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200-year-old gurdwara in Balochistan handed back to Sikhs after restoration

Karachi: A 200-year-old gurdwara in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, which was being used as a government high school for the last seven decades, has...

22 million South Asian children missed out on childhood education due to COVID-19: UNICEF

NEW DELHI: Nearly 22 million children from South Asian countries, including India, have missed out on early childhood education in their critical pre-school year...

6,00,000 people succumb to COVID-19 globally

JOHANNESBURG: Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to India were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from...

Biden as US president would help India get seat on UNSC: Former American diplomat

WASHINGTON: Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, if elected to power in the November elections, will help shape international bodies like the United Nations...

35 million Iranians may face coronavirus infection, says President Hassan Rouhani

TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that 35 million Iranians may contract the coronavirus, as the country still did not have herd immunity although...

Pak PM Imran Khan calls on people to fight climate change

ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over the alarming pollution levels in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan called on the people to join hands to fight climate...

Trump wants to do ‘everything possible’ to keep peace for people of India, China: WH spokesperson

Washington: US President Donald Trump loves the people of India and China and wants to do "everything possible" to bring peace for them, according...

Pakistan willing to provide third consular access to Jadhav, says Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: A day after India termed the second consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav as "neither meaningful nor credible," Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi...

India and Israel sign agreement to expand cooperation in cyber security

JERUSALEM: India and Israel have signed an agreement to further expand collaboration in dealing with cyber threats amid rapid digitisation due to the coronavirus...

No plans to speak to Chinese President Xi, says Trump amid rising tensions and sanctions

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has indicated that he has no plan to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, amid a war of...

US has biggest COVID-19 testing programme in the world: Trump

WASHINGTON: The United States has the biggest COVID-19 testing programme in the world, better than big countries like Russia, China, India and Brazil, President...

Coronavirus can remain infectious in air for over 1 hour: UK expert

LONDON: Wendy Barclay, chairwoman in influenza virology at Imperial College London, has said that coronavirus particles can remain infectious in the air for more...

Ten million kids ‘may never return to school’ after virus

London: The coronavirus pandemic has caused an "unprecedented education emergency" with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never...

Bosnians mark 25 years of Srebrenica genocide

Bosnia: Bosnians commemorated on Saturday the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked...

No guarantee Trump will back India against China if tensions escalate: Former US NSA John Bolton

NEW DELHI: Former United States national security advisor John Bolton has said that if the Sino-India border tensions escalate, there is no guarantee that...

WHO believes ‘unknown pneumonia’ in Kazakhstan could be COVID-19

LONDON: The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization says the agency believes an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan is likely due to the...

US records highest daily COVID-19 cases

Washington: The US has registered a new single-day spike in the number of COVID-19 cases with a total of 63,643 infections, according to data...

France urges Netanyahu not to annex parts of West Bank

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron is urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to annex Palestinian territory in the West Bank, warning that it...

India a ‘good example’ as solar auctions gain popularity amid Covid-19 pandemic: UN chief

UNITED NATIONS: India is a "good example" as solar auctions have seen popularity amidst the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN chief Antonio Guterres...

Global coronavirus cases surge past 12 million

PARIS: More than 12 million coronavirus infections have now been recorded across the world, over half in the United States and Latin America, according...

China defends WHO, lashes out at US move to withdraw

Beijing: China on Wednesday defended the World Health Organization and lashed out at the US decision to withdraw from the UN body. Foreign ministry...

Imran urges WHO to ‘play its role’ in lifting travel restrictions on Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the WHO to “play its role” in engaging member states to remove coronavirus-related travel restrictions for...

Kuwait’s new expat bill may force 8 lakh Indians to leave the country

DUBAI: A total of 8 lakh Indians could be forced to leave Kuwait as its National Assembly committee has approved a draft expat quota...

Saudi Arabia announces hajj health measures for domestic pilgrims

CAIRO: Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 haj season, banning gatherings and meetings between...

US dips under 50,000 new coronavirus cases

WASHINGTON: The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, according to a tally by Johns...

Coronavirus cases rising in Saudi Arabia, UAE after curfews lifted

Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus infections have passed 200,000 and neighbouring United Arab Emirates 50,000, with the number of new cases climbing after the Arab...

Pak will complete CPEC at all costs, says PM Khan

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed on Friday that his government would complete the ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at "any cost" as...

US envoy forges ahead with troubled Taliban peace deal

Islamabad: Washington's envoy to Afghanistan stressed Saturday the economic benefits of the peace deal with the Taliban, forging ahead with an agreement that has...

29 people, mostly Pakistani Sikh pilgrims, killed in train-bus collision in Pak

Lahore: At least 29 people, mostly Pakistani Sikh pilgrims, were killed when a mini-bus carrying them rammed into a train at an unmanned crossing...

WHO says smoking linked to higher risk of coronavirus

LONDON: The World Health Organisation says smoking is linked to a higher risk of severe illness and death from the coronavirus in hospitalised patients,...

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