Islamabad: A stadium filled up with people to observe a concert is a regular site but a large number of exam seekers assembling only to give an examination for recruitment of police constable is indeed making headlines in Pakistan.
Nowshera: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) recently launched a sit-in demonstration in Pakistan's Nowshera region against lawlessness, crimes and narcotics in the district, media reports said.
Islamabad: At least seven people were killed and five others injured on Monday in a road accident in the Kohat district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said a rescue official.
Mexico City: Ten guards and four inmates died after an attack on a prison in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office reported.
Gold Coast: At least four people died due to a mid-air collision between two helicopters in Australia's Gold Coast, media reports said on Monday.
Beijing: A Uyghur Muslim preacher, who was serving a five-year sentence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region for making a religious pilgrimage abroad, has died of liver cancer in prison, media reports said.
Beijing: China's reopening policy has arrived too late and this has failed to save the country’s mutual fund industry from another dismal year, media reports said on Saturday.
Islamabad: The Pakistani government has hiked prices of wheat flour, sugar and ghee by 25 to 62 per cent for sale through the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) with immediate effect, media reports said on Monday.
Tehran: Iranian foreign minister said nearly 60 US officials have been blacklisted by Tehran for their involvement in the assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
New York: Social media giant Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday shared a special picture where his wife Priscilla Chan could be seen expecting their third child.
Islamabad: A terrorist and a police constable died on Sunday when gunmen attacked a police checkpost in the Shahbaz Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat District in Pakistan, media reports said.
Pyongyang: North Korea commenced the new year by launching one short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) into the East Sea on Sunday, media reports said on Sunday.
Kabul: An explosion occurred on Sunday at a military airport in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Nafi Takoor said, adding that several people were killed or injured in the incident.
Pyongyang/UNI: North Korea test-fired its first short-range ballistic missile in 2023 toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday Yonhap news agency reports, citing the South Korean military.
Mexico City/UNI: A private tour bus has overturned in western Mexico, killing over a dozen people and injuring 47, the prosecutor’s office of the state of Nayarit said.
Rabat/ UNI: The Moroccan authorities have banned all people arriving from China from entering the country, amid a surge in coronavirus cases, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
New York: Top UN agency officials and civil society organization heads joined forces on Thursday to urge Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to reverse their ban on women working for NGOs that provide aid relief.
Vatican City: Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, nine years after he retired from the position, officials said on Saturday.
Peshawar: At least three terrorists died in the Arawali area of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtun­khwa region during a gunfight with terrorists on Thursday.
Islamabad: The government of Pakistan has decided to engage international operators to help run three major airports of the country, aiming to attract foreign direct investment and to provide world-class facilities to passengers, the Prime Minister's Office said.
Bajaur: Unknown attackers shot dead a local religious leader Maulana Azizullah Tahiri in Khar bazaar area of Pakistan's Bajaur district on Thursday, media reports said.
Peshawar: More than 225 doctors, including medical officers, emergency medical officers and specialists, appointed by the government to improve patient care in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have not received their salaries for the past four months, media reports said on Saturday.
Lahore: Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all set to launch another protest movement across Pakistan against the country's “skyrocketing inflation” and the “economic meltdown”.
New York: According to the latest UN survey, released on Friday, the Arab region registered a 12 per cent unemployment rate in 2022, the highest in the world.
New York: Days after the latest sea rescue of Rohingya refugees by Indonesian fishing crews, UN human rights chief Volker Türk appealed on Friday for greater regional protections.
Pyongyang: North Korea is ending the year by launching three short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korean officials claimed on Saturday.
Islamabad: Police recovered a mutilated body of a Hindu woman in Sindh province of Pakistan, media reports said on Friday.
A military-run court in Myanmar has sentenced Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi to seven years in prison for corruption, media reports said on Friday.
Phnom Penh: The death toll has risen to 25 after a massive fire engulfed a hotel-casino in northwest Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province, officials said on Friday.
Kyiv: The Ukrainian troops on Friday fired six missiles from multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) on the city of Donetsk, the Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC) said.
