Author: News Desk
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his new U.S. immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking ‘green cards’ for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans seeking to regain jobs ...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres or RSF) on Tuesday released the 2020 World Press Freedom index, indicating that Pakistan has slid down another three places to reach 145th position out of 180 countries. The ...
Bilal bin Saqib, a Pakistani student studying in London, has made it to the Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” list. A recent graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE) in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ...
While Mumbai’s cases skyrocketed, Kerala – a relatively prosperous state on the southern tip of the subcontinent – started to “flatten the curve” What is the Kerala model? The first three confirmed patients in Kerala ...
New research has shown that the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic is now very likely before 2050 even if the carbon emissions driving the climate crisis are considerably reduced. These results are ...
Violence against women is prevalent in Afghanistan and with the lockdown in place, the threat domestic abuse is very real. Psychologists who work with women who are victims of domestic abuse are concerned for their ...
Bavaria has cancelled the 210 year old Oktoberfest in order to curb the spread of the pandemic. Bavaria’s leaders have cancelled the world’s biggest beer festival due to fears that it could become a “breeding ...
Recently, an Indian YouTube channel is under fire for posting songs composed by Pakistani artists without purchasing the rights to do so. Over the years, songs by Pakistani musicians such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, ...
“Artaghrul Ghazi,” the Urdu version of the Turkish television series “Dirilis: Ertugrul” will air on PTV in Ramadan upon the request of the Prime Minister Imran Khan. Imran Khan has previously recommended the drama ...
Milan has designed a road scheme to give more space for cycling and walking in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Ever since the lockdown in Italy has been imposed, the traffic congestion has reduced by ...
“It does make you wonder what the pandemic infection and death rate would look like with more women leaders,” said Abigail Post, an assistant professor of national security and political science at Anderson University in ...
Sweden’s northernmost town got built up around the world’s largest underground iron ore mine — which now threatens to destroy it. From more than 100 years of excavating, ever deeper and wider, cracks are reaching ...
The small Chilean beach enclave of Zapallar has turned to high-tech drones to deliver medications, masks and hand sanitizer to its elderly in remote areas as the coronavirus continues its advance across the largely rural ...
Faisal Edhi, son of world-famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, has tested positive for the coronavirus, it emerged on Tuesday. As reported by Dawn, Faisal started suffering from symptoms last ...
Mexico’s president chastised drug gangs on Monday, telling them to end violence instead of distributing food, after several reports across the country in recent days showed armed narcos handing out care packages stamped with cartel logos. ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gravely-ill after undergoing heart surgery, it has been claimed. CNN reported that the 36 year-old leader’s condition is being monitored by US intelligence officials, who were reportedly told that ...
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus On Twitter, he cited “the attack from the invisible enemy”, as he ...
The Jammu and Kashmir police have booked a Kashmiri photojournalist under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for posting what they have called “anti-national” content on social media. A statement issued by the police ...
In the worst act of mass murder in Canada’s history, a man disguised as a police officer went on a rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, killing 16 people in their homes and ...
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whilst standing two metres apart from each other. This week, Israel has begun to relax its lockdown but protesters still observed social distancing in light of ...
Global Citizen has announced that the One World: Together at Home concert co-organised by WHO and Lady Gaga has raised $127 million in relief funds for Covid-19. The six hour long digital event featured performances ...
According to research, high levels of air pollution are one of the main reasons behind deaths from Covid-19. The study analysed the trend of coronavirus deaths in 66 countries including the ones which have been ...
As the lockdown in China relaxes, construction of a $1.7 billion stadium has begun. The stadium is to be constructed by Guangzhou Evergrande which is a Chinese professional soccer club. The lotus flower design With ...
Due to climate change and the excessive use of pesticides on farmland, the population of bees has drastically fallen worldwide. Alternative methods of pollination are being sought in order to replace the bees. Mechanical pollination ...
Filled with rage over the governor of Michigan’s orders for lockdown, Trump supporters have taken to the streets to protest social distancing. In places like Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, supporters of Trump, anti-vaccine advocates, gun ...
