Karachi: The Sindh High Court reserved its decision on the petitions against the collection of municipal tax in electricity bills. A two-member bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Paiwar heard the petitions against the collection of municipal tax in electricity bills. Justice Salahuddin Paiwar inquired whether there is a similar situation in other provinces or not,…
Picture of the ship parked at Karachi Port The largest ship in the country’s history docked at Karachi Port, the container ship MSC ANNA has docked at Deep Water Terminal South Asia Pakistan. According to Express News, the anchored foreign ship MSC ANNA has a length of 400 meters and a capacity of 19,368 TEUs….
Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has decided to immediately ban new recruitments including appointments and transfers to improve transparency, work and efficiency of local councils. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presided over the meeting held at the Chief Minister’s House and said that no employee of one local council can…
Peshawar: Higher Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has announced summer vacation in all the colleges and universities of the province. A notification has been issued in this regard as per These holidays will be held from June 15 to August 31 in all the plains of the province. The notification states that these holidays will be…
Houston: A team of cancer research scientists has discovered a new subset of T cells that could potentially have positive effects on patients undergoing T-cell therapy. T-cell-based immunotherapy is effective against and often eradicates cancer. The method activates the patient’s immune system and engineers the patient’s own T cells to recognize, attack and kill cancer…
Some missions were accomplished. Others continue today. Since the Organization’s inception at the end of the Second World War, UN Member States have scrambled to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” by deploying their collective efforts to prevent the kind of utter devastation that global conflict brought to Europe, Africa, Asia and beyond,…
The agency revealed that in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, cases of recruitment and use of children in armed groups along with killings and maiming increased by more than 130 per cent between the two time periods. Protect the vulnerable Gilles Fagninou, UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Asia, underscored the need to curb…
The updated World Employment and Social Outlook report predicts that the global unemployment rate will be 4.9 per cent in 2024, slightly down from 5.0 per cent in 2023. This represents a revision from the previous projection in January of 5.2 per cent for this year, which is expected to flatten in 2025, with unemployment…
Laura Lo Castro, UNHCR‘s representative in Chad, said that expected rains have started in Adre, leaving tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees without shelter suitable for protection. The rains also impede humanitarian access due to catastrophic flooding, she added. “It’s paramount that we scale up the response now and immediately relocate as many refugees as…
That was the strong message from President of the Western Pacific nation of Palau Surangel Whipps speaking at an Interactive Dialogue on Wednesday during the Fourth International Conference on SIDS (SIDS4), taking place this week on the twin island of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. He told delegates there needed to be a “transition…
