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…
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…
Karachi: Excessive use of antibiotic drugs has become the cause of 7 lakh deaths annually in Pakistan. Experts say that as a result of infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs, 300,000 people die directly in Pakistan every year, while 700,000 people die of various complications every year. become Antimicrobial resistance, or the increasing…
Attacks that occurred between January and March left 25 children dead, including a two-month-old, said the agency. During the first three weeks of April, nine children lost their lives during attacks. UNICEF‘s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Regina De Dominicis, said during a visit to the war-torn country that children and families are…
Photo: Social Media Karachi: Professor of Neurology at the Aga Khan University’s Department of Medicine, Mohammad Wasay, was awarded the Colorado Advocate of the Year Award by the American Academy of Neurology for Global Patient and Neurology Advocacy. According to the ongoing press release of the Aga Khan University, Professor Muhammad Wasay is a consultant…
Suffering is growing too and is likely to get worse, Justin Brady, head of the UN humanitarian relief office, OCHA, in Sudan, warned UN News. “Without more resources, not only will we not be able to stop a famine, we’re not going to be help able to help basically anybody,” he said. “Most of the…
The solar eclipse will begin in Mexico: Photo: File New York: The first solar eclipse of the year began in different states of America. According to foreign media reports, the first solar eclipse of this year will be seen in Mexico, America and Canada. A solar eclipse is likely not to be seen again for…
20% of children die due to lack of timely treatment and 80% of children remain healthy with treatment, Professor Sohail Bangash. Photo: File Every year more than 70 thousand children are born suffering from heart diseases in Pakistan, while the biggest heart disease in children is having a hole in their heart. All over Sindh,…
— file photo This year, more than 1,000 cases of measles have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Director EPI Dr. Muhammad Arif has said that more than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in children, 185 in DI Khan, 147 in Peshawar, 113 in Charsadda and 92 in Swabi. He told that This year, 13…
This was a reminder of the ongoing impact of a conflict which has now dragged on for more than 12 years and rarely makes headlines, even though it continues to have a devastating effect on the civilian population. In early March, the United Nations Syria Commission of Inquiry released a report which detailed an escalation…
