Shen Minghui China has become the first country to ratify the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday. With Thailand, too, ratifying the trade deal and the 13 other RCEP member states stressing they will ratify it before the end of this year to ensure it goes into effect on […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo met Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) this week to discuss the peace process.. They called for peaceful settlement & an end to violence, said an official statement.Abdullah Abdullah, hoped a “tangible progress” towards settlement at the Istanbul meeting scheduled […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million disbursement for the country under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), bringing the total budget support under the arrangement to about US$2 billion. “The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today the second through fifth reviews of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari this week urged Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Nawaz Sharif to return to the country for join struggle against the federal government.He said that be it long march or no-confidence motion against the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must return to […]
Read MoreYang Sheng, Chen Qingqing and Wang Cong Beijing: As the world turns its eyes to a critical high-level meeting between senior Chinese and US officials, the US picked up a signature Trump era strategy of wielding the stick ahead of talks by issuing on Wednesday sanctions against two dozen Chinese mainland and Hong Kong officials, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week said it was time for Pakistan to get stronghold of national security by expanding its domain inclusive of climate change, economic stability and food security, besides focusing on military strength.Addressing at the launch of first annual Islamabad Security Dialogue themed ‘Together for Ideas’, the Prime Minister stressed the […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: President Xi Jinping this week stressed efforts to promote the regulated, healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy and incorporate the peaking of carbon emissions and carbon neutrality into the overall layout of building an ecological civilization.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Gilgit: The Gilgit-Baltistan assembly has unanimously passed a resolution calling to reopen the Pakistan-China border from April 1.The resolution called upon Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps to open the border from April 1 and facilitate business community and people across the border, said an official […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday tested positive for Covid-19 two days after he received his first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. The Ministry of National Health Services clarified that the premier was not “fully vaccinated” when he contracted the virus.“He only got the first dose merely two days ago which is […]
Read MoreAn international team of researchers led by King’s College London and Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam have identified 50 new genes for eye colour in the largest genetic study of its kind to date. The study, published today in Science Advances, involved the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia.These findings will […]
Read MoreA study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, tested how aphantasic people reacted to reading distressing scenarios, like being chased by a shark, falling off a cliff, or being in a plane that’s about to crash.The researchers were able to physically measure each participant’s fear response by monitoring changing skin conductivity levels — […]
Read MoreStudies representing nearly 2 million adults worldwide show that eating about five daily servings of fruits and vegetables, in which 2 are fruits and 3 are vegetables, is likely the optimal amount for a longer life, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.Diets rich in fruits and vegetables […]
Read MoreAstronomers have long been looking into the vast universe in hopes of discovering alien civilisations. But for a planet to have life, liquid water must be present. The chances of that finding scenario have seemed impossible to calculate because it has been the assumption that planets like Earth get their water by chance if a […]
Read MoreVolcanic rock samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of the Moon’s iron core, as well as the crystallization of the lunar magma ocean — the sea of molten rock thought to have […]
Read MoreWith the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail the most distant source of radio emission known to date. The source is a “radio-loud” quasar — a bright object with powerful jets emitting at radio wavelengths — that is so far away its light […]
Read MoreSenator Rehman Malik These were testing time for all of us who were in exile when Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto introduced me to the then-Senator Joe Biden, who later emerged as vice president of the USA. Benazir Bhutto was struggling for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan besides fighting fake cases initiated in Pakistan against […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Government and the people of Japan commemorated the 10th anniversary of the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck the north-eastern coast of the country on March 11, 2011, causing colossal loss of human lives and property while rendering thousands of people homeless. While paying tributes to the victims of the […]
Read MoreRachel C Boyle London: Since Meghan and Harry’s interview, questions have been raised about the royal family. More specifically, is the family racist? Many viewers were shocked when the Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey that their mixed-race child’s skin tone had been discussed by a family member, and that “concerns” were expressed by them.On […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Chief of Defence Staff United Kingdom Army General Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi this week.According to a press release issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate, “matters of mutual interests including Afghan peace process, security and defence cooperation […]
Read MoreCricket South Africa have announced their men’s and women’s national contracts for the 2021-22 season.The women’s contracts have increased from 14 to 15 players, with Lara Goodall becoming the 15th player to be awarded a national contract after consistent performances in the last couple of seasons. While the men’s list continues to consist of 16 […]
