Vaccination teams reach 7.07 million children in K-P, however polio workers face renewed wave of attacks KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA/ PESHAWAR: Pakistan continues to stand at a critical juncture in its decades-long battle against one of the world’s most preventable diseases. New data from the National Immunisation Days (NIDs) held in October 2025 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) offers…
The chancellor has given the clearest indication yet that she wants to give herself more financial breathing space in November’s Budget. Speaking at a gathering of business leaders in Saudi Arabia, Rachel Reeves said she wanted to ensure the UK had “sufficient headroom” to provide resilience against future shocks. The implication is that the £9.9bn…
Developers hate (bad) marketing, but they still need a way to find useful tools and services. That’s why you’ll find a preponderance of developers on forums and sites like Hacker News, Reddit and Stack Overflow discussing their dev kits and why some tools are better than others. That buying intent is the signal that Israeli…
In Peshawar, a rally was led by Governor Kundi, attended by departmental secretaries, government employees ISLAMABAD: Black Day is being observed across Pakistan to condemn India’s occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, and to remind the international community that the Kashmir dispute remains unresolved even after seventy-eight years. Black Day is observed on October 27, the…
Three people have been killed and at least 32 others injured in an overnight Russian air attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the city’s mayor has said. Two high-rise residential buildings were hit in the strikes, Vitali Klitschko said, adding in a Telegram post that six children were among the injured. Meanwhile, Russian air defences destroyed…
ISLAMABAD: In the realm of economics, numbers are meant to illuminate truth. Yet, in Pakistan, they increasingly cast shadow. From trade balances to growth rates, official statistics have become a battleground of narratives, where figures are not merely data points but instruments of persuasion. Misrepresentation of economic and trade accounts is no longer a peripheral…
Oct 26, 2025, 12:00 PM ET ORANGEBURG, S.C. — The NCAA owes a former college football player and his wife $18 million, a South Carolina jury decided while finding college sports’ major governing body negligent in failing to warn the player about the long-term effects of concussions. Following a civil trial that wrapped up late…
Björn Andrésen, the Swedish actor and musician best known for his breakout role as a youngster in 1971’s Death in Venice, has died. He was 70. Andrésen died Saturday, Kristian Petri, co-directorof The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a 2021 documentary about the actor, told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. No cause of death…
With the US government shutdown stumbling towards the one-month mark, the effects of the stand-off between Republicans and Democrats were being felt further away from the Capitol, as flights began to back up and food aid was drying up. US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy warned that travellers would face more flight delays and cancellations in…
If I asked you whether you’re sleeping enough, chances are you’d say no. That’s because most Americans aren’t: One in three adults reported not getting adequate rest in 2023.Experts recommend that adults get at least seven hours of sleep each night, but even with adequate sleep, waking up well-rested is not guaranteed. To understand the…
