The ability to detect and react to the smell of a potential threat is a precondition of our and other mammals’ survival. Using a novel technique, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger. The study, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Outgoing Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Kuninori Matsuda held two separate meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Dr Arif Alvi this week. During the meeting in the Prime Minister’s House, Prime Minister Imran Khan stressed that the world community must remain positively engaged with the new Afghan administration, provide urgently-needed humanitarian […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Japan and France plan to hold security talks involving their foreign and defense ministers within the year, the French government said this week. Sources knowledgeable about the matter said the so-called two-plus-two talks will be held in the Japanese capital, likely between late November and early December. France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Head of Communication Pakistan Network, Fouzia Younis this week launched the second phase of the Chevening mentoring scheme at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). The scheme is designed to support women and minorities who are lawyers and entrepreneurs to enhance their skills, knowledge and work performance. The British High Commission […]
Read MoreRoger Harrabin London: Another big push towards electric vehicles is being made in the UK government’s latest strategy to make the great shift to a virtually zero-carbon economy. Ministers are investing £620m in grants for electric vehicles and street charging points. Car makers will be mandated to sell a proportion of clean vehicles each year. […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese this week appreciated the role played by all the partner institutions in holding the ASviS 2021 on the subject of biodiversity and circular economy in Pakistan. Speaking at the Sustainable Development Festival – ASviS 2021 gathering held at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), he expressed […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Former Interior Minister and PPP senior leader Senator A. Rehman Malik has paid rich tribute to the martyrs of Karsaz and their families. He said that October 18 is a painful and unforgettable day in the history of Pakistan and the pain of the tragedy shall remain in our hearts forever. He said […]
Read MoreAndrew Gastelum On the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, among its color-coded houses and sleepy canals, magicians bend fire and freeze flames. There, artisans pull molten glass like jelly, curling it to their will into something as grand as a chandelier or as precise as a chess piece. For centuries since 800 A.C.E., […]
Read MoreAndrew Reid Ireland allrounder Curtis Campher has joined one of the most exclusive clubs in cricket history after taking a double hat-trick in his his side’s Twenty20 World Cup win against the Netherlands. Campher became just the third player ever to take four wickets in four balls in a T20 international – matching the feat […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship entered China’s space station core module Tianhe on Saturday. The entire nation was watching and felt a shared sense of national pride. One after another, the country’s major achievements are reshaping the feeling of being a Chinese. The latest off-world success is another showcase of China’s […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Beijing has proposed to suspend the city’s light show and shortened the time of the city’s landscape lighting at night. I believe it makes sense for Beijing to launch this initiative now, whether this is because of Beijing’s power supply shortage or a response to the power shortages in Northeast China and other […]
Read MoreChris Doyle No country can afford to wait until the global pandemic has ended before determining the proper lessons to be learned. The stakes are too high. That is why a UK parliamentary select committee report into the coronavirus published on Oct. 12 received so much attention. The findings are stark, describing it as Britain’s […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond While much on the agenda this week in Brussels for the summit of Europe’s 27 government leaders will be familiar, there is a historic power shift underway that could bring about significant change in 2022. The summit will probably be the last for outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her close collaborator, French President […]
Read MoreNewswire Canberra: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week stressed the need for clearing misconceptions about Islam, the religion which promotes peace and harmony for mankind. In his keynote address at the Seerat-un-Nabi Peace Conference organized by Pehchan Media Network, the High Commissioner called for collective efforts to fight the emerging threat […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Atiq always Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) this week organized a “Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Zoom Conference Ustad Tafseer Prof. Dr. Shaykh Muhammad Yaqoob Al-Dahlawi [Esteemed Teacher of Masjid Nabwi, Madina Munawara] delivered a special lecture live through Madina Manawra, on ‘Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)’. The NTC management, under the supervision of Managing […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan, Henrik Parson this week urged the need to meet the environmental challenges by making changes in various areas, including business strategy, for an environmentally friendly and conducive life. The world will face environmental challenges by reviewing all plans and policies, including business and industry, for an environmentally friendly […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: NATO’s Senior Civil Representative Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo arrived in Islamabad this week on an Afghanistan peace mission. This envoy met army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood. In his meeting with General Bajwa, matters related to mutual interest, peace, and stability in the region and Afghanistan situation were discussed, […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: US President Joe Biden plans to nominate career diplomat Donald Armin Blome as his next ambassador to Pakistan, the White House announced this week. Blome’s appointment comes three years after Ambassador David Hale completed his three-year term in Islamabad and left for Washington to take over as under-secretary of state for political affairs. […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special representative Wang Yi this week said the G20 should give full play to its own advantages to contribute to the peace, stability, prosperity and development of Afghanistan and the region. Wang, also Chinese state councilor and foreign minister, made the remarks via video link at an […]