With many people ignoring preventative measures against Covid-19, celebrities Armeena Khan and Shaniera Akram called out violators of the lockdown on Twitter. Shaniera Khan took to Twitter after observing many people violating social distancing and ...
According to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, nearly 400 Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boat two months ago have been rescued at sea. For now, the refugees including men, women and children, have been taken ...
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has refused to forcefully take a vaccine for the new coronavirus. “Personally I am opposed to vaccination and I wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine ...
Scientists in Belgium have discovered that antibodies in the blood of camels, llamas and alpacas might be useful in fighting the coronavirus. The Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology, where the study is taking place explained that ...
In a major breakthrough, intelligence agencies and local police have arrested a police officer who was working for the Indian agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). As per sources, the police officer had been facilitating ...
Former finance minister Dr Hafeez Pasha commented on the current economic crisis under Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s government and said that the government elected after 2023 General Elections would inherit a worse economy than the one ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an order allowing online marriages, as many weddings are cancelled under lockdown restrictions. From now on, people in the US state will be able to apply for marriage ...
A cancer hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut has published an advertisement in the Dainik Jagran newspaper that it will no longer accept new Muslim patients unless the patient and a caretaker come with negative test results for ...
Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates said medical workers treating COVID-19 patients are exempt from fasting during Ramadan and urged Muslims not to congregate for prayers during the holy month expected to start this ...
Indian intelligence agencies used money and disinformation to influence politicians in Canada into supporting its interests overseas, reported Canadian publication Global News. The report, based on federal court proceedings and a highly sensitive government document obtained ...
More than 100,000 people defied Bangladesh’s lockdown order on Saturday to attend the funeral of a senior leader of the Islamist party in the district of Brahmanbaria, authorities said. The funeral for Maulana Zubayer Ahmad ...
For many Muslims, the month of Ramadan is a time of togetherness and spiritual solidarity and for British Muslims, the pandemic will not change that. On March 16, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) suspended ...
Influencers have taken a hit due to the coronavirus pandemic. With deals drying up and sponsorships for posts being delayed, influencers are dreading the financial toll the virus will take on their careers. The glamorous ...
For her 94th birthday, the Queen has decided to keep celebrations on the down low in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen will not be celebrating her birthday as usual this year with royal ...
A shortage of supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants might result in shortages of beer and soda which are considered essentials for many American households. Ethanol has experienced a significant drop in production due ...
Germany has received 47 unaccompanied refugee children flying in from Greece’s overcrowded refugee camps. Germany previously took in a group of 12 which arrived in Luxembourg on Wednesday and the second group arrived on Saturday. ...
The Prime Minister has ordered a crackdown against the hoarding and smuggling of essential items during the pandemic. Prices of consumer items have surged as a result of panic-buying and hoarding. “Strict action should be ...
Spain had enforced the strictest lockdown in all of Europe restricting children from playing outside their homes. Parents grow more and more concerned about the toll the lockdown is taking on the mental health of ...
The Montreux Jazz Festival which was scheduled to take place in July in Switzerland has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The two-week festival along the Lake Geneva attracts a crowd of 250,000 people. ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is allowing some beaches in northern Florida to reopen, The Associated Press reported on Friday, even though the state has continued to see an increase in coronavirus cases. As of Friday, Florida ...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has made all bus travel free and told passengers to only board by the middle doors in a bid to protect bus drivers, after 20 of them died from the coronavirus. ...
In the D.I Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a hunting party conducted the massacre of hundreds of sparrows. The hunting party was led by a Muhammad Sajid who justified the killings by saying that they ...
According to a group of paranormal enthusiasts on Reddit, astral projection could be the vehicle we need to go out in the lockdown. Reddit’s /R/AstralArmy is a focal point for the psychically curious to embark on out-of-body ...
Researchers are hopeful about the test drug remdesivir after it has been used to treat monkeys in a trial run. Covid-19 infected monkeys were able to recover from the virus after being treated with the ...
In China, citizen journalists have been some of the most reliable real time sources of information about the outbreak and the efforts to contain it. Chen Quishi, a 34-year-old former lawyer, caught the last train into Wuhan ...
A senior Saudi royal and granddaughter of the country’s founding monarch has revealed she is being held in prison and demanded that the current ruler and her cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, release her and ...
