Category: World
What happened: Neha Paswan, a 17-year-old girl, from Uttar Pardesh was allegedy killed at the hands of her relatives’ beating for wearing jeans. Details: She belonged to a village in Deoria district, which is one ...
What happened: Abid Sher Ali of PML-N and his family were out at a restaurant in London for a family meal when he was accused of jumping the queue using his political leverage. He was ...
What happened: WhatsApp has updated its calling interface and also offered new settings for “archived chats” for iPhone users. Details: The calling screen looks similar to the FaceTime screen which shows everyone who is on ...
What happened: Pakistan, on Friday, has asked the UN to look into India’s use of Pegasus Spyware to spy on PM Imran Khan. Pegasus Spyware is an Israeli software that has been reported by The ...
What happened: Amir Azad Mangi and his family set Guinness World Record after it was discovered that all nine members of the family, were born on August 1. Details: Mangi, his wife and children were ...
What happened: In a tweet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry stated that he’s hopeful that Pakistan will start exporting ventilators this year. The National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) has developed the ventilator “Pakvent-I” while the ...
What happened: According to reports, at least one number used by Prime Minister Imran Khan was targeted by the NSO Group and its Pegasus malware that India used to spy on Pakistan. The malware is ...
What happened: Saifullah Paracha, Pakistani who spent 16 years in custody without ever being charged with a crime, is among the ten eligible to be transferred out of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, ...
What happened: Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of their ice-cream in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land, saying it’s inconsistent with the values of the socially conscious brand. This comes as a huge ...
What happened: Aisam Qureshi, Pakistan’s star tennis athlete, called out both Abdul Razzak, Pakistani cricketer, and Nauman Ijaz, Pakistani actor, for making fun of female athletes aimed at Nida Dar on a talk-show. Nida Dar ...
What happened: A software called ‘Pegasus’ was sold by the NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, to monitor activists, politicians and journalists from around the world. The network was uncovered by an investigation into a ...
What happened: An airline pilot approached the court complaining to have faced “humiliation and disgrace” over sharing his job title with the Careem’s staff. As a result, a civil court in Rawalpindi has temporarily forbidden ...
What happened: Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar credited the Modi government for ensuring that Pakistan stayed on FATF’s grey list while speaking at the training program on the foreign policy of the Modi government. Details: ...
What happened: Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, is preparing for a rocket-powered, 11-minute 2,300-mph excursion to the edge of space. Details: The world’s richest people are at it again: dedicating large portions ...
What happened: If there are certain applications downloaded on your phone, WhatsApp will first suspend your account and then delete it in-case of non-compliance. At first, the account will be suspended temporarily and then deleted ...
ICT Police’s Gender Protection Unit was created to make it easy for women and children to access justice and protection systems in case of violence and sexual harassment. The Unit can be contacted by dialing ...
What happened: Indian Matchmaking, a Netflix series that aired about a year ago, has just bagged an Emmy Award nomination under the category: Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program. And everyone is shocked! Details: Indian Matchmaking was announced as ...
What happened: A film based on the investigation of sexual harassment cases against Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement that followed is expected to premier in cinemas by November 2022. Details: The film stars Carey ...
What happened: While drilling a water bore, oil was discovered in Islamabad’s H/13 Sector. As residents found out about the accidental discovery, many started drilling for oil. They used suction machines to pump out oil ...
What happened: In attempts to attract employees, McDonald’s in the US is offering emergency childcare support to its employees. There are reports that McDonald’s could also be offering eldercare, wage and benefits workshops, and tuition ...
What happened: Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan commander has said. Details: Siddiqui had been based ...
What happened: Uttar Pradesh (UP), the most populous state in India, has proposed a two-child legislation that seeks to restrict couples from having more than two children. The population density in this state is more ...
What happened: Taliban have distributed leaflets in their controlled territories, ordering locals to follow strict rules that are similar to those they imposed on Afghans. Most of these laws are highly repressive towards women, including prohibiting women to ...
What happened: PM Imran Khan has announced that Pakistan and Uzbekistan will be making a film on Zaheer ud din Babar, the first Mughal emperor. The aim of this collaborative effort between Pakistan and Uzbekistan ...
What Happened: On Thursday, the European Union’s top court ruled that employers are allowed to forbid the wearing of visible symbols of religious or political belief, such as hijab. This happened in a ruling of ...
