MANHATTAN (NPTV/UNITED NATIONS): Last year UN General Assembly has proclaimed 23rd October as International Day of the Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia). Since it can blend with the landscapes, snow leopard is often called the ghost of the mountains. The theme for International Snow Leopard Day this year is, “Safeguarding Snow Leopard Habitats for Future Generations.” […]
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HANGU (KP): A couple of roadside bomb blasts caused by IEDs near checkpoint have claimed lives of three cops, including SP Operations Asad Zubair, here on Friday (24th Oct, 2025). According to details, the unknown militants used the twin-blast-tactic: When cops (including the SP) rushed towards the unmanned checkpoint, site of first explosion, the second […]
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VATICAN: After the passage of 5 centuries, King Charles III wrote history by becoming the first monarch to pray publicly with a pope during his Vatican visit Thursday (23rd Oct, 2025). The joint prayer manifested the augmenting bonds between Catholics and Anglicans. It is pertinent to mention here that in the 16th century Henry VIII […]
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RAWALPINDI CRICKET STADIUM: South African cricket team has levelled the two-match series 1-1 beating Pakistan by eight wickets in the 2nd Test here on Thursday (23rd Oct, 2025). Proteas’ 36-year-old off-spinner Simon Harmer hunted six scalps yielding only fifty runs. Chasing the 68-run target set by Green Shirts, Skipper Aiden Markram scored 42 runs, while […]
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CHAGAI (BALOCHISTAN): Armed forces of Pakistan have neutralised six terrorists in the Dalbandin area here on Wednesday (22nd Oct, 2025). According to details security forces tracked the formation of terrorists in Balochistan’s Chagai mountains by means of aerial reconnaissance. An operation was carried out and all the six terrorists hiding in a cave were eliminated. […]
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KARACHI: PNS Yarmook, working in direct support of Combined Task Force (CTF), seized narcotics worth $1 billion from two dhows in the Arabian Sea Saturday (18th Oct, 2025). US. Central Command congratulated the Saudi-led Combined Task Force 150 of Combined Maritime Forces “for successfully seizing more than $972 million worth of narcotics. Over a 48-hour […]
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KARACHI: Marking the commencement of Hindu calendar, Diwali (festival of lights) is celebrated on 15th day of Kartika (in memory of Ram Chand who spent 14 years in tranquillity) and lasts for five days. Diwali is a vital religious festival with racines in India. It is also celebrated by Sikhs and Jains. It was Mughal Emperor Akbar who laid the tradition of […]
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TOKYO: The Parliament of Japan has elected conservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s 104th (and first female) prime minister here on Tuesday (21st Oct, 2025). Leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Sanae Takaichi, known as the Japan’s Iron Lady, bagged 237 votes in the Lower House and 125 votes in the Upper House. […]
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PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, who was president from 2007-2012, began serving a 5-year prison sentence in a small cell of La Santé prison’s isolation wing here on Tuesday (21st Oct, 2025). Sarkozy, who is the first ex-president of (modern) France to go behind bars, has appealed against his jail term. He rejected the case involving […]
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BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Sunday (19th Oct, 2025) have proclaimed that they had found irrefutable evidence manifesting that between 2022 and 2024 United States of America had been conducting cyberattacks on Beijing’s National Time Service Center (NTSC) by means of its National Security Agency (NSA). Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) commenting on cyberarracks on […]
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