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Islamabad: Top sports personalities across Pakistan have been invited to join the Cultural, Heritage and Sports Advisory Board for Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir. Kashmir Committee’s Chairman, Shehryar Afridi has formed the…

TOKYO: Suzuki Motor on Thursday forecast operating profit to fall by a quarter to 160 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in the year to March as sales, including in its key Indian market, shrink amid the coronavirus pandemic. That prediction…

LONDON: The timetable for delivery of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine candidate has slipped, the UK’s vaccine chief said, adding Britain will receive just 4 million doses of the shot this year. Britain had agreed in…

FRANKFURT: Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess on Thursday said a victory by Democrat Joe Biden in the US presidential race would better suit the German carmaker’s efforts to mass-produce electric cars across the globe. “A…

Denmark, the world’s biggest producer of mink fur, said Wednesday it would cull all of the country’s minks after a mutated version of the new coronavirus was detected at mink farms and had spread to people. The mutation “could pose a…

RAWALPINDI: Russian Federation Special Forces contingent arrived in Pakistan today to participate in Pak-Russia Joint Training Exercise ‘DRUZHBA -IV,’ said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement. According to the ISPR,…

LAHORE: Punjab Relief Commissioner Babar Hayat Tarar said Thursday the air quality monitoring of the region suggests the smog situation in Punjab is under control. The relief commissioner stressed that in order to prevent incurring…

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced preparation of its draft for the Sindh Local Government Act. MQM leader Kunwar Naveed Jamil talking to media here said that a consultative body has also been proposed in the bill…

ISLAMABAD: In an effort to stop dubious and fake licences, Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) decided to issue pilots’ licences through the biometric system. Sources said that the CAA also made permission letter from flying…

KARACHI: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has granted Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) permission to operate flights to and from the kingdom’s Al-Qassim region. On being given a go-ahead to operate…