India and Nepal have increased their cooperation in the power sector, and Kathmandu recently awarded a reputable Indian company the much-delayed West Seti Hydropower Project and Seti River Hydropower Project in the western part of the Himalayan country, nearly four years after China withdrew from these projects. This week in Kathmandu, a formal agreement on […]
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Pilots on Ethiopian airlines flight reportedly fall asleep, miss landing
Pilots on Ethiopian airlines flight reportedly fall asleep. Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa airport. The pilots eventually woke up and landed […]
Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer to hold rally against Engr Muhammad Ali Mirza
Salafi cleric Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer announced a rally in Lahore on August 22 to demand the arrest and trial of dissident Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza. Recently, AIbtisam Elahi Zaheer tried to lodge an FIR in the police station against Engineer Muhammad Ali for using offensive words against Hazrat Muawiya. But the SHO there refused to […]
Flood devastation in Saraiki Wasib
Recent monsoons in Pakistan have had a deep and devastating effect on Baluchistan and South Punjab. The most affected areas of South Punjab are Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan, especially in tehsil Taunsa sharif. According to a news report, almost 185 mauzas and 33 unions were hit by floods, and 80,000 people were displaced from […]
Health, safety, Job security of sanitation workers in Sindh
KARACHI, August 18: Human rights activists, labor leaders, government officials, public representatives, and civil society activists on Thursday held a consultative meeting at a local hotel in Karachi on the need to provide all constitutional and labor rights to sanitary workers. Emphasized because most of them are deprived. Even basic rights including minimum wages, medical […]
I am responsible for my consecutive Bollywood failures, says Akshay
Recently released three consecutive Akshay Kumar films – ‘Bachchan Pandey,’ ‘Samrat Prithviraj,’ and ‘Rakshabandhan’ – fared poorly at the box office. His next film, ‘Cuttputlli,’ will be released exclusively on OTT. When asked about the struggle of films at the box office and the release of films directly on OTT at the trailer launch event […]
Palestine football team likely to visit Pakistan next month
The Pakistan Football Federation has proposed that the Palestine team might play a match in Pakistan the following month. The Palestine national football team is looking for competitive matches to assist them to prepare for the AFC Asian Cup in 2023, which is less than a year away. They have no friendly schedule for the […]
Understanding depression
It was the month of January, and the fog used to spread before evening. One of my friends took me to a funeral on one such gloomy evening. The deceased was a 25-year-old young man. He was married and had a daughter. After offering the funeral, it was learned that the boy had committed suicide. […]