A landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company’s world-dominating search engine kicked off in a Washington courtroom on Tuesday.“This case is about the......
Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday called for an impeachment inquiry into Democratic President Joe Biden, a move certain to further divide lawmakers as they......
Five British-Pakistani children brought to Pakistan by a fugitive couple wanted over the death of a 10-year-old girl in the UK were taken into the custody of state protective services on Tuesday,......
Zyp Technologies, a Pakistani electric vehicles startup, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Indus Valley Capital (IVC).“With this key investment, Zyp is......
At least 2,300 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing on Tuesday after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating......
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said party supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to the country on Oct 21.In a statement, the former premier said the party founder would be given grand welcome......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday decried the “absence of a level-playing field” in the current political landscape of the country, saying he had an “objection” to alleged inequality......
The Supreme Court (SC) ruled on Tuesday that pleas filed by two former army officers against their convictions for plotting to overthrow the government of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995......
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau belatedly left India on Tuesday after an aircraft breakdown forced a two-day extension of his rocky visit to New Delhi for the G20 summit.Trudeau arrived in......
India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in Colombo for Tuesday’s Asia Cup Super Four clash.India hammered arch-rivals Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday in a match......
PTI Senator Seemee Ezdi on Tuesday suggested revisiting the blasphemy law, seeking answers on why incidents of mob violence were taking place with such frequency.She made the remarks during a meeting......
TALAT NYACOUB: Moroccan rescuers supported by foreign teams on Monday faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages after the country’s......
PML-N Senator Rana Maqbool Ahmad passed away in Lahore on Tuesday after being ill for some while.According to the Senate website, he was elected to the upper house of Parliament on a general seat.......
Shahnawaz Dahani and Zaman Khan were called in by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the Asia Cup after pacers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah picked up “niggles” in the match against India, the board......
Lead poisoning has a far greater impact on global health than previously thought, potentially contributing to over five million deaths a year and posing a similar threat to air pollution, modelling......
The detention order issued for PTI President Parvez Elahi under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance has been withdrawn, the capital deputy commissioner (DC) told the Islamabad High Court......
The rupee continued its upward trajectory on Tuesday against the dollar during morning trade in the interbank market, with analysts attributing the gains to an ongoing crackdown seeking to check......
ISLAMABAD: The second senior-most position at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) fell vacant on Monday after Deputy Chairman Zahir Shah resigned, citing personal reasons.Just days earlier, on......
Pakistan’s heavy defeat to India in the Asia Cup was a “timely reminder” for the team to get their act together before next month’s World Cup, head coach Grant Bradburn said.Babar Azam’s men suffered......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will come in “fresh” for an Asia Cup Super Four clash against an Indian team likely to be playing for a third consecutive day, their coach said Monday.India’s match against......
PAKISTAN’S Aliya Riaz bats during the second ODI against South Africa at the National Bank Stadium on Monday.—Tahir Jamal/White Star KARACHI: A bowling masterclass by Nadine de......
ROME: Juventus’ French midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, Italy’s national anti-doping (NADO Italia) tribunal said on Monday.The......
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic would not let Daniil Medvedev spoil his date with history a second time as he battled past the Russian 6-3, 7-6(5), 6-3 to win the US Open on Sunday and equal Margaret......
Two of the vehicles damaged during an attack on a joint team of the Lahore Development Authority and police for launching a major operation to dismantle infrastructure of illegal......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday upheld an office objection and directed a petitioner’s counsel to furnish minutes of a Punjab caretaker cabinet’s meeting that approved interest-free loans for......
LAHORE: Up to 35 per cent of women doctors are unemployed in Pakistan, as revealed by a research by Gallup Pakistan and PRIDE across the country.Basing their research on the Labour Force Survey of......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to solve the long-awaited issue of car parking spaces, especially in the surrounding of showrooms.IHC......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has suspended its seven officials over electricity theft and unauthorised meter installations while 24 people were arrested in Rawalpindi and......
BATKHELA: The personnel of Malakand Levies arrested more than 60 workers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf including former provincial minister Shakeel Khan for staging a rally here on Monday.Levies......
ISLAMABAD: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday admitted a petition seeking crackdown on the restaurants of Bahria Town’s Food Street for using unsafe gas cylinder.The petitioner......
GILGIT: The chief election commissioner has restrained the district returning officer from announcing the result of a by-election to the GB Assembly over allegations of rigging.The by-election for......
