A huge fire broke out on Thursday at the Port of Beirut, the site of last month’s catastrophic explosion that killed nearly 200 people and devastated parts of the capital. The new fire — nearly 40 days after the blast — triggered widespread panic among traumatized residents of the area. It wasn’t immediately clear what […]
ISLAMABAD: The number of global under-five deaths dropped to the lowest point on record in 2019 — down to 5.2 million from 12.5m in 1990, according to new mortality estimates released by the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) on Wednesday. Surveys by Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that the Covid-19 pandemic […]
In particular, men and women have found themselves battling identity issues due to the unrealistic beauty standards set by what they see on social media. Many have developed serious mental health issues, identity issues, and even body dysmorphia trying to emulate the beauty standards that are simply unattainable. We constantly see these unattainable standards of […]
At least one person died after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in Karachi’s Korangi area, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Director Dr. Seemin Jamali said. The victim was 15 years old, she added. Five injured people have been brought to the hospital so far, all of whom are stable, she said. The five-storey building was located […]
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut has been stuck in a debacle as she fiercely defends herself in front of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over illegal altercations at her Mumbai office. After the property was demolished by BMC, the Queen actor turned to Twitter to defend herself and slam the ‘fancy feminists’ and ‘Bullywood activists.’ “This […]
LAHORE: Two ‘robbers’ allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint in the Gujjarpura area on Wednesday while she was waiting for help on the motorway after her car developed a fault. The woman along with two children was traveling to Gujranwala in a car she was driving when she had to stop at the Gujjarpura section […]
Six months after the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort were closed to the public, the world heritage monuments will reopen from September 21. The two monuments have been closed since March 17—days before the nationwide lockdown was instituted to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). “It is perhaps for the first time […]
LONDON: Young British Pakistani entrepreneur and activist Suleman Raza has thanked his celebrated footballer friend David Beckham for helping him to feed thousands of National Health Service (NHS) workers during the height of Covid-19 pandemic through the One Million Meals campaign. Raja Suleman Raza, who is originally from Rawalpindi launched the One Million Meals campaign […]
According to the news agency, Malaysia’s senior defence minister announced through an official Facebook post that citizens of 23 countries, including Pakistan and the United States, will be barred from entering the country where the number of corona cases is more than 150,000. As per reports by local media, all countries that have reported more […]
An 86-year-old grandmother was allegedly raped and assaulted by a man nearly five decades younger than her in India. Police in the capital New Delhi has arrested a man in his 30s who allegedly duped the octogenarian into accompanying him before raping her. “The woman was waiting outside her home on Monday evening for the […]
