WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has suggested founding an initiative from “democratic” countries to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as tensions spike between the Asian power and Western nations. Biden said late on Friday that he floated the proposal in a call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid a row over […]
SWAT: the government has reopened Saidu Sharif Airport, Swat, for commercial flights and after 17 years the national flag carrier (PIA) restored its flight operation to the airport on Friday. The first flight, PK-650, touched down at airport carrying selected passengers from Islamabad. Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Federal Ministers Ghulam Sarwar and Murad Saeed were
Retreating glaciers in the Himalayas are not only dangerously filling up glacial lakes but they are also causing other hazards that are not being monitored, scientists have warned. The recent flash flood disaster in India\’s Uttarakhand state, they say, is the latest example of such a perilous knowledge gap. The Himalayas have the largest number
Anti-vaccination protesters have gathered across Australia ahead of the launch of the country\’s coronavirus inoculation programme, BBC reported. Protests were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with participants chanting slogans like: \”My body, my choice.\” The rallies were largely peaceful, but police made several arrests in Melbourne, local media reported. The national rollout
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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
India has suspended mobile internet services in three areas around the capital, Delhi, where farmers are staging a hunger strike in protest at new agriculture laws, BBC reported. The government said the shutdown would continue until Sunday night to \”maintain public safety\”. Tens of thousands of protesting farmers have been camped out on Delhi\’s outskirts
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ISLAMABAD: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Serena Hotels, Aziz Boolani on Tuesday said Serena Hotel always felt proud to support the talented women of Pakistan as they were equally talented like their male counterparts. For this purpose, Serena Hotel has been hosting various events and organizing initiatives to highlight female talent. He was addressing a
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Rescuers in China have freed 11 gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks. TV footage showed the first miner, who was blindfolded to protect his eyes from the light, being lifted out as emergency workers cheered. The fate of 10 other miners remains unknown, as rescue operations continue to try
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
