Pune: At least 15 people, including four children, were killed when a portion of the compound wall of a housing society collapsed on shanties adjacent to it in Kondhwa here in the early hours of Saturday. The shanties were set up for labourers working in a nearby construction site. A fire brigade official said incessant rains […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday questioned the Government over the delay in holding the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking part in the discussion in the Lok Sabha on the statutory resolution moved by Union Home Minister Amit Shah which seeks six-month extension of President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir with effect from […]
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to meet US President Donald Trump soon. Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad that Trump had extended an invitation to Premier Imran. However, the prime minister could not travel to Washington because of the budget session. The foreign minister said […]
Peshawar: The first Sikh-only school will soon be established in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakthunkhwa, authorities have announced. The provincial Auqaf Department of the Khyber Pakthunkhwa Government decided to approve building the school and has allocated Rs 22 lakhs for its construction in the Peshawar city. “The elected representatives of the Sikh community had […]
Srinagar: Arvind Kumar, the number two at the Kashmir desk of the Intelligence Bureau, will replace Rajiv Jain at the top post, NDTV reported. “The Home Minister has signed the file and it has gone to PMO,” a senior officer in the Prime Minister’s Office told NDTV. Both officials will take charge on June 30. […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday signed three loan agreements worth a total of USD 918 million with the World Bank, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser on finance has said as the cash-strapped country tries to overcome a ballooning balance-of-payments crisis that threatens to cripple its economy. The amount will be used to fund three projects — USD […]
Islamabad: At least five people were killed and several others injured after two groups clashed inside a hospital in Nankana Sahib district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, local media reported on Tuesday. According to Xinhua, the groups that from two different clans opened fire at each other late Monday over some petty dispute in the […]
Islamabad: Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed would be the new chief of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI, the Army has announced. According to the media report here, the Pakistan Army on Sunday announced a number of changes to postings of its top generals. Hameed has been appointed as the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (DG […]
Islamabad: In a comedy of errors, a person streaming live on Facebook a conference by a Pakistani minister accidentally activated the cat filter, according to a media report Saturday. Photos of Khyber Pakhtukhwa’s Minister of Information Shoukat Yousufzai and his fellow ministers with cat ears and whiskers quickly went viral on social media, Dawn news […]
Bishkek: Pakistan will hold talks with India on the “basis of equality” and in a “dignified manner”, and it is up to New Delhi whether to engage with Islamabad to resolve all outstanding issues, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said. Qureshi, who was in the Kyrgyz capital to attend the 19th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation […]
