Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Minister Dr. Amjad recommended a ban on the use of Tik Tok by police and bureaucracy. According to the details, Dr. Amjad demanded that the Tik Tok of police and bureaucracy should be banned in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because the policemen put the video of the action on Tik Tok. The provincial…
Karachi: The Meteorological Department has predicted a heat wave in the city of Quaid from Wednesday to June 1. According to the latest forecast, the unusual heat wave may continue from Wednesday to June 1, during which sea breezes are likely to remain closed while the mercury may reach 42 degrees. On Thursday, the temperature…
Stockholm: A new study suggests that tattooing on the body increases the risk of lymphoma by 21 percent. Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that affects the body’s immune system. With the growing popularity of tattoos around the world, the incidence of malignant lymphoma is increasing. In a study conducted at Lund University in…
Addressing ambassadors at the Council’s open debate on the role of women and youth, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo highlighted the significant challenges and impacts faced by women. “Women bear the brunt of the global rollback of human rights,” she stated. She referenced her recent visit to Afghanistan, where women are systematically denied basic rights, including…
Major Radhika Sen served in eastern DRC with the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, from March 2023 to April 2024 as the Commander of the Engagement Platoon for the Indian Rapid Deployment Battalion. She will receive the award from UN Secretary-General António Guterres during a ceremony on Thursday. A credit to the UN Mr. Guterres congratulated…
Specifically, the report points out that only two out of five schools worldwide provide menstrual health education while less than one in three schools globally has menstrual waste bins in girls’ bathrooms. Even further, 427 million children are unable to access sanitation services that are “single-sex and usable at school”; meanwhile one in five schools…
Mr. Guterres repeated his longstanding call for a ceasefire in the embattled enclave and the release of all hostages. “He is heartbroken by the images of the killed and injured, including many small children. As he has said before, the horror and suffering must stop immediately,” UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement issued…
At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening, local time, bringing gales of over 110 kilometres per hour (about 70 miles per hour), torrential rain and storm surges that inundated low-lying areas. Classified as a “severe” cyclonic storm, Remal is the first…
Many of those injured suffered terrible burns, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which will require intensive treatment, electricity and high-level medical services, all of which are scarce after nearly eight months of war. Massive medical challenge It is just another massive challenge for all the medical teams in the enclave, WHO spokesperson Margaret…
That’s the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Day Two of the pivotal Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) taking place in the Caribbean twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda this week. The 39 States known collectively as SIDS have been uniquely vulnerable to the trifecta of COVID – which…
