Month: February 2022

New York: New York City was poised to sack roughly 3, 000 municipal workers on Friday for failing to meet a deadline to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The expected dismissals come amid growing discontent in North America against coronavirus restrictions and as states unilaterally lift mask mandates. New York requires all city employees, including police, […]

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police have set up a modern facilitation center at sector F-6/1 to provide multiple services to people round the clock related to police department. The facilitation center would provide traffic services including driving licenses, learner’s permit, motor car license, LTV and HTV license, PSV license, tractor driving license, duplicate driving license, driving license […]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Ombudsman for Protection against Harassment Kashmala Khan on Friday nominated President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) as Business Advisor in his organization to enhance cooperation with the private sector for providing a safer and secure environment to women at workplaces. Addressing the business community during her visit to ICCI, the Federal […]

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Dr Shehbaz Gill on Friday said that Opposition leaders are struggling for national reconciliation ordinance (NRO). Prime Minister Imran Khan and the government would not give NRO to any corrupt person, he said while talking to a private television channel. Pakistan Peoples Party and Sharif family are using […]

WASHINGTON: Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary-General of the Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum, has paid rich tributes to Kashmiri leader Maqbool Butt on the 38th anniversary of his martyrdom, saying he laid down his life struggling for the exercise of Kashmiri people’s UN-pledged right to self-determination. “His formula for Kashmir was simple but powerful, the […]

New York: Wall Street stocks were mixed early Friday near the conclusion of a volatile week dominated by generally solid earnings and worries over monetary policy following the latest inflation spike. Major indices remain modestly positive for the week even after Thursday’s pullback when a jump in consumer prices was seen as boosting the odds […]

Yanqing, China: Yan Wengang won China’s first-ever medal in a Winter Olympics sliding event Friday as Germany continued their domination of the high-speed disciplines with Christopher Grotheer winning the men’s skeleton gold. German racers had won all four luge events at the Beijing Games and Grotheer extended their winning streak to the men’s skeleton with […]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Narcotics Control Senator Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhary feels that drug addicts should be treated as sick people and every possible step needs to be taken for their treatment. The Chairman during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Narcotics Control which was held here on Friday also paid tribute […]