LONDON: A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, London police said on Friday...
Detective Superintendent Fiona McCormack said experts had now concluded the fire, the mostly deadly blaze in London since World War Two, had started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, model FF175BP, which had not been...
DADRI: A forensic test has revealed that the family of Dadri lynching victim Muhammad Akhlaq had been storing mutton in their fridge and not beef as suggested by a mob which had last week beaten the man and his son on the pretext of their family's rumoured consumption of beef, Times of India reported...
Akhlaq's 18-year-old daughter Sajida had earlier said the family kept "mutton in the fridge", not beef...
The survey did illustrate how ownership of mobile phones is now widespread in rural areas, with 68pc of households owning at least one device...
But only 11pc of households had a fridge and that figure slumped to around 3pc in the third largest state of Bihar and in Chattisgarh, which is one of the focuses of an insurgency by Maoist rebels...
No one is allowed to go door to door to collect hides...
Published in Dawn September 23rd, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
QUETTA: A door-to-door campaign to enrol every child of school-going age will be launched soon, Balochistan Education Minister Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal said on Wednesday at a press conference...
The Sindh government's door-to-door Covid-19 testing facility for Karachi's District South was temporarily suspended last week after more than 25 field staff tested positive for the novel coronavirus, it emerged on Sunday...
CAPE TOWN: Around 80 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, double the current rate, although government help is needed to reach far-flung areas, industry body group GSMA said on Wednesday...
The growth of mobile data — an even more powerful economic tool than simple voice services — also hinges on authorities allocating sufficient spectrum, said...
Being the trend-chaser that it is, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) compromised on its on-again off-again ban on birth control adverts in the form of spluttering consideration that they be aired after prime time...
Read next: CII — Pushing Pakistan back to the cavesApparently, the fact that consenting men and women can make informed choices about what they do with their bodies is taboo enough if it urges...
—ReutersPublished in Dawn, October 27th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
KABUL: Abdul Qader shuffles into the office of Afghanistan’s attorney general a broken man — his son was slaughtered “like a sheep” and no one has been brought to justice...
The 75-year-old is one of many ordinary Afghans who feel let down by the country’s judicial system — where convictions are hard to secure due to endemic corruption, inefficiency and a lack of resources
MADRID: For the first time this season someone other than Novak Djokovic will claim a Masters event as the Serb misses out in Madrid after winning in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo...
Djokovic also claimed the opening Grand Slam of the season in Australia, but has opted for extra rest to aid his bid to land a first French Open title in June
Speaking ahead of their closed-door talks, Erdogan, a close ally of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, remarked to Putin on the absence of EU leaders from the Games in Baku...
Published in Dawn, June 14th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
In an apparent move to improve the current state of matters in the hockey structure, the new team management has dropped 13 players on fitness grounds...
The players were attending national camp at Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium in the federal capital, ahead of the Hockey Asia Cup which will be held in Bangladesh this October
LAHORE: Former President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is trying to establish backdoor contacts with the Pakistan People’s Party...
He added that now the PML-N was solely claiming credit for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)...
LAHORE: The move to purge the medical fraternity of the ‘disgruntled’ segment began on Friday when 47 Young Doctors Association (YDA) activists - 11 post-graduate (PG) trainee doctors and 36 house officers – were shown the door...