Islamabad , December 8 (ANI): The violence against women in Pakistan, including the latest sexual harassment in the Pakistani Embassy in Mexico, is a result of the government’s failure to act and the problem is systemic, Massimo Introvigne writes in Bitter Winter. Recently, the sexual harassment incident that took placeRead More

Islamabad, Dec 07: The Pakistan government has locked the Gurdwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh in Lahore for worship and declared it as a Mosque. The decision was taken by the Evacuee Trust Property Board of Pakistan. The Board along with a few fundamental extremists locked down the Gurdwara which has ledRead More

President Xi Jinping paid rich tributes to the late Jiang Zemin for overseeing China’s rise as a major economic powerhouse and guiding the ruling Communist Party through some of its toughest challenges at a memorial meeting held here on Tuesday. The hour-long memorial meeting was held at the ornate GreatRead More

The Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on Pakistan’s embassy in the Afghan capital in which the Charge d’Affaires escaped unharmed but a guard was critically injured. In a brief statement in Arabic on social media, the terror group’s Khorasan chapter (ISIS-K) claimed that its two membersRead More

It seems that Amazon is planning to layoff as many as 20,000 employees in the company, which is twice as much as was previously reported. Amazon will be firing people across several regions and these are distribution center workers, technology staff as well as corporate executives. The layoffs will takeRead More

(Bloomberg) — The work of two key teams that Twitter Inc. relied on to comply with regulators abruptly stopped amid a rash of layoffs, resignations and firings, according to two people familiar with the matter. That puts the social media giant at risk of investigations and hefty fines, the peopleRead More

The US on Friday echoed India’s reaction in rejecting China’s opposition to an India-US joint military exercise near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Uttarakhand and asserted that it is “none of their business”. Ambassador Elizabeth Jones, the newly-appointed US Charge d’Affaires to New Delhi, also said that Washington’sRead More

FIFA has told member federations it earned record revenues of $7.5 billion in the four years of commercial deals tied to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. FIFA revealed its earnings Sunday to officials from more than 200 members. It is $1 billion more than income from the previous commercialRead More

Gautam Adani on Saturday said India will become the world’s third-largest economy by 2030 and the second-largest by 2050, adding that the country took 58 years to become a trillion-dollar economy, but will add an equivalent sum to GDP every 12-18 months hence. “Given the pace at which the governmentRead More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated Defence Expo 2022 in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar and laid foundation stone of new air base at Deesa. As part of goverment’s effort to achieve ‘aatmanirbharta’, or self reliance, in defence, PM Modi also announced fourth positive indigenisation list of 101 items. The ministry ofRead More