On November 27, 2020, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, the eldest daughter of Pakistan’s first female prime minister Benazir Bhutto engaged Mehmood Chaudhry at the Bilawal House in Karachi. Bakhtawar’s Nikkah was held at the Bilawal House on Friday while the Barat is scheduled for today (January 30). Her wedding celebrations started on January 24 with a […]
Uk is banning direct passenger flights to and from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Friday, shutting down the world’s busiest international airline route from Dubai to London. Britain said it was adding the UAE, Burundi, and Rwanda to its coronavirus travel ban list; because of worries over the spread of a more contagious and […]
Bangladesh has started its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the capital Dhaka, with plans to administer more than 30 million doses over the next few months. The first batch of people received the first shot of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at Dhaka’s Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday.“We have vaccinated five persons with this initiative today. I’ve talked […]
Hundreds of Rohingya are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia and are believed to have been trafficked to neighboring Malaysia, according to officials and other sources. Just 112 refugees remain at the makeshift camp in Lhokseumawe on Indonesia’s northern coast this week, well down from the almost 400 that arrived between June and September […]
In the recent survey conducted on Wednesday, Gallup Pakistan revealed that the majority of the people in Pakistan refuse to get the Coronavirus Vaccine. According to the survey, 49% of the participants opted out of the vaccination, while only 39% population accepted it. As for the choice of vaccine, 31% of the participants said that […]
After days-long protests by students all over Pakistan, HEC finally allowed universities across the country to hold online examinations. Hundreds of students of various educational institutes of the city under the slogans of “Justice for the Students” had been protesting for the last two weeks against the decision to conduct on-campus examinations. A day earlier, […]
A United States federal judge has temporarily blocked an effort by Joe Biden to halt the deportations of some immigrants for a 100-day period, a decision that was immediately slammed by rights groups. US District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump in the Southern District of Texas; issued a temporary restraining […]
The Higher Education Commission has announced the date of the written test for three international scholarship programmes. As a result, all applicants can start applying. Moreover, the tests are on January 31st. In addition to the HEC”s Twitter handle, the programs are as follows: – Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme 2021 Commonwealth PhD Scholarship Programme 2021 […]
India has decided to retain its ban on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps after reviewing responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told local news channel on Tuesday. When it first imposed the ban in June, India’s ministry of electronics […]
Caravans of tractors clogged a key highway in northern India on Monday as tens of thousands of farmers protesting against agriculture reforms streamed into the capital ahead of celebrations for Republic Day. India marks its founding as a republic on Tuesday with a military parade in the historic city center, but the farmers; who are […]