What Happened: The Eiffel Tower is to reopen to visitors for the first time in nine months following its longest closure since World War II. Details: Daily capacity is set to be restricted to 13,000 ...
What happened: Provincial Minister for Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Syed Sardar Ali Shah inaugurated the newly converted Mukhi House Museum in Hyderabad. The house was built in 1920 by a prominent figure of Hyderabad, Mukhi ...
What Happened: Qatar announced a new immigration policy through which Pakistanis will be able to attain Qatar’s visa on arrival at the airport. Details: According to details, Pakistani citizens would attain a 30-day tourist visa ...
What happened: The fourth COVID wave is getting stronger in Pakistan as positive cases rise by 28.5 per cent in a single day from 1,980 cases on Wednesday to more than 2,500 on Thursday. Details: ...
What happened: In a tweet, Twitter announced that they were going to kill the disappearing stories feature ‘fleet’ starting August 3. Twitter wrote “we’re sorry or you’re welcome,” acknowledging that they were going to receive varying ...
What happened: 32 year-old Filipino woman, Sheela, was found dead in her Upper Gizri apartment on Wednesday. The woman who lived in the same building, also a Filipino, reported the death to the police. Details: ...
What happened: Another victim reported being harassed and blackmailed by Usman Mirza. She notified that she had filed a complaint with the FIA’s Cyber Crime Cell in Rawalpindi, however, the anti-cybercrime body had ignored her ...
What happened: Today, a spokesman of Afghan Taliban stated that they have captured the strategic border crossing of Spin Boldak along the frontier with Pakistan. The Taliban have launched a widespread offensive across Afghanistan since early May when US-led ...
What happened: Ten people were killed and over 39 were injured in a vehicle blast near a labor camp in Upper Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The bus was carrying staff working on the Dasu Dam, including ...
What happened: Dr. Javairia Hassan, a 30-year old Pakistani doctor working in UAE, has been awarded a golden visa for her crucial contribution as a frontline worker in UAE’s fight against the pandemic. Details: Dr Javairia Hassan ...
What happened: Deep Dive Dubai opened on July 7 and is named the world’s deepest diving pool by the Guinness World Records. People can dive 60 metres (197 ft) into a sunken city-themed landscape and play ...
What Happened: Mass conversion of Hindus has been reported from Malti area in Sindh where around 60 Hindus were made to recite Kalimas under the former municipal chairperson of Malti area in Sindh Abdul Rauf ...
What happened: Pakistani artist Arooj Aftab’s track Mohabbat was featured in the former US president Barack Obama’s summer playlist. Tracks by other iconic artists such as Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z, Bob Dylan were listed ...
What happened: On Sunday, British billionaire Richard Branson flew more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight ...
What happened: A pet owner whose dogs attacked a lawyer in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has reached an out-of-court settlement agreeing to euthanize the animals involved in the episode, besides also accepting other terms. Details: ...
The Punjab government has announced that the largest fruit forest of Asia is being planted in Lahore. More than 1.1 million trees have already been planted at more than 51 places in Lahore. Click here ...
What Happened: Chinese conservation officials have announced that Giant Pandas are no longer an endangered species. After years of research and work, their population rose to 1800 and their status has been updated to “vulnerable.” ...
What happened: On Friday, the Food and Drug Authority of Saudi Arabia approved the use of Moderna vaccine in the Kingdom, making it the fourth vaccine approved there. Soon the import of the two-dose vaccine ...
What happened: Instagram disabled the Palestine Action account ( @pal_action) which had over 40K followers. Palestine Action is an organization, based mainly in UK, working to end UK’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians. ...
Who is Usman Khan: Usman Khan, a 28 year old, used to be a toy vendor on the streets of Peshawar. Now he is the Charlie Chaplin cheering up Peshawaris. Usman comes from a struggling ...
What happened: On Thursday, Olympic organizers notified that spectators will not be allowed to attend most Olympic events. The decision was taken after Tokyo’s declaration of a state of emergency in response to a sudden ...
What Happened: Under the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) programme, UK will assist Pakistan with its expertise to detect new and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19, a British High Commission press release said. Details: ...
