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Despite the trade restrictions in place to decrease the spread of the deadly respiratory disease, the United Nations Office on ...
Ever since the show started its rerun in a bid to keep people entertainted during lockdown, it’s smashing viewership record. ...
Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a lift from a ...
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing growing pressure to publicly address an allegation of sexual assault made ...
The eels at Sumida Aquarium are finding their environment transformed by the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. They also appear to ...
Donald Trump claims to have seen evidence to substantiate the unproven theory that the coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of ...
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 ...
China is gearing up for its first national holiday after months of lockdowns, with authorities lowering the emergency response level for ...
The White House has unfollowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and the Prime Minister’s office. Three weeks ...
A Lithuanian airport turned into a drive-in cinema as movie theatres remain closed. On Wednesday, close to 150 cars turned ...
A group of doctors in Athens has reached out to the city’s homeless population, which is vulnerable to the spread ...
On Thursday, PIA’s spokesman Abdullah Hafeez confirmed that the United States Department of Transportation has granted permission to Pakistan International ...
Official global death toll crosses 225,000 At least 227,644 people have lost their lives to Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins ...
PM Imran Khan on Wednesday directed Ministry of Religious Affairs to include Ahmadis in the National Commission for Minorities. This ...
The university town of Lund in Sweden is to dump a tonne of chicken manure in its central park in a bid ...
More than 5,000 Brazilians have lost their lives to the coronavirus – even more people than in China, if its ...
Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor famed for his romantic roles has died aged 67. He was part of the Kapoor ...
On Tuesday, the organisers of the Oscars said that films released only on streaming platforms or video on demand would ...
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 ...
On Wednesday, Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, joined those who are protesting against the coronavirus lockdown of the ...
Suresh Tiwari from Uttar Pradesh, a lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has asked the people of his ...
Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon will all be lining up to form a smiley face in the night sky. This phenomenon is ...
Poland will reopen hotels and shopping malls on May 4 while it will consider reopening pre-schools on May 6, Poland’s ...
A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn ...
Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday. He was 53 years old. The actor was admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben ...
While 341 of the 751 new cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were detected in Sindh in a single day, data ...
On Tuesday, novel coronavirus cases topped 1 million in the United States. According to a Reuters tally, the US now ...
In an annual report released on Monday, by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), it was revealed that India’s ...
The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) published annual statistics that calculated 45.7 million people were internally displaced ...
Bondi Beach and two neighbouring beaches in Sydney were reopened to local residents on Tuesday after being closed a month ...
During the course of last week, Maulana Tariq Jamil came under criticism on social media for remarks made during the ...
The national flag of Pakistan has been projected on the Switzerland’s Matterhorn mountain in order to show solidarity with the ...
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal on Monday said that Pakistan would soon attain the capacity ...
This year is on course to be the world’s hottest since measurements began, according to meteorologists, who estimate there is ...
A group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and ...
The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying ...
Warning: Misinformation regarding Covid-19 can be dangerous. WHO has uploaded the following statement to their list of Myth Busters for ...
With property and share prices changing, and young people caught up in intense paranoia, demand for wills is skyrocketing. The ...
Queues formed in front of parlour centres in Switzerland as people battling cabin fever emerged from six weeks of staying ...
The pandemic is driving users to pirated movie websites in greater numbers than ever before, according to piracy tracking firms. ...
A spike in calls to helplines suggests a rise in domestic abuse, in a region where almost 20 million women ...
Federal minister Ch Fawad Hussain shared on Twitter, as state-run Pakistan Television made the announcement. Firdous Ashiq Awan, the former SAPM ...
On Sunday, educationalist and activist Ammar Ali Jan called out local Pakistani brands Nishat and Gul Ahmed for allegedly firing ...
A verified document dated 7 March which was obtained by Arab News on Sunday, states that Prime Minister’s special assistant ...
On Monday, 27th March, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Sindh stood at 4,615. However, at around 2 ...
The Novel Coronavirus continues to spread in Pakistan during Ramadan, with nearly 700 new cases and close to a dozen ...
Last week, Maulana Tariq Jameel was severely criticised for his remarks on women, that he made on National TV during ...
New Zealand has stated that it has currently eliminated the coronavirus by stopping community transmission of Covid-19. The country has ...
This year, the holy month of Ramadan comes as many countries see the number of Covid-19 cases peaking, resulting in ...
The Japanese port city of Osaka has stated it will name and shame more pachinko parlour gambling outlets that are ...
Who doesn’t love a good pair of shoes? We all know how it feels to step into a shiny new ...
The moment Zainab stepped into her cotton pants, she knew it was not the seamstress but her own body that ...
Almost a month ago, I was at my university dorm room, packing only a week’s worth of clothes-how wrong I ...
