BEIJING: Three planes of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying a consignment of one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine left China for Pakistan on Sunday. Amidst a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases in the country. According to PIA Country Manager for China Qadir Bux Sangi, an additional two million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will […]
KARACHI: Like the textile sector, Covid-19 proved to be a blessing in disguise for Pakistan’s technology exports, given that IT exports soared 58% during March 2021 against the corresponding period of last year. Information technology (IT) exports touched $213 million last month, stated a report from Arif Habib Limited. Moreover, technology products worth $1.512 billion […]
BEIJING: “Pakistan is rich in buffalo breeds, buffalo research, and buffalo milk production. To leverage its advantages and enhance Pakistan-China cooperation in this field, we hope to set up a dairy processing plant in Pakistan,” Chen Yiyi, President of Royal Group, told China-Pakistan Agricultural and Industrial Cooperation Information Platform (CPAIC) after completing a week-long visit […]
Allies of Alexei Navalny have called on his supporters to stage mass protests on Wednesday in towns and cities all across Russia, amid a dire warning that the jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader is now dangerously ill and could die “at any minute”. Navalny said in a post on his official Instagram account on […]
Shuttered for over a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Greek universities are now grappling with a surge in online exam cheating giving rise to a new reality: the “corona degree”. Both professors and students candidly admit that examination safeguards are practically impossible to enforce in a remote-learning environment with hundreds of participants simultaneously online. “In jest, […]
CHICAGO: Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shooting and killing the 13-year-old Latino boy in an alley two weeks ago. Demonstrators chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and “No justice, no peace!” […]
Pakistan has garnered the dubious honor of having the fourth weakest passport in the world behind only war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, according to the Henley Passport Index. The index assesses the travel documents based on how many countries citizens can access without a visa, as well as, using information from the International Air Transport […]
Egyptian authorities have seized the Ever Given cargo ship that was lodged in the Suez Canal for several days last month, ordering the ship’s owner to pay $900 million in compensation. CNN reports; that Egyptian authorities have ordered Ever Given’s owner, Japanese chartering company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, to foot the hefty bill for losses inflicted […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday it’s “time to end” America’s longest war with the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Where they have spent two decades in a bloody, largely fruitless battle against the Taliban. Dubbed the “forever war,” the US military onslaught in Afghanistan began in response to September 11, 2001. Terrorist attacks against […]
BROOKLYN CENTER: The police chief of a Minneapolis suburb where a young Black man was shot to death by police during a traffic stop; sparking two nights of civil unrest, said on Monday the officer in question apparently drew her gun instead of her Taser by mistake when she opened fire. Judging from an initial […]
