A delegation of Chinese investors meets Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah (third from right) on October 1, 2024. — screengrab/video/supplied KARACHI: Sindh government would welcome Chinese public and private firms to invest directly in the projects of their choice or strike a public-private partnership with the provincial government, said Chief Minister Murad […]
Selena Gomez gives one piece of valuable advice to her younger self: Video Selena Gomez has recently revealed what advice she would give to her younger self at the New York Film Festival. Speaking to E! News, the Only Murders in the Building actress said, “I would tell her to just calm down, everything’s going […]
For the first time in nearly 50 years, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday, a move that will cut off most trade through some of the busiest U.S. ports and could send a chill through the economy. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., which represents roughly 45,000 […]
Antitrust officials in Washington and their supporters across the political spectrum are asking whether Kamala Harris is fully committed to President Joe Biden’s crusade against America’s biggest companies. Normally a back-burner issue in national politics, antitrust has become one of the White House’s top legacy issues — and increasingly urgent as Biden’s top corporate regulators […]
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s trip to Islamabad in January 2004 to attend a summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) hosted by Pakistan marked a powerful breakthrough in the recurrent India-Pakistan logjam. While regional cooperation was the backdrop, the bilateral importance of the visit more or less pushed everything else to […]
The disaster struck Himalayan nation just before Dasain, the country’s most significant festival, which starts on Thursday. The search for the missing and the recovery of the deceased continued in Nepal on Tuesday, following the devastating floods and landslides that claimed more than 200 lives over the weekend. The death toll has risen to 224, […]
A customer buys rice at a wholesale shop in Karachi on June 8, 2023.— AFP Pakistan’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation slumped to 6.9% year-on-year in September, its lowest since January 2021 and down from 9.6% in August, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday, mostly owing to a high base effect, […]
A woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling booth during the third and final phase of the Assembly election, at Tangmarg in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, on October 1. | Photo Credit: PTI In the contested and storied valleys of Jammu and Kashmir, the political atmosphere teems with unprecedented […]
Ahead of his first and likely only national debate of the presidential cycle, JD Vance prepared for the event at his home in Cincinnati and virtually on Zoom. He recruited Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota to play his opponent in mock sessions. And he brought in Donald Trump’s campaign strategist Jason Miller and his […]
The year-long celebration of the birth centenary of the late Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi, former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief and five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, which concluded a few months ago, has left his party, which also celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, in a jubilant mood. Kalaignar (the moniker means a “scholar of […]