Rome: Aubergine Parmigiana is a celebration of the signature ingredients of southern Italian cuisine. Although its true origin continues to be contested between Sicily and Campania, parmigiana di melanzane (or melanzane alla parmigiana) is nevertheless a celebration of the signature ingredients of southern Italy. Slices of plump, ripe aubergine (eggplant) are layered together with an […]
Read MoreIslamabad July 25, 2020: President Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) Sardar Akhtar Mengal today called on Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Zardari House Islamabad Saturday. In the meeting that lasted for two hours the two leaders discussed in depth the current political situation in the country. They also agreed to meet more often […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Friday the diplomats of the US consulate general in Chengdu interfered in China’s internal affairs and engaged in activities that were not in line with their diplomatic identities. Wang said the Chinese side has lodged representations with the U.S. many times. He urged the US to withdraw […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Humanity is on the threshold of being able to detect signs of alien life on other worlds. By studying exoplanet atmospheres, we can look for gases like oxygen and methane that only coexist if replenished by life. But those gases come from simple life forms like microbes. What about advanced civilizations? Would they leave […]
Read MoreRome: World’s most romantic garden opens ruins of ancient castle with concert-shows and visits at dusk. Ninfa – described by The New York Times as “the most beautiful and romantic garden in the world” – celebrates 100 years with a month of special events. The garden space containing the ruins of the ancient Castello di […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) co-hosted a joint China-Pakistan think tanks Webinar on ‘New Opportunities and Challenges of China-Pakistan Cooperation in the Post-Epidemic Era’. The webinar brought together government officials, leading experts, and entrepreneurs to discuss the post-pandemic relationship between Pakistan and China. Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing was among the two keynote speakers, the other being […]
Read MoreAstronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year. Kepler-421b circles its star once every 704 days. In comparison, Mars orbits our Sun once every 780 days. Most of the 1,800-plus exoplanets discovered to date are much closer to their stars and have much shorter orbital periods. “Finding Kepler-421b was a stroke of […]
Read MoreKabul: The NATO Senior Civilian Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo said regional countries including Pakistan would benefit from Afghan peace process. He made the remarks during an interview with Khaama Press, while responding to a question regarding Pakistan’s role in supporting the Taliban group as well as playing a key role in bringing the […]
Read MoreBeijing: By renewing its pledge to further protect market entities and spur their vitality in times of difficulty and uncertainty, China has given its economy and all market players a fresh shot of confidence. Chairing a symposium with entrepreneurs Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping listened to their opinions and advice on the economic situation, assuring […]
Read MoreRome: Italy’s Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, stated that the country is out of the covd-19 storm during his speech at the Coldiretti assembly – the Italian organization of farmers. “I believe that Italy has made it, I’m not thinking of the government but of the country as a whole. It wasn’t obvious, we were the […]
Read MoreUrumqi: The laying of railway tracks for a new line linking northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region with Qinghai Province and beyond was completed Tuesday, paving the way for accelerating development in the country’s western region. The 1,213.7-km Golmud-Korla Railway, linking the city of Golmud in Qinghai and the city of Korla in Xinjiang, is […]
Read MoreRome: The history of chocolate goes back millennia, but its popularity at Easter is much more recent. Chocolates place in European history and in the hearts of sweet tooths and chocoholics worldwide can be traced back to the New World. The Spanish explorer Hernn Corts is credited with discovering chocolate as it was consumed by […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Far out, man: Ancient people made cave art while high on hallucinogenic drugs, new research suggests. After analyzing the patterns found in thousands of year’s worth of prehistoric cave art, scientists from Tokyo found similarities between paintings done in vastly different times and places. These similarities are “best explained by the common experience of […]
Read MoreBeijing: Beijing lowered the emergency response to COVID-19 from level 2 to level 3 on Monday, setting an example of how a metropolis can contain the breakout with regular measures as the threat of infection looms. The Chinese capital’s announcement of lowering the emergency response came after the city had reported no newly confirmed cases […]
Read MoreJamshoro: Father of a victim allegedly stoned to death in Jamshoro, Wazeera Chachaar, on Monday challenged a lower court order to exhume the body of his daughter in Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC). The top provincial court issued notices to all parties in the case for July 27 and summoned a […]
Read MoreBy Hu Xijin The China-US relationship is being described as going through a free fall. The phrase “a new cold war” has been appearing increasingly in analyses by media outlets and observers worldwide. But China will not fight a new cold war with the US. A cold war requires a comprehensive mobilization of both Chinese […]
Read MoreThe discovery of two new jumbo-sized viruses is blurring the lines between viral and cellular life and could point to the existence of a new type of life, scientists suggest. The two large viruses, detailed in this week’s issue of the journal Science, have been dubbed “Pandoraviruses” because of the surprises they may hold for […]
Read MoreKabul: The NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that violence does not help peace efforts in Afghanistan. In an interview with Salam Watandar radio, Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo said that the Taliban have expressed committeemen for peace but continuation of their violence and the killing of military and civilian personnel have […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Ambassador of Italy to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese has said that representing his country in Islamabad was a dream which came true. In a message, he said, being an Ambassador in Islamabad was a position that satisfied his desire from the beginning of his diplomatic career 26 years ago. “In my first assignment to the […]
