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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By banishing the word “coronavirus” from the Turkmen vocabulary in a radical move to suppress all information about the pandemic, Turkmenistan’s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. The state-controlled ...
Novel coronavirus has impacted 200 countries and territories, with the total confirmed cases hitting 857,487. While the pandemic is ravaging America, Spain, Italy and many others, there are a handful of countries that still haven’t ...
Saudi Arabia’s Haj minister asked Muslims on Tuesday to temporarily defer preparations for Haj amid uncertainty over the pandemic. Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia suspended Umrah over fears of the new coronavirus. “Saudi Arabia is ...
A six-month-old girl has tested positive for coronavirus in Gujrat after her father was declared a Covid-19 patient around a week ago. The infant is being kept at home, while her mother will also be ...
Every time Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has addressed the public and media about coronavirus, he’s made it very clear that he doesn’t really believes in strict lockdown or in a countrywide lockdown for ...
The Netherlands has become the latest European country to dump what it says is substandard Chinese-made equipment in the fight against coronavirus, recalling more than half a million face masks from hospitals after they failed ...
The 39-year-old father of three and a driver for a restaurant in New Delhi had to walk his way to his home village because of the lockdown imposed by government against the spread of coronavirus. ...
As new cases keep on increasing day by day, Pakistan’s resources at providing protective gear for the people fighting the virus on the front line are decreasing exponentially too. However, there are people out there ...
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Monday bracketed Pakistan among the countries which would be the hardest-hit by the global pandemic of coronavirus, demanding a raft of measures for their relief. UNCTAD ...
The PML-N has alleged that the Imran Kahn government is using the Corona Relief Fund for its political agenda, therefore a parliamentary monitoring committee must be formed to ensure oversight and transparency. Presiding over a ...
Karachi’s mortuaries were closed across the city on Sunday, after two bodies brought into Edhi’s morgue were suspected to be those of patients who had died due to the Coronavirus. “The morgues have been closed ...
Asim Jofa along with his team has made a pecial protective gear for medical staff that continues to work in hospitals in order to treat patients suffering from Covid-19. In a video uploaded on Instagram, ...
The Sindh government has reported six new coronavirus cases due to local transmission of the novel coronavirus in Karachi on Monday. The provincial tally have now risen to 508, which is 30.5% of the total ...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly moved to California, after leaving their rental in Vancouver, Canada and taking a private flight to the US before the border closed between both countries last week. In ...
The ongoing pandemic and increasing number of cases in Pakistan, which now number above 1500, and the ensuing lockdown has stranded twenty-six Pakistani nationals in India. The Wagah-Attari border crossing point was closed on 13 ...
SAPM Firdous Ashiq Awan addressed media following a core committee meeting of the PTI. During the address she stated that doctors and paramedics in Punjab, who are working during the pandemic will get one month’s ...
A member of the Tableeghi Jamat, who was placed in quarantine in the Layyah district of Punjab, tried to escape isolation after attacking a policeman with a knife. The injured policeman has been shifted to ...
In a time when Saudi Arabia is scrambling to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the kingdom, with cases touching 1,200, the country’s air defences intercepted two ballistic missiles above Riyadh, the kingdom’s capital, and ...
Local officials have subjected people caught breaking lockdown rules to humiliating and abusive punishments, locking them in cramped dog cages or forcing them to sit in the harsh midday sun, according to reports. Reports of ...
Netflix and YouTube will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both companies said the measures will ...
The global economy is stuck in an unprecedented kind of recession that necessitates international cooperation, the International Monetary Fund chief, Kristalina Georgieva, told CNBC on Friday. Despite forecasts of a recession arriving in the second quarter, ...
The family of a respected British-Pakistani doctor in Essex confirmed his death on Friday in what was said to be the first coronavirus-related death of a doctor in the United Kingdom. The family of Dr ...
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Friday announced the “Nishan-e-Kashmir” — the state’s highest official award — for Doctor Usama Riaz of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) for carrying out his duty to ...
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as 5 minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting. ...
On Friday, 27th March, rumours that Prime Minister Imran Khan had tested positive for the novel coronavirus spread on social media and whatsapp groups. The news resulted in much chatter, as Boris Johnson, UK’s Prime ...
In response to the critical shortage of ICU beds amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit design/build collective CURA has proposed an innovative solution: repurposing shipping containers into rapidly deployable ICU pods. “The response to the emergency ...
