KATHMANDU: Hari Budha Magar, the first above the knee double amputee to scale Mount Everest, said on Sunday that his ascent would raise awareness about disability. Magar, 43, climbed the 8,848-metre (29,032-foot) Everest on artificial legs on Friday and is now taking rest at the base camp, said Pravat Adhikari of the Himalayan Ski Trek company that provided logistics for …

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Business Forum (APBF) has expressed full solidarity with the Pakistan army, warning of creating division between the military and the public, saying the business community is always standing with them. APBF President Syed Maaz Mahmood, in a statement issued here, observed that political stability and law and order are the pre-requisite for the strengthening of the …

Amid growing popularity of Pakistani dramas, the hit series “Parizaad” is set to captivate a new audience as it prepares to air in Arabic. Titled “Kareeban” in Arabic, this highly acclaimed drama stars Ahmed Ali Akbar in the lead role and promises to be a cultural treat for viewers in the Arab-speaking world. Originally aired in Pakistan between 2021 and …

LAHORE: Pakistan batsman Shan Masood is all set to embark on a new journey as the captain of the Yorkshire county club at the Vitality Blast. After two successful years with Derbyshire, Masud will now lead Yorkshire in their first match against Warwickshire in Birmingham. Expressing his excitement on Twitter, the left-handed batsman shared his excitement about representing Yorkshire in …

LAHORE: cemented his place in Gloucestershire with his all-round performances over the last three seasons, will be playing for Gloucester Gorillas. Zaman Khan The 21-year-old pacer was drafted by Derbyshire Falcons for the tournament along with Haider Ali. The young pace sensation is a product of Lahore Qalandars’ player development program and recently made his international debut for Pakistan in …

KARACHI: Former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi believes that the national team captain drives the best cover in the world. Pakistan’s great batsman Babar Azam is known for his impressive wrist and has received huge praise and appreciation at home and abroad. Afridi, who is an outspoken critic, chose the star cricketer over India’s Virat Kohli and Australia’s Steve Smith, who …

Adolescent boys are twice as likely to commit suicide as girls, and as boys become men, they are three times more likely to commit suicide than girls. After years on the front lines of teaching and monitoring the decline in adolescent mental health, one teacher warns that to tackle the male suicide crisis we need to better deal with male …

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Chalmers Division of Applied Acoustics researchers conducted a laboratory investigation in which density tests were performed while test subjects were exposed to background traffic noise. Individuals were asked to look at a computer screen and respond to specific letters before rating their perceived workload. According to the study, individuals performed significantly worse on performance tests and felt that it was …

If you want to stay healthy, you need to improve your choices. Instead of eating a bag of chips while you watch TV, you need a healthy snack. Healthy snacks can be fresh fruits, vegetables or any other fresh food. walking According to research, daily walking can help reduce your risk of major diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease …

KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which obtained the third spot in the local government elections of Sindh, has announced its support for the Jamaat-e-Islami’s candidate for the Karachi mayor’s slot. The PTI has alleged that the PPP is engaged in pre-poll rigging in the mayor’s election process. The PPP wants to elect the mayor as soon as possible, it added. The …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned storming of Al Aqsa Mosque by a member of the Israeli occupation authority and members of the Knesset under protection of Israeli occupation forces. “Pakistan calls upon the international community to take urgent action to put an end to Israeli transgressions in the occupied territories that have been conspicuously ascendant since the beginning of …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has issued a written verdict on the petitions against accepting the resignations of 72 members of the National Assembly. Justice Shahid Karim said in the two-page decision that the National Assembly speaker should hear each member separately and decide whether to accept his resignation or not. In case a member fails to appear, the speaker …

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has given a clean chit to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana housing scandal. According to a NAB report, no evidence of corruption was found against Shehbaz Sharif in awarding Ashiana housing contracts. The report also stated that there was no loss caused to the national exchequer in the Ashiana project, and PM …

ISLAMABAD: The new budget has proposed to retain the super tax on high-income individuals and companies. The income of Rs150 million to Rs300 million will be taxed from 1% to 10%. Preparations for tax proposals for the budget 2023-24 are under way. Super tax on high income individuals and companies is being proposed to be retained. A super tax of …

YouTube would remain focused on the advertising opportunities across its fastest-growing products, including Shorts Google’s YouTube has generated nearly $40 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, according to YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan. “Monetization for us, first and foremost, is driven by advertising,” said Mohan, who gave an overview of the video platform’s business at the MoffettNathanson …

Helpline notes transgender community subjected to orchestrated online hate campaign this year The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) has released its sixth annual Cyber Harassment Helpline Report for 2022. The helpline completed six years of operations since its launch in December 2016. The helpline has received 14,376 cases in the last six years. In 2022, it reported a total of 2,695 …

KARACHI: At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan’s rural communities living on the frontline of climate change. Lari, Pakistan’s first woman architect, has ditched a lifetime of multi-million dollar projects in the megacity of Karachi to develop pioneering flood-proof bamboo houses. The few pilot settlements already constructed are credited with saving families from …

MAKKAH: Eight Pakistanis died while six were injured in a fire incident at a hotel in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah city, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Saturday. In a statement issued today, the FO said, “In an unfortunate fire incident in a hotel in Makkah, we have reports of eight deaths and six injured Pakistanis in the incident. “Our Mission …

MOSCOW: Western countries will be running “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on Saturday. Grushko was responding to a question about the implications of providing the jets, which Ukraine has been requesting from NATO countries. It has not yet won commitments to deliver the …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has established a three-member judicial commission, led by Supreme Court senior puisne judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa, to investigate the validity of audio leaks. The commission includes Balochistan High Court (BHC) Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq. The decision was made on Friday during the federal cabinet’s meeting. …