Read MoreBy Chen Chen- Xinhua Beijing: China always holds that the protection of human rights will only ring hollow unless human lives are valued, and social stability and security guaranteed. That principle has seen growing global consensus in today’s crisis-stricken world.At the just concluded 44th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), China has […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: Pakistan has once more rubbished western propaganda and reiterated that Hong Kong is part of iron brother China which makes any related matter China’s internal affair. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said Pakistan’s position on Hong Kong is “principled, consistent and clear.” “Pakistan adheres to One-China policy. Hong Kong is a […]
Read MoreKarachi: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has paid glowing tributes to Shaheed Shahnawaz Bhutto who was martyred 35 years ago at the prime youth age of 26 during the struggle for restoration of democratic and human rights, which continues to date. In a message on the 34th martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Shahnawaz Bhutto […]
Read MoreNew York: China is on track for impressive economic recovery from the COVID-19 shock thanks to the nation’s effective efforts to contain the outbreak, experts said. “We think the economic recovery is well on track,” Lucy Qiu, emerging markets strategist at UBS Global Wealth Management, told Xinhua on Tuesday. “Effective containment of the pandemic and […]
Read MoreIslamabad: An international group of astronomers has used the ESO 3.6-metre telescope to identify a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from a Sun-like star, HIP 11915. According to current theories, the formation of Jupiter-mass planets plays an important role in shaping the architecture of planetary systems. The existence of a Jupiter-mass […]
Read MoreSeyed Mohammad Ali HosseiniAmbassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran Nowadays, long-term political-economic cooperation is a common mechanism for developing bilateral and regional relations. One of the issues that has been much discussed in recent days, is the Comprehensive Document of 25-year strategic cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People’s Republic of […]
Read MoreMcGill Physics student Evelyn Macdonald and her supervisor Prof. Nicolas Cowan used over a decade of observations of Earth’s atmosphere taken by the SCISAT satellite to construct a transit spectrum of Earth, a sort of fingerprint for Earth’s atmosphere in infrared light, which shows the presence of key molecules in the search for habitable worlds. […]
Read MoreBy Jiang Li – Xinhua Beijing: US. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States rejected China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea, the latest provocative act in his notorious campaign to undermine China. Pompeo’s statement not only disregards the facts related to the South […]
Read MoreBy Emily Conover Like a metronome that sets the tempo for a musician, a fundamental cosmic clock may be keeping time throughout the universe. But if such a clock exists, it ticks extremely fast. In physics, time is typically thought of as a fourth dimension. But some physicists have speculated that time may be the […]
Read MoreAcross the entire world, women can expect to live longer than men. But why does this occur, and was this always the case? According to a new study led by University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology researchers, significant differences in life expectancies between the sexes first emerged as recently as the turn […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Huawei has confirmed that it will be upgrading 13 devices to EMUI 10.1 in Western Europe. The company’s latest in-house OS is an incremental update on EMUI 10, which will be replaced by EMUI 11 later this year. Huawei has finalised its update schedule for EMUI 10.1 in Western Europe. The company has published […]
Read MoreBy Xuan Liqi, Wang Jintao, Zhao Yufei – Xinhua Chongqing: This year, people living in regions of the Three Gorges Project, the world’s largest hydropower project, witnessed a historic achievement in bidding farewell to poverty. Covering about 10,000 square km, the regions involved in the project are located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze […]
Read MoreYale University astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral galaxy. The previously unseen galaxies may yield important insights into dark matter and galaxy evolution, while possibly signaling the discovery of a new class of objects in space. For now, […]
Read MoreUnited Nations: Chinese ambassador to the UN has called for relevant countries to immediately lift the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria, after a second veto this week of a UN Security Council resolution on Syria aid via Turkey. Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said years of illegal sanctions have exacerbated […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s CSI 300 000300 index surged nearly 6%, bringing it to a 5-year high, and boosting equity markets around the world in its wake. In the year to date, the index is up 16%, outpacing most U.S. benchmarks, except the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP . “I don’t think that retail investors alone could drive […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The experts and academics Friday said China-Pakistan agriculture cooperation would have huge potential and it would help in agricultural up-gradation and technological transfer to Pakistan. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two countries had provided the right kind of framework that needed to be vigorously pursued the goals of collaboration and cooperation in […]
Read MoreSilverback gorillas appear to use odor as a form of communication to other gorillas, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michelle Klailova from University of Stirling, UK, and colleagues. Mammals communicate socially through visual, auditory, and chemical signals. The chemical sense is in fact the oldest sense, shared by […]
Read MoreThe human eye is an amazing instrument and can accurately distinguish between the tiniest, most subtle differences in color. Where human vision excels in one area, it seems to fall short in others, such as perceiving minuscule details because of the natural limitations of human optics. In a paper published in The Optical Society’s new […]
Read MoreDefining what makes a star “Sun-like” is as difficult as defining what makes a planet “Earth-like.” A solar twin should have a temperature, mass, and spectral type similar to our Sun. We also would expect it to be about 4.5 billion years old. However, it is notoriously difficult to measure a star’s age so astronomers […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing on Friday said that his country would provide 1,000 more ventilators to Pakistan during the current month so that it could fight against the deadly COVID-19 in a more efficient way. “We [China] have so far provided seven million Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and 600 ventilators along with […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Mohammad Ali Hosseini Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to pakistan has says that Iran has always played a positive and effective role in producing, protecting and assuring regional security. Responding to media query about Uzair baluch and his assertion on Iranian intelligence request, he said explicit background of Islamic Republic of Iran’s […]
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