What Happened: Murad Raas, the Provincial Education Minister of Punjab, announced that the first transgender school opened up in Multan today. Details: Murad Raas had earlier announced to open separate schools for the transgender community ...
What Happened: Fourteen rockets were fired on Wednesday at the Ain al-Assad air base which hosts American troops in western Iraq, a spokesman for the US-led coalition said. Details: At least two US soldiers in ...
What happened: TikTok has launched an option to upload video resumes for its users for US-based jobs raging from entry level positions to more experienced positions. The “TikTok Resumes” option will be open between July ...
What happened: In an upcoming book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election”, an exchange between Trump and his chief of staff John Kelly is recounted where Trump reportedly said to John that “Hitler did a ...
What Happened: Today marks the 5th death anniversary of Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistan’s best known humanitarian and the late founder of the Edhi Foundation. Despite having limited resources, he served humanity selflessly and was acknowledged ...
Who is she: Nora al Matrooshi is a 28-year old mechanical engineer from the UAE who is currently training to become an astronaut. She has dreamt about space since she was a little girl, wanting ...
What happened: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has confirmed that different COVID-19 variants including Delta (Indian), Beta (South African), and Alpha (UK) have been detected in Pakistan. Such variants have been present in ...
What Happened: Two coaches of a freight train detached from the engine near Dad Laghari railway crossing in Sindh’s district of Ghotki on Wednesday. No casualty has been reported in the incident. Details: The freight ...
What Happened: Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, addressed a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. Details: He stated that the second biggest Indian-sponsored terrorist network was involved in the recent Lahore blast. ...
What Happened: On Monday, Foodpanda workers staged a protest in Lahore over the inhumane and overly exploitative practices of the company. They demanded fairer wages and better working conditions from the company. Details: The delivery ...
What happened: Out of 50 countries Pakistan has ranked 3rd in The Economist’s Global Normalcy Index. This index shows which countries are returning to the pre-pandemic levels of normal life. Pakistan’s normalcy score out of ...
What happened: Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an “overwhelming success” and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said. Details: The trials run by Reykjavík City Council Iceland and ...
What happened: Fawad Chaudhry, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, announced that federal government has decided to construct a new international standard airport in Skardu. The airport will promote tourism and meet the requirements of international ...
What Happened: Reporters Without Borders, a press watchdog group, listed 37 world leaders as media “predators” who “crack down massively” on press freedom, including Imran Khan and Narendra Modi. Details: Reporters Without Borders, also known ...
What happened: Reporters without Borders (RSF) published a new report for 2021 which details predators of press freedom across the world. This report lists heads of state or governments that restrict press freedom and impose ...
What Happened: Local media reported the loss of contact with Russian AN-26 plane with at least 28 people on board. The plane has gone missing in Kamchatka Peninsula. Details: The An-26 was flying from Kamchatka’s ...
What happened: French prosecutors are investigating claims against a Saudi prince for keeping seven women as slaves in his apartment outside of Paris. Most of the women were from Philippines and filed complains of “modern-day ...
What Happened: Jeff Bezos stepped down from Amazon on Monday exactly 27 years after he founded the company. Details: He will be retiring from the role of CEO at the age of 57 with an estimated ...
What Happened: On Friday, the Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce, said that Pakistan, Abdul Razak Dawood, is a major potential producer of mangoes and predicted that up to 160,000 Metric Tons (MT) of mangoes ...
What happened: The UAE government has announced a 10-year “Golden Residency” visa to outstanding students in efforts to attract talented people to the country. The students need an average of at least 95 percent in ...
What happened: In a successful operation, Pakistan Customs, seized millions worth expired Indian-made cosmetics from a warehouse in Lahore and a case against the warehouse owner has been registered. The truck carrying the cosmetics was ...
What happened: Sindh High Court’s official website, (www.sindhhighcourt.gov.pk), was hacked by Indian hacker group by the name of “Indian Cyber Troops” over the weekend. Details: The hackers also shared some pictures on the hacked website. ...
What happened: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KPK), provincial health department has announced that Pakistani expatriate workers who are stuck in Pakistan and unable to travel abroad to their duty stations can now be given Moderna COVID-19 vaccine ...
What happened: The Pew Research Center in Washington conducted a survey through nearly 30,000 face-to-face interviews in India from 2019-2020. The results of the survey concluded that majority of Hindus in India believe that one ...