Right-arm bowler Sana Mir announced that she has decided to take a break from international cricket. The cricketer announced that ...
Wild boars in the Hazara region have caused great trouble for farmers whose crops are being uprooted and destroyed. High ...
The Chief Minister of Punjab, Usman Buzdar, issued a statement on Friday saying that the lockdown has been extended to ...
Pakistan has requested to operate special flights to bring stranded Pakistani’s in the United States back home because of the ...
President Donald Trump has announced that funds to the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been suspended. Previously, the United States ...
Facebook has added a wave of new video-calling features to WhatsApp, Messenger and its main app, following increased demand for ...
Nearly half the “people” talking about the coronavirus pandemic on Twitter are not actually people, but bots, according to new ...
Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. ...
A doctor in the Colombian city of Cali said this week that he was forced from his apartment just eight ...
The Nurses Welfare Organisation of Pakistan has called upon the federal government to impose a curfew across the country to ...
Every year, Mountain Dew hosts its Dew Gamers Area – Pakistan’s largest esports event that brings gaming to the limelight, ...
Mass burials are taking place in Brazil’s Amazon city of Manaus as local tribes are left more vulnerable to the ...
Thousands of students in Hong Kong sat for their final secondary school exams on Friday despite Covid-19 concerns. The students ...
Kenya is spreading awareness about Covid-19 safety measures through graffiti art. Six pieces of graffiti were made in Kenya and ...
In a press conference of Thursday, President Trump floated the idea of injecting disinfectants into the body as a means ...
According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the flyby is expected to occur on Wednesday, April 29, at 5:56 ...
The graffiti picture called “Girl with a Pierced Eardrum” has been updated with a surgical face mask, moving with the ...
On Thursday night, Maulana Tariq Jamil took part in an hour long pre-Ramzan telethon with Prime Minister Imran Khan and ...
We’re constantly being told to stay informed; it is the key to survival. But what if you have an influx ...
If “effective measures” are not taken, Pakistan’s Covid-19 cases are likely to rise to 200,000 by mid-July alone. Dr Tedros ...
The Prime Minister has announced that the government will be using ISI’s tracing system used to track terrorists to track ...
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews have taken to internet usage, which they have traditionally shunned, amid the Covid-19 lockdown. The devout religious ...
In a world hit by Covid-19, bathroom breaks are to be determined by traffic lights in keeping with the requirements ...
A group of Indian researchers discovered a new species of green pit vipers and named it after Salazar Slytherin. Why ...
The Finnish energy company Fortum is testing hands-free door handles in supermarkets to prevent the spread of Covid-19. “The handle ...
Two pet cats in New York are the first felines in the United States to test positive for Covid-19. The ...
Nikolai Fedorov, a nineteenth-century librarian and Russian Orthodoxy philosopher believed that the process to organize human society begins with a ...
A study revealed that universities will receive 230,000 fewer students this year, many of which are international candidates, due to ...
Scientists have detected small pieces of plastic in Antarctic sea ice for the first time. 96 pieces of plastic less ...
More than 232,000 people may have been infected in the first wave of Covid-19 in mainland China, four times the official ...
The doctor leading the Trump administration’s vaccine agency said he was removed from his post at the Department of Health ...
The World Bank has agreed to double the size of its $250 million loan to Pakistan to $500 million to overcome ...
Medical Detection Dogs, set up in 2008 to harness dogs’ sharp sense of smell to detect human diseases, started working on ...
Dozens of Russian communists defied Moscow’s coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday by marching across Red Square to lay flowers outside Vladimir ...
Humboldt Penguin named Rosie arrived at Yorkshire Zoo in 1990 and she celebrated her 30th birthday on April 20th. The ...
Germany has given the green light for human trials to start for the Covid-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been developed ...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg took part in calls for a combined effort to combat Covid-19 and the climate crisis on ...
The streaming service has received 15.8 million customers as people draw entertainment from their homes during quarantine. Netflix’s projections have ...
In a recent interview of President Arif Alvi with anchor Hamid Mir, the President has made some very insensitive statements. ...
The UN has stated that the world will face famines of “biblical proportions” in a matter of months. The coronavirus ...
Here are five myths about the novel coronavirus debunked by experts. The coronavirus was not manufactured by humans Infectious diseases ...
Karachi’s Metro has closed down after an employee has tested positive for Covid-19. Metro made the announcement to close down ...
A group of senior doctors has urged the government to withdraw its decision of allowing congregational prayers in Ramadan. The ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is assessing a government report about the threat of another tsunami headed towards its wrecked ...
Muslims perform Wudhu (Ablution) five-times-a-day before the compulsory prayers and a recent report by Professor Richard Webber suggests that this ...
WhatsApp is planning to expands its group video chat function to allow up to 8 members. The app is currently ...
