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Pakistan sets November 1 as deadline for illegal immigrants’ departure

05 Oct 2023 09:48 AM IST

Pakistan’s caretaker federal government has set November 1 as the deadline for illegal immigrants to leave the country or else face deportation, ARY News reported. ARY News is a Pakistani news channel. The caretaker interior minister Sarfraz Bugti during a press conference in Islamabad following the apex committee meeting, clarified

China’s military releases animation on Taiwan ‘reunification’

05 Oct 2023 09:46 AM IST

China’s military on Sunday released an animation depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, according to CNN. This comes as a reference to the country’s longstanding goal of “reunification” with the democratic, self-ruled island. The Eastern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation

Fatal Bus Accident Near Venice kills 21, Including Ukrainians

05 Oct 2023 09:45 AM IST

At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in a borough of Venice, Italy, across the lagoon from its historic centre, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames. The bus was carrying foreign

Eight persons detained over suspicion of involvement in Mastung suicide attack

04 Oct 2023 15:15 PM IST

According to ARY News, which cited sources in the investigation, eight people have been detained on suspicion of aiding in the planning of or participating in a suicide bombing in Mastung’s Balochistan district. Sources claim that when detained suspects exhibit signs of cooperating with law enforcement, more operations are conducted.

‘High-powered’ collaboration between China, Pakistan under CPEC diminishes due to economic realities

04 Oct 2023 14:46 PM IST

The so-called ‘high powered’ collaboration between Beijing and Islamabad under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a 3000 km Chinese infrastructure network project undertaken in Pakistan now appears to take a noticeable shift, facing significant challenges, the Daily Asian Age reported. The CPEC is currently confronted with significant obstacles, with many

Mercury: shrinking planet is still getting smaller – new research

04 Oct 2023 12:46 PM IST

Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away. This means that therock (and, within that, the metal) of which it is composed must have contracted

Even before deepfakes, tech was a tool of abuse and control

04 Oct 2023 12:42 PM IST

Of the many “profound risks to society and humanity” that have tech experts worried about artificial intelligence (AI), the spread of fake images is one that everyday internet users will be familiar with. Deepfakes – videos or photographs where someone’s face or body has been digitally altered so that they

Biden’s son Hunter to appear in court over gun charges

04 Oct 2023 12:36 PM IST

US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is due to appear in federal court in Delaware’s Wilmington on Tuesday to be arraigned on firearms charges brought by special counsel David Weiss. Hunter Biden has been charged for lying on federal firearm forms and illegally possessing a firearm while using illicit

Death toll crosses 1000-mark in Bangladesh

04 Oct 2023 12:35 PM IST

More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever in 2023, shows official data, as per the report. The deaths reported are nearly four times more than in the whole of last year. At least 1,017 people have died in the first nine months of 2023 and nearly

IMF mission to arrive in Pakistan by late October for economic review

04 Oct 2023 12:34 PM IST

The IMF will send its delegation to Pakistan in the last week of October to review the cash-strapped country’s economic performance in the first three months of the current fiscal year, according to a media report on Tuesday. Quoting sources in the Ministry of Finance, The Express Tribune newspaper said

Microsoft CEO: Unfair practices by Google led to its dominance

04 Oct 2023 12:33 PM IST

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival programme, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, DC, courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent

Civil fraud trial “took me off campaign trail,” claims Trump

04 Oct 2023 12:30 PM IST

Former US President Donald Trump has claimed that the civil fraud trial in New York, which began on Monday, is a political attack against him and has taken him “off the campaign trail”, as per the report. He expressed his frustration about not being able to campaign in Iowa, New