A man fatally injured by the FBI was planning a bomb attack on a medical facility in the Kansas City area, the agency said in a news release on Wednesday. Timothy Wilson, 36, was injured on Tuesday ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for Covid-19, Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has mild symptoms and will self-isolate in Downing Street. The statement said, He was tested for coronavirus on the personal ...
New York state coronavirus deaths spiked to 385, with 100 new deaths recorded in a single day as Governor Andrew Cuomo warned residents on Thursday that the state’s situation was increasingly dire. The death toll ...
Police sent two convicted cannibal brothers to the tehsil headquarters hospital for coronavirus test in Darya Khan on Thursday. The man-eating siblings, Arif and Farman, were later sent back from the hospital due to the ...
On a Sindh High Court order, the district courts have released 829 prisoners involved in minor crimes from the detention facilities across Sindh over the last few days amid the provincial government’s decision to categorise ...
The Sindh government has inducted some 3,000 volunteers — more than 30 among them are doctors and over 300 IT professionals — in less than a week on its appeal to fight the growing number ...
Ten million people belonging to low-income groups will get a Rs12,000 four-month stipend in a lump sum under Prime Minister Imran Khan’s relief package announced by the federal government on Tuesday to mitigate adverse impact ...
Coronavirus is a “biological agent,” and using it to purposely get other people sick could be a crime violating federal terrorism laws, according to a memo sent by a top Department of Justice official in ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown Tuesday night, in an attempt to prevent a devastating outbreak. But as 1.3 billion people are ordered not to leave their homes, some doctors ...
President Dr Arif Alvi reached out to Egypt’s Al-Azhar, requesting the suspension of congregational Friday prayers in mosques to control the spread of the coronavirus across Pakistan. “I am thankful to Grand Imam Shaikh of ...
As of Wednesday night, 25th March, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases stand at 1026 in Pakistan. All provinces have been placed under a lockdown, which is being enforced by the armed forces who are ...
On Wednesday, life started to return to normal in the Hubei province of China, after a lockdown that lasted two months. Hubei, a province of 60 million people, was the epicentre of China’s COVID-19 outbreak. The ...
The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, ...
Seeing as Pakistan has already crossed 1000 confirmed cases and has 7 deaths confirmed by the time this article was written, the most pressing question at this moment is: Is Pakistan’s healthcare system ready for ...
The US has been appealing to its allies for help in obtaining medical supplies to overcome critical shortages in its fight against coronavirus. In his public rhetoric Donald Trump has been talking up the domestic private sector ...
On Wednesday 25 March, 2020, a LPG tank collapsed in Lahore Shadhra Chawk. The explosion reportedly happened on a petrol station and 3 were injured. It was a huge explosion causing people to panic. CM ...
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 743 to 6,820, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, reversing a decline in fatalities seen over the last ...
Though President Donald Trump insists the US should soon be “open for business,” the World Health Organization has instead warned that the US could soon become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. A WHO spokeswoman, ...
The country on Monday finally went into the lockdown mode in order to contain the spread of novel coronavirus as the army was called in to support the civil administration in the four provinces as ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved a multi-billion rupee relief package for different segments of society who are vulnerable to the adverse impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the country’s economy. The package was ...
A man died after ingesting an additive used to clean fish tanks — which included a pharmaceutical drug touted by President Trump and others as a potential coronavirus cure. Within 30 minutes of taking chloroquine phosphate, the man in ...
Global death toll passes 15,000 According to Johns Hopkins University, the global death toll from coronavirus has passed 15,000 and currently stands at 15,300. The number of confirmed cases stands at 351,731. The Tokyo Olympics ...
Note: We’ve changed the name of the doctor for the sake of anonymity. Dr. Anonymous told ProperGaanda about his first-hand experience at treating covid-19 patients as a staff member at National Health Service in UK. ...
On 21st March, renowned activist, speaker and currently a professor at Forman Christian College Lahore, Dr. Ammar Ali Jan accused Generation and Limelight of firing their workers on the 1st of April. A video ProperGaanda ...
“It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in ...
A second pet dog in Hong Kong has repeatedly tested positive for the Covid-19 virus after its owner was confirmed as being infected, the government said. The German Shepherd living in the Pok Fu Lam area on ...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Balochistan has risen to 96. In Quetta alone, 56 people tested positive in a single day on March 19. The patients were first kept in isolation at the ...
