An Indian climate activist has been arrested after she allegedly helped create a guide to the anti-government farmer protests that was tweeted by environmentalist Greta Thunberg.Social media......
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Gen Nadeem Raza on Sunday said that the Pakistan Navy's seventh edition of the multinational maritime exercise Aman-2021, which started on......
Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days, two officials said on Sunday, despite concerns about the risk of storms and......
Pakistan won the third and final Twenty20 international against South Africa on Sunday with four wickets remaining, emerging victorious in the three-match series by 2-1.Captain Babar Azam and opener......
Days after police in Islamabad fired tear gas on protesting government employees, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday made light of the incident, saying it was "necessary to test the tear......
The UAE's “Hope” probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said on Sunday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit.The picture “captured the......
China welcomed the return of the United States to the World Health Organisation (WHO), but hopes it will support the WHO's work with "real actions", a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the US......
Beijing plans to build 26 leisure parks in 2021 to improve the urban ecological environment, local authorities said.The newly-built parks will be located in the districts of Fengtai, Haidian and......
China will promote the use of renewable energy as one of the important sources of heating in the country's rural areas during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the National Energy......
Chughtai Lab will soon receive Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine for commercial sale, a company official said on Sunday, making Pakistan one of the first countries to market shots privately as it......
Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Sunday that Karachi was not an "ordinary city" and that it had not been given its rights despite providing......
The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday in his second impeachment trial in a year, with fellow Republicans blocking conviction over the former president’s role in the deadly assault by his......
PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday decided to begin ex parte proceedings against Prime Minister Imran Khan over a defamation lawsuit filed against him by former MPA Fauzia Bibi as no lawyer turned......
LAHORE: The city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) once again turned very unhealthy on Saturday as the US AQI highlighted a score hovering between 208 to 320.Lahore is ranked as one of the most......
ISLAMABAD: Twenty products contributed Rs365 billion (33 per cent) to the total revenue proceeds during the first seven months (July-January) of the current financial year.According to data of the......
QUETTA: Most of the political parties contesting coming Senate elections from Balochistan completed their final lists of candidates and announced their names on Saturday.The founder of the ruling......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Saturday said that its troops are holding war games in the Thar desert.The exercises codenamed ‘Jidar-ul-Hadeed’ that began on Jan 28, the ISPR said, would conclude on Feb......
ISLAMABAD: The latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday showed that 1,262 more Covid-19 cases and 58 deaths were reported across the country during 24......
RAWALPINDI: Religious scholars and representatives of five education boards of seminaries, Wafaqul Madaris, on Saturday rejected the Waqf Amlak Act 2020 and urged the government to repeal it while......
In various developed countries, the manner in which politics and society have unravelled in the last decade, suggests that certain factors that contributed to the unravelling had either been missed......
Every day in the print and electronic media there is news about the terrible physical, social and municipal governance issues of Karachi and how they affect the lives of ordinary citizens. These......
POLITICAL punditry is becoming increasingly hazardous as it is virtually impossible to keep track of developments, let alone the undercurrents and the players driving them. The best that is possible......
KARACHI: An anti-encroachment tribunal has issued notices to the federal, provincial and local government authorities on lawsuits against possible demolition of houses on the leased land during an......
Yangon: Myanmar’s junta on Saturday suspended laws constraining security forces from detaining suspects or searching private property without court approval and ordered the arrest of well-known......
MALAM JABBA: The morning test run provided the organisers a taste of what was to come.There were thrills and spills as skiers and snowboarders came speeding down the Malam Jabba slope. Thankfully,......
KARACHI: No franchise has won more titles in the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) history than Islamabad United. They made it to the final twice in the first three seasons — 2016 and 2018 — and......
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s spinners took late wickets to give them a glimmer of hope after Rahkeem Cornwall’s maiden five-wicket haul gave the West Indies a healthy 113-run first innings lead in the second......
KARACHI: The 196 per cent hike in imports of completely built-up (CBU) cars to $94 million during the first half of the current fiscal year (1HFY21) has raised doubts in the auto sector if the import......
KARACHI: Cargo handling operations remained active at Karachi port and Port Qasim during the outgoing week.A total volume of 894,017 tonnes was handled at the Karachi port in which the share of......
KARACHI: The US dollar’s weakness against international currencies and higher inflows helped the rupee stage a recovery to a three-month peak against the greenback in the interbank market, currency......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is planning to launch three industrial estates in Chitral, Ghazi (Swabi) and Bannu under its revised Industrial Policy 2020-30.Though initially......
ONCE a big allure for Lahore’s literati, Pratap Street that comes on the right side as one enters the Old Anarkali Bazaar from the Mall Road now has only a couple of old books shops left as many......
KABUL: At least 10 people were injured when a gas tanker exploded at a customs post in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said as scores of local residents tried to control a massive fire at the......
ISLAMABAD: The local producers and marketing companies of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have asked the government to remove the disparity in General Sales Tax (GST) and the petroleum levy between the......
STOCKHOLM: The head of the EU’s disease control agency has warned that the novel coronavirus could last indefinitely even as global infections slowed by nearly half in the last month and vaccine......
• Writes to SC registrar, copies dispatched to all apex court judges • Order bars him from hearing matters involving PMISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday created quite a stir when he......
QUETTA: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central parliamentary board, headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan, has withdrawn the party ticket awarded to business tycoon Abdul Qadir in Balochistan for the......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 78 candidates filed nomination papers for the coming Senate polls on Saturday, with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) partially amending the schedule to give two more......
ISLAMABAD: The three-member ministerial committee constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan to probe the leaked video showing then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly members allegedly receiving money to sell......