A second coronavirus outbreak could emerge this winter in conjunction with the flu season to make for an even more ...
A residential-care facility in Tokyo for babies and toddlers on Wednesday reported eight cases of coronavirus infections, local media said. ...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his new U.S. immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking ...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres or RSF) on Tuesday released the 2020 World Press Freedom index, indicating that Pakistan ...
Bilal bin Saqib, a Pakistani student studying in London, has made it to the Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” list. ...
While Mumbai’s cases skyrocketed, Kerala – a relatively prosperous state on the southern tip of the subcontinent – started to ...
New research has shown that the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic is now very likely before 2050 ...
Violence against women is prevalent in Afghanistan and with the lockdown in place, the threat domestic abuse is very real. ...
Bavaria has cancelled the 210 year old Oktoberfest in order to curb the spread of the pandemic. Bavaria’s leaders have ...
Recently, an Indian YouTube channel is under fire for posting songs composed by Pakistani artists without purchasing the rights to ...
“Artaghrul Ghazi,” the Urdu version of the Turkish television series “Dirilis: Ertugrul” will air on PTV in Ramadan upon the ...
Milan has designed a road scheme to give more space for cycling and walking in response to the coronavirus pandemic. ...
“It does make you wonder what the pandemic infection and death rate would look like with more women leaders,” said ...
Sweden’s northernmost town got built up around the world’s largest underground iron ore mine — which now threatens to destroy ...
The small Chilean beach enclave of Zapallar has turned to high-tech drones to deliver medications, masks and hand sanitizer to ...
Faisal Edhi, son of world-famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, has tested positive for the ...
Mexico’s president chastised drug gangs on Monday, telling them to end violence instead of distributing food, after several reports across the ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gravely-ill after undergoing heart surgery, it has been claimed. CNN reported that the 36 ...
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because ...
The Jammu and Kashmir police have booked a Kashmiri photojournalist under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for posting ...
In the worst act of mass murder in Canada’s history, a man disguised as a police officer went on a ...
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whilst standing two metres apart from each other. This week, Israel ...
Global Citizen has announced that the One World: Together at Home concert co-organised by WHO and Lady Gaga has raised ...
According to research, high levels of air pollution are one of the main reasons behind deaths from Covid-19. The study ...
As the lockdown in China relaxes, construction of a $1.7 billion stadium has begun. The stadium is to be constructed ...
Due to climate change and the excessive use of pesticides on farmland, the population of bees has drastically fallen worldwide. ...
Filled with rage over the governor of Michigan’s orders for lockdown, Trump supporters have taken to the streets to protest ...
With many people ignoring preventative measures against Covid-19, celebrities Armeena Khan and Shaniera Akram called out violators of the lockdown ...
According to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, nearly 400 Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boat two months ago have been ...
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has refused to forcefully take a vaccine for the new coronavirus. “Personally I am opposed ...
Scientists in Belgium have discovered that antibodies in the blood of camels, llamas and alpacas might be useful in fighting ...
In a major breakthrough, intelligence agencies and local police have arrested a police officer who was working for the Indian ...
Former finance minister Dr Hafeez Pasha commented on the current economic crisis under Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s government and said that ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an order allowing online marriages, as many weddings are cancelled under lockdown restrictions. ...
A cancer hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut has published an advertisement in the Dainik Jagran newspaper that it will no longer accept ...
Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates said medical workers treating COVID-19 patients are exempt from fasting during Ramadan and ...
Indian intelligence agencies used money and disinformation to influence politicians in Canada into supporting its interests overseas, reported Canadian publication Global ...
More than 100,000 people defied Bangladesh’s lockdown order on Saturday to attend the funeral of a senior leader of the ...
For many Muslims, the month of Ramadan is a time of togetherness and spiritual solidarity and for British Muslims, the ...
Influencers have taken a hit due to the coronavirus pandemic. With deals drying up and sponsorships for posts being delayed, ...
For her 94th birthday, the Queen has decided to keep celebrations on the down low in light of the coronavirus ...
A shortage of supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants might result in shortages of beer and soda which are ...
Germany has received 47 unaccompanied refugee children flying in from Greece’s overcrowded refugee camps. Germany previously took in a group ...
The Prime Minister has ordered a crackdown against the hoarding and smuggling of essential items during the pandemic. Prices of ...
Spain had enforced the strictest lockdown in all of Europe restricting children from playing outside their homes. Parents grow more ...
The Montreux Jazz Festival which was scheduled to take place in July in Switzerland has been cancelled due to the ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is allowing some beaches in northern Florida to reopen, The Associated Press reported on Friday, even though ...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has made all bus travel free and told passengers to only board by the middle doors ...
In the D.I Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a hunting party conducted the massacre of hundreds of sparrows. The hunting ...