Even though the country has banned pornography entirely, it continues to be one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child abuse content. But latest data has revealed an even more disturbing trend, especially as the nation has ...
The World Health Organization issued a warning Friday about coronavirus testing, saying there’s no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected. “These antibody ...
Police conducted raids on Thursday to arrest three men nominated in a rape case by a woman in Kokianwala area. The woman told police that she was asked to collect ration from a room in ...
American immunologist and physician Dr Fauci has declared the handshake dead in light of the coronavirus pandemic. However, there are plenty of alternatives out there! Raise your eyebrows and flash a smile In Somoa, anthropologists ...
A group of Bangladeshi scientists have developed a Covid-19 testing kit that can detect the virus in just 15 minutes. The tests, which cost $3.25 to produce, are allegedly able to test any positive case. ...
While coronavirus closures are coaxing wildlife into the abandoned streets of many a metropolis, in one Israeli city the wild pigs are assertive and, well, quite boorish. Reuters reports wild boars, some as bulky as ...
The new Facebook update has added a new “care” reaction to the existing six reactions as a means to show appreciation for loved ones. When can I “care” react? The new emoticon, to be ...
A total of 3,265 dead bodies were brought to 30 graveyards of Karachi between February 20 and April 9 (49 days), official statistics from the city’s top administrative body revealed on Thursday. The development comes after reports ...
Only half of urban and rural Pakistanis are aware of the fact that diabetics, smokers and asthmatics are at a higher risk of falling severely ill from Covid-19, says a study recently carried out by the Aga ...
Many governments around the world have tapped into new data in smartphones that will allow them to track the spread of the virus. This tactic also allows governments to track whether social distancing measures are ...
The illicit practice of usury has trapped a middle-income family in Rawalpindi with a loan shark demanding a man give his daughter in marriage to pay off his debt. The case has landed in court ...
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, there has been a 96% decrease in the number of passengers travelling by air but this has not halted domestic flights in the United States. The lack of demand ...
A robotic delivery service in Milton Keynes could prove to be the future of locked-down Britain, as miniature autonomous vehicles bring food deliveries to almost 200,000 residents of the town. Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery startup created ...
According to Google, scammers are sending 18 million scam emails to Gmail accounts daily. The coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in phishing attacks in which hackers trick users into revealing personal data. Phishing ...
Iran paraded medical gear instead of weapons on Friday in light of National Army Day to salute military efforts in combating the coronavirus pandemic. “Defenders of the Homeland, Helpers of Health” The small “Defenders of ...
With more people than ever using zoom to work from home, users are finding new ways to spice up endless remote meetings and group hangs by looping videos of themselves looking engaged, adding wacky backgrounds, and now, ...
China defends 50% revision of Covid-19 death toll in Wuhan. China’s foreign ministry has been defending the state’s approach after Wuhan’s prevention and control taskforce revised the death toll in the Chinese city upwards by 50% – from ...
Hundreds of opponents of Michigan’s social distancing measures rallied in their cars in the state capital on Wednesday, snarling traffic and even blocking a hospital entrance in a protest against an executive order intended to halt the spread ...
An elderly man allegedly set himself on fire and died after some local residents labelled him a coronavirus patient in Ghaziabad area, the police said on Thursday. Identified as Hanif Ahmad, 68, the deceased was ...
Just 300 light years away, an earth-like exoplanet has been discovered by NASA. Receiving about 75 per cent of the Sun’s light, this planet might have a temperature quite similar to that of Earth. These ...
Married as a child and wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years over the murder of her husband, Rani Bibi is now free and fighting for compensation in a test case for thousands of other false ...
An applicant had filed a plea with the Sindh High Court to overrule the government’s ban on congregational prayers. The ban was put into place in view of social distancing – to curb the spread ...
A rare zonkey has been spotted in Kenya with its mother. A “zonkey” is a cross between a zebra and a donkey. A wildlife charity called Sheldrick Wildlife Trust reported that the mother zebra had ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern along with ministers in her government and public service chief executives will take a 20 per cent pay cut for the next six months in order to ...
With performance halls closed due to the outbreak of Covid-19, musicians in Iran turn to their rooftops as their platform. These musicians start impromptu concerts on their rooftops. Instruments such as the qanun, the bass ...
On March 19, 28 year old doctor Muhammad Masood was arrested in the United States by the FBI on terrorism charges. The arrest took place when he was about to board a Southwest Airlines flight to Los Angeles, ...
In an impassioned Instagram story, Hania Amir blasts her followers for posting pre-pandemic throwbacks saying in part, “I choose quarantine.” The actor posted a video early this morning telling her followers to stop tagging her ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has stated that the government will be taking all the necessary steps in order to control the spread of the virus. Khan also made it clear that he was aware of ...
Scientists exploring the deep sea off Australia’s coast have discovered as many as 30 new marine species – and what may be the longest animal ever seen. The discoveries were the result of expeditions into Western Australia’s ...
The former vice-chancellor of the University of Health Sciences has claimed that the current outbreak of coronavirus can prove to be even more dangerous from April 26 to May 10 as the virus has been ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to give a one-year relief to Islamabad, keepin in view the country’s struggle against the coronavirus pandemic. The foreign ...
Poland will reopen parks and forests on Monday and then revise the rules on the number of customers allowed in shops, as the country starts to loosen its coronavirus lockdown, State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin ...
Apple is releasing a new iPhone that will be vastly cheaper than the models it rolled out last fall when the economy was booming and the pandemic had yet to force people to rethink their ...
A hospital in Ahmedabad has been placing its coronavirus patients in different wards on the basis of their religious identity, claiming it was based on a decision made by the Gujarat government, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. At ...
A 26 year old woman was killed in Karachi when police opened fire on a crowd late on Tuesday night. The firing took place in Karachi’s PIB colony where community service members were distributing rations ...
Even as Covid-19 has brought the protests in Hong Kong to a near standstill, the struggle continues over the future of this city. Hong Kong’s judicial system is particularly under threat from the Beijing Communist ...
Schools in Denmark have started reopening, after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus. The Nordic country is the first in Europe to start opening up nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools after they were closed on 12 ...
China concealed crucial information about the novel coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world and so should answer for its deceit, the former head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service said on Wednesday. U.S. ...
Austin Independent School District (ISD) has deployed 110 school buses now equipped with WiFi to neighborhoods and apartment complexes where the district identified the highest need for internet access. Starting on Monday, the district “strategically positions” the buses, which ...
While iPhone users can still unlock their phones by entering their six-digit passcode, that process is less convenient. Hence, people usually prefer using the Face ID. However, unlocking iPhone with Face ID during coronavirus times ...
Ulema from various schools of thought held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday to declare that the lockdown will no longer be implemented at mosques. Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rahman said that Tarawih prayers and Itikaf will continue ...
The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The study comes as more than 2,200 people ...
A zoo director in northern Germany has admitted that some animals might soon have to be fed to others, if the zoo is to survive. “We’ve listed the animals we’ll have to slaughter first,” Neumünster ...
The U.S. will suspend funding to the World Health Organization while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, saying the international health agency made mistakes that “caused so much death” ...
An 18 year old’s story of sexual assault at the hands of an influential lawyer in China has lit a new fire in the #MeToo Movement in China. The successful businessman was granted guardianship of ...
As social distancing is implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus, music students in Gaza City have now switched to online classes. While some students feel that online instruction brings its own set of ...
According to an embassy official, special flights from Dubai are to bring stranded Pakistani prisoners home. The flight was scheduled to fly from Dubai to Faisalabad and Peshawar today. These flights will bring back Pakistanis ...
A active cigar-shaped asteroid is due to enter our solar system since its last visit in 2017. This dark, reddish interstellar was named ‘Oumuamua’ after the Hawaiian word for messenger and it had scientists scratching ...
Since Colombia imposed a lockdown in light of the coronavirus, many residents have become unemployed. This has created many financial problems for Columbians who must wait out the lockdown scheduled to continue till at least ...
In the ongoing National Coordination Committee meeting, PM Imran Khan has announced the extension of lockdown by two weeks. Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that the National Coordination Committee has decided to start operations ...
