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Micro tremors have been helping release tectonic stress and protecting India from a devastating event, experts said and asserted that the country has seen a paradigm shift towards effective response and mitigation.They said India is well-prepared to deal with the fallout of large-scale earthquakes as it has a dedicated, ...

Human activities in the fragile Himalayan region need a deep scientific understanding. Published Date - 12:30 AM, Wed - 8 February 23 Human activities in the fragile Himalayan region need a deep scientific understanding. Hyderabad: The reports of land subsidence in Doda district of Jammu & Kashmir are eerily ...

#Pakistan News May 8 is observed as World Thalassemia Day, a day dedicated to spreading awareness about the blood disorder and its prevention. Within the scope of raising awareness, it is worth mentioning that there are 5,000 people with thalassemia and approximately 1.5 million carriers of the hereditary disease ...

A week after rival India issued a similar statement, Pakistan says the move by the five world powers is ‘a positive development’.The Pakistani government has welcomed a joint statement by the P5 on preventing nuclear war as “a positive development”, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson says, a week after ...

European Union ministers will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss preventing uncontrolled migration from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s seizure of the country, according to a statement drafted for the meeting. EU member states hope to prevent a refugee crisis like the one fueled by Syria’s civil war in ...

MINNEAPOLIS: Former Officer Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death will be in a jury’s hands by early next week, after his brief defense wrapped up with Chauvin passing on a chance to take the stand and tell the public for the first time what he was thinking when ...

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech said their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID19 among those without evidence of prior infection. The post US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech said their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in ...

Poliomyelitis is a viral disease that mainly affects children under five years of age. Polio, once an endemic disease with devastating results like paralysis, was eradicated from India in 2014 due to consistent efforts of the Government of India and partners of global polio eradication initiative like the World ...

KABUL -- At a Kabul museum honouring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting conflict. Fakhria Hayat recalled an attack that changed her family forever. It was 1995, and the Afghan ...

Danish Habibi was just a child in 2000 when the Taliban overran his village in Afghanistan’s serene Bamiyan Valley. His memories of those days are re-occurring nightmares. Men were forcibly separated from wives and children. Dozens were killed. Habibi’s father disappeared only to return a beaten, broken man, never ...