UTTAR PRADESH: Manisha Singh cannot forget the day her six-year-old daughter, Yashi, was attacked by a leopard. “I saw the animal come into our front yard, grab my daughter and run. That was the last time I saw her alive.” Ms Singh found her daughter several hours later in a sugarcane field near their house in Moosepur, a small village …

WASHINGTON: More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The year of 2022 was the deadliest on record for drug overdoses, which claimed the lives of an estimated 109,680 people, according to numbers posted Wednesday by the CDC. Overdose deaths in the United …

NEW YORK: U.S. President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are just the latest in a four-decade-long chain of recent presidents who have mishandled classified documents during their tenure, New York Post has reported. Every U.S. administration since President Ronald Reagan has in some form fumbled federal procedure when managing top-secret records, the report said on Wednesday, citing the …

KABUL: Afghan police have killed three kidnappers and released a hostage in the capital Kabul on Thursday, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said Saturday. A group of kidnappers kidnapped a businessman in Police District 15 of Kabul city on Thursday morning, and police reacted quickly and rescued the businessman on the same day after killing three kidnappers, according to the …

BEIJING: China’s tourism sector rolled out lots of preferential policies this month to fuel tourism growth across the country. The policies include issuing vouchers for cultural and tourism activities, providing assistance for the elderly and the disabled during their trips, and offering free performances. The preferential activities will run throughout May, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. China …

ADDIS ABABA: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) appealed for additional funding to address the needs of people crossing into Ethiopia due to the ongoing security situation in Sudan. The UNOCHA, in its latest situation update issued Friday, said some 85,0000 people are projected to enter Ethiopia from Sudan, with humanitarian needs forecasted to rise …

MADRID: Around 500 people have been evacuated from their homes due to a wildfire that has so far burned 8,500 hectares of land in the southwestern Spanish region of Extremadura, according to sources from local authorities on Saturday. Spain’s Ministry of Ecological Transition has confirmed that 250 regional firefighters and 165 members of the Spanish Military’s Emergency Response Unit are …

A terrorist was killed and three soldiers were martyred when security forces retaliated to an attack on one of their posts in the Zarghoon area of Balochistan on Saturday, the military’s media affairs wing said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the early-morning attack by a group of terrorists was launched at a post that …

A delay in the IMF program and the political uncertainty in the country have affected the schedule for budget 2023-24 also, as a meeting of the National Accounts Committee has been rescheduled for the second time. The meeting has now been re-convened on Monday. Estimates of the GDP growth for the current financial year will be released in the meeting. …

Meta Platforms’ (META.O) Instagram is planning to release a text-based app that will compete with Twitter and may debut as soon as June, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Facebook parent is testing the product with influencers and some creators, according to the report. The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request …

Many individuals experience afternoon sluggishness, but for those with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) poses a more severe challenge. Fortunately, researchers have made a significant breakthrough by identifying a drug that shows promise in combating EDS, and it’s not your typical caffeine fix. A recent study conducted by McMaster University in Canada reviewed 14 clinical trials involving …

ZHOB: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq on Friday survived a suicide attack that targeted his convoy in Zhob, Balochistan, reported Aaj News. In a tweet, the party said that Haq was safe and that the attacker had been killed. The party added that Haq was present in the area to address a political gathering. In another tweet, the party said seven …

Heightened political uncertainty in Pakistan is “probably one of the reasons” the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is hesitant to revive the stalled bailout package, stated Bloomberg in a note on Friday. Ankur Shukla and Abhishek Gupta, at Bloomberg Economics, said “capital is fleeing Pakistan because there is a growing risk that the IMF will not deliver a bailout, which is …

NEW DELHI: Peace on India’s border with China is essential for normal relations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in comments published on Friday that mark a rare articulation of New Delhi’s position since ties with Beijing deteriorated in 2020. Modi also said that the relationship between the nuclear-armed neighbors can only be based on mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and …

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said Pakistan’s macroeconomic conditions deteriorated during the first half of fiscal year 2022-23 (H1-FY23) despite policy-induced improvement in external current account and primary fiscal balance. In its Half Year Report for FY23 on the ‘State of Pakistan’s Economy’ released on Friday, the SBP noted that adverse global economic conditions, uncertainty surrounding the completion …

Total power generation in Pakistan witnessed a significant decline of 23 per cent on a yearly basis to 10,010 GWh in April 2023, compared to 12,960 GWh in same period last year. “Power generation down by 23 per cent YoY during April 2023, the highest decline since available data (Jul’12),” said Arif Habib Limited (AHL) on Friday. On a monthly …

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that the attack on Jinnah House has brought ‘‘disgrace’’ to the country. While talking to reporters as he appeared before an anti-terrorism court, (which granted him pre-arrest bail in three cases), the former prime minister said the event should “not have happened”. Responding to a query regarding claims by the …

KARACHI: Mango crop in Pakistan faces the challenge of climate change this year and a reduction of 20 per cent is being estimated in its production. The production capacity of mangoes in Pakistan is around 1.8 million metric tons, however, due to the effects of climate change, it is feared that the production is expected to decrease by 20 per …

LAHORE: The Lahore anti-terrorism court court also directed the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief to become a part of the investigation An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on May 19 approved pre-arrest bail for Imran Khan in three cases filed against Pakistan’s former Prime Minister after his arrest on May 9. While granting him bail till June 2, the Lahore anti-terrorism …