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The George Floyd murder occurred when Derek Chauvin, a white policeman suffocated him with a knee on his neck for approximately nine minutes. Despite protests by Floyd that he couldn’t breathe, Chauvin refused to take ...
As the world’s second-largest economy is slowly reopening, so are the smog-churning factories of the industrialized nation. From the new data released by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), it can ...
Prominent leaders of the music industry have shown their support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement and stated that they will pause business for a day, to show solidarity and support against George Floyd’s murder. Music executives ...
Huma Khan, sister of Uzma Khan who was also allegedly attacked alongside her sister has released a statement to the Lahore Court. She has stated, on oath: “I understand my welfare and upcoming future. No ...
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officers, alongside police officials have surrounded PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s house in Lahore after he missed the third hearing in a row with NAB. This hearing was regarding money laundering and ...
On Monday, a sessions court granted pre-arrest bail to two daughters and one relative of property tycoon, Malik Riaz, in actor Uzma Khan’s house storming and harassment case. Daughters of Malik Riaz, Amber Malik and ...
Militiamen warring against Islamic State in Najaf, Iraq are burying coronavirus victims, following the Muslim and Christian burial rituals. Paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim, who previously treated fellow Shi’ite Muslim militiamen fighting the Islamic State, claimed, “ ...
The Punjab Government has officially permitted the opening of all markets, bazaars and businesses five days a week with longer working hours. The decision comes despite recent reports from Punjab’s primary and secondary health department ...
Sally Challen’s landmark case has put a spotlight on the fight against domestic abuse in Britain, as well as the changing laws in the country, reports the New York Times. A British woman who was ...
In recent news, a 17 year old boy named Jibran Khan was brutally murdered in Quetta at the hands of man named Hubair Khan Kakar. Sources suggest that Hubair was drugged and drunk when he ...
Karachi Civil Hospital was attacked by a mob of 70 people on Friday night who were chanting slogans ‘There is no corona’. They claimed that the virus doesn’t exists and it’s only a conspiracy hatched ...
A Pashtun man was lynched to death along with three others sustaining severe injuries in Hazara Town area of Quetta. They were attacked by an enraged mob comprising 300 men over a monetary dispute. The ...
A young man named Jibran was killed in Quetta near the Askari Petrol Pump on the airport road. He was stabbed in the throat and was taken to the hospital but due to a lot ...
More than 900 children under the age of 10 have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Most of them are from poor families where social distancing is impossible at home, ...
The number of coronavirus cases Pakistan is currently reporting each day is more than Italy and Spain – the countries affected the most by the fatal virus after United States. According to Pakistan’s health authorities, ...
Waqar Younis, the former coach and captain of Pakistan’s cricket team, has clarified that his official Twitter account was hacked when a porn video was liked from his account. pic.twitter.com/cl8iZFykVC — Waqar Younis (@waqyounis99) May ...
Malik Riaz’s daughter Pashmina Malik who was named in the FIR in Uzma Khan case has allegedly left Pakistan. The actor’s legal counsel took to twitter to inform about this. Malik Riaz’s daughter named in FIR ...
Model and actress Uzma Khan accused business tycoon Malik Riaz’s daughters of forcibly barging into her house with twelve armed men and violently attacking her. She has submitted a preliminary application to the police for ...
A herd of customers in a grocery store were infuriated to see a woman shopping without a face mask; they yelled at her until she walked off with her cart full of groceries. The heated ...
Farvardin Daliri built a laughing 750kg sculpture, to bring his community joy. “It’s a work of love,” he told Guardian Australia. An Australian man has used his time in quarantine to create a 750kg sculpture ...
While coronavirus leads to layoffs and cutoffs in the textile industry, workers protest for higher wages at factory supplying global fashion brands. Last week Karachi, Sindh’s police allegedly opened fire on hundreds of unarmed workers ...
Video giant attributes automatic deletion of criticisms to an error in its systems. Upon receiving censorship complaints, YouTube is investigating the automatic deletion of comments criticising the Chinese Communist party. The company claimed that the ...
Almost 11 TV stations aired an identical propaganda piece written and produced by Amazon’s PR team. Local news stations across the U.S. aired the same segments that praise Amazon’s role in reaching necessary groceries and ...
The Jawani Phir Nahi Aani actress Uzma Khan took to social media to share how she has beenharassed and threatened in the past few days. Her statement is in response to a video that has been doing rounds ...
Sheikh Rasheed, Federal Minister for Railways, likened the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javaid Bajwa’s qualities to that of former president Gen Zia-ul-Haq. During an interview with journalists Ajmal Jami and Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami ...
Farjad Hussain, a young activist working against the illegal occupation of lands, was killed on 25th May in Nalter valley of Gilgit-Baltistan. Farjad used to run the famous food joint “Mamtu De Hunza” in Lahore. ...
On Tuesday night, unidentified gunmen opened fire on two policemen in Islamabad’s Chowrangi No. 26 area of Turnol. The policemen were respectively identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Mohsin Zafar and Head Constable Sajjad, whose funeral ...
On Monday, Denmark re-opened its borders to couples separated from their partners during the COVID-19 lockdown.Cross-border couples residing within the Nordic countries or Germany are now free to visit Denmark. What are the rules? Current ...
A recent tweet by US President Donald Trump has been tagged with a fact-check label for the first time. As US President Trump tweeted: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything ...
On Tuesday, Edhi Foundation’s Head Faisal Edhi said that families of 19 plane crash victims had “forcefully” taken away bodies from an Edhi mortuary, without awaiting DNA testing of the corpses. During media correspondence, he ...
The recent image could be the only existential evidence of a planet’s birth in interstellar space, according to study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. AB Aurigae – a star found some 520 light years from ...
Hackers release the first public jailbreak for Apple’s iOS operating system that they claim works on all iOS devices. A hacker who worked on the jailbreak mentions that it works by capitalizing on a vulnerability ...
Even if greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were reduced, rates of climate change in the Earth’s sea could be seven times higher than current degrees by the second half of this century, says new research. Varied ...
Masoom Ali, a Police constable, shot teenager Sami-ur-Rehman on his chest, as he resisted the rape attempt in Kasur, Punjab on Sunday. On Monday, the local police hastened to arrest their colleague constable Masoom Ali ...
In response to member states lifting restrictions too soon, the World Health Organization’s emergency head, Dr. Mike Ryan predicted an “immediate second peak.” He also said, “ we cannot make assumptions that just because the ...
A cafe in Daejeon, South Korea has hired a robot barista responsible for recording and serving orders to implement the South Korean government’s distancing protocols. As customers lean in to grab their drinks from the ...
Tensions between China and the United States stir as Beijing is compelled to account for its alleged inaction against the novel coronavirus pandemic. Whilst supporting the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) war against the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
India has once again claimed to have taken into custody a “Pakistani spy pigeon” who allegedly had a ring carrying a phone number, reports The Express Tribune. Quoting NDTV’s report, the pigeon was logged as ...
On Monday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Zafar Mirza, warned that ‘strict lockdowns’ could be reimposed across the country as the number of coronavirus cases showed an upward trend; he also ...
A storm took over Muslim Twitter this week after a user cancelled a fundraiser for a Shia woman who was shot dead on Sunday afternoon. The woman, nineteen-year-old Aya Ismail Hachem, was killed when she ...
Prints for Pandemic Relief is an online fundraiser that aims to sell art to fight COVID-19 in Pakistan. This new initiative is inspired by New York’s Pictures for Elmhusrt. View this post on Instagram SHOP ...
Provincial Minister for Punjab School Education Murad Raas ordered M.D Punjab textbook board to ban the mathematics book series from Sunrise Publications. He says it has offensive and irreligious content mentioned in it. A Mathematics ...
In a recent interview, analyst Orya Maqbool Jaan claimed that in a dream Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) recommended General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s name as Pakistan’s army chief, reports Naya Daur. The analyst said that a professor ...
China recorded no new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland for May 22, the first time it had seen no daily rise in the number of cases since the pandemic began in the central city ...
One of the two survivors of the PIA plane crash has described his escape from the burning plane after it came down during a second attempt at a landing. “All I could see around was smoke and ...
As health authorities conducted the highest number of coronavirus tests in a single day, they anticipate a 15-20 per cent rise in daily cases over the next week across the country due to lifting of ...
A Pakistan Internatonal Airlines (PIA) aircraft has crashed in a residential area near the Karachi Airport, Geo News reported. The crash was confirmed by the PIA spokesperson Abdul Sattar and he added that the flight, A-320, was ...
A video of a cleric getting his head and beard shaved has gone viral on social media. The video shows people in a neighbourhood in Lahore shaving the head and beard of a local cleric. ...
Amina remains one of the youngest survivors of a terror attack targeting Kabul’s maternity ward last week. As gunmen opened fire on maternity wards, there were 24 fatalities in the attack, 16 of whom were ...
Run-down funeral home owners find it difficult to digest that the coronavirus outbreak has led to a “horrific” increase in demand for their services. Reuters investigated 18 funeral houses across Mexico’s capital city. Their findings ...
The German automobile giant, Volkswagen has rescinded their Golf car ad from social media and apologised for it’s the racism undertones. Following the advertisement’s withdrawal from their official Instagram page, the car giant assured that ...
Human Rights groups embrace official amnesty but demand the ease of abortion laws and an end to life imprisonment. Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, granted a personal amnesty for the release of 50 women jailed for ...
A €100 ticket scoops ‘incredible’ 1921 still life oil painting by Spanish master, reports The Guardian. Claudia Borgogno summed up her amazement in one word: incredible An accountant by profession, her son bought her a ...
The eastern Indian city of Kolkata has been devastated by a powerful cyclone which has killed at least 84 people across India and Bangladesh, reports BBC. Coronavirus restrictions have been hampering emergency and relief efforts. ...
Climate change, is a dilemma too real and too scary but still largely ignored, especially in our part of the world. In 2019, all everyone seemed to talk about was the impending climate change disaster; ...
A disk galaxy in the early universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, somehow formed during a time of chaotic cosmic conditions. According to previous estimations, disk galaxies should take 6 billion years ...
Johnson & Johnson will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada and allegations that the powder causes ...
At a young age of 16, Muhammad Shaheer Niazi has managed to achieve greatness in the field of physics. His research came to light through his participation in the International Young Physicist Tournament in Russia in ...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will give relief to its prisoners by offering them hi-tea on Eid day, reports Dawn. “Keeping its past tradition alive, the NAB has arranged hi-tea for all detained suspects and they will ...
The total number of confirmed cases worldwide has passed five million, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The exact number is 5,000,038. However, it needs to be noted that differing testing rates and definitions, underreporting, ...
On Monday night, US Democrat Nancy Pelosi called Trump “morbidly obese” when discussing his decision to take hydroxychloroquine to sheath off COVID-19 concerns. Speaking to a CNN correspondent, she asserted that she would “rather he ...
Football is finally back, and not too soon because the charm of putting a match on Fifa without selecting sides and watching the AI go at it was wearing thin. The German Bundesliga started on ...
About three decades ago the patriarchal society in northern Kenya changed drastically. Almost 30 years ago, Rebecca Lolosoli founded a village as a safe haven for 15 women, who survived sexual assault and rape by ...
Lahore High Court has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to decide over banning popular online game PUBG in Pakistan, reported ARY News. According to details, a division bench of the LHC headed by Justice ...
A 15 year old boy was raped at a mosque in Gujrat during the 10-day-long Aitekaaf observed in Ramzan. Gujrat Pakistan: A 15 years old boy raped in a mosque during Aitkaaf. pic.twitter.com/aL2WEZy1JG — Shama Junejo ...
BOL TV is under fire for promoting sectarianism on national television during its Ramzan transmission. The host Kiran Naz of a Ramzan transmission, discussed religious issues on her show, which resulted in an aggressive debate ...
According to a report by Dawn, Justice Gulzar expressed his confusion on why the government is spending so much on coronavirus while hearing the suo motu case regarding measures taken to deal with the coronavirus ...
Gunmen opened fire on worshippers offering evening prayers at a mosque north of the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding 12, a local police chief said. The gunmen fled the area ...
Sometimes, it is the little things that make the difference and balance the scale; and more often than not, smaller things are an indicator of bigger underlying issues. While Instagram is the go-to platform for ...
The top-flight South Korean foot club FC Seoul has apologised after fans accused them of using sex dolls in the stands. FC Seoul insisted they were “premium mannequins” rather than sex dolls – but did ...
The Turkish drama, Dirilis Ertugrul in Urdu dub, has been the subject of many debates. Many actors of the Pakistani entertainment fraternity have made their displeasure with the airing of the drama clear. Jumping on the bandwagon, ...
Singapore-based Pakistani filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad’s has won two Silver awards at the prestigious World Media Festival 2020 at Hamburg, Germany for his documentary series on Afghanistan. The documentary has also won two awards at ...
United States President Donald Trump recognised the services of 10-year-old Laila, an American of Pakistani origin, during a ceremony held to honour “coronavirus heroes”. According to US Embassy in Pakistan’s Twitter account, Laila distributed 100 ...
A minor, 10 year old boy was found strangled after alleged sexual assault in an under-construction plaza in the Nawab Town area on Sunday. According to what the police said the boy and his cousin ...
Two teenage girls have been murdered in a so-called “honour killing” in north-west Pakistan following a video circulated on the internet. They are said to have been shot dead by family members earlier this week ...
A recent article published by the far right digital news website Parhlo titled CHUBBY PAKISTANI GIRL SHARES STORY OF HOW HER HUSBAND FOUGHT FOR THEIR MARRIAGE, goes on to show how fat-shaming is deeply ingrained ...
Pakistan will soon start production of the antiviral drug remdesivir, which has shown promise in treating the novel coronavirus, the country’s top health official and a pharmaceutical company’s chief executive announced on Friday. Production should ...
Sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say. The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum,” meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically. Experts believe ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees in an email that they would be allowed to work from home indefinitely, even after COVID-19 shutdowns end. Dorsey also said Twitter’s offices wouldn’t be reopened until September at ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that because the country cannot afford an indefinite lockdown, the nation would have to learn to live with the pandemic. At a press briefing along with some cabinet ...
With the idea that guests may feel lonely eating at a restaurant that can only reach 50% capacity – the maximum mandated by Virginia’s social distancing regulations – the restaurant, Inn at little Washington will ...
While you’re aimlessly scrolling over your Instagram feed, you might have come across a few videos of a chubby little toddler in a red chef’s hat. And if you haven’t— well your loss because this ...
It is being reported that a group of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) members allegedly attacked a Shia procession held to mark Youm-e-Ali outside an Imambargah in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area on Thursday night. Journalist Fawad Hasan shared ...
Nearly a quarter of a billion people across 47 African countries will catch coronavirus over the next year, but the result will be fewer severe cases and deaths than in the US and Europe, new ...
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said that after promoting children from classes one to eight they will also do the same for the students of classes nine, 10, 11 and 12, reports ...
If Jeff Bezos’ personal fortune keeps growing at its current rate, he could become the first trillionaire by 2026 at the age of 62, according to an analysis from the software-review site Comparisun. Bezos’ wealth has ...
About 900 years ago, a skywatcher in England witnessed a total lunar eclipse that must have been baffling, even terrifying. Despite the fact that the night was clear and the stars shone bright, the Moon ...
Tony Cicoria started his career as a pianist in his 40’s and that too after getting hit by a lightening bolt. Quite literally! As Tony was about to hang up the receiver, after calling his ...
The World Health Organisation has warned that coronavirus “may never go away” as its experts predicted that a global mental health crisis caused by the pandemic was looming. The global health body on Wednesday cautioned ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday appointed former spokesman of Punjab government Shahbaz Gill as his special assistant on political communication, reports The Express Tribune. “The prime minister, in terms of Rule 4(6) of the ...
After her removal as the Special Assistant to PM, Firdous Ashiq Awan has sought out to mend ties with Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP) but Bilawal Bhutto is having none of that. It has been reported ...
According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 53% Pakistanis oppose extension in the duration of the nationwide lockdown while 47% say otherwise. A nationally representative sample of adult ...
The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday demanded the federal government to include Ahmedis in National Commission for Minorities on only one condition: if their chief submits in writing that the minority religious community accepts the constitution of Pakistan ...
A student at Manfield College Oxford University, Sarah’s film Passoon (پاسون) is a short film based on a young climate activist in Dir, Pakistan named Manal Shad, and it has won the first prize at Girls Impact ...
The coronavirus pandemic may last until 2022, according to a report published by a group of researchers at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). Experts suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak won’t end until 60% ...
Speaking to Naya Daur, the Ministry of Human Rights said that up to 249 women and children have been subjected to domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdown. Out of a total of 525 calls made ...
It isn’t an overstatement to say that there are two outbreaks in Pakistan at the moment: the first is the deadly novel coronavirus, that the general population isn’t paying much heed to, and the second ...
More than 20 million people in the US lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate more than trebled as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the world’s largest economy, triggering a financial crisis unseen since ...
Teams under Central Contact Tracing (CCT) unit of the primary and secondary healthcare department have discovered 1,500 “hidden confirmed cases” of Covid-19 patients who had been in close contact with the Pakistani citizens who had ...
The Lahore police has published a comparative review on a decrease in crime during the lockdown. The number of robberies, according to the spokesperson for Lahore police, has fallen by 39% during the partial lockdown, ...
Chinese researchers who tested the sperm of men infected with Covid-19 found a minority had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be sexually transmitted, scientists have said. ...
According to local news outlet in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a man killed his 19 year old wife for not serving him hot Sehri meal. The victim’s father told the local police that the accused was his ...
A study released by Gilani Research Foundation and carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, discovered that only 1 in 5 Pakistanis report exercising regularly. The statistic is 17% lower than the global average – ...
In a letter last month a NGO, Atulya Ganga had cited the presence of a ‘ninja virus’, called bacteriophage, in Ganga’s water that could cure Covid-19. Bacteriophage is a special type of virus that eats ...
Indian troops killed four rebel fighters in gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, including the senior commander, Riyaz Naikoo of the biggest separatist group fighting New Delhi in the disputed Himalayan region, reports Al Jazeera. Hundreds ...
One of two American veterans detained after a failed invasion coup by Venezuelan security forces has appeared on state television in the South American nation. Luke Denman is shown looking directly at the camera and describing ...
Researchers in the Netherlands have identified an antibody that can stop the new coronavirus from infecting cells in laboratory tests. The scientists are hopeful that this will help with the development of therapies for Covid-19. ...
LUMS has come under criticism again, as students and alumni took to social media after a 41% fee hike was announced. However, according to the LUMS vice-chancellor, the decision was taken before the Covid-19 outbreak ...
Towards the end of April, Gallup Pakistan, which is affiliated it Gallup International and is Pakistan’s foremost social research lab, released the results of an opinion poll regarding income and joblessness during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
In Pakistan, congregational prayers have been allowed during the month of Ramadan, after the implementation of a 20-point plan regarding safety measures against the spread of Covid-19. However, a report on 250 at risk mosques ...
The entire Kashmir region as well as three districts in Jammu are being treated as coronavirus hotspots by the administration in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Srinagar, Bandipora, Anantnag, and Shopian were the only four districts ...
More than 10 times as many people in Germany as thought may have been infected with coronavirus, researchers have said. Researchers from Bonn University said on Monday that their preliminary study, based on fieldwork in the town ...
As Donald Trump proclaimed success in America’s fight against the coronavirus and continued to push for the US economy to reopen, it was reported on Monday that internal projections show the administration is expecting 3,000 deaths a ...
World leaders, with the notable exception of Donald Trump, stumped up nearly €7.4bn (£6.5bn) to research Covid-19 vaccines and therapies at a virtual event convened by the EU, pledging the money will also be used to ...
Otzi’s tattoos. Otzi the Iceman, discovered in 1991, is Europe’s oldest human mummy – his body is adorned with sixty-one tattoos. Tattoos, originating from the Samoan word ‘tatau’ meaning ‘to strike’, have a rich history ...
Pakistani American rapper Bohemia known for hit Punjabi songs is all set to release a collab song with new and upcoming Pakistani rappers Noveen and J.Hind. View this post on Instagram Kali Denali Music and ...
A brown bear has been spotted traversing a rugged and sparsely populated area of north-west Spain for the first time in 150 years thanks to a set of camera traps , reports the Guardian. Images of the ...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with three quarters of them in Europe and the United States, an AFP tally based on official sources showed. At least 3,500,517 infections ...
TitTok star and rapper Ghani Tiger posted a heart wrenching video revealing the details of his father’s murder last night on his social media accounts. He says up to 50 to 60 goons with pistols ...
