LAHORE: Pakistani shooter Kashmala Talat qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics after winning a silver medal at the Asian Shooting Championship on Monday. In a statement on X, Pakistan Olympics Association announced that Talat ranked second in the Women’s 10m-Air-Pistol event with a remarkable score of 236.6 points at the Asian Shooting Championship in Jakarta, […]
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WASHINGTON: Seventy-five years after his assassination, India’s founding father Mahatma Gandhi, who is regarded in the West as the exemplar of nonviolent protest, has become a casualty of India’s lurch toward Hindu nationalism, a prominent Indian journalist wrote in a leading U.S. newspaper, while highlighting that his killer is now being reimagined as a martyr […]
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BEIJING: China has imposed sanction on 5 US military manufacturers in response to the latest round of arms sales to Taiwan. A foreign ministry spokesperson said the recent US arms sales seriously undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests. It may be recalled that in the month of December, 2023 US State Department had approved US […]
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DHAKA: Bangladesh election officials began counting votes Sunday (7th Jan, 2024) after polls guaranteed to give a fifth term in office to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina closed, following a boycott led by an opposition party she branded a “terrorist organisation”. Hasina has presided over breakneck economic growth in a country once beset by grinding poverty, […]
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BRISBANE (Australia): Elena Rybakina will head to the Australian Open full of confidence after demolishing Aryna Sabalenka in the Brisbane International final Sunday, while Grigor Dimitrov upset Holger Rune to win his first title since 2017. Rybakina, who will now become world number three, won the first eight games in a row on her way […]
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KARACHI: G. M. Jamali, President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has asserted that journalists were also laborers of the pen, deserving fair compensation. He was speaking at the concluding session of of Lobbying Meeting of Stakeholders held here jointly by PFUJ, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Working Women Welfare Trust focusing on Sindh […]
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DHAKA: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the main party boycotting Sunday (7th of Jan, 2024)’s national elections was a “terrorist organisation”, adding that she was trying to ensure her country remained democratic. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is one of the dozens of parties refusing to compete in the poll, saying it will neither […]
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KARACHI: The 20 teams have been divided into four groups of five, with the top two teams progressing to the ‘Super Eights’. The Super Eight games will all be held in the Caribbean – in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The two top teams from each group in […]
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MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday (6th of Jan, 2024) announced its forces shot down four Ukrainian missiles over Moscow-annexed Crimea over night. The attack came a day after Russia said it repelled a Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea, downing 36 drones over the peninsula. “Air defense on duty intercepted and destroyed four Ukrainian missiles over the […]
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WASHINGTON: Alaska Airlines grounded its Boeing 737-9 planes on Friday after a flight with 177 people onboard made an emergency landing in the US state of Oregon, with passengers reporting a plane window panel blew out after takeoff. “Following tonight’s event on Flight 1282, we have decided to take the precautionary step of temporarily grounding […]
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