SEVASTOPOL: At least one Ukrainian missile struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Friday, and a major cyber attack interrupted internet services on the peninsula...
Russia’s defence ministry said one serviceman was missing after the attack, revising its earlier statement that the man had been killed
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Sindh chief secretary on Friday to constitute an inquiry committee within 10 days to investigate an alleged fake appointment scandal in the Sindh Education Department (SED)...
The committee will scrutinise the entire recruitment process of the provincial education department while verifying the authenticity of appointment letters issued to 56 petitioners whose jobs were subsequently revoked by...
India’s top investigation agency confiscated on Saturday the properties of a prominent Sikh separatist and close ally of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing has sparked a diplomatic row between India and Canada...
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a lawyer believed to be based in Canada, was designated as a terrorist by Indian authorities in 2020 and is wanted on charges of terrorism and sedition
AN undated photo of Sara Sharif released by the Surrey Police in London, on Friday...
—AFP LONDON: Surrey Police on Friday released two images of 10-year-old Sara Sharif taken prior to her death with the hope that “more people will come forward with information”
KARACHI: Academic activities came to a complete halt at Karachi University (KU) on Friday amid a stand-off between the administration and teachers over a prolonged delay in payment of the evening programme’s dues...
Sources said no evening classes had been held on the campus for nine days while teachers decided to extend their boycott to the morning classes in a general body meeting of the Karachi University Teachers’ Society (Kuts) held...
TEHRAN: Iran has received thousands of Achaemenid-era clay tablets from the United States in the fifth such instalment, following a drawn-out legal effort to repatriate the antiquities, said a statement posted on the presidency’s website late on Thursday...
“After the two-year follow-up of the government
ISLAMABAD: China is reported to have agreed to a revised cost of $6...
6bn for Mainline-1 (ML-1) — the 1,872km Karachi-Peshawar railway track — and would submit a modified design plan for the project to Pakistan latest by October 31
The Islamabad High Court has fixed for hearing the post-arrest bail plea filed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the cipher case, in which he is currently incarcerated at the Attock jail, it emerged on Saturday...
The court will take up the petition on Sep 25 (Monday), and IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq will preside over the proceedings
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday allowed the federal government to increase electricity rates by Rs3...
28 per unit for all consumers across the country for six months — October 2023 to March 2024 — with additional revenue impact going beyond Rs200bn
Caretaker Commerce and Industries Minister Gohar Ejaz said on Saturday he was hopeful that the nation would receive “good news” regarding petrol prices on October 1 — the date when the government is expected to announce revised prices of petroleum products — as the rupee had strengthened in recent days...
Speaking to the media alongside Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori in Karachi, he attributed the rise in inflation to the rupee losing its...
IN March this year, shocking images of former US president Donald Trump’s arrest suddenly surfaced on the internet...
In one of the images, Donald Trump was seen darting across the street with the police on his heels, while another showed him being overpowered by law-enforcement officials
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday proposed a hike in the power tariff by Rs3...
2814 per unit for the months of October till March under quarterly adjustment
HANGZHOU: After a year’s delay due to Covid-19, the biggest Asian Games in history, boasting about 12,000 competitors — more than the Olympics — officially open in Hangzhou on Saturday with hosts China eager to lift a country mired in economic gloom and athletes hoping to lay a marker before next year’s Paris Olympics...
With athletes including world and Olympic champions competing across a whopping programme of 40 sports from athletics,...
LAHORE: Imran Khan’s PTI lost another wicket, this time a former member of the National Assembly from Punjab and party’s women wing president Munazza Hassan who joined Istehkham-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) and made the decision public at a joint presser with IPP patron and former confidant of the PTI chairman, Jahangir Khan Tareen, on Friday...
About PTI’s future, Mr Tareen said: “It will be premature to say whether the PTI will be in...
ISLAMABAD: The short-term inflation hit a new high for the third week in a row as the retail price of petroleum products soared, according to official data released on Friday...
The short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), saw a year-on-year increase of 38