Read MoreNewswire Larkana: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week invited all estranged old guards and other leaders to return to the party fold and join in the ongoing struggle for democracy. “I invite all those who had been part of PPP during the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto to […]
Read MoreMoscow: Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at a meeting with the visiting US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland invited the United States to lift all restrictions from the operation of Russian and US foreign missions in a reciprocal move. “The current condition and prospects of bilateral relations were discussed. Special […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Multan: Pakistan aims to increase at least 50% production of cotton next year with the help of China as part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s second phase which focuses on agriculture, officials said. A high-level meeting of the Cotton Crop Assessment Committee of the Ministry of National Food Security was held in Islamabad […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Minister for Economic Affairs Omer Ayub Khan will deliver opening remarks at the upcoming meeting of Pakistan-China Joint Economic Cooperation (JEC). In a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong here, the minister accepted the invitation to open the meeting on October 29. The Chinese ambassador also informed the Minister that Chinese-side was […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) power project in Sindh province was making steady progress. The envoy appreciated the work on the Thar Energy Limited (TEL) Power Plant under CPEC. “Good news that the TEL 330MW Power Plant Project in Thar Block-II is […]
Read MoreA lunar probe launched by the Chinese space agency recently brought back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Now an international team of scientists — including an expert from Washington University in St. Louis — has determined the age of these moon rocks at close […]
Read MoreThe dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers involving scientists from the University of California, Davis, use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to resolve the “missing mantle problem” and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a […]
Read MoreThe experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that of a human with a life-threatening tumor, yet University of California, Berkeley, researchers are finding commonalities between the two that could lead to ways to prolong the lives of cancer patients. Fruit fly research is already pointing to a new […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that the business communities of Pakistan and Italy needed to be brought closer for enhancing bilateral trade and investment cooperation. There are vast opportunities for bilateral trade and investment cooperation between Pakistan and Italy from which businessmen and traders of both the countries could […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Former Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik has said that the reason behind US President Joi Biden’s anger with Pakistan is not Afghanistan but US Presidential campaign. He said that Pakistani embassy in the United States was used for Trump’s election campaign, which has angered Biden. He revealed in an interview with a news […]
Read MoreNewswire Damascus: The Government of Japan has contributed US$6.5 million to support scaling up the access of vulnerable children to safe learning facilities, via light rehabilitation, as well as enhanced education outcomes, through teacher training in the governorates of Aleppo and Rural Damascus in Syria. The funding will ensure close to 24,000 children benefit from […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: The Japanese government is working on starting COVID-19 booster shots by year-end, deputy chief cabinet secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki said at a news conference this week. Isozaki added that details such as who would get booster shots first and how they would be administered are currently under discussion by experts. “We would like to […]
Read MoreIslamabad: County Director of British Council Aamir Ramzan met the Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood to discuss the collaboration between two countries on heritage and culture. In 2022, from February to August, UK is planning a season to mark the 75th anniversary of bilateral relationships in London between […]
Read MoreNewswire London: Prince Andrew faces no way back to public life with his siblings having ruled it out in a get-together while Prince William sees him as a “danger” to the monarchy, royal sources have claimed. A meeting was held last January where Charles, Anne and Edward were in agreement that their brother should never […]
Read MoreFolks up in New Jersey would probably try and make the claim that Rutgers would grab the title of wrestling’s Italian program. But when you dig into the legacy that OSU has with Italian wrestlers, it’s hard to argue that Oklahoma State doesn’t have the most elite contingency of any wrestling program out there. Smith: […]
Read MoreDeivarayan Muthu Martin Guptill has expressed his disappointment at New Zealand abruptly calling off their Pakistan tour last month. Guptill was slated to return to international action on that tour as he was among a host of first-choice players who were rested for the Bangladesh tour that preceded the Pakistan trip. “I guess it was […]
Read MoreHu Xijin After his visit to the island of Taiwan, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott published on The Australian newspaper on Sunday an edited version of a speech he delivered in the island. The article has a provocative headline “My message to Taiwan: get ready to fight.” It advocates that “the best way to […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques There is growing interest in the West about the present wave of reforms in China, which began with the defrocking of Ant, then the regulatory moves against the anything-goes behavior of the tech giants, and the more recent criticism of the glaring inequalities in Chinese society. The initial Western reaction was predictably negative, […]
Read MoreIshtiaq Ahmad Afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. The end of the 20-year war may have silenced the guns for a while, but the war-torn country is at serious risk of imploding due to the worsening conditions it faces. This could have grave consequences for regional stability and international security in the […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg A quick glance at the world map of COVID-19 vaccine distribution illustrates how, yet again, the world’s poor are being left to their own fate, while the affluent parts of the globe are gradually returning to some sort of normality. Vaccines have been the real game-changers in avoiding repeated lockdowns and preventing public […]
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