What Happened: Prime Minister Imran Khan will his undertake ‘historic’ visit to Gwadar today. He will inaugurate Gwadar Free Zone, the Expo Center and Agricultural Industrial Park three factories in Gwadar with the specific aim to ...
What Happened: Amidst the monsoon season, 183 buildings in Rawalpindi have been declared dangerous for living by civic agencies. Residents are extremely concerned and worried as they can neither leave the residence nor get them ...
What Happened: Shireen Mazari, the Minister for Human Rights, introduced “The Domestic Violence (Preventation and Protection) Bill, 2021,” in the Senate sitting held on 27th May 2021. The Upper House unanimously passed the landmark Bill ...
What happened: According to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company, a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a massive fire on the ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday. Details: Ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico ...
What happened: Unmarked graves of hundreds of indigenous children have been discovered in Canada at the sites of controversial former “Residential Schools”. This discovery has reopened painful wounds for indigenous and other communities in Canada. ...
What happened: Asad Umar, The Federal Minister for Planning, has announced that Pakistanis who have to travel abroad especially for work or studies will now be able to get the two-dose Moderna Vaccine. Some countries ...
What happened: On Friday, Civil Aviation Authority (CCA) asked five foreign airlines to accommodate passengers affected by flight cancellations in recent weeks with the “earliest possible flights”. Details: CAA issued notices to five foreign airlines ...
What happened: Skater Girl on Netflix is directed by an Indian filmmaker Manjari Makijany but it does not credit the Indian girl, Asha Gond, the film is based on. The 21 year old Asha says ...
What happened: There are new regulations on influencers in Norway to help combat “body pressure in society”. Youth groups and Norway’s Ministry of Children and Family Affairs have advocated for strict measures over concerns around ...
What happened: Over the past week extreme heatwave has killed about 500 people in Canada. British Columbia in Canada has experienced the worst of the temperatures with hundreds of “sudden deaths” reports. Canada’s highest ever ...
What happened: The Guinness World Records announced that Puerto Rico’s Emilio Flores Marquez is as the world’s oldest living man at the age of 112 years and 326 days old. Details: He was born in ...
What happened: Bashir Ahmed Baba is from Srinagar and was jailed in an Indian jail in 2010. The charges against him by the police were proven false after 12 years. He was cleared of all ...
What happened: At the centenary of the ruling Communist Party, PM Imran Khan spoke to Chinese journalists to praise the Communist Party. Imran Khan also questioned the version of the Uighur situation that was being ...
What happened: Mashal Aamir won the Diana Award on 28th June for her services to humanity and welfare marking a great honour for Pakistan and for KPK. She has participated in Welfare activities throughout Pakistan, ...
What happened: American comedian Bill Cosby, who had allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted 60 women, now walks free due to an overturned conviction. Cosby was arrested for sexual assault charges in 2018 but had now ...
What happened: Due to extreme weather in China, the high demand for power has hit the nation’s electricity grid. There are strict limits on coal usage for power forcing the country to rely on power ...
Who is Anil Kumar Chowhan: Anil Kumar Chowhan is a self-taught calligraphy artist from Hyderabad, India. His career in painting started over 30 years ago, with him getting into first painting signboards for shops and ...
What happened: Pakistan has reportedly ordered the seal of its Taftan border to its neighbouring country, Iran, in order to curtail the spread of the coronavirus from Iran’s city Zahedan. Sources claim; “No one is ...
What happened: 81 ancient isolation chambers that are carved in caves have been discovered in Oman. They are said to be used to isolate patients of plague and smallpox in the olden days. “The aim ...
What happened: A man was forced to sell his car after his 7-year-old son bought an online game called Dragons: Rise of Berk for about £109. Foreign media reported that the child had no idea ...
What happened: On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Interior Ministry and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) about a report of around 1,000 Schengen visa stickers stolen from the locker room of the Italian ...
What happened: According to the listing by German company VAAY, Karachi is one of the 10 most stressful cities in the world to live in 2021. The list is created by analysing 15 major stress ...
What happened: Furqan Butt, a 21-year old from Karachi, was diagnosed with Pycnodysostosis, a rare skeletal abnormality that made him get inexplicable fractures. Although, he was told that his disease was was incurable, Furqan did ...
