IN most middle-income countries, particularly across the Global South, it`s rare for households to receive piped natural gas directly into their homes. Pakistan is one of the few exceptions. In cities ...

KEYLONG: Just a few hundred kilometres southeast of India-held Kashmir, a new front over water sharing between Pakistan and India is emerging as New Delhi plans a raft of hydropower plants that ...

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday raised its global growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026 slightly, citing stronger-thanexpected purchasesahead of an Aug 1 jump in US tariffs ...

ISLAMABAD: The government has quietly slashed profit rates on all national savings schemes both conventional and Sharia-compliant within a month, dealing a fresh blow to small investors, particularly ...

LAHORE: After over a decade, the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has, finally, realised the significance of mortality audit for the safety of the patients and issued directions to all the private ...

ORE than three months after the deadly Pahalgam episode in held Kashmir, the BJP-led Indian government is still struggling to construct a believable narrative in the midst of rising domestic criticism ...

A resident of the area said that movement of terrorists brought commercial activities to a standstill. The presence of terrorists prompted police and law enforcement agencies to swing into action and ...

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two people were killed and seven others injured in an armed attack by unidentified attackers on a tractor-trolley in the Kot Magsi area of Jhal Magsi district on Sunday. Levies ...

MOSCOW: Russian national flag carrier Aeroflot was forced to cancel dozens of flights on Monday after a crippling cyberattack claimed by a shadowy pro-Ukrainian hacking group, which one lawmaker ...

LAHORE: The Punjab government said on Monday that a successful experiment for making biogas from biodegradable animal waste was conducted at Lakhodair in the city for the first time in history. Chief ...

GOALPARA: Authorities in India`s Assam state have bulldozed thousands of homes belonging to Bengali-speaking Muslims in recent weeks, in the most intense crackdown in decades ahead of state elections ...

JERUSALEM: Rights groups B`Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to a `genocide` against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs.