ASH’s COVID-19 ward staffers to get additional salary, COVID allowance: Administrator

KARACHI: Administrator Karachi Laeeq Ahmed on Monday said doctors and paramedical staff of COVID-19 ward of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) would be given one-month additional salary and COVID allowance as announced by the Sindh Government. “The step is taken to boost moral of the doctors and paramedics so that they can perform their duties with […]

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India begins landslide, flood clean-up as deadly monsoon rains ease

Mumbai, July 26 (AFP/APP): Rescuers waded through waist-deep mud in western India Monday to reach injured residents and start a massive clean-up after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 159 people. India’s western coast was hit by severe rainstorms over several days, with a quarter of a million people evacuated from their […]

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Afghan situation threatens security interests of regional countries: China

BEIJING: : Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday that the current situation in Afghanistan gravely threatened its peace and stability, and security interests of the countries in the region. The Afghan situation is at a very critical crossroads between war and peace, order and chaos, which presents a serious challenge, he said […]

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UN chief calls for unitedly tackling growing hunger, poor nutrition

UNITED NATIONS: Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. Up to 811 million […]

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Firefighters battle California blaze generating its own climate

Chico, United States, July 26 (AFP/APP): Thousands of US firefighters are battling a blaze in California that has grown so big it is generating its own weather system, with authorities warning conditions could worsen on Monday. The flames have grown so large that they have created clouds that can cause lightning and high winds, which […]

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