Former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari called on Prince Charles. The Prince of Wales sends his good wishes and thanks to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan for supporting evacuation from Afghanistan, Zulfi Bukhari said in a Tweet on Friday. “I look forward to welcoming him to Pakistan … Read more
ANTANANARIVO – Madagascar’s death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai rose to 111 Friday, with most of the fatalities from a single district where it levelled homes. The national disaster management agency BNGRC said 87 people had died in Ikongo district, near the east coast of the Indian Ocean island. About 30,000 people were living in … Read more
KARACHI: The rupee gained 16 paisas against the dollar on Friday, amid demand for the foreign currency for import payments, dealers said. The exchange rate ended at Rs174.71 against the greenback from the previous day’s closing of Rs174.87 in the interbank foreign exchange market. The dealers said the rupee gained due to a fall in … Read more
BERLIN – Germany’s surge in coronavirus infections is reaching its peak, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, signalling that Europe’s biggest economy can soon ease tough curbs as the wave begins to ebb. “The scientific forecasts show that the high point of the wave is in sight,” Scholz told the upper house of parliament. “That will … Read more
QUETTA: In partnership with the provincial government, ChildLife Foundation has successfully covered every district in Balochistan through its Emergency Room and Telemedicine Satellite Centers. According to a statement issued by ChildLife Foundation, ChildLife has treated over 67,000 children in its state-of-the-art pediatric Emergency Room in Balochistan’s largest teaching hospital in Quetta. The latest life-saving equipment … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia recorded 19,090 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Thursday, bringing the total tally to 2,975,422, according to the health ministry. Among the newly reported infections were 134 new imported cases and 18,956 local transmissions, showed data released on the ministry’s website. A further 10 deaths were reported from the pandemic, bringing … Read more
LONDON – Britain’s economy grew by a record 7.5 percent last year on easing Covid curbs after a pandemic-driven collapse, official data showed Friday, but analysts warned that sky-high inflation clouds the 2022 outlook. The expansion, which was the fastest since records began in 1948, followed a record 9.4-percent slump in 2020, the Office for … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the House in the Senate Dr Shahzad Waseem Friday said a brave Muslim girl, who stood firm before a mob of Hindu far-right goons, had become a symbol of resistance against Hindu extremism in India. Speaking on the floor of the house, he said Hindu extremists had made the life for Hijab-wearing … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday paid a surprise visit to the under-construction apartments of the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme in the capital’s G-13 sector. The prime minister reviewed the progress of the ongoing project and directed its early completion. The Naya Pakistan housing programme is aimed at providing affordable residence to people. Naya … Read more
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib has said that with the efforts of Prime Minister Imran Khan, more than 40 million families will be able to get free treatment up to Rs1 million with National Health Card. الحمداللہ!فیصل آباد میں قومی صحت کارڈ سے پہلی بچی کی پیدائش سعید اللہ خان کے … Read more
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan desires to have cordial relations with all the other countries without becoming part of any camp. Read more: Foreign Office holds Kashmir Solidarity Day art exhibition Addressing the ninth Orange Festival in Taxila on Friday, FM Qureshi said that Pakistan’s relations with China had further strengthened. … Read more
SEOUL – Four workers were found dead and four others injured in a factory explosion in South Korea’s southern city of Yeosu, Yonhap news agency reported Friday. The explosion occurred at about 9:26 a.m. local time (0026 GMT) at a petrochemical factory in the port city, some 450 km south of the capital Seoul. Of … Read more
COPENHAGEN – “Borgen” is back. The Danish political drama about a charismatic woman who becomes prime minister took the world by storm and morphed into one of Scandinavia’s biggest television exports returns a decade on. On Sunday, the fourth series will air on Danish TV ahead of its much-anticipated international debut on Netflix in the spring. Viewers … Read more
The most nat-khat star of Bollywood town Kajol has taken the off-beat path and has been doing roles of serious, strong women for quite some time. The star will now be seen in a movie that is based on the true story “Salaam Venky” and has joined hands with actress Revathy for the upcoming thriller. Read more: … Read more
So it’s Friday and here we are to take you on a flashback trip to Deepika Padukone’s promotional looks for her thriller Gehraiyaan. It’s been a modus operandi for the stars nowadays to throw back-to-back promotional looks ahead of any movie release. Read more: Deepika Padukone reveals how her husband is ‘always her cheerleader’ Following … Read more
KARACHI: Anti-Human Smuggling Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday arrested a man for twice getting visa of the United States by faking to be a reporter of a private TV channel in Karachi, Bol news reported. The suspect, identified as Ejaz Cheema, a resident of Sialkot, was arrested from Karachi. The FIA … Read more
ISLAMABAD: To honour the valiant struggle of Kashmiris for their right to self-determination and to highlight the widespread human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), an art exhibition was held here at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the Kashmir Solidarity Day activities. Young artists from the National College … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin on Friday told the Senate that Pakistan would start using the Saudi Arabian oil facility on deferred payment from March 2022. Shaukat Tarin told the house during question hour that the government has tried not to pass on to the people the full burden of international increase in petroleum … Read more
Actress Ayesha Omar, who is well acclaimed as a fashion freak, shared her secret behind the flawless look she carries off all the time in the glamorous world. The Bulbulay actress took to her Instagram and unveiled that it’s always a red lippy that comes as a savior for her when running short of time. … Read more
MEXICO CITY – A journalist was shot dead Thursday in Mexico, an official said, the fifth such killing this year in a country notoriously dangerous for reporters. Heber Lopez Vazquez, who ran a news website called Noticias Web in the southern state of Oaxaca, was shot in his car, state prosecutor Arturo Calvo told the … Read more
SYDNEY – Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease. Conservationists said koala populations had crashed in much of eastern Australia over the past two decades, warning that they were now sliding towards extinction. … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday recorded 3,498 new COVID-19 cases and 39 more deaths, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Friday. The NCOC, a department leading the country’s campaign against the pandemic, said the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country has risen to 1,477,573, including 1,365,518 recoveries. The number … Read more
Pakistan’s Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari said on Friday that Hindutva fascism was growing under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime. Read more: World should raise voice against mistreatment of Indian Muslims: Ashrafi Sharing a YouTube link of a video on Twitter earlier today, in which allegedly some Hindu extremists in India were throwing … Read more
BEIJING – Zhou Jiangyong, a former senior official in east China’s Zhejiang Province, has been arrested for suspected bribe-taking, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said Friday. Zhou was formerly a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC municipal committee of … Read more
SYDNEY – The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor, Philip Lowe, said on Friday that the bank would refrain from increasing interest rates in order to maintain the nation’s record low unemployment rate. In December, Australia’s unemployment rate hit a multi-decade low of 4.2 percent. Lowe predicted that the rate could drop below 4 percent … Read more
CANBERRA – Australian men are twice as likely to be highly paid than women, a government report has found. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) on Friday published its latest data on the gender pay gap. Based on the earnings of more than 4 million employees between April 2020 and March 2021, it revealed that … Read more
WASHINGTON: Islamophobia has taken a “most lethal form” in India, turning some 250 million Indian Muslims into a “persecuted minority,” Noam Chomsky, the world renowned scholar, author and activist, has said. “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — It is taking its most lethal form in India,” Chomsky, who is also Professor … Read more
Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday claimed that Pakistan set a new record with 2.24 million Covid-19 vaccinations in a day. Read more: Asad Umar reminds public coronavirus still exists Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC), a military-run body that oversees the pandemic response, … Read more
