MOSCOW: Residents in Moscow already enjoy free wireless Internet in cafes and on the metro system but now authorities in the city have also decided to bring WiFi to a more unusual setting — some of its most storied cemeteries...
Light Fidelity, known as LiFi, uses visible light from LED bulbs to transfer data much faster than radio wave-based WiFi...
KARACHI: As strange as it sounds, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon seems to think that free outdoor WiFi may be the answer to Karachi's many woes...
"The whole of Karachi will have access to free outdoor WiFi through street lights," Memon said during the inauguration ceremony of a sports complex in the city's Landhi neighbourhood...
WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama says he'd like to upgrade the White House's WiFi system for his successor, calling quality of internet connectivity as a serious issue...
Speaking during an interview with CBS on Sunday, Obama said that “there are a lot of dead spots where WiFi doesn't work...
But apart from a handful of headline-grabbing initiatives ? free wifi at the Taj Mahal, for example ? the push to connect India and drive a national fibre optic network, first approved by the last government in 2011, has made slow progress...
The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) on Monday identified 20 cities across Pakistan with potential Covid-19 hotspots using a strategy termed as 'testing, tracing and quarantining (TTQ)', according to press release issued by the centre...
Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed concern over the hasty lifting of restrictions in a letter written to the Punjab health minister, stating that Pakistan did not...
He proposed hotspots in Africa to handle asylum requests...
“The hotspots announcement was nonsense and neither Chad nor Niger were consulted beforehand,” a West African official said...
India is considering plans to seal off coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Mumbai and parts of the south while easing curbs elsewhere as a way out of a three-week lockdown that has caused deep economic distress, officials said on Wednesday...
Read: Indians respond to Modi's call, light lamps to 'challenge darkness' of corona crisis“If the lockdown has to be eased, it should be done in a graded manner in areas that are not hotspots...
The administration in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has decided to treat the entire Kashmir region as well as three districts in Jammu as red zones, or hotspots, to effectively combat coronvirus infections, it emerged on Tuesday...
In March, Pakistan had called on India to lift the communication blockade imposed in occupied Kashmir and ensure supplies of essential commodities in the valley to contain the spread of Covid-19 and...
The government, however, has plans to keep the lockdown relatively tight in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Gujrat for being hotspots of the virus in Punjab...
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday said that the government will use technology to trace coronavirus cases and identify virus hotspots throughout the country to enforce a "smart lockdown"...
Authorities have identified and sealed off nearly 1,300 coronavirus hotspots across the country on Saturday to contain the rising trajectory of new infections...
Pakistan has reported 132,405 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, including 2,551 deaths since its first case emerged on Feb 26...
"Smart lockdowns" have been put in place in Covid-19 hotspots in various localities of Karachi, according to a notification issued by the Karachi Commissioner's Office late on Wednesday night as a measure to control the spread of the coronavirus...
The Mansehra district administration on Sunday sealed all hotels in tourist hotspots Shogran, Naran and Kaghan after several Covid-19 cases were reported among staff working at different hotels...
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has approved home hospitality scheme at tourist hotspots to reduce pressure on hotels and help the local community reap the dividends of fast flourishing tourism sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
With one hotel room for every 5,500 inhabitants, Pakistan has fewer hotel rooms per capita than Egypt (1:98), Indonesia (1:65) and every other comparable country of its size...