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New York, Oct 12 (AFP/APP):As Native Americans this week celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day — the holiday increasingly recognized in the United States in lieu of “Columbus Day” — members of the continent’s hundreds of tribes shared a common concern: the ongoing extinction of their ancestral […]

ISLAMABAD, Oct 10 (Online): A significant headway has been made during the investigation into phone taping and video leaks as two persons have been arrested by the intelligence agencies. Among the two arrested persons one belongs to an educational institution in Rawalpindi and second hails […]

Las Tejerías, Venezuela, Oct 10 (AFP/APP): Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 25. Another 13 people were killed in heavy rains elsewhere in […]

ISLAMABAD, OCT 08 (Online): Special Judicial Magistrate has issued nonbailable arrest warrants of interior minister Rana Sana Ullah at the request of anti corruption department Punjab. According to Anti corruption establishment Punjab spokesperson nonbailable arrest warrants were issued against Rana Sana Ullah for not appearing […]

Stockholm, Oct 4 (AFP/APP):A trio of physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication. Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and […]

Paris, Oct 4 (AFP/APP): The United States will impose “further costs” on Iran for its lethal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden announced, drawing accusations of “hypocrisy” from Iran on Tuesday. Amini, 22, was pronounced dead on September […]

Lucknow, India, Oct 2 (AFP/APP): A tractor pulling a trolley packed with religious pilgrims in India overturned and plunged into a pond, killing 26 and seriously injuring 16, officials said Sunday. The trailer was carrying around 50 people, mostly women and children, when the incident […]

Washington, Sept 30 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States and NATO will not be intimidated by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and warned that the Western alliance would defend “every inch” of its territory. “America and its allies are not going to […]

Kabul, Sept 30 (AFP/APP):A suicide bomber attacked an education centre in the Afghan capital on Friday where hundreds of students were preparing for university exams, killing at least 20 people, most of them young women. The bombing happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of western Kabul, […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (APP): The UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan, Julian Herneis, on Friday said all-out efforts were being made to tackle the post flood situation in 84 affected districts of Pakistan. He said the international community was responding in the difficult […]