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A Hindu temple was vandalised in Pakistan’s Sindh province by miscreants who set the holy books and idols on fire, drawing a strong reaction from Prime Minister Imran Khan who ordered swift and decisive action against the perpetrators. The incident happened last week in Kumb, a town in Khairpur district. The unidentified assailants fled the after vandalism. Khan Tuesday night ...

China will provide USD 2.5 billion in loans to Pakistan to boost the foreign exchange reserves of its “all-weather ally”, a media report said Saturday. Pakistan is nearly broke with the drying up of foreign cash reserves and mounting external debt. The country’s USD 8.12 billion reserves, which are below the minimum level that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...

Suman Kumari has become the first Hindu woman in Pakistan to be appointed as a civil judge, according to a media report. Suman, who hails from Qambar-Shahdadkot, will serve in her native district. She passed her LLB. examination from Hyderabad and did her masters in law from Karachi’s Szabist University, Dawn reported. According to Pawan Kumar Bodan, her father, Suman ...

At least 11 people died after a fire in two ships in the Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea from Russia. According to reports in the media on Tuesday, the crew members of these ships were citizens of India, Turkey and Libya. The fire was on Monday near the water front of the Russian border. Tanzania’s flag was hoisted on both ...

Indian citizens of less than 15 years of age and more than 65 years of age can be used as a valid travel document for Aadhar card for travel to Nepal and Bhutan. This information has been given in the recent release of the Home Ministry. For the visit of both neighboring countries, other than these two age groups, citizens ...

Microsoft on Wednesday pledged USD 500 million for loans and grants aimed at ramping up construction of affordable housing in the Puget Sound area of Washington state where the US technology giant has its home. “In recent years, our region hasn’t built enough housing for the people who live here,” Microsoft executives Amy Hood and Brad Smith said in a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the “historic leadership” of Palestine which assumed the chairmanship of G77, the global body’s largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries including India. Egypt was the previous Chair of the Group of 77 (G77), a coalition of 134 members, along with China which aligns itself with the bloc. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed ...

China has achieved great success on the moon. They have landed the world’s first spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. China’s Spacecraft Chang E-4 touched the part of the Moon on the morning of January 3. The part on which the vehicle has landed is very far from the earth and there is no big information about it. ...

Pakistan Tuesday shared with India a list of its nuclear installations and facilities as per the provisions of a bilateral agreement. The list was handed over in accordance with Article-II of the Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks Against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India, signed on December 31, 1988, the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement here. ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday triggering a brief tsunami warning. The quake struck southeast of Davao City at a depth of 59 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said, a week after a volcano-triggered tsunami killed more than 400 people in neighbouring Indonesia. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned “hazardous tsunami waves from this ...