RIO DE JANEIRO: The BRICS nations will convene for a summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, with members hoping to ...

ROME: A huge explosion at a petrol station in a Rome suburb on Friday left 45 people hurt, two of them seriously, ...

Is microfinance truly a beacon of hope for the penurious class, or merely a macro-trap further pauperising an already ...

A statement issued today said that during a five-hour visit to the hospital today, CM Maryam ordered the arrest of the chief ...

DAMASCUS: Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to re-implement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the ...

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today [July 4] banned 26 political organisations. The ban applies to several extreme Left-wing groups plus some Right-wing parties. Among the latter is the Rashtriya ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Mi­­nister Shehbaz Sharif met with leaders from Iran, Turkiye, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan on Friday, hol­ding a series of bilateral discussions on the sideli­nes of the 17th Economic ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday ruled out the creation of an alternative forum to the already existing South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc).

In Balochistan, the Rs800m project on climate-resilient, high-value horticultural crops aimed to promote the cultivation of pistachios, almonds, walnuts, and pecan nuts through the establishment of ...

THE recent tragedy in Swat that claimed multiple lives of a visiting family has left the nation in mourning. Words can never truly heal the pain that the family must be feeling, but as fellow citizens ...

For the last three months, the Orangi area in Karachi has been deprived of regular water supply. Not a single drop flows through the water pipelines. People have no choice, but to purchase water from ...

LONDON: A High Court judge in London on Friday threw out an attempt to derail a government ban of the Palestine Action campaign group under anti-terror laws. The proscription cleared parliament on ...