BOSTON: President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies...
Obama signed an executive order on sick leave during a flight on Air Force One to Boston, where he spoke at a union event...
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday described the gunman behind the Las Vegas mass shooting as a “sick,” “demented” individual...
“He was a sick man...
ISLAMABAD: The government is set to allow another bailout package worth Rs13 billion to the embattled national flag carrier, and will allocate around Rs230bn for the procurement of more than seven million tonnes of wheat during the current season...
Sources told Dawn that a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet being called this week will also approve special honoraria for officers working on Sustainable...
Visitors demanded that like other government health facilities in the province, free parking facility should be offered at the hospital...
When contacted, Medical Superintendent (MS) THQ hospital Dr Mohammad Shahid said that the contract was awarded by district health authorities after bidding and the hospital administration has nothing to do with it...
MUNICH: Fed-up with the grind of taking a bus or bike to work every day on congested streets in Munich, Benjamin David started swimming there instead...
The burly beer garden worker now packs his laptop and clothes into a waterproof bag which he puts on his back, dons his wetsuit and slides into the River Isar for his journey
IN the mid-70s the song Dekha na tha, kabhi hum ne ye saman became an all-time hit on the Pakistan Television...
This song turned out to be a trend-setter for popularising the pop music in Pakistan...
The officials said owing to unavailability of any pedigree details of these sick lions the experts could not determine any particular reason for their condition...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance on Wednesday supported the proposal by the textile sector to restructure bank loans of sick units to help their revival...
Members of the textile sector informed the committee that the revival of sick units will earn $1 billion in foreign exchange and create five million jobs...
She said that people had no access to basic amenities including potable water, electricity and even health facilities...
The year has also been marked by allegations of clerical sex abuse, stories of wild Vatican parties, accusations of charity money being spent on a cardinal's apartment and rumours appearing to originate within the Church of the pope's ill health...
It was originally aimed at easing India's overburdened public health system, whose basic medical services are provided free of charge...
"We were very surprised by the fact that what we had developed for India, people all over the world were actually looking for," the 37-year-old said of the device called the swasthya (health) slate...
The service was in addition to other facilities airlines were offering to their passengers, he said adding this was in accordance with the National Aviation Policy 2015...
On the bridge of the F-22P frigate PNS Zulfiquar, Pakistan Navy officers are trying to make contact with it but to no avail; the boat chooses to ignore the signals...
More excitement follows as the Chinese Harbin Z-9 helicopter, part of the Pakistan Navy’s Air Arm, demonstrates several landings and take-offs from PNS Zulfiquar...
HUM TV’s latest drama Mol was the subject of intense speculation before even a single scene was shot...
In the heady days after the phenomenal success of Humsafar, rumours surfaced that this might be the serial to reunite the nation’s favourite jodi, Fawad Khan-Mahira Khan, with the added buzz of everyone’s favourite, Sanam Baloch, in its cast
CHITTAGONG: An explosion at a chemical fertiliser factory left at least 200 people needing medical treatment after toxic gas spread across large parts of Bangladesh’s second city Chittagong, officials said on Tuesday...
Police and fire officials said hundreds of residents were also evacuated from their homes near the di-ammonia phosphate (DAP) plant in the port city where a 500-tonne capacity ammonia tank exploded late on Monday