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93 per cent of Pakistanis stand for ban on cigarette sale: Survey
Islamabad: The findings of a study have shown that 93 percent of Pakistanis agreed that the sale of cigarettes should be banned. A Gallup and Gilani Pakistan survey reported that a nationally…
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Turkish Prez threatens no backing for Sweden’s NATO bid after Quran burning
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Sweden that it should not expect Turkey’s backing to join the NATO following the burning of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.…
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Techies earning up to USD 1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms
San Francisco: As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and…
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Ukraine storing weapons at nuclear plants: Russia
Moscow: Ukrainian forces are storing Western-supplied missiles and artillery shells in nuclear power plants, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said on Monday, reports said. He claimed that Kiev has been…
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‘Sikh’ struck on head in hate-motivated assault in Canada
Toronto: A man, apparently a Sikh, was allegedly struck on the head, causing his turban to fall on the ground, by an unidentified man, who also made “derogatory comments” at a subway…
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Jobless Indian IT professionals scramble for options to stay in US
Washington: Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of recent layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are now struggling to…
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UK petition demands independent probe into BBC series on Modi
London: A new online petition has demanded an independent probe into a “serious breach” by the BBC in its duties as a public broadcaster in the UK over the controversial documentary series…
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Freezing weather kills 104 people in Afghanistan in 2 weeks
Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan on Monday confirmed that at least 104 people, including women and children, have died in the past two weeks amid the freezing weather and heavy snowfall.…
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Japan braces for heavy snow, blizzard
Tokyo: Japanese weather officials warned on Monday that the coldest air mass of the season is likely to lead to heavy snow blanketing wide swathes of Japan from Tuesday. The Japan Meteorological…
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Teenage pregnancy in Philippines declines in past 5 yrs
Manila: Teenage pregnancy among girls aged 15 to 19 in the Philippines declined to 5.4 percent in 2022 from 8.6 percent in 2017, according to official data. The data from the Philippine…
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How Google’s layoff announcement different from other companies
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently announced layoffs of 12,000 employees, or about 6 percent of its workforce, globally. After the announcement, it joined the Big Tech league of Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft…
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Pakistan’s mobile phone imports decline 66% in 1st half of FY 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s mobile phone imports declined by 66 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year 2022-2023, compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, according to official…
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81 bird species in Sri Lanka at risk of extinction
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Secretariat said that 81 of the country’s bird species are at risk of extinction. Director of the Biodiversity Secretariat R.H.M.P. Abeykoon told local media that Sri Lanka is…
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Canadian govt announces agreement to settle lawsuit over residential schools
Ottawa: The Canadian federal government has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two British Columbia First Nations for the loss of language and culture caused by residential schools for Indigenous…
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Bangladesh to hold presidential election by Feb 23: Poll body
Dhaka: Bangladesh will hold the presidential election by February 23, the country’s poll body announced. The announcement was made by the Election Commission (EC) Secretary Md Jahangir Alam at a news conference…
