President Joe Biden has endorsed the effort to return to the Moon that was initiated under his predecessor Donald Trump, BBC reported. There had been speculation over the direction the new administration might take on the Artemis programme. The plan would see the next man and the first woman land on the lunar surface in […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has apprised the National Assembly that the per capita debt jumped to Rs175,000 at the end of last fiscal year – an additional burden of Rs54,901 or 46% on every citizen within two years. In the Fiscal Policy Statement of 2020-21, the Ministry of Finance also admitted that the government violated the
ISLAMABAD: With the vaccination process officially launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, the government is confident that Pakistani citizens will be fully inoculated by the end of the year. The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) has drawn up detailed plans for procuring the vaccine, distributing it and administering it to the citizens
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A man who was missing in Australia for 18 days has been found after surviving on mushrooms and dam water, BBC reported. Search efforts launched after Robert Weber, 58, went missing in the state of Queensland were called off last week. But police said he had been found near a dam on Sunday by a
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A group of 10 Nepali Sherpas on Jan 16, 2021, made history when they scaled K2, the killer mountain, for the first time in the winter. \”THE IMPOSSIBLE IS MADE POSSIBLE! K2 winter – History made for mankind, History made for Nepal,\” said Nirma Purja, one Nepali veteran mountaineer, on twitter. At 17:00 hrs local
Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir To the former North West Frontier was in a way colonial British India’s answer to the Wild West of North America – with the local inhabitants taking the place of the Native Americans as a savage yet honorable people. The Siege of Chitral in 1895 was considered one of the last
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane was impounded in Malaysia due to a British court case over the jet\’s lease, the national flag carrier said on Friday. The Boeing 777 aircraft was seized after a court order, the airline said, and alternative arrangements were being made for passengers due to fly from Kuala Lumpur back
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KARACHI: Broadsheet LLC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kaveh Moussavi has said that he had \”voluntarily\” identified a suspicious bank account in the United Kingdom having an amount of $1 billion but the government of Pakistan has not shown any interest in tracing it. Responding to a question in an interview with BBC Urdu on Friday, he said that the
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Countries only have only a limited time in which to act if the world is to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Here are five reasons why 2021 could be a crucial year in the fight against global warming. Covid-19 was the big issue of 2020, there is no question about that. But
A turning point in human evolution has been identified through reanalysis of a single stone tool found in Tabun Cave in northern Israel, from about 350,000 years ago. It had been used not to bash animals or butcher their carcasses but to abrade soft material, possibly animal hides, much earlier in human evolution than had