What happened: On June 7, the Jerusalem municipality issued a series of expulsion and demolition orders to residents of the al-Bustan area in Silwan. The demolitions, which aim to make way for Jewish settlements, began ...
What Happened: Authorities raided a house in a district of Phnom Penh in Cambodia to salvage an 18-month-old lion that had been defanged, declawed and illegally kept as a pet. Details: It was reported that ...
What happened: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his concern over the “grave violations” against children in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK). He insisted the Indian government to take preventive measures to safeguard children, by ending the ...
What happened White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday that the Biden administration is sending 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan. It will also be sending two million doses of ...
What happened: The United Arab Emirates has extended the ban on flights from Pakistan and 13 other countries till July 21. Backstory: According to report by the Gulf News, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) to prolong ...
What happened: National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has released a document stating that from July 1 inbound flights from United Kingdom (UK), Europe, Canada, China and Malaysia will be increased from 20pc to 40pc. ...
What happened: A meeting of the parliamentary committee has been summoned by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on 1st July to discuss national security matters, including the matter of US bases inside Pakistan. Details: COAS ...
What Happened: Loay Elbasyouni, a Palestinian from Gaza, is one of engineers that designed NASA’s mini Mars helicopter Ingenuity. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter was attached to the Perseverance rover that landed on the red planet on ...
What happened: Human Rights Watch (HRW) says four Pakistani men had disappeared in October 2020 and at least six others had been deported by UAE authorities because of their Shia faith. The HRW report furthers ...
What happened: A Muslim woman in hijab was knocked unconscious on a St. Albert pathway Wednesday after she and her sister were attacked by a knife-wielding man uttering racial slurs, police say. Backstory: At 12:30 ...
What happened: Before the Judge passed the sentence against Derek Chauvin, his mother defended him by pleading leniency and telling the judge that her son was a good man and innocent. Chauvin was sentenced to ...
What happened: 650 US troops are expected to stay back in Afghanistan after the American military withdrawal to provide security cover to US diplomats and assist Turkish troops at Kabul Airport. Details: A Turkey-led security ...
What Happened: Facebook expands its initiative ‘SheMeansBusiness’ through another initiative called ‘Business Resilience through Financial Education (BRFE)’. The platform aims to bolster women-empowerment in Pakistan by encouraging financial inclusion and growth of women-led businesses. Backstory: ...
What happened: Sajid Ali Sadpara and a filmmaker Elia Saikaly announced on Thursday that they will be climbing the K2 for a ground search of 3 missing climbers. Backstory: The three missing climbers are the ...
What happened: There are now more than 40 cases of new COVID-19 Delta Plus variant in India. Indian authorities warn that this a “variant of concern”. It is also known as the AY.1 variant. Details: ...
What happened: Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea, in a broadcast at an auditorium gave some commands to the hundreds of North Korean women seated there. With little choice in a totalitarian ...
What happened: Ads for the top producer of metallurgical-grade silicon (MGS), Hoshine Silicon, ask for only applicants who speak Mandarin, have clean political record, and are able to “bear hardships”. According to research, state labour ...
What Happened: Pakistan’s Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) and Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has received outstanding achievement award from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the ...
What happened: A special PIA plane carrying two million doses of Sinovac vaccine from China landed in Islamabad on Wednesday. “This is part of the planned contracted quantity purchased from China. The National Disaster Management ...
What happened: The world’s largest cargo aircraft, known as Antonov An-225 Mriya, landed at Karachi airport on Wednesday. Background: The Russian-made aircraft is said to be the longest and heaviest plane ever built. It is ...
Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind, Balochistan Education Minister and parliamentary party leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, announced his resignation on Wednesday. Ex Minister further indicated that he would take the decision to leave the PTI after ...
What happened: US has warned the Taliban that they will not assist a government imposed by force in Afghanistan and will only continue financial assistance if a recognized government is in charge. Taliban has expanded ...
What happened: Indian officials have held discussions with Taliban representatives in order to safeguard Indian investments in Afghanistan. Details: The Indian media reports that this is the first time a senior Qatari official has confirmed ...
What Happened: Republican Senator Jim Risch continues to support the withholding of the $75m economic funding that the US Congress had already approved for Palestine assistant. Using procedures under a 2018 US law, he said ...
