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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s counsels on Tuesday invoked presidential immunity for him in a corruption case, commonly known as the Park Lane reference, in which he is accused of influencing authorities to release loans to front companies. Judge Nasir Javed Rana of an Islamabad-based accountability court presided over ...

No immunity for MPs, MLAs taking bribe to vote, make speech in House: SC – Kashmir Reader New Delhi: MPs and MLAs taking bribes to vote or make a speech in the House are not immune from prosecution, the Supreme Court said on Monday in a landmark, unanimous verdict ...

This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country's worst-ever ...

“This is really a proof of concept to show it can be done,” said Dr Gamble. “What we then want to do is have some scaleable blueprints that can be economically rolled out across the country.”The charity is also working to improve surveillance systems and awareness of rabies in ...

Srinagar: With surge in Covid-19 cases in various countries, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Thursday said there is no need to panic as most people in Kashmir have hybrid immunity because of a combination of widespread natural infection and vaccination. “Hybrid immunity offers robust and long lasting protection against ...

The long-running polio campaign uses local people to carry out the door-to-door vaccinations because they are more trusted by residents. Yet in close knit villages, they can also be more liable to pressure and reluctant to go against friends, relatives or elders who oppose the campaign. The wild strain ...

Washington:  COVID-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine decreased more than 80 per cent in senior nursing home residents and their caregivers six months after receiving their second dose, a US study has found. The research led by Case Western Reserve University and Brown University in the US studied ...

Vaccine mandate only way to achieve herd immunity Srinagar, Aug 07: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said mandatory Covid-19 vaccination is the only way to achieve herd immunity. “That would bring an end to the ongoing public health crisis,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. ...

Twitter no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the US microblogging giant has failed to comply with new IT rules, the Indian government said in a court filing.The statement is the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration has officially said Twitter has lost its immunity after ...

Islamabad:  Pakistan is not planning to buy vaccines anytime soon as it aims to tackle the COVID-19 challenge through herd immunity and donated vaccines from friendly countries like China, authorities have said. So far, four vaccines Sinophram (China), Oxford-AstraZeneca (UK), Sputnik-V (Russia) and Cansino Bio (China) have been registered ...