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 […]
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif informed the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday that it was not possible for him to return to Pakistan and surrender, a private TV channel reported. The PML-N supremo informed the court of his inability to return through a review petition against the IHC’s order that had directed him to surrender […]
ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court on Wednesday has indicted former president Asif Ali Zardari and ex-Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani in Toshakhana reference. The accountability court during the proceedings has declared Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) founder and former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as proclaimed offender over his continuous absence from the court. The […]
NEW YORK: Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey was accused in a civil lawsuit on Wednesday of sexual assault and battery in the 1980s by actor Anthony Rapp and a second, unnamed person when both plaintiffs were about 14. The suit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, refers to the same alleged incident that Rapp first […]
PESHAWAR – A transgender person was killed and another injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital, police confirmed on Wednesday. The deceased transgender activist has been identified as Gul Panra along with a friend came under attack in Peshawar’s Palosi neighborhood yesterday night. According to the FIR, a group of […]
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 […]
A 13-year-old boy in Glendale, Utah, was shot several times by police officers after his mother called 911 for help with his mental health crisis. Linden Cameron, who has Asperger’s, a form of autism, is now in a serious condition in hospital, his mother said. Golda Barton said she had believed police attending on Friday […]
Investors in ByteDance have got used to being caught between superpowers. They were still taken aback on 28 August, when an update to China’s export-licensing regime blocked the sale of the hot Chinese technology firm’s prize asset – the American arm of TikTok, a short-video app to American firms and investors. A Chinese riposte to […]
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 […]
