Dar presides over ECC meeting

Islamabad: 6th March, 2023 (Online): Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar presided over the meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet, today. Federal Minister for Power Mr. Khurram Dastgir Khan, Federal Minister for Industries and Production Syed Murtaza […]

Women still barred as Afghan universities reopen for men

Kabul, March 6 (AFP/APP): Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a “heartbreaking” ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on […]

UN targets real-time tracking of greenhouse gases

Geneva, March 6 (AFP/APP): The United Nations announced on Monday that it had taken a step towards filling a key gap in the fight against climate change, with plans for standardised, real-time tracking of global greenhouse gases. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has come up […]

Twitter suffers major outage disabling external links

San Francisco, March 6 (AFP/APP): Twitter on Monday suffered a major outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s tech support account said […]

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