In an attempt to rid himself of cabin fever, a man from the United Kingdom dressed up as a bush to sneak out during the coronavirus lockdown. Despite being under strict lockdown rules, a couple caught ...
NSO Group was implicated in the hacking and spying of activists in Mexico. Although the company strongly denies it, it’s alleged to have helped the Saudi government in its brutal operation to kill and behead Washington Post journalist ...
Astronomers have discovered the brightest supernova ever observed, which blasted out at least twice as much light as the next biggest star explosion on record. First spotted on February 22, 2016 by the Pan-STARRS observatory ...
China dismissed on Monday allegations leveled by African and U.S. diplomats that foreigners of African appearance in the city of Guangzhou were being subjected to forceful testing for coronavirus, quarantine and ill treatment. “We do ...
The Islamabad High Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed against the 20% reduction in private schools fees and referred the matter back to the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PIERA). During these pressing times, ...
Brazil likely has 12 times more cases of the new coronavirus than are being officially reported by the government, with too little testing and long waits to confirm the results, according to a study released ...
Many smartphone makers are now hoping that sales in China can cushion declines in overseas markets in coming months. Sources report Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shipped roughly 2.5 million iPhones in China in March, a slight ...
Millions of people around the world are wishing for something they took for granted before the coronavirus pandemic changed life as we know it. For Cheryl Norton, that something is a hug from her daughter. Norton’s daughter, ...
South Korea reported on Monday that at least 116 people who were believed to have recovered from the novel coronavirus have tested positive for the virus again, according to Reuters. South Korea said last week that ...
In the spirit of Easter Sunday, Rio decided to pay homage to doctors and medical professionals working on the front lines against the coronavirus. The Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking all of Rio was lit ...
Earlier on Sunday, Sethi found himself cornered in a feud with a troll on Twitter. In a heated exchange of tweets, matters quickly escalated. When a user commented on the originality of the songs that ...
Inside the Kepuh village in Indonesia, local authorities have unleashed “ghosts” onto the streets in order to scare people into staying indoors. The modus operandi of the ghosts is to jump out at unsuspecting passersby ...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered the federal government to remove SAPM on Health, Zafar Mirza from his post. A five-member bench of the apex court, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Gulzar Ahmed, ...
Modi and the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment for some time, but the current wave of Islamophobia began after authorities pinpointed the Tablighi Jamaat meeting in early March as ...
New Yorkers may have flattened the curve of coronavirus by observing a lockdown and complying with social distancing orders — but they shouldn’t expect a return to their normal life any time soon. Gov. Andrew ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday appealed for a “global initiative on debt relief” to deal with worldwide recession and help developing countries overcome disastrous impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a televised message, ...
The recent cross-border collaboration between local singers Ali Sethi and Farida Khanum and Indian songstress Rekha Bhardwaj is a proof that in the times of corona, everyone can stand united. Sethi had shared a snippet ...
Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Babar Iftikhar on Monday morning said that a two-year old boy, identified as Muhammad Haseeb, embraced martyrdom as Indian troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations along the Line ...
A Pakistan Army aircraft crashed while on a routine operational training mission near Gujrat, ISPR said on Monday. Both pilots, Major Umer (instructor pilot), a resident of Gujarat, and Lieutenant Faizan (student pilot) resident of ...
Nearly 45 years after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s brutal assassination, the man known as the founder of the nation, Bangladesh executed one of his killers, Abdul Majed. Abdul Majed, a former military captain, publicly declared his ...
Several of the Thailand’s hospitals are sharing photos of newborns being outfitted in tiny face shields to protect them from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The photos, taken in the maternity ward, ...
Famous whistleblower Edward Snowden has a dire warning for everyone grappling with the coronavirus pandemic: don’t let authoritarians exploit the crisis to claim more power. Snowden told Vice that he sees the rise of emergency laws, increased surveillance, and other ...
China is trying to ban people from playing the hugely popular Nintendo Switch game ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ because protesters are using the game to criticize President Xi Jinping and the government of Hong Kong. ...
As Italy struggles to pull its economy through the coronavirus crisis, the Mafia is gaining local support by distributing free food to poor families in quarantine who have run out of cash, authorities have warned. In recent ...