Read MoreChris Williams Floyd Mayweather Jr says his reasons for fighting Youtube celebrity Logan Paul over a professional boxer is simple. Mayweather can make $100 million fighting a YouTuber over just $35 million against a regular boxer if he were to come back and face one of the top guys. There’s more green stuff for the […]
Read MorePrudour Pvt. Ltd: Market.us, one of the worlds leading prominent market research firms has released a new recent work on Tennis Market 2022-2031 based on business intelligence, consumer preferences and statistical surveys. The demands for spirits has been increasing gradually. Besides that, the report illustrates the primary obstacles and new expansion strategies implemented by key […]
Read MoreWang Wen Picture this. Someone tells you that if you invest 1 yuan ($0.15), you will harvest 100 trillion yuan after 100 years. This means that the yearly return is 38 percent, which is twice that of US investor and business tycoon Warren Buffet over the past 50 years. Given this scenario, would you invest? […]
Read MoreXin Hua Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and vice president of the European Commission, has asserted that the EU, “needs a strategic approach for the Indo-Pacific” on March 12. With the US ratcheting up efforts to get further involved in the Indo-Pacific region, observers are questioning […]
Read MoreMark C Donfried A year has now passed since the mass outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a global level. Now that we are in the second year of the pandemic, it is obvious that the worldwide vaccination effort is essential to decreasing the magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on all aspects of our lives, […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg David Cameron, the former British prime minister, has almost disappeared from the public consciousness since his ignominious departure from politics following the Brexit referendum. Like other former world leaders, he has found solace in writing memoirs, joining the very well-paid speakers’ circuit and concentrating his political activity abroad. In his nearly five years […]
Read MoreNewswire Lahore: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese called on Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at his office this week and discussed matters of mutual interest.He invited the CM to visit Italy and both agreed to promote bilateral cooperation for the protection of historical places as well as the promotion of tourism. The chief minister […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that Afghanistan deserved peace.Speaking to NATO in Afghanistan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, he said Afghanistan had suffered a lot and the people were waiting for long lasting peace.They exchanged views about security cooperation and how to support ceasefire and reduction in violence initiatives, […]
Read MoreMoscow: By their actions the Western nations have only precipitated regulation of the internet sphere, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. “It was them to precipitate what we have been stopping short of doing for quite a long time. We felt embarrassed about the necessity to impose regulative measures in the cyberspace. […]
Read MoreAstronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky.The research, published this month in The Astrophysical Journal, was led by University of Colorado Boulder student Spencer Hurt, an undergraduate in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences.It focuses on an iconic and relatively […]
Read MoreYang Sheng, Chen Shasha and Li Sikun Beijing: China and the US released great news that attracted world attention on Wednesday and Thursday, as the world’s two biggest economies decided to take the first step to reset their problematic ties.They announced a “2+2” meeting between the two countries’ chief diplomats next week, which was a […]
Read MoreNewswire Lahore Islamabad: The opposition will decide when and where it will advance a no-confidence motion against the incumbent government, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari warned. In a media interaction he said that the opposition had learnt lessons from the past or it wouldn’t be united right now. “We stand together and […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Lashing out at the opposition, Prime Minister Imran Khan this week said that Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) long march was meant to get a national reconciliation ordinance (NRO), ARY News reported.Presiding over a meeting of PTI’s core committee, PM Imran said that the PDM’s proposed long march has nothing to do with the problems […]
Read MoreIt has long been known that several chemicals used in plastic toys in different parts of the world can be harmful to human health. However, it is difficult for parents to figure out how to avoid plastic toys containing chemicals that may cause possible health risks to their children. Regulations and labelling schemes are different […]
Read MoreWhen you slip into sleep, it’s easy to imagine that your brain shuts down, but University of Michigan research suggests that groups of neurons activated during prior learning keep humming, tattooing memories into your brain.U-M researchers have been studying how memories associated with a specific sensory event are formed and stored in mice. In a […]
Read MorePreterm birth is a leading cause of infant deaths and illness in the U.S. — yet its underlying molecular causes remain largely unclear. About 40 to 50% of preterm births, defined as births before 37 weeks of pregnancy, are estimated to be “idiopathic,” meaning they arise from unexplained or spontaneous labor. And, maternal stress linked […]
Read MoreLi Bijian Located in the northwest of China, Xinjiang is a vast region rich in natural resources. It has a very important strategic location as it connects China with Central Asia. Home to several ethnic groups, the region has been deeply affected by ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism, called “the three forces”.These forces […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: The coronavirus pandemic has shattered the economies of many countries around the world. In such circumstances, the world needs a success story to assure that the virus is containable and Covid-19 can be curbed. China introduced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown in Wuhan city, and succeeded in containing the spread of the […]
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