Dubai announced on Monday the creation of a “space court” to settle commercial disputes, as the UAE — which is also sending a probe to Mars — builds its presence in the space sector.The tribunal will......
Dozens of Republicans in former President George W Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday assured citizens that Pakistan was "on its way to becoming a great nation", saying that every area in the country had a special quality that could be developed to......
The Senate on Monday approved the Compulsory Teaching of the Arabic Language Bill 2020 which makes teaching of the Arabic language mandatory in primary and secondary schools in Islamabad.The bill was......
Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar has contracted the coronavirus and is self-isolating, he revealed via Twitter on Monday."I have tested positive for Covid-19 and self-isolating at......
The inflation rate eased to 5.65 per cent in January, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Monday, from 8pc the previous month.A decrease in the prices of vegetables, pulses, eggs, spices......
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) issued new directives on Monday for its cabin crew that include confiscation of passports on arrival abroad in a bid to control recent incidents of staff......
Myanmar’s military has taken control of the country under a one-year state of emergency and reports say State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other government leaders have been detained. Here are......
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar alleged on Monday that the PPP's Sindh government was politicising the coronavirus vaccine deployment despite not having a "single......
Several senior Indian journalists are facing charges of sedition over their reporting and online posts about a protest by farmers last week, sparking criticism of the legal action from media......
Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years under house arrest in the struggle to bring democracy to Myanmar, has been detained along with other leaders of her political party in a military coup.Beloved in......
Indian police and paramilitary dug ditches and spread razor wire across main roads into New Delhi on Monday to prevent protesting farmers entering the capital as the finance minister prepared to......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said that the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from Beijing was "practical proof" of the Pak-China friendship.Earlier today, the first......
Myanmar's military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League......
GILGIT: The opposition lawmakers and students have rejected the Punjab government’s decision to reduce the MBBS seats for GB students in the public sector medical and dental colleges of the......
WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, two people familiar with the situation said.Butch......
WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly......
PESHAWAR: Nine more people died of Covid-19 and 261 new patients were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as health department claimed to have made elaborate arrangements for vaccination against......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to set up its own Braille printing press that would benefit 3,600 students with disabilities studying in 44 special schools of the......
RAWALPINDI: The cricket teams of South Africa and Pakistan arrived in Islamabad on a special Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Karachi on Sunday.PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez said the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Sunday registered a case against a gang for depriving a man of Rs800,000 through mobile phone fraud.In his complaint, Malik Mahmood Azam, a......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has allegedly appointed a ruling party worker as the Lahore Parking Company (LPC) Board of Directors chairman under political pressure, even without including the......
GUJRAT: The local authorities in Sialkot demolished on Sunday a plaza containing offices of a housing society co-owned by former mayor of Sialkot Municipal Corporation (MC) Toheed Akhtar and a son of......
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, who is also chancellor of all public sector varsities in the province, has directed the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) vice......
KARACHI: The name of the place from where reports are emerging about demolition of 40 to 50 houses of Christians, to make way for the Malir Expressway, is said to be Gulshan-i-Maryam. No one, if......
KARACHI: The litigation involving a dispute over the ownership of the piece of land on which a shopping mall was built in 1980s after demolishing a Jewish synagogue, is pending adjudication in the......
HYDERABAD: The director general of health, Sindh, Dr Irshad Memon, has asked all the officials concerned to discourage use of government ambulance services for transporting dead bodies from hospitals......
KOLKATA: Indian cricket great Sourav Ganguly was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a second heart operation in a month, with doctors optimistic that he will make a full......
MELBOURNE: Ageless Venus Williams opened her 2021 season with a 6-1, 6-3 thrashing of Arantxa Rus, while former top 10 players Jelena Ostapenko and Caroline Garcia also scored wins as a packed week......
KARACHI: Having relinquished his Sindh Open title last week, Ahmed Baig had vowed he will rebound very quickly.For sure, he did.Ahmed stormed to victory at the DHA Karachi Cup All Pakistan Golf......
KARACHI: Spinner Asif Afridi and opener Sahibzada Farhan were the standout performers on Sunday as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa retained their Pakistan Cup title with a comprehensive seven-wicket defeat of......
Visit any Pakistani news website and then go to a foreign one. What’s the one difference you’ll definitely notice? Contrary to what the boomer drawing-room expert who exclusively relies on WhatsApp......
“Deposit Rs500,000 and we will let you know when there is a bed available,” said the man at the admissions desk at a ritzy private hospital in Clifton, Karachi. With her 76-year-old mother sick with......
Thanks to the Chinese donation, Pakistan will hopefully kick-start a Covid-19 vaccination drive this week, administering half a million doses to public healthcare workers, signalling the beginning of......
Identifying a host of risks, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects Pakistan to work on a series of areas for reform and institutional strengthening for sustainable economic growth, poverty......
GWADAR: Bullet-riddled bodies of a man and his son were recovered from the seasonal river Gorak in the Buleda road area of Kech district on Sunday.The bereaved family said that the victims were......
CHAGAI: The trade gate between Pakistan and Iran was reopened on Sunday.Taftan Tehsildar Zahoor Ahmed Baloch and Rasaldar Major Akbar Sanjrani were present during the reopening ceremony of the trade......
RAWALPINDI: A flight steward of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) reportedly went missing in Canada soon after the airline’s flight PK-798 landed in Toronto on Friday.According to sources, the......
BEIJING: Pakistan’s diplomatic efforts on the Kashmir dispute have achieved remarkable results and the entire international community, including the United Nations, has realised that if the Kashmir......
• Registration of citizens over 65 years of age to begin in two weeks • Minister says vaccination likely to start in Islamabad • Pakistan to get another 1.1m pre-booked dosesISLAMABAD: A special......
ISLAMABAD: For the fifth fortnight in a row, the government on Sunday increased the prices of all petroleum products by 2.5 per cent to 4.6pc for the next 15 days.According to an announcement by the......
NOWSHERA: Defence Minister Pervez Khan Khattak on Sunday said that opposition leaders Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari would soon be behind bars because of their corruption.Similarly, he said, JUI-F......