Family member of a Former senator of Lahore has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus after attending a 60-persons gathering inside the city. It was reported that the family member attended a gathering at a posh ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered opening of the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman “despite global pandemic” to support Afghan “brothers and sisters” as the region feels the pinch of the novel coronavirus outbreak. In an early Friday ...
In an opinion piece recently published in Dawn news reported that Usman Buzdar, the Chief Minister of Punjab, reportedly said, “Yeh corona kaat-ta kaisay hai? (how does this corona bite)?” In the piece, Fahd Hussain, ...
An Asian woman was the victim of a racist tirade by a passenger on a subway because of the coronavirus pandemic. Elen Chen began filming the offensive remarks when another man stepped in to defend ...
India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn at Tihar Jail ...
Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day. The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in China ...
New C.D.C. (Centre for Disease Control) data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients which were hospitalised because of the virus were of the age 20 to 54. Although risk of dying still remains significantly ...
The government of Gilgit-Baltistan on Wednesday retracted its earlier statement regarding a patient dying in the region from the coronavirus, saying that the provincial spokesperson had not confirmed the news before breaking it. Multiple news ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global health crisis afflicting almost every country and territory in the world. As the virus spreads across the globe, different countries stand at different stages of the COVID-19 ...
An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday underlines a message that infectious disease experts have been emphasizing: Millennials are not invincible. The new data show that up to one-fifth of infected people ...
For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak started, China has reported no new domestic transmissions of Covid-19, a major milestone in the country’s fight against the pandemic. China’s national health commission said on Thursday ...
Mass quarantine facilities are being set up in Karachi, Sindh, following the example of the Sukkur quarantine centre that can accommodate at least 10,000 people in isolation simultaneously. The number of cases in Sindh has ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
On Monday, for the first time since the pandemic started, a human trial of a potential vaccine to COVID-19 was carried out in a medical centre in Seattle. The vaccine was developed by the National ...
TikTok moderators were told to suppress videos from users who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled, as part of the company’s efforts to curate an aspirational air in the videos it promotes, according to new documents ...
The government has decided to postpone O and A level examinations of Cambridge due in May and June on account of coronavirus outbreak in the country. In view of the threat of COVID-19 in the ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
A Hindu Nationalist group recently hosted a cow urine drinking party this Saturday believing it would ward off coronavirus. The event was hosted by a far right hindu group called the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha ...
Dozens of students of the Sheikh Zayed Nursing College (SZNC) refused to perform duties during the coronavirus emergency and held a protest against the hospital’s administration for forcing them to perform duty in the hospital ...
Google is giving everybody free access to its advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing features for free until July 1, as businesses and schools have been impacted by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Google announced the news in a ...
The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as Donald Trump referred to the pathogen as the “Chinese Virus.” Trump’s allies had previously ...
The number of confirmed patients of coronavirus may increase substantially in Punjab as some 780 suspected patients have been kept in quarantine at a university in Dera Ghazi Khan and most of them show typical ...
China’s fight against the coronavirus may get affected due to a rise in imported cases after 20 people from abroad were found with the infection, while the country only reported on new domestic case on ...
President Donald Trump said Monday the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands and brought life in countries across the world grinding to a halt could end by July in the United States. So it seems ...
Dozens of Afghan patients which were held in isolation in a quarantine facility in western Afghanistan escaped after attacking hospital staff and damaging hospital property. The escapees also include one patient who has been confirmed ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the formation of a media wing to ‘defend’ the government and respond to its opponents. According to Geo News, the media wing is being formed under ministry for information ...
The Trump administration offered “large sums of money” to a German biopharmaceutical firm to move its research on a coronavirus vaccine to the US. The German daily reported that the White House attempt to relocate CareVac, a research company based in ...
The Sindh government has begun to seal major restaurants in Karachi to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Karachi police is taking action against the hotels and restaurants violating the government’s orders of limiting large gatherings. ...
Internet providers are doing what they can to help Americans working from home or students sent home from school amid the coronavirus pandemic. Comcast announced that they will offer two months of free internet services ...
The coronvirus pandemic will remain in the UK until at least next Spring and 80% of Britons ‘are expected’ to be infected with it, according to a leaked Public Health England document. The document, seen ...
Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, from national quarantines to closing schools. “Lockdown” isn’t a technical term used by public health officials, but Italy, China, El ...
