......
ROME: A boat carrying about 500 migrants, including a new born baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean, two charities said on Friday.Alarm Phone, a group that picks up......
WASHINGTON: Henry Kissinger, whose very name is synonymous with US diplomacy, turns 100 on Saturday feted by the American elite as others seethe that the ruthless Cold War figure has never faced......
ON Thursday, the administrative judge of Anti-Terrorism Courts, Lahore, directed handing over the custody of 16 people arrested in relation to the May 9 riots to the military for trial under the......
“So, that the people of Pakistan may prosper and attain their rightful and honoured place amongst the nations of the World” — Preamble to the Constitution, 1973IN my own short life of 50 years so......
KARACHI: A dozen and a half companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) announced on Friday they’re going to hold board meetings for reasons other than financial results in the coming......
LAHORE: The aerated beverage industry has reported up to 40 per cent reduction in sales volume after the government increased the Federal Excise Duty to 20pc from 13pc through the mini-budget in......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund slightly raised its forecast for 2023 US economic growth Friday while noting that a slowing economy will likely lead to a small increase in unemployment in......
KARACHI: Stock trading began on a lacklustre note on Friday as investors’ participation remained low owing to the country’s political turmoil.But trading activity rose substantially as the session......
KARACHI: The profits and dividends on foreign investments fell by 83 per cent in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, the central bank data showed on Friday.The foreign investment already......
ISLAMABAD: The short-term inflation, based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), eased slightly further year-on-year but remained significantly high at 45.49 per cent for the week ending on May 25,......
ISLAMABAD: The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved $213 million in financing to Pakistan to help improve livelihoods and essential services and enhance risk protection to......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday sought support from business people to overcome multiple challenges and asked exporters to come up with innovative and unique ideas to boost......
LONDON: Conservative Party MPs and peers are angry over being prevented from speaking with PTI chief Imran Khan, whose internet connection was reportedly disconnected for half an hour ahead of a Zoom......
QUETTA: Awami National Party (ANP) Secretary General Mian Iftikhar Hussian has said that his party was not in favour of banning any party and believed that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) should face......
KARACHI: The government on Friday shared the confidential medical reports of PTI chief Imran Khan’s tests, supposedly conducted during his custody earlier this month, claiming that no fracture was......
• Ex-PM insists he has been ‘isolated’ at home, still fears for his life • Farrukh says all May 9 suspects must be given right to fair trialLAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Friday made an......
SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink on Thursday said it has approval from US regulators to test its brain implants in people.Neuralink said clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration......
LAHORE: In a scathing tirade against PTI chairman Imran Khan, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief organiser Maryam Nawaz alleged he was the mastermind of the ‘planned attacks’ on army......
KARACHI: Vowing to bring the perpetrators of May 9 violence to justice, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that no one should have any objections if the government punished these rioters......
SRINAGAR: India’s top anti-terrorism investigation agency on Friday again sought the death sentence for Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), after he was given life in......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, on Friday stayed the proceedings of a judicial commission formed to investigate the veracity of recent......
THE love of reading isn’t something that develops in a vacuum. Avid readers or ‘bookworms’ are a product of their environmental influences. It is remarkable how much children can learn on their own......
ON Thursday, the administrative judge of Anti-Terrorism Courts, Lahore, directed handing over the custody of 16 people arrested in relation to the May 9 riots to the military for trial under the......
“So, that the people of Pakistan may prosper and attain their rightful and honoured place amongst the nations of the World” — Preamble to the Constitution, 1973IN my own short life of 50 years so......
