Govt housing scheme to be expanded to 4 more Punjab districts: Mian Rasheed

News Desk | Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Provincial Minister of Punjab for housing, urban development and public health engineering, has revealed that “by mid-February, Prime Minister Imran...

Brazil dam disaster: mourning and dead fish along river of mud

AFP | Five days after a dam collapse at a Brazilian mine, residents were mourning Wednesday the nearly 360 people killed and missing -- as...

Pakistan rejects US threat assessment report’s allegations

News Desk | Rejecting the allegations leveled by the US in its threat assessment report, foreign office spokesperson has said that such controversial statements will...

Ice instruments melt musical boundaries in Italian Alps

AFP | When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have...

Dangerous arctic chill sweeps over US Midwest

AFP | The polar vortex is here tens of millions of people in the United States braced Tuesday for a deep arctic chill, which authorities...

Canadian serial killer pleads guilty to eight murders

AFP | A Canadian landscaper on Tuesday pleaded guilty to the murders of eight men with links to Toronto's gay community and the mutilation of...

French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says

AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...

NBP declares half-yearly profit as NBP Funds inaugurates new Islamic savings centre

News Desk | The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has declared a half-yearly profit for the period July to December 2018, on deposits of Profit/Loss...

CJP Khosa shares his take on Aasiya Bibi’s #10YearChallenge – Maleeha Hashmey

Maleeha Hashmey | Man is the crown of all creations. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals, separated from law and justice...

Sahiwal Tragedy: Should the government form a Judicial Commission?

News Analysis | In a major development, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Tuesday rejected the joint investigation team’s (JIT) report on Sahiwal massacre,...

Trust Trump’s money for Facebook with earnings due

AFP | Winning back trust is seen as the key priority for Facebook as the world's biggest social network readies its update on the final...

Support for US Iran policy out of left field: China dramatically reduces trade with Tehran – Dr James M Dorsey

Dr James M Dorsey | China has dramatically reduced its trade with Iran in line with US sanctions, raising questions whether Iran will remain committed to...