An annual human rights report released this week gives Pakistan a failing grade, charging that too little is being done to protect the country’s most vulnerable, including women and children. The 264-page report by the ...
Arif Wazir, a leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), died in Islamabad on Saturday after being attacked a day ago by unidentified assailants outside his home in Wana, South Waziristan, reports Dawn News. Wana ...
In a recent report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) it was found that British Pakistanis are almost three times more likely to die from the COVID-19 virus in the United Kingdom (UK) as ...
More countries across Europe are preparing to reopen schools in the coming weeks despite conflicting advice from scientists, some of whom caution against underestimating children’s potential to spread the coronavirus, reports the Guardian. Some schools and nurseries ...
Sudan looks set to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM), in a significant move welcomed by campaigners. Anyone found carrying out FGM will face up to three years in prison, according to a document seen by the ...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, rumored for weeks to be deathly ill or even dead, has made his first public appearance in 20 days, North and South Korean media reported Friday. Few details were immediately available, ...
A Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden and who had been missing since March has been found dead in a river. Sajid Hussain, who was granted political asylum in Sweden in 2019 after fleeing Pakistan, had ...
Despite the trade restrictions in place to decrease the spread of the deadly respiratory disease, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has seen a 20% increase in drug trafficking shipments bound for ...
Ever since the show started its rerun in a bid to keep people entertainted during lockdown, it’s smashing viewership record. Since March 28, when its rerun began on DD National, Ramayan continued to be the ...
Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a lift from a pleasant surprise – a robot greeter in the lobby, reports Reuters. Japan is now using ...
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing growing pressure to publicly address an allegation of sexual assault made by Tara Reade, a former aide to his Senate office. The former vice-president has remained ...
The eels at Sumida Aquarium are finding their environment transformed by the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. They also appear to be forgetting what humans look like. Concerned that the garden eels could come to see ...
Donald Trump claims to have seen evidence to substantiate the unproven theory that the coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite US intelligence agencies’ conclusion that the virus was “not manmade or genetically modified”, ...
France is to sell off some of the nation’s antique furniture to support the country’s hard-pressed hospitals, reports The Guardian. The Mobilier National, the national furniture collection, is drawing up a list of objects in storage that ...
China is gearing up for its first national holiday after months of lockdowns, with authorities lowering the emergency response level for Beijing just in time to allow freer travel. On Wednesday, authorities announced a downgrade of ...
The White House has unfollowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and the Prime Minister’s office. Three weeks ago, PM Modi became the only world leader followed by the official Twitter handle of ...
A Lithuanian airport turned into a drive-in cinema as movie theatres remain closed. On Wednesday, close to 150 cars turned up at Lithuania’s main international airport to watch the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite” on the airports ...
A group of doctors in Athens has reached out to the city’s homeless population, which is vulnerable to the spread of covid-19, to try and protect them. Who are they? Volunteer medics from the Doctors ...
On Thursday, PIA’s spokesman Abdullah Hafeez confirmed that the United States Department of Transportation has granted permission to Pakistan International Airlines to conduct direct flights to the United States. Why couldn’t PIA operate direct flights ...
Official global death toll crosses 225,000 At least 227,644 people have lost their lives to Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The number of confirmed cases is more than 3,193,961 globally. Trump says China ...
PM Imran Khan on Wednesday directed Ministry of Religious Affairs to include Ahmadis in the National Commission for Minorities. This is the first time the Ahmadiyya community is being included in National Commission for Minorities. ...
The university town of Lund in Sweden is to dump a tonne of chicken manure in its central park in a bid to deter up to 30,000 residents from gathering there for traditional celebrations to mark Walpurgis ...
More than 5,000 Brazilians have lost their lives to the coronavirus – even more people than in China, if its official statistics are to be believed. But on Tuesday night Brazil’s president shrugged off the ...
Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor famed for his romantic roles has died aged 67. He was part of the Kapoor acting dynasty which has long dominated Bollywood. The actor made a huge splash in 1973 ...
On Tuesday, the organisers of the Oscars said that films released only on streaming platforms or video on demand would be eligible for Academy Awards next year as movie theatres remain closed. This is a ...
Here’s what you can find at recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham’s 50,000-square-foot home in Toronto: NBA regulation-size indoor basketball court 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight 3,200-square-foot master-bedroom suite A 4,000-pound tub of faceted black marble carved from ...
