More than 200,000 officials, including police, deployed; Telegram messaging app restricted NEW DELHI: India’s 2.2 million aspiring medical students sit a re-examination under tight security on Sunday, after the last test was scrapped following a paper leak that triggered widespread outrage. The failure of the hugely competitive exam, along with a separate marking fiasco in…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt gathered in Cairo on Sunday for the fourth consultative meeting of the R-4 grouping, at a moment when Iran and the United States opened a fresh round of talks in Switzerland aimed at consolidating the recently signed Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The meeting was…
Shehbaz hopes Switzerland talks will mark the beginning of a sustained diplomatic process BURGENSTOCK, SWITZERLAND: US Vice President JD Vance on Sunday described the Iran-US engagement in Switzerland as a “historic” diplomatic opening, while crediting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir for their decisive leadership in bringing the negotiations to…
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Sunday formally began passage of the federal budget for 202627, approving 125 demands for grants worth Rs9.171 trillion after rejecting 307 cut motions moved by the opposition through a majority vote. The House met with Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the chair. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presented demands for grants…
Pakistan, Qatar host quadrilateral summit in Switzerland Trump and Ghalibaf trade warnings Iranian media sa US Vice President JD Vance speaks next to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani prior to a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at…
. LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was considering his political future on Sunday, after rival Andy Burnham’s decisive election victory to parliament prompted more ministers in the governing Labour ?Party to call for him to go. Struggling with some of the lowest popularity ratings for any British leader, Starmer could decide as soon as…
. GAZA CITY: Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including four members of the same family, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. Israel and Hamas trade near-daily accusations of truce violations and the Gaza Strip remains gripped by bloodshed as progress on…
. LONDON: Scottish authorities said on Saturday they charged a man in connection with attacks in Edinburgh that wounded five people with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying the suspect “appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred”. Police Scotland said officers had arrested a 36-year-old white Scottish man and there was “no further threat to…
. PARIS: France banned alcohol in red-alert areas Sunday, Spain and Germany cancelled sports events and Britain warned of “tropical nights” as Europe sweltered through a heatwave threatening to break June temperature records. Less than a month after a May heatwave that set records in several European countries, the continent is facing a new bout…
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly’s budget debate on Sunday was dominated by sharp criticism from the opposition and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), describing the document as a collection of misleading statistics and expressing reservations over development priorities and allocations for South Punjab, agriculture, health and education. On the other hand, the treasury members defended the government’s performance…