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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (APP): Road traffic accidents claim nearly 1.3 million lives each year, cost some countries up to 3 per cent of their annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and are the biggest killer of five to 29-year olds globally, the UN General Assembly […]

The Knowledge Executive, a Canadian nonprofit for training youth seeks your help in compiling a deigital scrapbook to celebrate 75 years of Canada-Pakistan Friendship. We are interested in collecting pictures, paintings, posters, poems, short stories (max300 words), and short texts that depict friendship between the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 (APP):Some 284 million people between the age of 15 and 24 used drugs worldwide in 2020, a 26% increase over the previous decade, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in a new report. The report, titled World Drug […]

San Antonio, June 28 (AFP/APP):Fifty undocumented migrants died after the tractor-trailer rig they were being smuggled in was abandoned Monday outside of San Antonio, Texas. Here is what we know about the tragedy: – Who were the migrants? – Officials at the scene intially put […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 (APP):: Some 284 million people between the age of 15 and 24 used drugs worldwide in 2020, a 26% increase over the previous decade, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in a new report. The report, titled World […]

ISLAMABAD, JUNE 28 (ONLINE): Studies on coffee consumption variously claim that coffee harms the arteries, that it protects the heart, or that it has no effect on cardiovascular health. New research on thousands of participants weighs in again on the link between this favorite beverage […]

Akhtar Jan, Afghanistan, June 26 (AFP/APP): Village life has always been tough for Afghans in the rugged mountains of the east, but compared to what they are enduring today it was paradise. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled through the area last Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 […]

ISLAMABAD, June 26 (Online): People with rare diseases frequently wait years for a proper diagnosis, have to travel long distances for specialty care and face high out-of-pocket health care expenses, a recent Oregon State University study found. This combination of challenges in accessing appropriate medical […]

ISLAMABAD, June 23 (Online): Just when most Americans have tucked away their stash of masks, some parts of the country are requiring that they have them at the ready once again. For instance, in early June, Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay area reinstated […]

ISLAMABAD, 22 Jun (Online): The experts at a seminar on Wednesday called for redesigning of energy sector immediately and shift to solar and wind power at household level so as to save the foreign reserves of the country which were now depleting to an alarming […]