QUETTA: The local administration has seized 1,214 tonnes of sugar and sealed nine godowns in Sariab and Kuchlak areas where the commodity was kept for smuggling to Afghanistan, Quetta Division......
• Bench sets aside life term of four employees of Baldia Town industrial unit • State appeal against acquittal of ex-minister Rauf Siddiqui, three others dismissed • Court seeks efforts to bring......
KARACHI: The organisers of the Minority Rights and Aurat March held their second protest at Teen Talwar in Clifton on Monday to condemn the failure of the police and the caretaker Sindh cabinet in......
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Monday said there was no restriction on the PTI from taking part in elections.Talking about the incidents of May 9 during an interview with......
LONDON: Former prime minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan would have been on track to host a G20 summit had the momentum set by his government in 2017 continued.He......
THE inveterate Hindu in him spurred the British prime minister to take time off from the G20 summit to offer prayers at Delhi’s riverside Akshardham temple. In so doing, he picked up a politically......
KARACHI: Interim Chief Minister retired Justice Maqbool Baqar on Monday asked the K-Electric (KE) to generate low-cost electricity by using indigenous fuel so that people could heave a sigh of relief......
FREE of the burden of defending and explaining government policies and actions, Khawaja Asif spoke candidly about his own party. In a recent interview, he agreed the senior leadership of the PML-N —......
JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Monday in Jerusalem to denounce the hard-right government’s judicial overhaul ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on a key component of the reform......
DHAKA: President Emmanuel Macron was in Bangladesh on Monday in a bid to “consolidate” France’s Asia-Pacific strategy and counterbalance a “new imperialism” in a region where China’s influence......
WASHINGTON: A hotly anticipated biography of Elon Musk describes the turbulent tycoon as a man driven by childhood demons, obsessed with bringing human life to Mars and who demands that staff be ......
NEW DELHI: Brazil’s leader withdrew on Monday his personal assurance that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be arrested if he attends next year’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, saying it......
NEW DELHI: A new ports and railway corridor for the Middle East and South Asia will include train links to India, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Monday, offering new details about the......
KARACHI: Equities settled on the lower side after a directionless trading session on Monday.Topline Securities said the benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange oscillated within a small range......
• President holds another meeting with law minister on election process • PTI urges head of state to announce poll date as per his mandateISLAMABAD: As a degree of uncertainty prevails regarding the......
KARACHI: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis slightly increased by 3 per cent month-on-month in August while it tumbled by over 23pc year-on-year. However, the inflow of remittances during the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to prepare a proposal for revamping the tax system and increasing the tax-to-GDP ratio, which has remained......
KARACHI: The crackdown against illegal currency dealers has proven highly fruitful, as the dollar rate in the open market fell below the price at the interbank market on Monday.Currency dealers have......
ISLAMABAD: Despite strong opposition from Karachi-based industrial and political leaders and serious concerns from members of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) over the......
A LARGE number of trucks loaded with goods stand in a queue as they await the reopening of the Pak-Afghan Torkham border, in Landi Kotal, on Monday.—PPI ISLAMABAD / KHYBER: As......
PAKISTAN is facing a myriad of problems such as inflation, joblessness, unstable currency, unaffordable energy bills and falling living standards.The recent announcement of heavy investment by the......
SIDON: At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, first responders said on Monday as fighting raged for a fifth day.Violence......
HAMBURG: Leaders of nine small island states turned to the UN maritime court on Monday to seek protection of the world’s oceans from catastrophic climate change that threatens the very existence of......
• Regrets how his ‘innocent observations’ were mocked • Says over Rs18bn in dam fund monies held by ‘govt securities’ • May not address traditional full-court reference upon retirementISLAMABAD:......
Security and rescue officials inspect the damaged vehicle after the attack, on Warsak Road.—PPI PESHAWAR: A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier embraced martyrdom and nine others,......
LAHORE: Jhelum police on Monday claimed to have recovered five children of Urfan Sharif, the father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif who was found dead in their family home in Woking, Surrey, last month.Mr......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) has expressed its utter shock at procurement of sugar at a price of Rs140 per kg from mill owners by the Punjab government.PKI President Khalid Mahmood......
At least 150 people were killed when freak floods hit eastern Libya, officials said on Monday, after Storm Daniel swept the Mediterranean, its torrential rains earlier lashing Turkey, Bulgaria and......
