Nine children were killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan caused by a landmine, laid during the country’s decades of conflict, a provincial official said on Monday. The mine went off as a group of young boys and girls were playing with it in the Geru district of Ghazni province on Sunday, said the provincial […]
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A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation. The tech giant says CrowdTangle will be unavailable after August 14, less than three months before the US […]
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered authorities to allow a meeting between the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and his wife Bushra Bibi on the occasion of Eidul Fitr. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb gave the order during the hearing of applications to transfer Bushra Bibi from Bani Gala to Adiala Jail and her […]
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The new academic year in Punjab has commenced today (April 1). However, a concerning issue has arisen as students across the 48,000 schools in Punjab find themselves without the necessary textbooks. The Punjab Textbook Board, responsible for publishing and distributing academic books to schools, typically ensures that free course books are delivered to schools ahead […]
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The Meteorological Department once again says the Shawwal moon is likely to be seen on April 9 across the country. While predicting the rise of Eidul Fitr moon, the department said the moon would conjunct with the sun on April 8 at 11:21pm (local time). On April 9, the age of the moon will be […]
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Awami Muslim League chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday said he had already predicted Shehbaz Sharif will prevail over Nawaz in politics. Talking to media outside the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, Rashid said copies of three cases relating to May 9 incident had been provided to them. He said 17 cases […]
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The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto notice of the letter written by the six judges of Islamabad High Court (IHC), just days after the federal government formed a commission to investigate the interference allegations. In this connection, a seven-member bench headed by Chief Justice Faez Isa will hear the matter on Wednesday, which […]
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European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers’ new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to exploit just months after their launch. Big tobacco companies including Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco announced the launch of the sticks, made from nicotine-infused substances like rooibos tea, […]
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Dengue cases in the Americas rose in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the head of the Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday. Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are the countries hardest hit by dengue in what PAHO officials described […]
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Analyzing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training AI models for healthcare-related tasks without data from diverse racial and ethnic groups. The AI model used for the study was more than three times […]
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