There are more than one hundred Pakistanis among the 8,000 people who have died of the coronavirus in the New York region, officials said. The week ending on Friday has been the deadliest so far ...
A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in eastern Congo, just three days before the country expected to declare an end to the outbreak, the World Health Organization said Friday. The new ...
Apple and Google announced Fridayan unprecedented collaboration to leverage smartphone technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus. The collaboration will open up their mobile operating systems to allow for the creation of advanced “contact-tracing” ...
A mob of men violently attacked a police woman in Karachi at the Jamia Masjid Haqqani in Orangi Town when she went to arrest citizens who were violating the rules of the lockdown. Sindh’s police ...
Particles carrying the coronavirus can remain in the air longer than previously thought, according to researchers. Scientists in Finland have released a 3D model showing how coronavirus is transported through extremely small airborne aerosol particles when a ...
Being a taxi driver these days is a high-risk job. But on top of their regular work, along with 195 Pakistanis in Barcelona, Sheraz Syed provides free rides to healthcare staff in the city. The initiative started ...
China on Thursday reiterated its willingness to continue supporting Pakistan in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, as life in the birthplace of coronavirus began to return to normal with most departments, including transport, becoming functional ...
Frustrated, in despair and in agony over watching their families suffer weeks’ long starvation during the lockdown, three labourers of Khairpur, committed suicide. The three persons, including a daily wager, a factory worker and a ...
The latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic, now puts the confirmed global total of cases at 1,502,618. On Tuesday 8th April, we passed 100 days ...
Dozens of members of the ruling Saudi royal family, as many as 150, have been infected with coronavirus in recent weeks, a news report said. Saudi Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – ...
The Aga Khan University has launched a new mobile application, ‘CoronaCheck’, enabling people to safely evaluate coronavirus symptoms with an in-home screening tool of the application. The application also provides guidelines for people to look ...
A coronavirus vaccine could be ready as early as six months, leading Oxford University researchers behind a major trial in the UK say. The researchers at the prestigious varsity are confident they can roll out a jab for ...
The hole is the biggest one scientists have ever discovered above the Arctic and is certainly the result of man-made chemicals leaching into the upper atmosphere. The hole isn’t expected to get bigger: It will ...
The Christian community of Lahore has taken the decision to not hold any Good Friday events tomorrow, on April 10. The decision was taken based on the government’s orders for citizens to take precautionary measures ...
Bangladesh has reported 218 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 20 deaths till date, but the disease can take a significant toll on the densely populated nation if proper measures are not enforced. 300 Pakistani students ...
Digital service provider Jazz has pledged PKR 1.2 billion support towards coronavirus relief, a statement from the company said on Wednesday. The support will include short to mid-term initiatives aimed to limit the negative impact ...
17-year-old high school student, Avi Schiffmann has created the world’s biggest coronavirus tracker. The website provides information on the constantly changing numbers of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries caused by the coronavirus across the world. Schiffmann is a ...
The ad on Own Shop, a dark web market, claims the vendor has been infected by coronavirus and is now selling their blood and saliva, which in theory could be immune to the virus and ...
Ukrainian officials have sought calm after forest fires in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident, led to a rise in radiation levels. Firefighters said they had managed to put out ...
Donald Trump hunted for a new scapegoat on Tuesday in an increasingly frantic attempt to shift blame for thousands of American deaths from the coronavirus, accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of having “called it wrong” ...
British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan has announced food for 10,000 Pakistani families amid the coronavirus lockdown. The former world champion took to Instagram sharing his photo and wrote, “I’m giving out food Tomorrow to the ...
A Romanian maternity unit was being investigated on Tuesday after 10 newborns tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with the suspicion they contracted the virus from healthcare staff. “The mothers tested negative, but the babies ...
A minor girl was found dead in Punjab’s Kasur district on Tuesday, allegedly killed by her father over maltreatment by his wife. District Police Officer (DPO) Kasur Zahid Nawaz Marwat said that the police received ...
A growing group of politicians, artists and athletes are returning to their medical roots to assist the health care system which is overstrained due to the ever increasing demand brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Note from ProperGaanda’s editorial team: This article contains updates on the Coronavirus situation in Pakistan which some readers might find distressing or triggering. We urge you to treat your mental health, and that of your loved ...