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is introducing a dedicated shopping hour that will only allow elderly and disabled people to purchase items. Starting March 17 shopping between 7 am and 8 am will be exclusive to ...
Local police on Sunday successfully stopped an underage marriage by raiding the wedding venue here in the city’s Hayat Colony. At least three people were arrested, according to police. The wedding had been arranged without ...
With the mounting stress in markets around the globe, coronavirus is proving to be as infectious economically as medically if not more. Pakistan’s inaction and complete neglect of the economic side of the pandemic challenge ...
As many as 358 children — 252 boys and 106 girls — became victims of child abuse in Sindh between 2014 and 2019, it emerged on Sunday. A recent police study about child abuse cases ...
The number of confirmed cases rose in Pakistan has risen to 137 after a sharp increase in cases was reported among pilgrims who have recently returned from Iran via Taftan. According to the Sindh Health ...
The Punjab government on Sunday imposed Section 144 for three weeks across the province to check hoarding of food items and sanitisers and opening of public and private educational institutions, while allowing holding of weddings ...
Wednesday, 29 April, 2020 More than 300 have died from coronavirus in Pakistan Total number of dead coronavirus patients in Pakistan hits 322 while over 3000 have also recovered from the novel coronavirus. Punjab has ...
Bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor Mosque, honouring the 51 worshippers who lost their lives in Christchurch’s mass shooting Dozens of bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor ...
Pakistan’s national tally of coronavirus has now risen to 31, with cases reported in Sindh and Islamabad. On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Imran Khan made his first public statement on the pandemic via twitter. In ...
A new case of COVID-19 was reported in Karachi today. The total number of cases in Sindh has reached 16. The new case is a 38-year-old man who travelled from Saudi Arabia, confirmed the Sindh ...
A 12-year-old boy was killed and another child was injured during aerial firing at a wedding in Lahore. A wedding was taking place in the boy’s neighborhood. They started firing shots in the air at ...
Two armed motorcyclists attacked a car in Gulberg after Friday prayers, killing a man and injuring his son. The victim has been identified as 49-year-old Ghulam Fareed and his son as Arsalan. They were in ...
Islamabad reported another coronavirus case in the country, taking the total tally of the cases across the country to 29. The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) officials confirmed a 30-year-old woman, who had travelled ...
The exam schedule for O and A-Level examinations is not being changed as the world grapples with coronavirus outbreak. Pakistan country director of the Cambridge Assessment International Education confirmed in a statement that the exams ...
Taking to Instagram, Mehwish shared a teaser of her interview and captioned, “Excited that my interview for BBC World will be out soon. Great concept created by Angelia Jolie for the first TV show she ...
Saudi Arabia annouced it would suspend international flights for two weeks as prevention protocol for the coronavirus outbreak. “The Kingdom’s government decided to suspend international flights for two weeks (Starting from Sunday March 15) as ...
The chief minister has issued these orders while he was chairing a meeting of the taskforce made to monitor the coronavirus situation in the Sindh province. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered the closure ...
Turkey has halted flights with nine European countries, including France, Germany and Spain. “From 8:00 am (0500 GMT) tomorrow, Saturday, flights will be stopped until April 17 to Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, ...
Minister for Information and Local Governments in Sindh, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, has announced a prize for research students and institutes that develop a proper vaccine for novel coronavirus. In a video message on Friday, ...
A Chinese government spokesman said on Thursday that the US Army may have “brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” appearing to push a popular coronavirus conspiracy theory in China. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry ...
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that academic institutions country-wide will be kept closed until April 5. Institutions include all schools and universities, both public and private as well as vocational institutions and seminaries, he ...
Shares dropped in Asia on Friday, with those in Japan, Thailand and India going down as much as 10 percent after Wall Street suffered its greatest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Why ...
A group of men allegedly raped a minor boy at gunpoint in the city’s Sohal locality, police sources said Thursday, adding that the suspects were yet to be arrested. According to sources from the Faisalabad police, ...
The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Thursday confirmed that 21 of its students who returned from Turkey after participating in a Model United Nations (MUN) conference have tested negative for coronavirus. In a ...
A man who burnt five women, including his wife and mother-in-law to death has confessed to the crime, saying he was “extremely angry” that his wife had allegedly cheated on him, police confirmed on Thursday. ...
A mentally-handicapped woman was reportedly gang-raped in Tehsil Paharpur District in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Three men forcibly broke into the house of the victim at midnight and sexually assaulted her. Later, the ...
Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday barred Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) from the screening of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha. The committee said that it would decide the film’s fate after reviewing ...
The novel coronavirus is continuing its spread in Pakistan. Pakistan has reported a total of 21 cases. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has declared the virus a global pandemic. The most important recommendation during this ...
Women have filed a petition in Lahore High court seeking to halt the authorities from conducting virginity tests. The petition was filed on Wednesday, which states that virginity tests such as ‘‘two-finger test’ and examination ...
Another coronavirus case has been confirmed in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Skardu pushing the national count to 21. The patient is a 31-year-old man. He returned to Pakistan from Iran on February 25. And has recently been diagnosed ...
As Pakistan moves towards its first-ever electric three wheeled rickshaws to reduce air pollution and curb climate change, the country is struggling to shift its momentum to electric vehicles. What is the National Electric Vehicle ...
The Punjab government has declared medical emergency as 20 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the country this week. “All the departments have to work together with the health department,” Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid ...
To contain the spread of coronavirus, India has suspended all the tourist visas till April 15, after the total tally of cases has reached 60 in the country. Its government has said that all the ...
The New York Times published a report in Thursday, stating that evidence was discovered the the New Delhi police “concertedly moved against Muslims” and “actively helped Hindu mobs” target the homes of Muslim families. This ...
The Trump administration has said that the European Union has failed to take the same precautions as the US while fighting the virus. Based on the presidential proclamation published after Trump’s address, the ban applies ...
The Sindh health department released an advisory for students after announcing to reopen schools and colleges as scheduled on March 16. The department has advised students to avoid crowded places and while at school, keep ...
Government College University (GCU) has been accused of firing a Political Science teacher Zaighum Abbas for being ‘political’ on campus, and for enabling the students to debate and think critically. Zaighum Abbas posted a status ...
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Wednesday launched an inquiry after Australian journalist Dennis Freedman accused that an immigration official at the Allama Iqbal International Airport demanded money from him for facilitation. Freedman who came ...
Four persons each were killed when a roof collapsed in Swabi and a snow avalanche hit three vehicles in Abbottabad, administration officials and police said on Wednesday. The first incident occurred in Mohallah Balarkhel area ...
British prime minister Boris Johnson once again refused to apologise over his derogatory and offensive remarks about Muslim women as well as the increasing incidents of Islamophobia in his party. The issues were raised by ...
The World Health Organisation has officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on Wednesday. WHO Director, General Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus, said the organisation was “deeply concerned” by the rapid spread of the viral disease ...
This company was already getting sued by Apple. This really won’t make things any better. Cybersecurity startup Corellium unveiled Project Sandcastle this week. The first successful attempt to get Android running on the iPhone. For ...
If you’re trying to stop touching your face to help keep from spreading coronavirus, being shamed by this website might just do the trick. Get to know more People have picked up some weird habits ...
Five former/current political officials have died, and the man heading the iranian government’s response to the COVID-19 has contracted the virus himself. Know more A former Iranian lawmaker became the latest and fifth high-profile death ...
Vladimir Putin has moved one step closer to joining the “Presidents for Life” club. Get to know more On Tuesday, President Putin backed proposals from Russian lawmakers that would clear the way for him to ...
Two extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say. What happened? Rangers had found the carcasses of the female and her calf in a village in Kenya A third ...
Gigit Baltistan reported its second coronavirus case on Wednesday, a spokesperson for GB government said. According to the spokesperson, the patient, a 14-year-old hails from Skardu is under treatment at City Hospital in Skardu. The ...
The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has announced that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will table a bill in the National Assembly for the creation of the South Punjab province. The foreign minister made the ...
A Pakistani family living in Hong Kong has responded to coronavirus fears by distributing face masks and sanitary products among the local people to help them stay safe and healthy, reported al-Jazeera on Tuesday. The demand of ...
Pakistan has reported 18 confirmed coronavirus cases, out of which 15 belong to Karachi, and who have travelled to Iran or have migrated back from Iran or china. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has postponed ...
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim to offer expert advice on the novel coronavirus, including symptoms, prevention and how it spreads. This is misleading; experts and health agencies say there is not enough research ...
Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 aircraft crashed in Islamabad during the rehearsals of 23rd March parade, a spokesperson for the force said on Wednesday. Rescue teams have been dispatched towards the site of the crash, he ...
