Islamabad, Pakistan, April 16: Social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram have been suspended in Pakistan from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Interior Ministry said on Friday. The ministry told Geo News that the Pakistan Telecom Authority had suspended social media platforms on its directive. The immediate reason for the suspension of
Violent protests in Pakistan on Tuesday for the second day against the arrest of a far-right Muslim leader Islamabad, Pakistan, April 15: Violent protests continued in Pakistan on Tuesday for the second day against the arrest of radical Islamist party leaders as demonstrators blocked roads in several major Pakistani cities, including the country’s largest city
New Delhi: Astronomers have detected a new active galaxy. It has been identified as a distant gamma ray emitting galaxy. This active galaxy is called the Nero line Seifert-1 (NLS-1) galaxy. It is about 31 billion light squares behind. This discovery paves the way for further exploration. In 1929, Admin Habbal discovered that the universe
BEIJING: China on Tuesday asked the United States to stop playing with Taiwan by fire and Washington filed a complaint after issuing guidelines that enabled U.S. officials to meet more freely with the island’s officials China, which is claimed by China itself. Friday’s decision by the US State Department to deepen relations with self-governing Taiwan
The Imran Khan-led Pakistan government on Wednesday is likely to lift the ban on the import of sugar and cotton from India. The Pakistan Ministry of Commerce released a note before the Pakistani cabinet for import approval from India. According to The Dawn report, the Pakistani newspaper has 21 items on the agenda of the
The next major concern for India after the container ship ‘Big Ever Given’ is what action the Suez Canal Authority may take against 25 crew members. Both the Government of India and the Sailor Organization are concerned about the legal issues that the crew may face, including the possibility of criminal charges. The report quoted
While the demand for electricity had decreased due to the lock-down and recession that occurred last year in the whole world, not only did the demand for electricity rise in China, but also the production of electricity made from coal was recorded in China. And currently China is now responsible for more than half of
29 March 2021, Monday: A huge container ship stranded in the Suez Canal, Egypt for six days was successfully refloated on Monday. The Canal Authority has shared a video of a flotilla of tugboats tapping their horns at the celebration. The ship is now headed to Great Bitter Lake where it will be inspected, the
A Chinese diplomat has dismissed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “boy” in a social media attack, a new low in a broken relationship between the two countries. China and Canada have clashed repeatedly in recent months, and last week the two countries imposed sanctions on each other in Beijing’s growing row to treat
Two million coronavirus vaccines for UN peacekeepers sent by India arrived in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, on Sunday morning. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted: “Ensuring safe peacekeeping. Made in India vaccinated land for @UNPsykeeping personnel in Denmark. #VaccineMaitri.” India on Friday sent 200,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as a gift to UN peacekeepers. These
Suez Crisis latest news: Twitter has a solution for everything! So what if have teams of experts have not been able to refloat the giant Evergreen container ship stuck in the Suez canal, the social media has offered some unique or should we say downright crazy plans to open one of the most crucial waterways
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bangladesh on a two-day visit to Bangladesh on Friday, his first visit to a foreign country since the Covid-19 outbreak last year. He was welcomed by Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. “Landed in Dhaka. I thank PM Sheikh Hasina for the special reception at
