KATHMANDU: Two more climbers have died on Mount Everest, expedition organisers said on Friday, bringing the number of deaths on the world’s highest peak this climbing season to nine.On average,......
NEWCASTLE: Newcastle United claimed an emphatic 4-1 home victory over Brighton & Hove Albion to take a massive step towards clinching a top-four finish in the Premier League on Thursday.An own goal......
SEVILLE: Erik Lamela propelled Europa League kings Sevilla into the final once again with a 2-1 victory over Juventus on Thursday, sealing a 3-2 aggregate triumph in a gripping clash.Lamela headed......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will don the national colours once again in the Inaugural Over 40s World Cup, set to be held here in September-October, the country’s veteran cricket......
LAHORE: An all-round performance from Zimbabwe Select’s Blessing Muzarabani helped the hosts beat Pakistan Shaheens by 80-runs in the second one-day of the six-match series in Harare on Friday and......
SUKKUR: Four bandits were gunned down in an encounter with police near Bachao Bund in Ubauro, Ghotki district, late Thursday night and one bandit was killed in another shootout with police in......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party workers staged protest demonstrations in several Sindh towns on Friday, demanding election to reserved seats and swearing-in of councillors fixed for June 10 be......
• Activists say appeal to be filed against FSC’s decision • Amnesty International urges government to reject proposed amendments to Transgender ActISLAMABAD: The transgender community has disapproved......
• Number of patients may rise as weather gets warmer in coming weeks • Experts say infection spreads through contaminated water or foodKARACHI: Cases of drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid, particularly......
NEW DELHI: The prospect of fresh G7 sanctions on Russia’s diamond trade weighs heavy on India’s diamond hub of Surat, already reeling from supply cuts and falling demand. Some 90 percent of the......
ISLAMABAD: The release of Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Vice Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has been delayed due to his apparent reluctance to provide an undertaking to refrain from engaging in......
GENEVA: One billion people in 43 countries are at risk of cholera — a “pandemic killing the poor” — despite prevention and treatment being relatively straightforward, the United Nations warned on......
SYDNEY: The brush-tailed bettong — a rare, very cute marsupial resembling a rabbit-sized kangaroo — is bouncing back on the South Australian mainland, more than 100 years after disappearing from the......
DAMASCUS: As some Syrians welcomed President Bashar Al Assad’s return to the Arab League on Friday, others expressed dismay that Arab states had welcomed back a leader they blame for death and......
IN an unprecedented move, the National Assembly passed the Contempt of Majlis-i-Shoora (Parliament) Bill, 2023, on May 15. The bill will, however, need to be passed by the Senate and receive......
PAKISTAN’S polity is fractured. Politicians are not willing to unlock horns; the economy is slipping down a steep slope; and terrorist forces are resurging. Some analysts view this situation as......
ISLAMABAD: Amid inflation already rising at the highest rate in half a century at 36.4 per cent, one of the key contributory factor — the electricity costs — continue to sustain spiking trend as......
KARACHI: Share prices closed on the higher side on Friday as investors welcomed the news about the likely reduction in subsidies for the revival of the loan programme under the International Monetary......
HOUSTON: Oil prices reversed course to trade lower on Friday after reports that the debt ceiling talks between the White House and House Republicans have been paused, worrying markets of a possible......
KARACHI: Universal Network Systems Ltd (UNSL) said on Friday a fintech has bought 2.7 million shares constituting 10 per cent shareholding of the logistics firm operating under the brand name of......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) expects a broad-based decline in economic activity in the wake of dampened performance of both the agriculture sector and industrial output, with its......
ISLAMABAD: All the pre-budget meetings have been rescheduled by at least a week amid delays in compilation of key economic output data for the current year and prevailing challenging political......
KARACHI: Activists belonging to different civil society groups said on Friday the pre-conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the release of a $1.1 billion loan tranche are......
ISLAMABAD: The short-term inflation, based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), eased slightly but remained elevated at 45.72 per cent for the week ending on May 18, showed the official data released......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has struck down a law aimed at protecting transgender people’s rights, declaring that some of its provisions were against Islamic injunctions.Acting FSC......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday directed the authorities concerned to ensure that the impact of a reduction in prices of petroleum products is shifted to people in the form of......
NEW DELHI: India has tightened security for next week’s meeting of G20 tourism officials in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, which is expected to see China and Turkiye skipping the talks,......
JEDDAH: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince at a meeting of leaders who had shunned him for years, in......
• Punjab govt decides to devise own strategy to arrest ‘arsonists’; six more suspects held • PTI chief says search should be done as per LHC guidelines • Police mount vigilance around ex-PM’s......
• Sets aside ECP’s de-notification, speaker’s decision to accept resignations • Judge directs 72 lawmakers from Punjab to personally appear before speaker to withdraw resignations • PTI chief himself......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ahead of his visit to Japan for the G7 summit in Hiroshima on Friday, noted that his country wants “normal and neighbourly relations” with......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia have signed a bilateral trade agreement aimed at facilitating and reducing costs of trade between the two countries.The deal was signed during a three-day economic......
