US President Joe Biden has laid out a sweeping investment plan for jobs, education and social care in his first speech to a joint session of Congress. Delivered on the eve of his 100th day in office, the Democrat pitched some $4 trillion (£2.9tn) in spending - the largest

Islamabad [Pakistan]: As the total public sector stocks depleted to less than three weeks of consumption level, Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Monday underscored the need to build six million metric tons of strategic wheat reserves. In a National Price Monitoring Committee

NEW DELHI: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has rotated two large field formations it had deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in 2020-21 by inducting two fresh divisions earlier this month, Indian military and intelligence sources have revealed. In

SLAMABAD: The government’s move to form a special parliamentary committee on the issue of French envoy’s expulsion from Pakistan seems to have fizzled out as after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has affirmed his confidence in India’s ability to overcome the challenge of the resurgence in COVID-19 cases. He reiterated the UAE’s full support for and solidarity

CHAGAI: Another 224 Pakistani nationals were deported by the Iranian authorities on Sunday. According to official sources, these people had been arrested in different parts of Iran for not having valid traveling documents. They were handed over to Levies Force through Raahdari Gate at

Amid rising tensions with Beijing on multiple fronts, US officials have shared concerns that China may have compromised hundreds of federally funded scientists from different colleges and universities across the country. Over 500 US scientists are under probe for being compromised by

Athens, Greece: Document of the Oppressed (DOTO) which claims to be a non-profit documentation center which documents hate crime against religious minorities specifically in India, runs a vicious agenda to fool general public by providing them with misinformation, according to

New Delhi: More than 600 pieces of vital medical equipment will be sent to India to support the country in its fight against COVID-19, the British High Commission (BHC) announced on Sunday. A BHC release informed that the assistance package, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and

Peshawar: Pakistan's dilly-dallying approach towards normalising trade relations with India is proving to be a setback to Prime Minister Imran Khan's shift from a geostrategic to geo-economic foreign policy orientation. FM Shakil, writing in Asia Times, wrote that

Srinagar: Kashmir police has said Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detected in Pulwama region recently. They were found in Circle Road. Police said the IED was destroyed by Bomb Disposal Squad. Kashmir Police Zone tweeted: "Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detected at

Students across Pakistan have taken to Twitter on Thursday to protest the decision by the Imran Khan-led government and the Cambridge International Examinations to hold exams despite a spiralling coronavirus situation in the country. The protesting students' posts led to

Drivers, who are working along the Pakistan-Iran border, are likely to suffer from starvation. According to media reports, three Zambad drivers recently passed away at the Pakistan-Iran border due to starvation and thirst in the holy month of Ramadan. “That is what our fate

At least 82 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a fire that broke out in the coronavirus intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital as public anger erupted demanding the prosecution of high-level Iraqi officials. The blaze on Sunday at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital in the Iraqi

French energy group EDF took Friday a key step towards helping to build the world's biggest nuclear power plant in India, a project blocked for years by nuclear events and local opposition. The company said it had filed a binding offer to supply engineering studies and equipment to

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned an emergent meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) for Covid-19 on Friday as key decisions are expected from the meeting in the wake of rising coronavirus cases and deaths across the country. Sources told Pakistan Today

The Chinese government has continued to detain Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang despite claiming to have released all detainees, according to a report released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Commissioner.

Chinese communications giant Huawei was able to eavesdrop on any conversation taking place on one of the biggest mobile networks in the Netherlands. Hauwei staff were able to monitor all of KPN's mobile users and eavesdrop on their private conversations - and even knew which

Indonesian rescue teams are fearing the worst as oxygen supplies on a missing Indonesian naval submarine are thought to have run out. There are fears the vessel carrying 53 crew may already have sunk to a depth where it might have been crushed. The KRI Nanggala 402 disappeared on

The head of the Myanmar military is set to meet international leaders on his first known foreign trip since the army took power in a coup on 1 February. General Min Aung Hlaing is to attend a summit of the South East Asian regional body Asean in Indonesia. The military seized power