Newswire Islamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik this week demanded legal necessary proceedings against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his baseless allegations against Pakistan after Arnab Goswami’s WhatsApp chat leaks and revelation by Disinfolab EU. He said that both leaks have exposed the real face of […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Rehman Malik this week urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to resolve the foreign funding case against the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf.The Senator attended the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally held outside the headquarters of the ECP against delay in the PTI foreign funding case. Talking to […]
Read MoreRome: Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a church that had no idea it had been stolen. Officers said they had arrested the 36-year-old owner of the apartment on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, after the painting was found in […]
Read MoreNewswire Lahore: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that the Italian government was committed to strengthening ties with Pakistan wherever it finds any opportunity for mutual collaborations.During his visit to Italy-Pakistan Footwear Technological Centre (IPFTC), he said Italy considered |Pakistan a close friend. The project is a joint venture of Pakistan and […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan and China have reiterated to multiply agricultural cooperation under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong and Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam agreed that there was a huge potential in the agriculture sector when they met this week.“(Had a) meaningful […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Qingdao: The Pakistan China Center (PCC) was launched officially in China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area in Qingdao, Shandong province, China this week.The Pakistani Ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque and Liu Jianjun, an official of Qingdao, Shandong province, China attended the launching ceremony. As a national […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong this week proposed to make an online agricultural information exchange platform between Pakistan and China.He made the remarks when meeting with Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam here. The Ambassador recognized Pakistan’s potential in agriculture, urbanization and industrialization.Speaking on the […]
Read MoreKatie Pask Tokyo: Christmas and New Year’s are in the bag, which means Japan is getting ready for the next big holiday – Valentine’s Day. Shops have already ditched their festive decor as piles of sweet treats are taking the forefront. Whether it’s homemade chocolate or just something you bought at the store to make […]
Read MoreTokyo: Twenty-five train operators in the Tokyo metropolitan area will move up their last departure times by around 30 minutes from this week to help stem the spread of the resurgent coronavirus.The schedule change comes after the governors of Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama, as well as the transport […]
Read MoreStephan Shemilt No wicketkeeper in the history of women’s international cricket has more than Sarah Taylor’s 232 dismissalsAmong the myriad of restrictions brought to everyday life, lockdown is preventing Sarah Taylor from returning to the nets.Perhaps the finest female wicketkeeper to have played the game, Taylor retired from international cricket because of a battle with […]
Read MoreThe rivalry between elite football clubs is already fierce, but it’s just been shot into new territory.As global fanbases shelter from the pandemic at home, a collaboration between Epic Games – the creator of the video game Fortnite – and the world of football has opened another sphere of competition online. “Fortnite has been around […]
Read MoreEight hundred consecutive weeks. That’s how long Rafael Nadal has been living inside the Top 10 of the FedEx ATP Rankings. His run has spanned more than 15 years and counting: 5,600 days. 134,400 hours. The Mallorcan’s streak has already lasted longer than the Napoleonic Wars or World War I, World War II, and the […]
Read MoreLau Siu-kai – China Daily Since Hong Kong’s reunion with the Chinese mainland in 1997, the practice of “one country, two systems” in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been incessantly and unrelentingly criticized by Western politicians, media, opinion leaders, NGOs, human rights organizations and international bodies dominated by the West.Recently, some Westerners have […]
Read MoreDr Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Thirty years ago this week, the US’ power was at its zenith, militarily and diplomatically. On Jan. 17, 1991, it launched the war to dislodge Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait, and with it drove away doubts about America’s commitment to world peace. In the lead-up to that date, the US was […]
Read MoreSong Jingyi The geopolitical, trade and technology frictions between the United States and China will continue to have an impact on higher education cooperation between academics and universities in the two countries under US President-elect Joe Biden, education experts say, although they see a likely change of tone under Biden which could ease some current […]
Read MoreNadim Shehadi A multipolar world is one of competing visions, strategies and actions. During inauguration week in the US, there is much speculation about the new administration’s worldview and the position of the Middle East in that context.How seriously one can take US election campaign promises? In the heat of the moment, candidates trash their […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Head of Communication and Public Diplomacy at the British High Commission Islamabad Fouzia Younis and Deputy Head of Communications Cameron Millar hosted a reception for the diplomatic correspondents here this week. Speaking at the reception, Fouzia Younis said she was delighted that for the first time in the history of the Chevening Pakistan […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo said NATO’s aim was to make Afghanistan a safe place to live.He said the intensive violence by the Taliban was the biggest challenge for peace in Afghanistan. In an interview, Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo said that the Taliban have expressed committeemen for peace but continuation of […]