On Wednesday, Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, joined those who are protesting against the coronavirus lockdown of the American economy. His response came at a time when he was close to securing a ...
Suresh Tiwari from Uttar Pradesh, a lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has asked the people of his constituency to refrain from buying vegetables from Muslim vendors to protect themselves from Covid-19. The ...
Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon will all be lining up to form a smiley face in the night sky. This phenomenon is a rare appearance called conjunction. The rarity of the phenomenon makes you want to not ...
Poland will reopen hotels and shopping malls on May 4 while it will consider reopening pre-schools on May 6, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday, in a move to ease restrictions imposed to ...
A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under the prime minister, Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp response from New Delhi. The US commission ...
Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday. He was 53 years old. The actor was admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital on Tuesday, where he was taking treatment for colon infection. Irrfan Khan ...
While 341 of the 751 new cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were detected in Sindh in a single day, data of the Ministry of National Health Services showed on Tuesday that the number of tests ...
On Tuesday, novel coronavirus cases topped 1 million in the United States. According to a Reuters tally, the US now makes up one-third of all infections in the world. 56,500+ Americans have died due to ...
In an annual report released on Monday, by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), it was revealed that India’s military budget was the third largest in the world in 2019. The United States had ...
The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) published annual statistics that calculated 45.7 million people were internally displaced by the end of 2019 due to violence in 61 countries – making them refugees ...
Bondi Beach and two neighbouring beaches in Sydney were reopened to local residents on Tuesday after being closed a month ago due to large crowds breaking social distancing rules, reported Reuters. Australia recorded just one ...
During the course of last week, Maulana Tariq Jamil came under criticism on social media for remarks made during the pre-Ramadan telethon on National TV (you can read a breakdown of his address here). A ...
The national flag of Pakistan has been projected on the Switzerland’s Matterhorn mountain in order to show solidarity with the Pakistanis fighting coronavirus pandemic, reported Ary News The photo was shared on the official social ...
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal on Monday said that Pakistan would soon attain the capacity to conduct 40,000 tests for the coronavirus per day, reports The Express Tribune. He said ...
This year is on course to be the world’s hottest since measurements began, according to meteorologists, who estimate there is a 50% to 75% chance that 2020 will break the record set four years ago. ...
A group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt ...
The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects. The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were previously leaked, ...
Warning: Misinformation regarding Covid-19 can be dangerous. WHO has uploaded the following statement to their list of Myth Busters for Covid-19 – “Drinking alcohol does not protect you against COVID-19 and can be dangerous” The ...
With property and share prices changing, and young people caught up in intense paranoia, demand for wills is skyrocketing. The elderly are concerned about revising old wills while young people want to prepare for an ...
Queues formed in front of parlour centres in Switzerland as people battling cabin fever emerged from six weeks of staying at home at the government’s urging, reports Reuters. Only grocery stores, chemists and other “essential” ...
The pandemic is driving users to pirated movie websites in greater numbers than ever before, according to piracy tracking firms. Data provided to Vice by London-based Muso TNT show that between February 20 and March 20, visits ...
A spike in calls to helplines suggests a rise in domestic abuse, in a region where almost 20 million women and girls suffer sexual and physical violence each year, reports Reuters. In cities from Buenos ...
Federal minister Ch Fawad Hussain shared on Twitter, as state-run Pakistan Television made the announcement. Firdous Ashiq Awan, the former SAPM on information has been replaced by retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa. Moreover, PTI Senator ...
On Sunday, educationalist and activist Ammar Ali Jan called out local Pakistani brands Nishat and Gul Ahmed for allegedly firing their employees on the 2nd day of Ramadan. After Nishat, Gul Ahmed has fired its ...
A verified document dated 7 March which was obtained by Arab News on Sunday, states that Prime Minister’s special assistant on health, Dr. Zafar Mirza ordered an ease in quarantine restrictions at the border “for ...
On Monday, 27th March, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Sindh stood at 4,615. However, at around 2 00 PM, Senator Murtaza Wahab shared that 341 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in ...
The Novel Coronavirus continues to spread in Pakistan during Ramadan, with nearly 700 new cases and close to a dozen virus-related deaths reported on Sunday. How have the stats changed in the past 24 hours? ...
