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China’s COVID-19 vaccines may be ready by November
Coronavirus vaccines being made in China may be ready for use by the public by November 2020, said an official of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to Reuters.
China has four COVID-19 vaccines in the…
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6 months later, educational institutions reopen across Pakistan
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/PESHAWAR/QUETTA: Six months after the government decided to shutter schools, colleges and universities across the country owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the educational institutions on Tuesday reopened across…
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Social media slams Shehbaz Sharif for insensitive comment on Lahore motorway
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif shocked the nation on Monday night when he made a callous and insensitive remark on the floor of the National Assembly, giving credit for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the PML-N team for building the…
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PMC Poll: Overwhelming majority support making misogyny a hate crime
Positive Media Communications (PMC) conducted a poll on Twitter, asking whether Pakistan should make misogyny a hate crime and an overwhelming majority replied in the affirmative.
The poll was conducted on Twitter on September 12 by PMC…
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India reports a staggering 94,000 COVID-19 cases in single day
REUTERS: India reported over 94,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, as 1,000 people succumbed to the virus as well, showing signs that the infection is far from over in the country.
The number of deaths rose to 78,586, with 1,114 new…
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‘Major breakthrough’: Terrorist Ihsan Sanray killed in Waziristan
In a development described as a "major development" on Sunday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that terrorist commander Ihsan Ullah aka Ihsan Sanray was killed along with three accomplices in Ghariom, Shaktu in the boundary…
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Motorway rape suspect surrenders before police
LAHORE: One of the two suspects in the Lahore motorway rape case surrendered himself to police on Sunday, claiming that he was not involved in the incident.
Waqarul Hassan, whose picture went viral after Punjab Police tweeted it on…
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Hamza Shehbaz tests positive for COVID-19
LAHORE: Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shehbaz, tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, according to party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb.
In a statement, Aurangzeb said that the PML-N leader has been suffering…
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Renowned scholar Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi passes away
Famous Shia scholar Allama Dr Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi passed away on Sunday at the age of 76, according to a report on Geo News.
His body will be shifted to the Ancholi Imambargah soon, his friends further added. Naqvi passed away after…
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Global COVID-19 death toll jumps past 900,000
afp: The coronavirus continues to takes lives relentlessly ever since it spread to almost all corners of the world from China lat year, as the global death toll rose past 900,000 on Thursday.
As the fatalities climbed, US…
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Punjab govt appoints Inam Ghani new Punjab IG, transfers Shoaib Dastagir
LAHORE: In a shocking development on Tuesday, the Government of Punjab transferred former Punjab IG Shoaib Dastagir and appointed Inam Ghani in his stead, after the former allegedly got into a row with Lahore CCPO Umar Sheikh.
The…
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India posts highest COVID-19 death toll in a month
REUTERS: Reporting the lowest number of COVID-19 cases in a week, India could not clamp down on its daily deaths from the virus as the country reported more than 1,100 people succumbed from the virus on Tuesday.
The health ministry said…
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19 workers killed as Mohmand district mine collapses
As many as 19 workers were killed Monday when a marble mine collapsed in Mohmand District and injured several.
Rescue and relief operations began on Monday, carrying on till late into the night with the help of heavy searchlights.…
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Saudi Arabia for ‘fair and permanent’ solution to Palestine issue: MBS
REUTERS: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told US President Donald Trump on Monday that the Kingdom wanted a "fair and permanent" solution to the Palestine-Israel issue, a few weeks after the historic UAE-Israel normalisation…
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Pakistan to make important decision on reopening educational institutions today
ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) will decide today whether or not educational institutions across the country will be reopened from September 15.
A meeting of the provincial chief ministers, with…
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