ISLAMABAD: Persons with disabilities in the country will get 100 per cent health coverage under the Prime Minister’s Sehat Insaf Card Scheme. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza told a press conference that the prime minister had issued special directives to include all those registered with Nadra as disabled for the […]
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HARIPUR: The Nara Amazai police here have registered a case against the boatman for committing Qatle-bis-Sabab (causing death without intention) over the death of scores of passengers of boat which sank on Wednesday near Guliman Banda of Nara Amazai union council in Tarbela Lake, police sources said here on Friday. According to the police, the […]
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India has ordered an investigation into alleged mismanagement of funds at Jet Airways, which halted operations in April after running out of cash. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs on Thursday ordered India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to carry out the investigation, a government order seen by Reuters showed. The order refers to alleged siphoning of funds and unspecified […]
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Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body on Friday, in a breakthrough power sharing accord aimed at ending the country’s months-long political crisis. The landmark agreement came after two days of talks following the collapse of the previous round of negotiations in May over […]
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Iran demanded on Friday that Britain immediately release an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar, accusing it of acting at the bidding of the United States. A senior foreign ministry official “described the UK move as unacceptable” in a meeting with British ambassador Rob Macaire, who had been summoned to hear a formal protest, […]
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President Donald Trump sang the praises of the US military and American heroes of the past two and a half centuries Thursday, skirting politics in a rousing Independence Day speech in Washington. “What a great country,” Trump exclaimed in an address saturated with patriotism and exceptionalism, after critics accused him of hijacking the annual celebration. […]
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India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government unveiled the budget for 2019/2020 on Friday, seeking to reverse weakening growth and investment that threaten to take the shine off a recent landslide election victory. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the annual budget statement to parliament, said the government planned structural reforms to kickstart foreign and domestic investment. […]
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PARIS: French MPs on Thursday backed a proposal to give online platforms just 24 hours to remove hate speech or face hefty fines, the latest initiative in Europe to tackle online racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia. Members of the lower house of parliament voted by 31 in favour to six against to adopt the first […]
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A legal battle between the powerful, poetry-writing ruler of Dubai and his wealthy estranged wife is leading toward a showdown in a London courtroom later this month. The family division court case scheduled on July 30 pits Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum against Princess Haya, daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and […]
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Iran summoned the British ambassador in protest at Britain’s “illegal interception” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, the Iranian foreign ministry said. The British territory’s chief minister Fabian Picardo said earlier that a supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions was detained in Gibraltar. “After the […]
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