Organizers have rescheduled the Coachella music festival until October over coronavirus fear. The two-weekend music festival that was to take place in April will now take place over the weekends starting Friday October 9 and ...
Two of the three suspects named in the murder case of a woman and her four children were arrested Tuesday night, with another yet to be apprehended, Thatta SSP Dr Muhammad Imran Khan confirmed. The arrested suspects were ...
As the religious discrimination and torture continues in India against Indian Muslims. Pakistani Hindus celebrate Holi under the free and open sky of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hindus across Pakistan celebrated Holi, the festival ...
A woman and her daughter were arrested for killing the man who allegedly blackmailed them, officials reported. Police found the body of the man 25 days ago in Mansoorabad and were on the lookout for ...
Even before Joe Biden romped in another big primary night on Tuesday, Democrats were already talking about the next move: how to get Bernie Sanders out of the race. More than two dozen political operatives ...
An 11-year-old Ahmadi boy was allegedly killed by his neighbours on February 27 in Shahdra. According to the Ahmadi community’s monthly report on its persecution, the victim’s dead body was found in a steel trunk ...
Dubai’s sheikh was allegedly lining up his 11-year-old daughter to marry Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who is 22 years her senior, a UK court heard yesterday. Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum reportedly discussed the ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. Earnings of major global companies could fall 10% this year, Citigroup ...
Two more coronavirus cases reported in Sindh, taking Pakistan’s tally to 18. The Sindh health department confirmed the two cases on. The cases are from Karachi and Hyderabad. The patient in Karachi has a travel ...
Employee of an anti-terrorism court in Lahore was shot dead while he was travelling to work, according to the police. “Muhammad Hanif was going to office on his motorcycle when unknown men opened fire at ...
Claimed to be a first time for an initiative like this in Pakistan, the portal will provide the public open access to estimates regarding poverty for every district in Pakistan, along with over 120 development and ...
A group of men have been caught beating a woman and occupying her land in Khanpur. A video of the incident was shared with a reliable media source aswell. The video shows a group of ...
A 48-year-old professor of a government college was killed by two unknown men on a motorcycle in Lahore. “Just like every day, Zulfiqar was leaving the house in the morning for college,” his brother, Syed ...
Officer of the Pakistan Army was martyred as security forces foiled a terrorist attack in Dera Ismail Khan, the ISPR said in a statement. The martyred officer, Colonel Mujeebur Rehman; was a resident of Bunji in ...
WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has set a disclaimer that “the threat of a pandemic has become very real”. He told reporters that “even if we call it a pandemic, still we can contain it ...
Three men killed and four injured over a property dispute in Faisalabad The police have filed a case against ten suspects including Faisalabad Lines Area ASI Aijaz and Constable Ajmal. None of them, however, have ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. The European Parliament considers calling off this week’s plenary session, two ...
A man has returned home after a drug addict misidentified as him was buried in a village near here. Local officials said that Mohammad Aslam, resident of Chak 3-14 L, was a drug addict and ...
Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have been killed by coronavirus as the killer virus sweeps the isolated regime, according to reports. The secretive state has not recorded a single case of coronavirus since it surfaced in ...
A dunkin donut factory was temporarily sealed after being caught using substandard and expired products in Karachi’s SITE Industrial area. The Sindh Food Authority conducted a raid at the Dunkin Donuts factory and found expired ...
PM’s Special Assistant on Health Dr Zafar Mirza confirms that Pakistan has detected nine new cases of the coronavirus. He said that the new cases are contacts of an already confirmed case and have caught ...
The police registered a case against three men on charges of attempting to rape a seven-year-old child in Shujabad. The child has been shifted to a hospital and is said has started healing. The Saddar ...
Italy has extended its emergency coronavirus measures, which include travel restrictions and a ban on public gatherings, to the entire country. On Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered people to stay home and seek permission ...
Sindh’s fifth case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the metropolis, a spokesperson for the provincial health department said on Monday, as reported by Geo News. Who is the patient? The patient, a 53-year-old man, ...
TRIGGER WARNING: Warning: This article contains references to rape, sexual assault and revenge porn. An online petition accusing Pornhub, the UK’s biggest open access porn site, from profiting from videos of rape and sexual abuse has reached ...
Stock markets in Europe and the US are bracing for their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis after the trading week began with panic amid the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an ...
United Kingdom’s main opposition party suspended membership of Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, after Islamophobia allegations surfaced against him. Phillips is being investigated over his past comments, including ...
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