According to a group of paranormal enthusiasts on Reddit, astral projection could be the vehicle we need to go out ...
Researchers are hopeful about the test drug remdesivir after it has been used to treat monkeys in a trial run. ...
In China, citizen journalists have been some of the most reliable real time sources of information about the outbreak and the efforts ...
A senior Saudi royal and granddaughter of the country’s founding monarch has revealed she is being held in prison and ...
Even though the country has banned pornography entirely, it continues to be one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child abuse ...
The World Health Organization issued a warning Friday about coronavirus testing, saying there’s no evidence serological tests can show whether ...
Police conducted raids on Thursday to arrest three men nominated in a rape case by a woman in Kokianwala area. ...
American immunologist and physician Dr Fauci has declared the handshake dead in light of the coronavirus pandemic. However, there are ...
A group of Bangladeshi scientists have developed a Covid-19 testing kit that can detect the virus in just 15 minutes. ...
While coronavirus closures are coaxing wildlife into the abandoned streets of many a metropolis, in one Israeli city the wild ...
The new Facebook update has added a new “care” reaction to the existing six reactions as a means to show ...
A total of 3,265 dead bodies were brought to 30 graveyards of Karachi between February 20 and April 9 (49 days), official ...
Only half of urban and rural Pakistanis are aware of the fact that diabetics, smokers and asthmatics are at a ...
Many governments around the world have tapped into new data in smartphones that will allow them to track the spread ...
The illicit practice of usury has trapped a middle-income family in Rawalpindi with a loan shark demanding a man give ...
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, there has been a 96% decrease in the number of passengers travelling by air ...
A robotic delivery service in Milton Keynes could prove to be the future of locked-down Britain, as miniature autonomous vehicles bring food ...
According to Google, scammers are sending 18 million scam emails to Gmail accounts daily. The coronavirus pandemic has led to ...
Iran paraded medical gear instead of weapons on Friday in light of National Army Day to salute military efforts in ...
With more people than ever using zoom to work from home, users are finding new ways to spice up endless ...
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 ...
Hundreds of opponents of Michigan’s social distancing measures rallied in their cars in the state capital on Wednesday, snarling traffic and even ...
An elderly man allegedly set himself on fire and died after some local residents labelled him a coronavirus patient in ...
Just 300 light years away, an earth-like exoplanet has been discovered by NASA. Receiving about 75 per cent of the ...
Married as a child and wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years over the murder of her husband, Rani Bibi is ...
An applicant had filed a plea with the Sindh High Court to overrule the government’s ban on congregational prayers. The ...
A rare zonkey has been spotted in Kenya with its mother. A “zonkey” is a cross between a zebra and ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern along with ministers in her government and public service chief executives will ...
With performance halls closed due to the outbreak of Covid-19, musicians in Iran turn to their rooftops as their platform. ...
On March 19, 28 year old doctor Muhammad Masood was arrested in the United States by the FBI on terrorism charges. The arrest ...
As the lockdown eases for several industries in Pakistan but still has been extended by 2 weeks for the common ...
In an impassioned Instagram story, Hania Amir blasts her followers for posting pre-pandemic throwbacks saying in part, “I choose quarantine.” ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has stated that the government will be taking all the necessary steps in order to control ...
Scientists exploring the deep sea off Australia’s coast have discovered as many as 30 new marine species – and what ...
The former vice-chancellor of the University of Health Sciences has claimed that the current outbreak of coronavirus can prove to ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to give a one-year ...
Poland will reopen parks and forests on Monday and then revise the rules on the number of customers allowed in ...
Apple is releasing a new iPhone that will be vastly cheaper than the models it rolled out last fall when ...
A hospital in Ahmedabad has been placing its coronavirus patients in different wards on the basis of their religious identity, claiming it ...
A 26 year old woman was killed in Karachi when police opened fire on a crowd late on Tuesday night. ...
Even as Covid-19 has brought the protests in Hong Kong to a near standstill, the struggle continues over the future ...
Schools in Denmark have started reopening, after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus. The Nordic country is the first ...
China concealed crucial information about the novel coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world and so should answer for ...
Austin Independent School District (ISD) has deployed 110 school buses now equipped with WiFi to neighborhoods and apartment complexes where the district ...
While iPhone users can still unlock their phones by entering their six-digit passcode, that process is less convenient. Hence, people ...
Ulema from various schools of thought held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday to declare that ...
The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers ...
A zoo director in northern Germany has admitted that some animals might soon have to be fed to others, if ...
The U.S. will suspend funding to the World Health Organization while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, President ...
An 18 year old’s story of sexual assault at the hands of an influential lawyer in China has lit a ...
As social distancing is implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus, music students in Gaza City have now switched ...
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