Read MoreMoscow: Reports about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “palace” are absurd, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, adding that such scams were largely aimed at extracting money from the public. “There are some phone numbers at the end of this miraculous report, as well as a request to send money. It seems that this […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: It is highly unlikely that China will experience a major resurgence of the novel coronavirus during the upcoming Spring Festival, given that the nation has created containment measures to quickly identify, isolate and control any possible outbreaks, a health official said.Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control […]
Read MoreNewswire ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari have been re-elected unopposed as the Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party and the President of the PPP Parliamentarians. The top leaders have been re-elected for another four-year term.The intra-party elections of the PPP at the federal level were held in Karachi on January 6 “in […]
Read MoreMoscow: The US State Department has never reacted substantially to notes sent by the Russian embassy in Washington, demanding investigations into attacks on Russian journalists in the United States, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova noted. The diplomat recalled that American human rights activists recorded around 1,000 journalist rights abuses in 2020 in […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (CPCCC) Xi Jinping this week sent a message to Kim Jong Un, congratulating him on election as the general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Xi said he is glad to […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Deputy Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri this week said that Pakistan looks forward to Iran’s participation in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Qasim Khan Suri made the remarks in an exclusive interview with IRNA. He said that CPEC along with the 25-year strategic cooperation plan between Iran and China, will enhance […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: China has contributed more to the well-being of humanity as the country has been upgrading its foreign aid to a model of international development cooperation, with new initiatives taken and greater results achieved.This was revealed by the latest government white paper, titled “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era,” and […]
Read MoreMore and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like many viruses before it, is bad news for the brain. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers found that the spike protein, often […]
Read MoreA new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterise the human brain.Researchers have long been aware that endogenous retroviruses constitute around five per cent of our DNA. For many years, they were considered junk […]
Read MoreWith only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the University of Lausanne have developed a new approach to pinpoint, for the first […]
Read MoreOn a cold winter day in December 2007, a bulldozer flattened nearly 40 acres (16 hectares) of Inner Mongolia’s Tengger Desert. It was the start of a unique experiment: For the first time, scientists would watch Earth’s winds give birth to dunes. Four years later, results from the giant Mongolian sandbox confirmed long-held models of […]
Read MoreGalaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas. […]
Read MoreIt is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration, though this is due to some combination of dark matter and the stellar density. In a new study to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers have now obtained the […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Matsuda Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan, has praised Pakistan’s decision to launch the first polio vaccination drive of 2021 and reiterated Japan’s commitment to continue its support to eradicate polio from Pakistan and the globe.During the five-day campaign, around 285,000 polio workers will engage in the vaccination of over 40 million children, wearing masks, […]
Read MoreIssei Kato Toky: Young women in colorful traditional costumes, masks and white stoles braved cold weather in lines and sat seats apart from one another in Yokohama on Monday to mark Japan’s Coming-of-Age Day, even though the city is under a state of emergency.The ceremonies, typically full of kimono-clad women and smartly-dressed men, were cancelled […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Kuninori Matsuda called on Minister for Interior Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed this week and discussed the matters of mutual interest and promoting ties between both countries.The Minister for Interior appreciated the role and assistance of Japan in economic development of Pakistan.He said that Japan always assisted Pakistan in challenging […]
Read MoreThe Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex ‘reconnected’ over the holidays and are now ‘speaking regularly’ by video call, a royal expert has claimed. Prince Harry, 36, and Meghan Markle, 39, are currently residing in their $14million mansion in Santa Barbara with one-year-old son Archie, having stepped back from duty in March last […]
Read MoreBritish spacecraft could travel to Mars in half the time it now takes by using nuclear propulsion engines built by Rolls-Royce under a new deal with the UK Space Agency.The aerospace company hopes nuclear-powered engines could help astronauts make it to Mars in three to four months, twice as fast as the most powerful chemical […]
Read MoreNewswire Sialkot: The elder sister of Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior Minister Senator A. Rehman Malik was laid to rest this week at her ancestral graveyard in Sialkot. A large number of people offered the funeral prayer. He said that he was saddened and deeply mourned today adding that as an […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The annual rise in toll of fatal and non-fatal accidents that causes deaths and disabilities to thousands of people every year in the country could be prevented through strictly enforcing the traffic safety guidelines. Road safety lies in controlled speed of vehicles alongside following the traffic laws and safety measures. Round-the-clock vigilance with the […]
Read MoreLi Haidong A document released by the US Department of State in early January accused the Communist Party of China (CPC) of “threatening global peace and security” by “expanding its power and influence at the expense of others in at least six ways.” These, as the report claims, include “predatory economic practices,” “military aggression in […]
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