BRUSSELS: European Commission officially launched the EUDIS Business Accelerator and Matchmaking (BAMM) programme under the EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS), a flagship initiative of the European Defence Fund (EDF) to support new defence companies. This was made during the programme kick-off meeting attended by François Arbault, Director for Defence Industry at the European Commission and […]
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TORKHAM: The border crossing here, that remained closed for 25 days, has been reopened for trade and people (on foot) Wednesday (19th March, 2025). Since Afghans agreed to dismantle the controversial structures that was the bone of contention, bilateral trade resumed and trucks carrying commodities commenced entering Afghanistan. It is pertinent to mention here that […]
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FLORIDA: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were supposed to stay onboard International Space Station (ISS) for a week in June 2024, returned to Earth after nine months on Tuesday (18th March, 2025) by means of SpaceX capsule that splashed down off the coast here. Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Space Operations Mission […]
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KARACHI: A block-buster guest speaker session was held at Iqra University’s Main Campus here featuring Lucie Azema, a renowned French traveller and author. She shared insights into her journey and experiences as a traveller, particularly highlighting the challenges faced by women in this field. The profundity of the brain-storming session was further enhanced by the […]
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KARACHI: Those who still remember Air Commodore (R) M. M. Alam (the flying virtuoso), are commemorating his 11th death anniversary on Monday (18th of March, 2025). He breathed his last here at Al-Shifa Hospital at the age of 77. The man , who had shot nine IAF aircraft down during 1965 war, was an exceptionally well-read person […]
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ISLAMABAD: The civil and military top brass converged here on Tuesday (18th March, 2025) to ponder over the law and order state-of-affairs in Pakistan. Conspicuous among others, there were COAS, DG ISI, PM and CMs of four provinces. They attended the in-camera rendezvous of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. The committee members, following the […]
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AIR FORCE ONE: President Donald Trump, while talking to Media onboard Air Force One, has warned Iran that henceforth any attack carried out by Houtis would be reckoned as a move by Iran and it will suffer consequences: Taking to the X Trump stated: “Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by […]
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WASHINGTON: Trump administration has commenced the process of mass layoffs in US-funded Media from Sunday (16th March, 2025). According to details employees working on contractual basis at VoA received an email informing that they were being dismissed as of 31st March, 2025: “you must cease all work immediately and are not permitted to access any […]
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FLORIDA: As part of the NASA’s crew-swap mission, SpaceX’s Falcon-9 docked at ISS carrying four astronauts enabling Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (stranded for 9 months) on Sunday (16th March, 2025) 29 hours after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center here. It is pertinent to mention here that the two stranded astronauts were supposed to […]
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NOSHKI (Balochistan): A BLA suicide bomber detonated his jacket harboring explosives following an IED blast, carried out by another member of the outfit, near a FC convoy on Nushki-Dalbandin highway here Sunday (16th March, 2025). According to details the attack claimed lives of three FC personnel and two civilians. Thirty-five (mostly para-military personnel) were injured […]
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