Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environment campaigner, has been awarded a new humanitarian prize worth one million euros. The 17-year-old founder of School Strike for Climate, won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. Judges described her as "one of the most remarkable

Sindh Agriculture Minister Muhammad Ismail Rahoo demanded the Centre take immediate action and register a case against former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan on Thursday, after he allegedly threatened Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto

The US State Department has released two  partially redacted versions of unclassified memos written by American officials who had visited Wuhan Institute of Virology and expressed concerns over the safety protocols and practices followed by the laboratory in 2018, media reports said.

The Saudi Supreme Court said that Dul Al-Hijjah will begin on July 22, and that Arafat Day (Dul Al-Hijjah) will fall on July 30. So, the first day of Eid Al-Azha will be on July 31. Pilgrims Selected to perform the Hajj this year started a seven-day quarantine on Sunday, the Ministry of

The UK will "bear the consequences" if it continues to go "down the wrong road" on Hong Kong, China has warned. On Monday, the UK suspended an extradition treaty with Hong Kong over a new security law for the ex-colony, which gives Beijing more power. In response, the Chinese

In its strong reply to China, India has said the strategically crucial South China Sea is a part of the global commons. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava was quoted as saying by Times Now: "South China Sea is a part of global commons. India has an abiding

Members of the Sikh community on Thursday demonstrated outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, General Counsel of Sikhs for Justice and Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, for instigating Khalistan and Referendum 2020 movements in the Indian national

The 21-year-old executive assistant accused of killing and decapitating his boss at the tech CEO's luxury Manhattan condo pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, his attorneys said Sunday. Tyrese Haspil, a native New Yorker, has had no prior contact with the criminal justice

About 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-6 and 2015-16, according to a UN report, which noted that India has recorded the largest reduction in the number of people living in this category. The data, released by the United Nations Development

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to hospital, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, according to state media. The 84-year-old ruler, who has ruled the country since 2015, was undergoing medical checks in the capital, state news agency

A recent US report has claimed that China has discreetly initiated a maritime law enforcement initiative with an aim to enhance marine environmental protection and combat “illegal activities in key areas”, including offshore oil exploration as well as shipping and related operations.

As China is now fixing its eyes on Bhutan by declaring a Bhutanese wildlife sanctuary along their border as a disputed territory, Bhutan swiftly jumped to its feet and issued a demarche to China. The demarche was a follow-up to protests earlier against Beijing’s attempt to make a

Iran has halted the executions of three men who were sentenced to death over anti-government protests last year, according to one of their lawyers. Babak Paknia told reporters that a request for a retrial had been accepted by the supreme court. The decision comes after a hashtag

India is the hardest-hit country with 1,078,782 cases, 26,838 deaths and 677,856 recoveries from coronavirus in Saarc regions at 15:20 pm till Sunday (Bangladesh Time), according to latest data from worldometer. Pakistan is the second worst-hit Saarc regions with 5,568 deaths and

It seems that China is following a double standard as far as environmental safety issues are concerned as despite earning applause for promising to make a clean environment, the dragons remain the highest producer of coal in the world. "While China – the world’s largest coal

The Chinese government is pressuring the families of soldiers who died in a violent border clash with India in June not to conduct burials and in-person funeral ceremonies in an attempt to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, according to a U.S. intelligence

Geneva: Members of the Pashtun community gathered at Broken Chair in Geneva and demanded an investigation into the human rights violation committed against them by Pakistan. Life of Pashtun people on Pakistani grounds has never been an easy affair. Fight for basic human rights and

London's police force has suspended an officer pending an investigation after footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a Black suspect's head and neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the

China appears to have failed to secure its "expansionism" beyond Pakistan and North Korea, neither of which has a viable alternative. Both Islamabad and Pyongyang -either willingly or unwillingly succumbed to China's tactics. "Yet today as the world stares at the inevitable and

Eight people have died in Thursday's two separate cases of building collapse in Mumbai, caused by heavy rain.  Rescue operations at the site of the building collapse in south Mumbai's Fort area continued this morning, with the death count touching six.  Four bodies were