.At only 15, Gitanjali Rao has been selected from a field of more than 5,000 US nominees as TIME’s first-ever Kid of the Year. Rao’s astonishing work includes using technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying, with her mission to create a global community of young innovators to […]
The Global Terrorism Index [GTI] 2020 ranks Pakistan as 7th in the world on a list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019. According to the IEP annual report, Afghanistan remained the worst-affected country by terrorism, while Pakistan is ranked seventh. Seven of the top-10 affected nations come from the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that any bureaucrat who was caught involved in corruption will be suspended from service rather than being transferred to another post. The premier said the Pakistan Citizen Portal was a major step on the journey to people’s empowerment, as the state and the government were duty-bound to […]
Pakistan, like many other countries around the world, is experiencing its second wave of Covid-19 infections. The number of new cases recorded on November 24, 2020, was 3009 as compared to August 31, 2020, when the number of new reported cases was 313. With these statistics, it is incumbent upon public health experts to provide […]
Ahad Raza Mir and Sajal Aly have made it official — high-profile, designer photoshoot official, we mean. The couple, who tied the knot earlier this year, looked nothing less than royalty in what is their first photo shoot as husband and wife. An entire army of fans, drooling over their chemistry both on and off-screen, […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday proposed a 10 point agenda for urgent action to avert an economic collapse in a number of developing countries due to the Covid-19, warning that without economic security, conflicts and disputes would persist and proliferate across the world. The prime minister joined nearly 100 world leaders at a two-day […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Thursday added China’s top chipmaker, SMIC, and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, drawing condemnation from Beijing as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office. The Department of Defense designated a total of four additional companies as owned or controlled by the Chinese military, including […]
What is addiction? According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine: Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social, and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. […]
TikTok is becoming the most trending social network in the world. Celebrities and famous people all over the world have been joining this medium and the youngest Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, is the newest addition to the list. 🚨🚨 This #GivingTuesday, ask @Malala anything! How? 1. Hop over to our TikTok: https://t.co/jKqKTiaF5X 2. Make a […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday approved the Civil Servants (E&D) Rules-2020 under the government’s policy of institutional reforms to improve the performance of bureaucracy and state institutions. According to a senior official of the Prime Minister Office (PMO); the aim of these rules is to ensure transparent and effective internal accountability of bureaucrats […]