What the vaccine offers: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is found to be more than 90pc effective against hospitalisation from Delta and Kappa variants. Details: The Delta and Kappa variants were first identified in India which ...
What happened: US government sources tell Reuters and The Associated Press that US Justice Department and Commerce Department have seized about three dozen websites. Details: The websites seized include Press TV, Al-Alam, Houthi and Palestinian ...
What Happened: Due to the continuous rise in the sea-surface temperature, the formation of tropical cyclones in the Arabian sea has increased 10 times during the last 20 years. In the years to come, the ...
What happened: PM Imran Khan’s comments regarding India’s Hindutva Ideology in the interview by Jonathan Swan of HBO Axios seem to be missing from the aired interview. The Information Ministry has been given the task ...
What happened: Prime Minister, Imran Khan, stated Pakistan’s priorities in Afghanistan in Washington Post’s op-ed. He wrote that Pakistan is willing to play a diplomatic role to ensure peace in Afghanistan, yet will not host ...
The investigative report: A new report published on Thursday by Amnesty has labeled the draconian measures taken by the Chinese government against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region as ‘crimes against ...
Changing climate patterns wreak havoc on world's oldest animal painting in an Indonesian cave.
Sikh temples, also known as gurdwaras, usually serve free food to the public for goodwill. With the Coronavirus crisis quickly exacerbating, however, these temples are now offering free oxygen to passing vehicles via hundreds of ...
US senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called out the far right extremist attacks by Israel’s forces in Jerusalem and Gaza. Sanders criticized the actions, calling them an unrequired escalation to the Israel-Palestine crisis. Recent spiraling ...
Twitter users bashed Malala Yousufzai, following her heavily centered, diplomatic comments on the Israel Attack on Jerusalem. Malala tweeted regarding the recent escalation in the region, following an attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday by ...
The issue: Israeli courts have ruled that the land owned in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Jerusalem is owned by Israelis, which has led to demands of 4 Palestenian families’ evictions by the Israelis. Violent ...
The Rocket: The Chinese Rocket, Long March 5 was launched last week as part of the program for the Chinese Space Station. Parts of the rocket were expected to be the future living space for ...
UN speak: The United Nations have told Israel to stop any further expansion and forced evictions in East Jerusalem. They have stated that any further action in this regard by Israel will be termed as ...
Chelsea go through: The second leg of the semi final between Chelsea FC and Real Madrid commenced last night at Stamford Bridge in London. From the get-go Chelsea looked energetic and looked to have the ...
New records: India saw its highest single-day death toll due to COVID-19 yesterday, as 3,971 people succumbed to the virus nationwide. It also saw cases rise up to 412,095, which is the highest single day ...
The announcement: The US e-commerce giant Amazon has finally decided to add Pakistan to its approved sellers list, announced Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan for Commerce and Investment Abdul Razzak Dawood. Razak said this ...
What Happened: U.S President Joe Biden has shown his support in waiving intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines, after being pressured by over a 60 countries and Democrat officials. India and South Africa: India and ...
What happened: The Indian delegation at the G7 conference in the UK is self isolating, after it was revealed that two members of the delegation had tested positive. The meeting was titled as ‘COVID secure ...
The situation in Kandahar: Fierce fighting erupted in the Helmand province between government forces and the Taliban as the U.S forces began their first day of pull out from Afghanistan. Around 1,000 families had to ...
What Happened: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran khan took note of the EU parliament reviewing Pakistan’s GSP+ status and preferential treatment granted to Pakistan. PM Khan took disappointed at these developments and said that he would ...
SBP: The state bank of Pakistan has announced that there will be no new ‘eidi’ notes releasing this year on Eid Ul Fitr due to the spread of the coronavirus. The State Bank of Pakistan ...
The Australian Ban: The Australian ministry has said that Australian citizens travelling home from India could face fines and up to five years in jail. The Health Ministry has said that they made the ruling ...
What happened: The EU Parliament has adopted a resolution calling to review Pakistan’s GSP+ status among other trade links over concerns on how the blasphemy law in the country is unregulated and how these accusations ...
Saudi Crown Prince: While speaking to Al Arabiya TV, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has stated that they want good relations with their ‘arch rival’ Iran to push the Middle East to prosperity. ...
