US watchdog warns of risks buying crypto asset securities
NEW YORK: The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday issued an investor alert warning that firms offering crypto asset securities may not be complying with U...
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ArchiveChina’s super rich population drops as tech crackdown, global factors hurt wealth
SHANGHAI: More than 400 people lost their billionaire status last year, most from China, as global monetary tightening, Covid-19 disruptions and Beijing’s crackdown on major tech companies hurt the super wealthy, a ranking of the world’s wealthiest showed...
China lost 229 billionaires from the Hurun Global Rich List 2023, accounting for more than half of the 445 people who disappeared from the list, which ranks moguls with a minimum net... -
ArchiveHealth ministry vows to eradicate TB by 2030
ISLAMABAD: While over 400,000 tuberculosis (TB) related cases are detected across the country on a yearly basis, the health ministry has vowed to end the disease in Pakistan by 2030...
In his message on World TB Day which is observed on the 24th of every March, the health minister said that a campaign led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been started to raise awareness about one of the most devastating infectious diseases still... -
ArchiveTrump gave ‘false expectation’ of arrest, says prosecutor
NEW YORK: Donald Trump created a “false expectation” of his imminent arrest, the New York prosecutor investigating the ex-president over hush money said on Thursday, as tensions build over a possible indictment...
The comments come amid uncertainty over when a grand jury hearing the case will take a vote on charging Trump, a historic move that would inflame the 2024 election campaign in which the 76-year-old Republican is running to... -
ArchiveDriven by green goods, global trade hits record $32tr
ISLAMABAD: Global trade was worth a record $32 trillion in 2022, but amid deteriorating economic conditions and rising uncertainties, growth turned negative in the second half of the year and is set to stagnate in the first half of 2023...
The silver lining was the strong performance of trade in “green goods”, whose growth held strong throughout the year, says UNCTAD’s latest Global Trade Update, published on Thursday -
ArchiveOnly 12 Pakistani universities make it to QS World subject rankings
LAHORE: Only 12 public and private universities from Pakistan have made it to the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World subject rankings for 2023...
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 cover a total of 54 disciplines, grouped into five broad subject areas -
ArchiveHope for elephant Noor Jehan still alive as KMC allows foreign vets to visit Karachi Zoo
Noor Jehan, a 17-year-old African elephant living in a barren enclosure at the Karachi Zoo, has been suffering for the past few weeks...
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ArchiveUS working to get several Americans out of Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: The United States is working to assist 44 Americans who want to leave Afghanistan and several others detained by Taliban authorities, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday...
Blinken was speaking before Congress where lawmakers from the rival Republican Party went on the offensive over the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan and demanded the release of an internal dissent cable at the State Department -
ArchiveFlour distribution stampedes kill one, injure several in Charsadda, Kohat
CHARSADDA/KOHAT/LAKKI MARWAT: A man was killed and several people injured during free flour distribution stampedes in Charsadda and Kohat districts on Thursday...
Also, a man died of critical injuries he suffered after the boundary wall of a flour mill in Bannu district collapsed on him -
ArchiveCovid positivity jumps as 168 cases surface in a day
• Highest level seen since Sept 2022 • Officials urge citizens not to panic; ask them to avoid crowds, wear masks in publicISLAMABAD: The national positivity rate of Covid-19 has exceeded three per cent in the past 24 hours with around 168 new cases, the highest number since Sept 2022, according to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data...
The positivity rate in two major cities, Karachi and Islamabad, has surpassed 5... -
ArchiveDoctor in Karachi slapped with Rs250,000 fine for risking patient’s life
KARACHI: A consumer court has imposed a fine of Rs250,000 on a doctor for selling a diet plan to a patient that adversely affected her health...
Judicial Magistrate Fahmida Sahoowal of the Consumer Protection Court (East) pronounced her judgement reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides -
ArchiveAny attempt to arrest Putin would be declaration of war, says ally
MOSCOW: Any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday...
The ICC issued an arrest warrant on Friday, accusing Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine -
PakistanPTI activist Azhar Mashwani has been shifted to Islamabad: Fawad
PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday that Azhar Mashwani, who the party alleged was “abducted” in Lahore a day earlier, had been shifted to Islamabad...
The PTI social media activist was picked up on Thursday, apparently on charges of criticising the Punjab police and the caretaker government for allegedly using high-handed tactics against party workers -
ArchiveIMF wants to be kept out of ‘election politics’
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday sent a strong signal to Pakistan to keep the Fund away from its domestic politics and reminded the government that the decision to hold or not hold elections “rests solely with Pakistan’s institutions”...
Earlier this week, the IMF also dismissed claims that the global lender wanted Pakistan to review its nuclear program to qualify for the renewal of... -
PakistanIslamabad ATC grants bail to Amjad Niazi, 63 other PTI workers in Judicial Complex violence case
An Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday granted bails to PTI chairman Imran Khan’s aide, Amjad Khan Niazi, and 63 other party workers in a case pertaining to violence outside the Federal Judicial Complex on March 18 when the former prime minister had appeared there for a court hearing...
ATC judge Raja Jawad Abbasi accepted the PTI leaders’ request and instructed them to submit surety bonds worth Rs50,000
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