No more minting of one-cent coin (penny)

WHITE HOUSE: President Donald Trump, maintaining that minting one cent coins was wasteful, instructed US treasury to stop producing new ones. Taking to his Truth Social Media Account, Trump maintained on Sunday (9th Feb 2025): “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is […]

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Cricket, 2nd match, tri-nation ODI series: Kiwis beat Proteas

GADDAFI STADIUM (LAHORE): New Zealand’s Cricket team has beaten South Africa by 6 wickets in the second match of the tri-nation ODI series played here on Monday (10th Feb, 2025). South African team, that opted to bat first, lost four wickets to score 304 runs in fifty overs. Black Caps successfully chased the target of […]

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Cricket: Online tickets will not grant access to the stadium

KARACHI: Those who have booked tickets for the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy matches online, have been warned that they will have to acquire physical ones (hard copies) in order to enter the stadium. According to details 37 TCS centers have been authorised in 13 cities of the country to provide such hard copies enabling the […]

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Low-cost Flyadeal begins operations to Pakistan

KARACHI: The inaugural flight of Saudi Arabian airline Flydeal (FE-661), that took-off from Riyadh, landed here on Saturday (1st Feb, 2025). According to details the low-cost Flyadeal will operate 2 weekly flights to and from the Metropolis: one from Riyadh every Thursday and another from Jeddah every Saturday. Flyadeal, that in 2024 operated charter flights […]

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Stampede at Kumbh Mela claims 30 lives

PRAYAGRAJ (Allahabad): Thirty people were crushed to death, 60 got gravely wounded due to a stampede here at (the ongoing 45-day) Hindu Festival on Wednesday (29th Jan, 2025). The devout Hindus believe that a dip at the the Sangam (confluence) of Ganga and Jamna will cleanse all the sins. Forty Crore (400 million) pilgrims and tourists are […]

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PIA flies from Gwadar to Muscat

GWADAR: Inaugural Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-197 harboring 39 passengers departed from here to Muscat Friday (24th January, 2025) morning and returned the very day in the afternoon as flight PK-198. Using Avion de Transport Regional (ATR)’s turboprop aircraft the National Flag Carrier PIA will operate one flight weekly to Muscat on Fridays. It […]

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Gwadar Int’l Airport Inaugurated

GWADAR: Following the inauguration of Int’l Airport a commercial flight of PIA originating from Karachi, harboring 46 voyagers, landed here at 11.15am Monday (20th Jan 2025). The Gwadar Int’l Airport, that has been constructed grace á $230m Chinese aid, has a 14,000-square-metre passenger terminal that happens to have community hospital and utility services. The airport […]

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