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Toronto/IBNS: New changes to ServiceOntario have been announced in Brampton on Wednesday by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to facilitate “faster” and “easier” services to get driver’s licences and health cards.
Quetta: Power supply to Turbat, Panjgur and Gwadar, the three districts of Makran division in Pakistan, were badly hit on Sunday and the situation remained the same on Monday after Iran suspended power supply to these areas.
Islamabad: The development of C-5, which is the fifth unit of the Chashma Nuclear Power Generating Station, has been hit by a snag due to the reported refusal by the Ministry of Finance to furnish a sovereign guarantee, media reports said.
Washington: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Sens. Rick Scott (R-Florida), Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have introduced the China Trade Relations Act to strip China of its Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status.
New Delhi: A prominent Muslim scholar has said there is no other country like India where Islamic works could be carried out.
Beijing/UNI: The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Thursday that the island’s armed forces registered 23 military aircraft and four ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) approaching the island in the last 24 hours.
Toronto/IBNS: Ontario's Long-term care residents are being connected by the government to improve residents’ quality of life and to reduce avoidable emergency department visits or hospital stays, a news release has reported.
Islamabad: Pakistan's annual inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), spiked to a decades-high level of 27.55 per cent in January, compared to 24.5pc in the previous month, media reports said on Wednesday.
New York: Youth empowerment and employment figured heavily in discussions between Saudi officials and the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), held in the kingdom last weekend.
New York: Increasing numbers of Rohingya refugees have been arriving in Southeast Asian countries by sea and land, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday as it scales up support in the region.
New York: A series of interconnected crises are expected to have a huge impact on children in 2023. A report from the UN children’s agency (UNICEF), released on Tuesday, details the trends that will shape their lives over the next 12 months.
Kabul: The Afghanistan Consulate in Karachi has said over 1,000 Afghan refugees, including women and children, are currently present in prisons in Pakistan.
Islamabad: Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday reacted to the bomb blast which took place in Peshawar and said worshippers were not killed during prayers even in India, media reports said.
Mansehra: Tehreek-i-Sooba Hazara convener Mushtaq Khan Advocate has asked the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led central government to declare the Hazara division as a separate province.
Islamabad: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP) terrorists attacked a police station in Mianwali on Tuesday, a day after a suicide blast in Peshawar left 96 people dead.
Washington: As first reported in POLITICO, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40), who serves on the House Financial Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee, recently introduced the Taiwan Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 540) with Rep. Al Green (TX-09) to support Taiwan’s participation in the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
California: Popular US-based search engine Google has disclosed it took steps to dismantle over 50,000 instances of activity orchestrated by a pro-Chinese influence operation known as DRAGONBRIDGE in 2022.
Peshawar: The death toll due to the blast which took place inside a mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar city has touched 96, media reports said on Tuesday.
Islamabad: Amid an economic crisis, Pakistan failed to improve in Transparency International's (TI) latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI 2022) as it retained its place among 180 countries in the world.
Dhaka: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved 3.3 billion U.S. dollars under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreements as well as 1.4 billion dollars under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) for Bangladesh.
New York: A UN-led group of humanitarians are hoping that the Taliban will allow Afghan women to again work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the ground following last month’s ban, four senior aid officials told journalists in New York on Monday.
Kabul: Islamic State-Khorasan and other terror outlets have started targeting Chinese projects in Afghanistan in recent times, a key Kabul-based news agency has said.
New York: The UN chief and top officials have strongly condemned the suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, that left at least 59 dead and 150 injured.
New York: The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for Member States to urge the military leadership in Myanmar to respect the will and needs of its own people, as risks to regional stability grow.
New York: Alarmed by the recent killing and injury of many children in Israel and Palestine, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) voiced an appeal to parties on Monday to de-escalate tensions and refrain from violence.
New York: Top UN-appointed independent rights investigators on Monday urged the authorities to share more information on mass graves and other serious crimes linked to the country’s civil war.
Islamabad/UNI: The death toll in a suicide bomb blast that hit a mosque on Monday in Pakistan's northwest provincial capital of Peshawar rose to 88, an official told media persons on Tuesday.
Peshawar: The death toll due to the bomb blast inside a mosque at the Police Lines compound in Pakistan's Peshawar city has touched 72, media reports said on Tuesday.
Dera Ismail Khan: At least four alleged terrorists were killed and one surrendered to the police during intelligence-based operations in Swabi and Dera Ismail Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan on Monday, media reports said.
Peshawar/IBNS: At least 61 people died and 150 others were injured as a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque packed with worshippers in the high-security zone in Peshawar’s Police Lines area in Pakistan on Monday, media reports said.
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