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Islamabad: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) president Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday said that the opposition has the support of 175 lawmakers at a time when it needs only 172 member’s support to sail through the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Moreover, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received another setback as Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan […]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday effectively lost majority in Parliament after a key partner of the ruling coalition joined the ranks of the Opposition, which has tabled a no-confidence motion against his government in the National Assembly. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), a key ally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led coalition government, […]

Washington: At least 17 solar eruptions from a single sunspot on the sun have blasted into space in recent days, and may reach Earth as moderate geomagnetic storms by Thursday. The sun eruptions originated from an overactive sunspot, called AR2975, which has been firing off flares since Monday (March 28). The stellar event may also […]

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s legal skirmish with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues, with the executive invoking popular rapper Eminem in a filing submitted to a Manhattan federal court. Musk is currently looking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the SEC, which requires him to get pre-approval for tweets that […]

Colombo: Amid the financial crisis, Sri Lanka will be experiencing 10-hour daily power cuts from Wednesday, announced Public Utilities Commission of the island nation. The Ceylon Electricity Board said in a statement that they were “compelled to take demand management measures due to inadequate power generation, as a result of fuel shortage and unavailability of […]

New Delhi: Motorola has emerged as the third largest smartphone brand in the US for 2021 for the first time, as it gained from LGs decline. According to Counterpoint Research, this is the first time ever that Motorola, with over 10 per cent market share, has become the third original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in the […]

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 80,019,128 and 978,648, according to the CSSE.

Washington: US economic growth is expected to be capped at 2.5 per cent over the next two years due to inflation, which is currently “running too high,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker said on Tuesday. “I think growth will moderate this year,” Harker said. “We can probably expect to come in around […]

Moscow: Russia does not intend to engage in charity and export gas to Europe for free, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said while commenting on statements by representatives of Western countries that they will not pay for deliveries in rubles. Peskov also stressed that Moscow was not the initiator of such a development of the situation, […]

Kiev: Since the Russian blockade in Mariupol began on March 1, some 5,000 people have been killed, 170,000 others still remain under siege, while 150,000 were evacuated from the strategic Ukrainian port city, according to preliminary estimates. Of the 5,000 victims, 210 were children, Ukrayinska Pravda reported citing the government estimates. Before the ongoing siege […]

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 481.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.12 million and vaccinations to over 10.89 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]

China's financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, Shanghai had managed its smaller, past outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds

The message on the slides read, "We'd like to have a moment of silence to show our support for the people of Ukraine currently facing invasion, conflict and prejudice within their own borders."

In an interview with Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of German publishing company Axel Springer, he said that the American government has done more for Ukraine than people may realise.

Nanning (China): All 132 people on board China Eastern Airlines’ plane that crashed in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were dead, an official has announced. The national emergency response headquarters for the China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 aircraft accident on March 21 made the announcement at a press conference late Saturday evening after six […]

Firefighters taking part in the search found the recorder, an orange cylinder, on a mountain slope about 1.5 meters (5 feet) underground, state broadcaster CCTV said. Experts confirmed it was the second black box.

Apple has notified the National Payment Card System (NSPK) that it is suspending support for Mir cards in the Apple Pay payment service, reports Tass.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,946,097 and 976,652, according to the CSSE.

Hyderabad: A new ultraviolet light, known as Far-UVC, has been found to be potent enough to tackle all kinds of Covid variants and kill the virus itself. It also makes indoor air safe. Far-UVC made it safe for people in less than five minutes by reducing the level of indoor airborne microbes by more than […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has applauded the effort of the Indian Embassy in Doha, Qatar for bringing together people from several Nations to practise yoga. He also said that Yoga is uniting the world in pursuit of good health and wellness, Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement today. “Yoga is uniting the […]

New York: An Indian-American ophthalmologist in New York has been sentenced to 96 months in prison for a healthcare fraud scheme, along with fraudulently obtaining government loans meant for Covid-hit small businesses. Ameet Goyal, MD, was sentenced this month by Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for falsely billing […]

Kiev: As Moscow’s invasion of Kiev has been underway for more than a month now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country’s forces “have dealt powerful blows to the enemy”, adding that there were “significant losses” on the Russian side. In a video address posted on Facebook early Saturday morning, the President said: “Over […]

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 478.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.11 million and vaccinations to over 10.86 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]

Yaounde: Hospitals in Cameroon’s Southwest region have been swamped with hundreds of patients as cholera deaths have increased to 44, a health official said. “It is a very serious situation,” Filbert Eko Eko, public health chief of the region, told Xinhua news agency. Over 1,700 cases have been reported in the region from March 11 […]