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NEW YORK — Nobody counts to four like Bruce Springsteen. The 73-year-old singer-songwriter has touched the hearts of millions with his music, his words, his voice. But in concert — the arena in which he most shines — it’s in summoning that quartet of integers where his essence is ...

NEW DELHI: For a middle class family in Pakistan, making ends meet has become increasingly difficult due to a paralyzed economy and skyrocketing inflation. But for the poor, it's survival by the toughest means possible.In the last few weeks, Pakistan's economy has gone from bad to worse due to ...

A senior Israeli security official on Tuesday revealed the alleged identity of a handler in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who recruited a pair of Pakistani nationals accused of planning to attack a Chabad house in Athens. The handler’s name is ‏Mohammad Mohsen Reza‏, a 65-year-old Pakistani national living ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared on Tuesday the election commission’s decision to postpone provincial assembly elections in Punjab as “unconstitutional” and fixed May 14 as the date for polls in the country’s most populous province.The verdict followed a petition filed by the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, which ...

The UN Human Rights Council denounced Tuesday the rising numbers of executions in Iran, including of people who received the capital punishment in connection with protests that have rocked the country. The top United Nations rights body approved a resolution voicing “deep concern at the reported surge in the ...

KARACHI: Pakistan's central bank raised its key interest rate by 100 basis points on Tuesday, as the cash-strapped country aims to bring down record high inflation.The key rate of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) now stands at 21%, its highest level ever, with consumer price inflation at its ...

CHENNAI: The small half-acre plot in Padur is a world in itself.A sustainable world complete with a Miyawaki forest, rainwater harvesting system, vegetable patches, a biogas plant, millet gardens, and birds, bees, and flowers of every hue.‘Epic’ eco-parkYou cannot help but wonder if that’s the reason Shantha Sheela Nair, ...

In late March, TIME spoke with former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan by Zoom from his home in Lahore for a new cover story. Khan was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last April, and he spent the next year holding rallies to demand snap elections that might bring ...

Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus early Tuesday, Syrian state media said. The incident was the fourth airstrike attributed to Israel to hit targets in Syria in less than a week, and came a day after the Israeli Air Force downed a suspected Iranian ...

ISLAMABAD (PAKISTAN): Pakistan's Supreme Court will announce verdict on Tuesday on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) petition challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision to postpone polls to the Punjab assembly till October 8, Pakistan based Dawn newspaper reported.A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata ...