Yousuf Raza Gilani (Former Prime Minister); called on a delegation of MQM at Parliament Lodges in Islamabad on Saturday to ask for their support in the upcoming Senate chairman election. Although the Pakistan Democratic Movement has yet to announce a candidate for Senate chairman and deputy chairman; Gilani will likely stand for the chairman post […]
The Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Thursday that the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 6 has delayed; with immediate effect after seven participants in the tournament-tested positive for Covid-19. According to the PCB, the decision had taken out of consideration for the health and wellbeing of all participants in the tournament. “Following a meeting with the […]
National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that family reunification is a “moral imperative” of the Biden government. Migrant families separated at the border during the previous Donald Trump administration, could be reunited within the United States, said this Monday, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas said the DHS, will offer separated families the option […]
Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday on the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the U.N. human rights office said. Police were out in force early and opened fire in different parts of the biggest city of Yangon after stun […]
Petroleum Price: The prices are revised every 15 days, but they will remain unchanged from March 1 to March 15, the Petroleum Division said. On Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan rejected the summary on increase in petroleum prices submitted by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. According to the Ogra summary sent to the Petroleum […]
Tehran: Iran received 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday that have been donated by the government of China. “This act and those similar to it by the government and nation of China are admirable and will of course remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of the Food […]
India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google, and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payments network, local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network; that would rival the system operated by […]
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 school girls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week. Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told the local news agency that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight […]
A saleswoman was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Hapur when she was returning from work in Ghaziabad to her residence in neighboring Gautam Buddha Nagar late on Wednesday, police said. The Hapur police have registered an FIR against three unidentified men under Section 376D of the IPC. As per reports, the woman had initially […]
The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled Shamima Begum, a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after fleeing to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), should not be allowed to return to the country to challenge the decision, because she poses a security risk. Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and traveled […]
