After excluding 25 MPAs, Presiding Officer had to judge who had majority: LHC
Five-judge bench adjourns petitions against CM Hamza’s election till today | PTI counsel seeks 10-day time for election
LAHORE - A five-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Tuesday adjourned hearing of appeals against…
DC Sukkur to ensure code of conduct during hide collection
SUKKUR -Deputy Commissioner, Sukkur, Javed Ahmed on Tuesday has said the government has decided that for collection of skins/ hides the approval from the concerned deputy commissioner office. Presiding over a meeting, he said only those…
Controlling Information
Claiming that ‘false narratives’ are being propagated to the world, the Indian government blocked various Pakistani twitter accounts of embassies in several locations. This decision follows a pattern—Radio Pakistan’s account was also…
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
Lisbon - A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing. UN chief…
Shanghai Disneyland to reopen on June 30
SHANGHAI - Shanghai Disneyland will reopen on Thursday and tickets will be available for purchase starting Wednesday, according to an official announcement. “We are excited to welcome you back to a place full of happiness and wonder,” said…
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail sentence
Germany - A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.
Josef Schuetz was found…
Widow reveals Gene Kelly’s Cold War mission for JFK
Paris - He starred in one of the most iconic musical moments in film history, but his wife told AFP that Gene Kelly also had a cameo in the Cold War.
Patricia Kelly (nee Ward) was just 26 when she was sent to make a documentary about the…
NASA launches mini satellite in bid to return to the Moon
Wellington - NASA blasted a nanosatellite barely bigger than a microwave oven into outer space Tuesday, part of a landmark mission to return humans to the Moon. A rocket carrying the tiny CAPSTONE module successfully launched from New…
CII writes to PM for withdrawal of SBP’s appeal against anti-interest decision
ISLAMABAD - The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif asking to play his role in withdrawing the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)'s appeal against the decision of the…
KP cabinet approves regularisation of ad hoc teachers
Peshawar - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet approved the ‘Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Teachers (Appointment and Regularisation of Services) Bill, 2021’ to regularise the services of the teachers appointed on ad hoc basis in the province since 2017.…
Billionaire Italian eyewear mogul Del Vecchio dead at 87
MILAN - Leonardo Del Vecchio, the chairman of spectacles maker EssilorLuxottica (ESLOF) and one of Italy’s wealthiest business figures, has died aged 87, his company said on Monday.
“EssilorLuxottica sadly announces Saturday that its…
BET Awards: Stars hit out at US abortion laws at ceremony
LOS ANGELES - Janelle Monae, Jazmine Sullivan and Taraji P. Henson were among stars at this year’s BET Awards speaking out against the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion laws.
The show, founded in 2001, celebrates black music and…
Leonardo DiCaprio donates $50,000 at starstudded auction event in NY
NEW YORK - Leonardo DiCaprio was recently spotted attending a star-studded auction event Moonlight Gala at Casa Cipriani, New York. According to Page Six, the Titanic heartthrob failed to go unnoticed at a live auction this week where…
Rupee sheds 47 paisas against dollar
ISLAMABAD - Exchange rate of Pak rupee weakened by 47 paisas against the US dollar in the interbank trading on Monday and closed at Rs 207.94 against the previous day’s closing of Rs 207.47. According to the Forex Association of…
Piers Morgan reacts to claims Prince Charles accepted ‘bagfuls of cash’
LONDON - Former Good Morning Britain host and outspoken journalist Piers Morgan has reacted to the claims Prince Charles received 3 million euros in cash from a former Qatari Prime Minister, some of it in shopping bags. Commenting of…