To curb the spread of fake news through its platform, WhatsApp has added a new feature that will allow users to share frequently forwarded messages to only one chat at a time. Frequently forwarded messages are indicated with a ...
In a recent report published by Vice News outlet, Chinese residents told the news outlet that in China almost everyone believes USA is responsible for the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Army sergeant Maatje Benassi was among ...
At least a dozen 5G phone towers have been set on fire in the U.K. in recent days, apparently by groups who believe the next-generation cell phone technology has caused or exacerbated the spread of ...
The second laboratory test report of a resident of Hussainabad — who died on April 3 as coronavirus patient — from a known private laboratory turned out to be negative for the virus. It perhaps ...
Outfitters has joined the many fashion designers who are using their resources to help out medical professionals during the pandemic of coronavirus. The brand is also working on protective suits for all those healthcare workers ...
Nineteen more relatives of two coronavirus patients tested positive in Gujar Khan after their test reports were released on Monday The new cases were close relatives of two Pakistanis who had returned from the UK ...
The coronavirus pandemic has left humanity utterly helpless. Not only are we helpless to stop the spread of the disease, we are also unable to console our loved ones in their last moments. The pandemic ...
Punjab government has directed private schools in the province to give 20 per cent concession in school fee in addition to collecting the fees of the following two months separately. Furthermore, no employee shall lose ...
Put make-up on. Avoid nagging. Speak in a squeaky cartoon cat voice. These are just some of the steps that women in Malaysia have been asked to follow by the government in order to make ...
A 15-year-old Christian transgender, identified as Musa, was gang-raped and murdered by the ‘local thugs’ in Faisalabad on Saturday. Activist Shaan Taseer posted a photo on Facebook, wherein he demanded Minister for Human Rights Shireen ...
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the US or a tiger anywhere, federal officials ...
Amir Khan is under fire from UK and international tabloids after he made a bizarre claim on his Instagram stories last night pushing a conspiracy theory on coronavirus. Khan took to his personal Instagram to ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. He was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” ...
The Ministry of Planning has estimated that 12.3 million to 18.5 million people in the country will lose their jobs and the economy will sustain Rs2 trillion to Rs2.5 trillion losses in just three months ...
Low testing rates in Pakistan, India and Indonesia risk leaving the authorities blindfolded about the extent of coronavirus transmission in their countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday. The tree Asian countries, which together hold about 25% global ...
Internet usage in Pakistan has increased by 15 per cent as the country adjusts to life under lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. The increase has been observed due to increased online activities by educational institutions and businesses and, ...
Google honoured Pakistani squash icon Hashim Khan by customising his very own doodle where he can be seen hitting every shot on the squash court, at various stages of his life. Who was Hashim Khan? ...
K-pop star Kim Jaejoong has apologised for posting on Instagram that he was in hospital having contracted Covid-19, admitting it was an April fool’s joke. The singer told fans he had caught the virus after ...
A man committed suicide by self-immolation in front of PM Secretariat as a protest against injustice by Murree Police. Police said that the victim, Faisal Aziz, was a resident of Dewal Sharif in Murree. He arrived at ...
Videos have emerged on social media showing sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt giving their fired captain a rousing sendoff as he left the ship. Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of duty for ...
News channel Samaa TV is facing backlash on social media for allegedly practicing racism in its coverage of the coronavirus crisis. In one of its news bulletins, the channel referred to the Sindh government as “sayeen ...
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may spread through the air in tiny particles that infected people exhale during normal breathing and speech. Until now, experts have said that the virus, called SARS-CoV-2, doesn’t spread through the air ...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday gave a nod to turning three- and four-star hotels into ‘quarantine centres’ where the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has planned to keep coronavirus patients. Last month the ...
San Antonio, Texas A man photographs a mural of American rapper Cardi B that has been updated by the artist Colton Valentine to include a face mask on Monday, March 30, 2020. Mumbai, India A ...
A woman in Belgium has died after she refused being put on a ventilator, telling doctors to save it for younger patients. Suzanne Hoylaerts was first taken to her doctor for loss of appetite and ...
