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Punjab officials said the group's 350 acre site at Raiwind was more than big enough for the attendees to keep their distance and the influential religious group was cooperating with precautions. Pakistan fared comparatively well during its first wave of infection, seeing around 6,800 deaths after a peak in ...

An Uighur man who claimed to have been forced to inform on fellow Uighurs to Chinese authorities has been hospitalised in a serious condition after being shot in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. Yusufujrang Aimaitijiang had gone outside to get cigarettes when he was shot twice on Monday evening, the private ...

Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said the Congress’ double standards had been exposed as even after a Pakistan Minister’s acceptance of his country’s role in Pulwama attack, the Congress had remained silent.Addressing presspersons on Saturday, Mr. Joshi said after the Pulwama attack, the Congress ...

At least seven students were killed and scores more wounded on Tuesday in a bomb attack on a Koran study class at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. More than 60 people had been taking a lesson when the explosion tore through the madrassa in Peshawar, about ...

With the arrival of October a grim new season descends on the great cities of northern India and eastern Pakistan. Each year, the autumn heralds the arrival of smog. Pollution in cities like Delhi and Lahore is bad throughout the year, but from October to January it spikes to ...

Dr Tunji Funsho, described by TIME last month as "the person who did more than any other to drive polio to continent-wide extinction" in Africa, could be forgiven for taking a break.  In August this year, that goal was reached: Nigeria, where Dr Funsho is based, was declared free ...

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West Indies captain Jason Holder was "disappointed" by the commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement during Pakistan and Australia's recent tours of England, suggesting sides were "not showing their solidarity". The Windies and their English opponents came together to take a knee before each of their three Test ...

BHOPAL: The standard of legal education in the country has improved vastly and now the students have a greater opportunity of acquiring practical knowledge, including interning in courts, said Justice Indira Banerjee of the Supreme Court.She was speaking on the concluding day of the three-day online '3rd edition of ...

This, it is argued, would buy time - time perhaps to fix NHS Test and Trace, a system which the scientists describe not as “world beating” but as having had only a “marginal impact on transmission”.  But the Sage paper is already weeks old. It was shared with ministers ...