What happened: The world renowned Khewra pink salt is set to be registered as a local product of Khewra with international trading bodies.The federal cabinet recently approved that the Pakistan Minerals Development Corporation will be ...
What Happened: An Indian man in the Uttar Pradesh state is being prosecuted for trying to arrange oxygen for his grandfather dying, through Twitter. State officers have charged Shashank Yadav with spreading a ‘rumor’ over ...
In Testing: The multinational pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced human safety testing of a new pill to treat corona-virus at home last month. If these trials are successful, the at home drug could be prescribed at ...
Jerusalem: Since the start of the month of Ramadan, the Israeli police has been committing crimes against muslims in the region to a certain degree that include harassment, obstruction to prayer, looting, death threats and ...
The proposal: Sri Lanka’s cabinet approved a controversial proposal to ban all forms of full-face veils, including Muslim burqas in public citing security concerns. This proposal has come to cabinet despite the United Nation’s comment ...
Pakistan on Jerusalem: Pakistan condemned the alarming situation of the Ramadan violence against Muslims in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to a statement by the Pakistani Foreign Office, Pakistan is watching the developments in Palestine ...
The Event: The 93rd academy awards finally happened after being delayed for two months because of the impact of COVID 19. This was the first time that the event was held virtually and in-person. The ...
The Issue: As the world enters the second year of the pandemic, vaccine production is in full swing. Many countries have entered the race of vaccine production, and with kind of mass production, patents follow. ...
The Event: The Leaders Summit is currently underway virtually in Washington, which started on Wednesday. It is being attended by leaders from 40+ countries which include the world’s biggest carbon emission producers. Pakistan’s efforts: Special ...
What’s happening: As India battles the brutal third wave of COVID-19, reactions have started pouring out globally on how horrible the situation is and what other countries can do to help. A harrowing video report ...
What Happened: Indonesian navy submarine ‘Nanggala-402’ went missing during a military torpedo drill on Wednesday. Reports suggest that the submarine lost contact with radar after getting authorization to dive into deeper waters. A search operation ...
Russia’s plans: Russia is in plans to breakaway from the International Space Station and build their own, if approved by President Vladimir Putin. According to Roscosmos, Russia is expected to leave the ISS by 2025 ...
The Situation: A record of 315,802 COVID-19 cases have been recorded in India in the past 24 hours, the highest daily global total. Fatalities were reported to be around 2,104 across the country. The lethal ...
A Change: For the first time in history, Saudi Arabian regulatory authorities have deployed female security officers within the Haram of Makkah’s Grand Mosque. Pictures of these officers were shared by the Saudi Ministry of ...
What Happened: On Tuesday, the long-awaited verdict in the trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was announced. Last year in May, he knelt on 46-year-old George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, leading ...
What Happened: On Sunday, 12 European football clubs announced that they will be collaborating to form a new breakaway European Super League (ESL) which would rival the existing Champions League. This move is the biggest ...
What Happened: For the first time since the initial COVID-19 outbreak in march, 2020, some degree of normalcy has returned to international travel. On Monday. Australia and New Zealand finally launched their awaited trans-Tasman travel ...
One month after Uber lost a legal battle in the UK that started off in 2016, over drivers’ status, the US firm says it will give its 70,000 drivers in the UK a guaranteed minimum wage, paid ...
China is working on its fourth aircraft carrier and it is “likely to be nuclear powered”, a new report revealed on Saturday, citing sources close to the People’s Liberation Army. Delays: After a two-year delay because ...
India Twitteratis attack Spiderman star Tom Holland confusing him with the British author and cricketer of the same name. The feud started after the author Tom Holland tweeted about Indian Prime Minister Modi, which fueled ...
What happened US intelligence agencies disclosed in a newly declassified intelligence report that Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown ...
What happened? Brandon Soules, 19, pleaded guilty at a February 18 sentencing hearing for falsely reporting that he was kidnapped in order to avoid going to work. He was ordered to pay a $550 fine. ...
What Happened? In a landmark ruling under China’s new civil code, a Beijing court has ordered a man to pay his divorce-seeking wife thousands of dollars in compensation for shouldering five years’ worth of household ...
What happened Cinemas are shut down in many parts of the world due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions however, Chinese consumers are watching movies so much these days that box-office revenues are breaking records. Chinese consumers ...