Hospitals are scrambling to sterilize and reuse N95 masks, deploying high-tech methods like ultraviolet light and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. But the father of the modern N95 mask thinks a much simpler technique could work: heating ...
Saudi Arabia has imposed a 24-hour curfew in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, extending measures to combat the novel coronavirus, while other Gulf Arab states locked down districts with large migrant worker ...
As the number of coronavirus patients keeps rising, a hope to cope with the challenge emerged here on Thursday when the first person who was reported positive on Feb 26 in the country and recovered ...
Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Major (retd) Azam Suleman Khan has advised police to initially use punishments like making citizens walk back home instead of arresting them for violating Section 144, to sensitise them regarding social distancing, a well-placed source ...
The Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and consumption of cat and dog meat amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. The move comes ...
The total number of global coronavirus cases have crossed 1 million and the number is rising at a rapid rate with thousands of new cases emerging from around the world. The death toll has also crossed 51,000 ...
On Thursday, the Sindh High Court overturned the murder conviction of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the man who was found guilty for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The court ...
It’s hard to image the icy Antarctic as a lush rainforest, but that’s what it was almost 90 million years ago, a time when dinosaurs freely roamed the earth. The discovery was made based on ...
Business giant Engro has announced it would be pledging Rs1billion to the prime minister’s relief fund for coronavirus. “Mr Hussain Dawood, today, on behalf of Engro, Dawood Hercules and his family pledged a contribution in ...
India has begun converting 20,000 railway carriages into isolation wards to deal with an expected surge in coronavirus cases. Each of the carriages will be converted into medical facilities containing 16 beds each, meaning a ...
Doctors across Pakistan and all over the world are on the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic. While a lot of them are working tirelessly in hospitals – isolating themselves from their families and risking their ...
Spain’s death toll from coronavirus has now reached 8,102. The country confirmed the world’s largest daily death increase today after a further 950 people died after testing positive for Covid-19. There are currently 110,238 confirmed ...
The watchdog for higher education has taken note of the complaints about poor quality of online university courses in the country and is ensuring corrective measures. On Wednesday, HEC said it moved on multiple complaints ...
When you think about comfort food, Covid-19 themed cookies and burgers are the last things that come to mind. But a few chefs are turning to humour to help cope with the scale of what ...
In a significant development in the war against coronavirus pandemic, the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has claimed to have developed a coronavirus vaccine prototype. The institute’s director, Shmuel Shapira, informed this to the ...
The vaccines, made by Oxford University and US company Inovio Pharmaceutical, have been cleared for animal testing by the World Health Organization. Australia’s national science agency will assess if the vaccines work, and if they ...
Kharian Cantonment police on Wednesday booked a doctor and two others for alleged murder of a young woman working as a maid in their house, after the report of her Covid-19 test was found to ...
The heads of three global agencies, FAO,WHO &WTO warned on Wednesday of a potential worldwide food shortage if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Many governments around the world have put their ...
Professor Mohammad Saeed Quraishy, the Vice Chancellor of Dow University of Health Sciences is leading a team of researchers in Pakistan, which think the novel coronavirus responsible for local transmission is not genetically the same ...
The global death toll from coronavirus has continued to climb, worsening on Wednesday as it hits 882,068, with 44,136 deaths. António Guterres , the United Nations Secretary has said the outbreak that has infected hundreds ...
The ongoing pandemic has made many things clear, one of which is the stark disparity in how Covid-19 is impacting the poor as compared to those of means-especially those belonging to the coveted one percent. ...
Popular video-conferencing Zoom is leaking personal information of at least thousands of users, including their email address and photo, and giving strangers the ability to attempt to start a video call with them through Zoom. ...
Thousands of migrant workers in India have been sprayed with a bleach disinfectant after they returned home during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Video captured by a reporter in the northern city of Bareilly shows migrants ...
Facebook and Twitter have taken action on a video from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, removing it for infringing on their misinformation policies. The video, as reported by BBC News Brasil, showed Bolsonaro talking to a street ...
A recent report from the CDC from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that Coronavirus RNA was found on the Diamond Princess ship 17 days after the passengers had vacated the premises-the ...
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