Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar is about to complete 100 years of establishment. Alice Edith Isaacs (Lady Reading), the first wife of Rufus Isaacs, Viceroy of India, founded the hospital in 1924. The construction work was completed in 1927. This building block is now known as the Bolton Block. Over time, the hospital was expanded to…
Shadowing: A woman in China has been falling asleep listening to music through headphones every night for two years, and now her hearing is permanently damaged. According to media reports, Miss Wang, a young woman from Shandong province, works as a secretary in a local company. Recently, she realized that she was having trouble hearing…
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts – said that Ms. Amini’s death in September 2022 was “unlawful and caused by physical violence” for which the State is responsible. Chairperson Sara Hossain told the forum’s 47 Member States that after Ms. Amini’s death, young…
In a fresh alert about the disastrous humanitarian emergency still unfolding in the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said on Friday that it will “take years” before the Strip is made safe again. The lives of more than two million Gazans have been devastated by daily Israeli bombardment, since Hamas-led terror attacks in…
“This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future,” said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, who described as “staggering” the latest Gaza health authority data indicating that at least 12,300 youngsters have died in the enclave in the last four months, compared with 12,193 globally between 2019 and…
A battery has been developed in China that will last 50 years on a full charge. This is claimed by a Chinese technology company, BetaVolt, which says it has developed a unique nuclear battery that can last for 50 years once fully charged. According to the claim, this unique battery will be able to function…
Facebook, a major social networking site, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, which was introduced by a few friends in a college room. Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his friends founded the American social networking website Facebook 20 years ago with the aim of connecting people online and making money from advertising. British Broadcasting Corporation…
Madrid: Astronomers have discovered a dwarf galaxy that cannot be understood in the context of current knowledge of the universe. This enigmatic nebulous galaxy called ‘Nube’ is unique in that it has a large amount of dark matter at its core and a low volume. These unusual properties mean that the stars in the Nubian…
“Amid all of the crises around the world, it is important no one is forgotten. The people of Myanmar have been suffering for too long,” Volker Türk said ahead of the anniversary of the coup on 1 February. He explained that fighting between the military and armed opposition groups has resulted in mass displacement and…
BEIJING: A Chinese startup has developed an innovative battery that can operate for 50 years without needing to be charged or repaired, the said battery was showcased in Beijing yesterday. According to Beijing-based company BetaVolt, its nuclear battery is the first model of miniaturization of nuclear energy, a model smaller than a coin (15 by…
