New York: Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has not been invited to the upcoming regional summits hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), another major blow to the regime. Cambodia, which holds the rotating chair of the bloc, said it sent out invitations to all ASEAN member states except Myanmar. The snub comes after...
Washington: Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in the US for a nearly weeklong visit, which included meetings with senior officials of the Biden administration, state media reported. General Bajwa was expected to meet Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, National Intelligence Director Avril D. Haines, and CIA Director William J. Burns, Dawn reported. Pakistani...
Kabul: Dozens of women from Afghanistan's minority Hazara community have been protesting in Kabul after a suicide bombing killed 53 women on Sept 30 -- mostly young girls from the ethnic group. The blast took place in the west of Kabul at Dasht-e-Barchi when students were taking a practice college exam. Dressed in black hijabs and headscarves,...
New York: In the latest attacks on UN peacekeepers, three Bangladeshis have died from a bomb attack in the Central African Republic (CAR), barely a week after a Pakistani was killed in Congo, according to a UN spokesperson. The Bangladeshi peacekeepers in the CAR were killed when their vehicle hit an explosive ordnance device this week,...
Lahore: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has shared that multiple world leaders told him on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session that his predecessor Imran Khan was 'rude', 'told lies', and labeled him as a 'narcissist', Geo News reported. In an interview with British publication The Guardian, the Pakistani premier said that he...
Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), which rules out holding any negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky's press service reported. The document, published on Zelensky's website, said that Ukraine's NSDC deemed holding talks with Putin "impossible". With his decree,...
New York: France-born Alain Aspect, American John Clauser, and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of John Stewart Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". They each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even...
New York: Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo, whose work provided key insights into human evolution and how humans spread around the planet by achieving "the seemingly impossible task" of cracking the genetic code of the Neanderthals was announced as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Prize committee said Paabo - the...
Ottawa: Canadian authorities have denied reports claiming vandalism at the recently unveiled 'Shri Bhagavad Gita' park in Brampton city, stating that the signboard in question was left blank during renovation work. The clarification came hours after India condemned the alleged incident, demanding prompt action by the city's administration. The park – previously called Troyers Park –...
