WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance programme for six years with minimal changes, overcoming objections from civil liberties advocates that…
LAHORE: Pakistan Federation Baseball (PFB) president, 68-years-old, Syed Khawar Shah passed away on Tuesday. Syed Khawar was a founder member of baseball in Pakistan – which established in 1992 – and allowing…
Australia’s parliament has passed legislation to strip dual nationals of their citizenship if they are convicted of terrorism offences or found to have fought with banned groups overseas, despite concerns about deporting…
CEO Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop Faizaan Peerzada passed away in Lahore, sources close to the family said. According to the reports, Peerzada died of a heart attack. The funeral prayers are scheduled…
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal has passed a fitness test and cleared to play in the second test against West Indies, a team official said on Tuesday. “He felt fine batting in the…
Pakistan’s prominent researcher, poet and writer Prof Afaq Siddiqui died here in Karachi on Sunday after prolonged ailment, he was 86. “He will be laid to rest in Sakhi Hassan graveyard in…
The tentacles of corruption have entangled the society to an extent that not only the top officials of public sector organisations are off and on gulped by them, but the educated youth…
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India’s most charismatic cricketers and a prolific batsman despite losing an eye, died on Thursday aged 70 following a lung disease, his doctors said. The former…
Legendary cricketer and former Indian captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who was admitted to a city hospital last month following lung infection, passed away on Thursday. Pataudi, 70, had been shifted to…
Renowned Qawwal Maqbool Ahmed Sabri passed away in South Africa on Wednesday. He had a cardiac problem for last two years. Reportedly, he was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg a few…
The general house meeting of Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution demanding that former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza be invited to address the bar and…
Son of AJK Muslim Conference head Sardar Abdul Qayyum and elder brother of former AJK PM Sardar Attique, Sardar Khaleeq Ahmad breathed his last after a prolonged illness. He died at the…
Legendary Bollywood heartthrob Shammi Kapoor, whose acting and dancing style heavily influenced modern-day Indian film stars, died on Sunday aged 79. “Shammi Kapoor ji passed away this morning at 5:15 am,” Bollywood…
Veteran journalist and Nawa-i-Waqt Karachi deputy editor Yousuf Khan passed away following a heart attack on Wednesday. He was 54. Khan was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. His…
Amna Anjum, sister of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) President Qasim Zia, passed away on Wednesday after short illness. Her funeral prayers will be offered at her residence today at 12:30 hours.
Doing away with parallel overlapping systems and establishment of fully functional, well-resourced and integrated disaster management system at the grass-root level could ensure a reduction in flood losses in future, experts told…
The Syrian cabinet has approved a law that allows the formation of political parties other than the ruling Baath party, provided they adhere to “democratic principles”, the state news agency said on…
