Image: Pakistan Observer Pakistani ruppee appreciated by Rs 11.5 against the US Dollar in the open market in the early hours of Thursday. According to analysts, the Rupee reached Rs. 299.5 after yhr central bank permitted banks to acquire US dollars from the interbank market for settling their card-based criss-border transactions with the International Payment […]
Image: Architectural Digest A study has unveiled that New York City is sinking gradually due to the weight of its skyscrapers. This phenomenon is also making the city to face rising sea levels and coastal flooding due to the climate change. Researchers have recently published a paper on how the heavy infrastructure of the city […]
Image: ABC News More than 100 social media accounts have been suspended in Pakistan for multiple reasons including anti-state, terrorist, anti-Islam activities along with promoting sectarianism. The request to suspend these accounts on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook was initiated by the Capital Police. The police said that 106 accounts have been suspended so far via […]
Image: APP / File Ever since a massive crackdown against the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) leaders has started, sources claim that the former PTI leader Jahangir Tareen has also become active and he is busy making a Forward Bloc in the party. Sources further claim that Tareen has been meeting PTI lawmakers from Southern […]
Image: Express Tribune It all started when Imran Khan was arrested and violent riots broke out in different parts of the country on 9th of May. Then Khan was released and a crack down was started against those who harmed public and private properties of people. Many PTI Leaders denounce the violent protests and parted […]
Image: Reuters The United Nations (UN) is going to honor eight Pakistanis among 103 peacekeepers from across the world on May 25 at the 75th anniversary of UN Peacekeeping. The announcement was officially made on Tuesday. The list of Pakistani peacekeepers include six martyred who lost their lives during a helicopter crash in March 2022 […]
Image: Express Tribune Asad Memon, a young Pakistani mountaineer from Sindh has reached out to Pakistani embassy in Nepal and requested them to make necessary arrangements for his airlift to Kathmandu. Memon made Pakistan proud by summiting the highest peak in the world on Friday, however he dislocated his hand while coming back. Memon told […]
Image: Express Tribune Asad Memon, a young Pakistani mountaineer, was part of a 15-member team that successfully climbed the highest peak in the world despite the bad weather. He was the only Pakistani in the team and hoisted Pakistani flag on the 8,849-metre-high peak. He is the eighth Pakistani and first mountaineer from Sindh to […]
image: CNBC The most awaited WhatsApp feature has been rolled out finally. Now users will be able to edit their messages within 15 minutes of sending a message. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” the Meta Inc messaging app […]
image: BBC Instagram faced a global outage on Sunday after a technical glitch was reported, affecting more than 180,000 users worldwide. According to the Meta Platform Inc., the services were resumed for many users after the issue was resolved. A Meta spokesperson told the media that “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to […]
Image: REUTERS The Central Bank of India has announced to remove the 2000 rupee note from circulation in the market ahead of general and state elections. The announcement was made on Friday according to which citizens are asked to exchange or deposit the highest denomination currency notes by September 30th, 2023. The 2000 rupee note […]
Image: IEEE Spectrum Joseph Dituri was part of an underwater mission by the Marine Resources Development Foundation where he has successfully spent 74 days underwater. During this time, Dituri resided in a unique underwater hotel built at the bottom of a 9-meter (around 30-feet) deep lagoon in Florida, US. Dituri just broke the record for […]
A woman has filed a case against Abbott Laboratories in New York City accusing the company of misleading height claims. The woman says that the healthcare company has labelled its nutritional drink PediaSure as “clinically proven” to increase height. The woman who was identified as Joanne Noriega claimed she bought PediaSure Grow & Gain strawberry […]
Image: TechCrunch Meta on Friday announced that it has fixed a technical glitch that was automatically sending friend requests to users when someone would visit their profile. The bug was brought into notice when a number of users took to social media and complained about the error. Some users even called it “the end of […]
A UNICEF report states that Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are the top three countries in South Asia to reduce the number of child marriages. Although South Asia is doing great efforts in reducing the rate of child marriages, it will still take the region another 55 years to completely eradicate this practice. According to […]
Image: WHO A meeting of global health experts has been called to decide whether COVID-19 is still an emergency under the rules defined by the World Health Organization. COVID was first declared an international emergency on Jan. 30, 2020, and since then, in every meeting held after three months the same label was attached to […]
Image: The Guardian TikTok announced on Wednesday that its new product will allow advertisers to run their ads alongside posts of premium content creators and half of the revenue generated by these ads will then be given with those publishers. The new product called “Pulse Premiere” which is going to be launched on May 4th […]
Austria’s Wiener Zeitung is considered to be one of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print. Now the newspaper intend to start publishing online after a decision given by the Austrian Parliament. The decision was long pending due to a dispute between the newspaper and the government authorities about the future of the newspaper. Now […]
Image: Geo.TV Pakistan is one of the 20 countries which are likely to get excessive rainfall this year, as predicted by the United Nations’ Globally Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) of the food and agricultural organization (FAO). The report also suggests that while 20 countries will receive more rain than usual 42 countries are […]
Image: The Current Malala Yousufzai is a survival of Taliban’s assassination attempt and an advocate of girls’education. She is currently working on her new book in which she plans to share her most personal story. The name of the book and its title is not announced yet. Previously, Yousufzai has launched the bestselling “I Am […]
