File photo The Indian cricket team for the Asia Cup has been announced. The Indian Cricket Board has announced the 17-member squad for the Asia Cup and retained Rohit Sharma as the captain of the team. KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah are back in the team. Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav,…
File photo Pakistan’s well-known and religious personality Ayatollah Grand Allama Muhammad Hussain Najafi passed away. The funeral prayer of the deceased will be offered today at 6 pm at Madrasa Sultan Al Madaris Sargodha. Confirming his death, the family members said that Grand Ayatollah Allama Muhammad Hussain Najafi died in hospital in Islamabad due to…
Screen grab The Accountability Court of Lahore approved the physical remand of former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi till August 29 in the case of corruption of 1 billion 25 crores in Gujarat development projects. Former Punjab Chief Minister Amjad Pervez’s lawyer said that there would be no objection if Pervez Elahi’s custody is…
Kashmiri youth martyred during search operation in Pulwama district, Photo: File Srinagar: Two more Kashmiri youths were martyred in the aggression of the Indian Army in Occupied Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident of martyrdom of the youth took place in Pulwama district of Jannat Nazir valley where the occupying Indian army searched…
File photo Pakistan cricket team’s fast bowler Hasan Ali got married for the fourth time Congratulating his wife Samia Khan on her birthday, he shared a loving message in her name on social media. On the photo and video sharing platform Instagram, Hasan Ali edited and shared a few photos in the form of a…
“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. “Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I as a woman,” she says….
A global approach to tackle the ongoing water crisis is needed as vulnerable communities in the United States face historic deluge and drought – issues very much in the spotlight at the forthcoming UN-supported World Water Week. Traditional totems tower over the coastal village of Taholah in Washington state, home to the Quinault Indian Nation, an…
Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement issued on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres that several members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had been injured while UN vehicles had also been damaged inside the buffer zone that divides the Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. Security Council mandate Mr. Dujarric said…
The then New York-based Elpida Rouka had accompanied the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme on a mission to Baghdad and survived the deadly explosion which killed 22 of her UN colleagues. The 19 August attack is commemorated annually by World Humanitarian Day. “A young 25-year-old barely two years into the UN at…
Designing ways to fight back against falsehoods that can trigger tensions, violence, or even death, the UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “It has become clear that business as usual is not an option,” UN…
