NEW DELHI: Flanked by priests, Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new Indian parliament on Sunday in a ceremony steeped in religious symbolism but boycotted by opposition parties...
The hexagonal new building — shaped like a coffin, one opposition party said — is the centrepiece of a remodelling of the heart of New Delhi by Modi aimed at ridding the Indian capital of the vestiges of British colonial rule
Greece’s Maria Sakkari plays a forehand return against Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic’s during their French Open match...
—AFP PARIS: Aryna Sabalenka won a politically-charged French Open duel against Marta Kostyuk on Sunday as jeers and boos rained down on the defeated Ukrainian who refused to shake hands with her Belarusian opponent
• Dar says negotiations possible if Imran admits mistakes, apologises to nation • Saad Rafique says no space for dialogue in present situationLAHORE: The ambiguities of government policy over talks with the PTI came into sharp focus on Sunday, with a key minister flatly ruling out the possibility of negotiations in a post-May 9 scenario while another hinting at a way out if Imran Khan apologises and repents...
Talking at the Geo News...
LIVERPOOL: Leicester were relegated from the Premier League just seven years after a spectacular title triumph as Everton prolonged their 69-year stay in the English top flight by beating Bournemouth 1-0 on Sunday...
Leeds United will also return to the Championship after three seasons in the Premier League as their relegation was confirmed by a 4-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur
RAWALPINDI: The Noor Khan Airbase authorities have asked the local police and the commissioner to “maintain and share the data” of individuals possessing weapons within a five kilometres radius of the base for the purpose of ‘record keeping’...
The request of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) came in light of aerial firing around the base, recovery of more than 450 bullets besides chemical thread, and damage to a cabin’s windscreen by stray...
KARACHI: The Sindh government will soon introduce a human rights (HR) policy, which would encompass the HR violations and resolution of the genuine cases being faced by people, including the forced conversions...
This was stated by special assistant to the chief minister on HR Surendar Valasai while speaking as chief guest at the Sindh Human Rights Commission’s Strategic Planning Workshop at a local hotel here on Saturday
Tycoons, aware of challenges and Prime Minister Shehbaz’s government’s weakness, are not hopeful...
The volatile market is desperate for positive signals
KARACHI: Dr Seemin Jamali, former executive director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), was laid to rest on Sunday...
The funeral prayers were offered in a mosque inside the JPMC and attended by a large number of people from different walks of life
Forex-starved Pakistan earned $2...
6 billion last fiscal year through exports of information and communication technology (ICT) services
• Mother fighting for life, father distraught after four kids killed in tragic accident laid to rest • Another gas explosion claims teenager’s life, injures sevenRAWALPINDI: A day after a gas leak in Shamsabad left four children dead and their mother in a critical condition at the Holy Family Hospital, another incident of similar nature claimed the life of a teenage boy and injured seven members of the family in a two-storey house in Peoples...
The national issues cropping up owing to the deadlock in the National Finance Commission (NFC) are prompting the federation to have a fresh look at its devolution policies...
It includes a shift from an exclusive focus on the vertical distribution of resources between the centre and the provinces to issues in horizontal sharing of NFC divisible pool among the provinces
HISTORIANS of South Asia have spent significant time and energy trying to understand the degree to which independence from the British actually constituted any sort of meaningful change...
Continuities can be found in various forms: the Government of India Act, 1935, is the predecessor to both the Indian and the Pakistani constitutions; the permanent and largely unaccountable spectre of a centralised civil bureaucracy still controls key...
The game of chickens in the political arena can lead to economic malaise; the United States is on the verge of it...
The deadlock between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has amplified the severity of the question, “Is the US really going towards a default? This question, even its imagination, is enough to send chills down the spine, for the aftermaths of the ‘unlikely’ US default is going to be catastrophic, not just for the...
ISLAMABAD: The recent observation by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial about efforts to drive a wedge between judges of the Supreme Court has given credence to rumours that the highest court of the country — the Supreme Court — was indeed divided...
Saturday’s proceedings of the government-appointed three-man commission of inquiry on audio leaks further strengthened the belief when Justice Qazi Faez Isa regretted that a...
No loss of life was reported after a huge fire broke out at a plastic factory in Karachi’s SITE area on Monday, rescue and police officials said...
SITE-B Station House Officer (SHO) Zawar Husain told Dawn