Last week, Maulana Tariq Jameel was severely criticised for his remarks on women, that he made on National TV during the pre-Ramadan telethon. You can read more about that story here. While people had still ...
New Zealand has stated that it has currently eliminated the coronavirus by stopping community transmission of Covid-19. The country has only reported cases in single digits for days, and on Sunday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ...
This year, the holy month of Ramadan comes as many countries see the number of Covid-19 cases peaking, resulting in lockdowns and curfews to curb the virus’s spread. These pictures show how the Muslim world ...
The Japanese port city of Osaka has stated it will name and shame more pachinko parlour gambling outlets that are defying the lockdown put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. On Friday, three ...
Who doesn’t love a good pair of shoes? We all know how it feels to step into a shiny new pair that hugs your feet and looks like a million dollars – pure bliss. Ottawa ...
The moment Zainab stepped into her cotton pants, she knew it was not the seamstress but her own body that had betrayed her. It had only been a week since the seamstress had come over ...
Almost a month ago, I was at my university dorm room, packing only a week’s worth of clothes-how wrong I was. I should’ve emptied my dorm room closet because what I’d thought would be a ...
Right-arm bowler Sana Mir announced that she has decided to take a break from international cricket. The cricketer announced that she was taking a break from international cricket. In a press release, she said, “I ...
Wild boars in the Hazara region have caused great trouble for farmers whose crops are being uprooted and destroyed. High temperatures in the region have attracted boars to the farmlands. Farmers initially assumed that the ...
The Chief Minister of Punjab, Usman Buzdar, issued a statement on Friday saying that the lockdown has been extended to May 9th in Punjab. The lockdown in Punjab has been extended to May 9th. He ...
Pakistan has requested to operate special flights to bring stranded Pakistani’s in the United States back home because of the lockdown. The Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of the PIA Air Marshal Arshad Malik wrote to ...
President Donald Trump has announced that funds to the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been suspended. Previously, the United States was the largest donor to the WHO but President Donald Trump has announced that funds ...
Facebook has added a wave of new video-calling features to WhatsApp, Messenger and its main app, following increased demand for social video calling. New Messenger Rooms will let people start group video chats that can ...
Nearly half the “people” talking about the coronavirus pandemic on Twitter are not actually people, but bots, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. And many of those bots are rapidly feeding Twitter with ...
Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court says flogging will be replaced by imprisonment ...
A doctor in the Colombian city of Cali said this week that he was forced from his apartment just eight days after he moved in because other residents of the building feared he would bring ...
The Nurses Welfare Organisation of Pakistan has called upon the federal government to impose a curfew across the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus, according to Dawn News. In a press conference on ...
Every year, Mountain Dew hosts its Dew Gamers Area – Pakistan’s largest esports event that brings gaming to the limelight, a young but steadily developing sector in Pakistan. Towards the end of 2020, Mountain Dew ...
Mass burials are taking place in Brazil’s Amazon city of Manaus as local tribes are left more vulnerable to the virus. The city, with a population of about two million, is handling more than 100 ...
Thousands of students in Hong Kong sat for their final secondary school exams on Friday despite Covid-19 concerns. The students wore masks as they took their exams this Friday. The Diploma of Secondary Education examination ...
Kenya is spreading awareness about Covid-19 safety measures through graffiti art. Six pieces of graffiti were made in Kenya and all served the purpose of public health messages. They include messages like “wash your hands,” ...
In a press conference of Thursday, President Trump floated the idea of injecting disinfectants into the body as a means to ward off Covid-19. Trump commented, “And is there a way we can do something ...
According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the flyby is expected to occur on Wednesday, April 29, at 5:56 a.m. ET. The asteroid is called 52768 (1998 OR2) and it has been on NASA’s ...
The graffiti picture called “Girl with a Pierced Eardrum” has been updated with a surgical face mask, moving with the times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Banksy, an anonymous England-based street artist, created the mural of ...
On Thursday night, Maulana Tariq Jamil took part in an hour long pre-Ramzan telethon with Prime Minister Imran Khan and journalists including Hamid Mir and Kashif Abbasi; the Ehsaas telethon was aired live on national ...
We’re constantly being told to stay informed; it is the key to survival. But what if you have an influx of information – and no way to filter it? To address exactly this kind of ...
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