Who is Jared Kushner? Jared Kushner is a Former White House senior adviser and also the son-in-law to former US President, Donald Trump. He has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Prize by Harvard Law ...
What you should know Renowned sneaker company Atoms and Queer Eye star Tan France have collaborated to release a special edition shoe. Atoms whose owners are Pakistani and France who also happens to be of Pakistani descent ...
What happened? In Australia, the tech giant, Google is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government. Earlier In December, the government introduced “world-first” legislation which forced tech giants to pay local ...
What happened Nepal revoked the Everest summit certificates of two Indian climbers for faking the 2016 ascent, and banned them along with their team leader from mountaineering in the country for the next six years, ...
Goats in Zoom meetings? Dot McCarthy is a farmer from Rossendale, Lancashire she said the number of people paying for “show goat” Lola and others to butt in on calls had been “insane”. She ...
An Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian famous for his dissent towards western medicine, posted that interacting with people who receive the Covid-19 vaccine will turn one homosexual. Posting on social media platform Telegram on Tuesday, ...
In a live stream of a virtual court proceeding, a Texas lawyer accidentally left a kitten filter on and was unable to change it, eventually responding to a judge’s query about why he was being addressed by ...
What Happened Joseph Flavill, a 19-year old British teenager woke-up from a coma after almost a year with no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic. Flavill suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by ...
What Happened? On Friday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it has jurisdiction in Palestine, clearing its chief prosecutor to investigate alleged atrocities despite intense Israeli objections. Fatou Bensouda, the ICC chief prosecutor, previously ...
What is this device? Chinese device-maker Xiaomi published a YouTube video where it revealed its “Mi Air Charge Technology” that is in development, showing off some vague details about its upcoming long-range wireless power system. ...
In an interview with BBC, Tursunay Ziawudun who spent nine months inside China’s network of internment camps reported sexual abuse. She alleges: ‘The men always wore masks even though there was no pandemic then. They ...
Peace talks In an interview with a local news agency, TCM, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid when asked about the role of foreign countries and their interference in the Afghan peace negotiations mentioned that, “no ...
What Happened Muslim comedian Munawar Faruqui is being charged under Section 295A of India’s penal code, which prohibits “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious ...
Bombay High Court acquitted a 39-year-old man charged with groping a 12-year-old girl since there was “no skin-on-skin contact,” and ruled that groping a child through their clothing does not constitute as sexual assault. Outrage ...
What happened: A report recently released by the Center for Global Policy suggests that more than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been forced into picking cotton. The findings of the report ...
Wearable ketamine either sounds like a fashion brand named by a teenager or a street name for ketamine cut with other drugs, but in fact it is neither of those things. Wearable ketamine is a ...
What happened: Hundreds of boys that were kidnapped from their boarding school by Boko Haram last week, have now been released according to local authorities in north-western Nigeria. 344 schoolboys have been released unharmed according ...
What happened: Officials from the American Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) notified congressional oversight, today, that they have evidence both the DOE and NNSA have been infiltrated by hackers. ...
What happened: The largest-ever haul of cocaine in the Marshall Islands was found by police on an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll, after drifting on the high seas, potentially for years. ...
What happened: The city authorities of Paris have been fined for having too many women in senior roles, a move that the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, deemed absurd. The public service ministry of France ...
What happened: A Sikh priest committed suicide at the Indian farmers’ protest, which is still ongoing against the Modi government’s new policies, at border between Delhi and Haryana state. A suicide letter left behind by ...
What happened: During this year, in an unprecedented glut of judicial killing, the Trump Administration rushed to put 10 prisoners to death. The execution spree ran roughshod over historical norms and stood entirely contrary to the decline ...
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, was signed by Governor Anandiben Patel on the 28th of November. It was formulated four days earlier by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, against forced and fraudulent ...
What happened: John Brennan, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief has claimed that Israel was instrumental in helping the U.S locate Osama Bin Laden. The former leader of the Al-Qaeda was killed in his Abbottabad ...
What happened: The bodies of muslim Covid-19 victims are forcefully being cremated, and their families are being asked to foot the cost of cremation in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is one of the few countries ...
What happened: According to the BBC, Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman hailing from Northern Ireland, has become the first person to receive a full dose of the new Pfizer/BionTech Covid-19 vaccine outside of ongoing trials. ...
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