The asteroid is estimated to be about 900 metres in diameter and was discovered 20 years ago...
Astronomers are hoping to get a better understanding of the asteroid’s size and a rough idea of its composition by studying light reflecting off its surface...
ISLAMABAD: A two-day Islamabad Civic Hackathon — an event organised by Code for Pakistan (CfP) and OPEN Islamabad — concluded Sunday with participants working constantly to develop mobile/web applications and digital tools which address civic and social issues...
The participants were encouraged to develop solutions around five themes: education, health, social change, sustainable city, and poverty and development...
It is not just cross-border involvement but also the activities of banned outfits at home that raises questions about how much control the state really has within its own domain...
Then there is also the question of whether or not we are really serious about getting rid of all violent non-state actors that have become a pervasive challenge to state authority...
KOLKATA: An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert...
An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan...
“Language depends on a code that is available to and reproduced by all, but the price of that is its flattening into clichés...
One thing that defines the situation of a refugee is an absence of choices, and a lack of agency...
INDIA’S Junior Minister for Finance Jayant Sinha was not exaggerating when he tweeted last week: “History is written today as Rajya Sabha passes Bankruptcy Bill!”In a parliament that is boisterous and where many lawmakers are experts at stonewalling the legislative agenda, it was nothing short of a miracle for the government to have got both houses to pass the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, which replaces or amends nearly a dozen laws...
The feminine experience is a funny thing; it involves dodging, spluttering and plowing through to persevere in the circumstances best afforded to it...
The privilege that patriarchy enjoys in Pakistan has seen a very diminished form of the true potential that the female franchise maintains...
KARACHI: Sindh Election Commissioner Yusuf Khattak has said that there is no ban on display of banners and posters if they are made according to the size allowed in the code of conduct...
Mr Khattak stated this when a delegation comprising representatives of some political parties called on him here on Thursday to inform him of their reservations against removal of posters and banners displayed by political parties to muster support...
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) prepares to give a rousing welcome to ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on their arrival in Lahore on Friday, the party supremo has pledged that he will liberate Pakistan from “those who are running a state above the state”...
PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif, on Wednesday, spent a busy day meeting workers in various areas of Lahore and mobilising them...
KARACHI: Four people were reportedly booked on Wednesday for violating copyright and intellectual property laws after allegations of plagiarising source code for a financial information startup surfaced...
The entrepreneurs behind Investor's Lounge, Baqar Abbas Jafri, Sennen D’Souza, Hammad Ali Hashmi and Waqar Ehsan, have been accused by their former employer ? Mir Muhammad Ali Khan of AMZ MAK Capital Ltd ? of stealing firm’s source...
KARACHI: Dispelling the impression that Islamabad is Pakistan’s costliest city, Karachi has emerged as the most expensive metropolis in the country while Lahore is the least expensive...
According to State Bank’s Inflation Monitor, June 2016, inflation in Karachi – once known as a poor man’s city – has been at its highest level during the year, leaving the capital city of Islamabad way behind...
AWAY from television screens and crystal balls of analysts, there is a slow-moving change under way in Pakistan that may impact civil-military relations more than the person to be appointed as the next COAS...
The lever between the two is the logic of the state itself, and it seems to be evolving...
PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's stance that there was a "state above the state" in Pakistan has been proven true through the Karachi incident"...
She was referring to her husband Mohammad Safdar's arrest in Karachi early Monday morning — just hours after the Pakistan Democratic Movement's (PDM) successful rally — which brought Sindh's law enforcement agency and security...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman for violation of the code of conduct ahead of by-elections in PK-8 (Peshawar)...
After receiving reports about the two party chiefs’ visit to the constituency, warnings were issued reminding them of blatant violation of the code of conduct...
ISLAMABAD: Under a strict code of conduct introduced on Tuesday, all the serving and retired senior officers of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) have been barred not only from politics but also befriending any stakeholder...
The SECP Policy Board approved the code of conduct for the employees that was put it into effect immediately...