A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks, and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and …

Israel’s obscene crime is all the worse for having targeted one who, by all accounts, shone a light in the lives of all who knew her. She was on Al Jazeera’s Arabic service. What a giant this woman was. Hearing the testimonies, reading the tributes, and seeing the reactions coming …

Women presenters on Afghanistan’s leading TV channels yesterday went on air without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group’s austere brand of Islam.   Since surging back to power last year the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on …

While President Joe Biden travels in Asia, his administration is scrambling to salvage next month’s summit focused on Latin America. The Summit of the Americas, which the United States is hosting for the first time since the inaugural event in 1994, has risked collapsing over concerns about the guest list. …

BEIJING, May 23 :In a study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology on 20 May, Chinese and Pakistani scholars proposed to set up a CPEC-related digital transformation center. Researchers from Xian Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan, and Chinese University …

ISLAMABAD, May 23 :National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday said that all the national and provincial health authorities have been advised to remain on high alert for any suspected case of Monkeypox. According to NIH’s alert issued on multi-country Monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries to concerned health authorities and …

Rome’s Spallanzani hospital on Sunday 22 may said it had confirmed a single case of monkeypox in a young man who had recently returned from the Canary Islands. The patient, who presented himself to the Umberto I hospital in the capital, is being kept in isolation and is described as …

Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta of the Aga Khan University (AKU) has been named among the top 100 medicine scientists in the first edition of Research.com’s top scientists ranking for medicine. According to a statement, the rating is based on criteria that include the h-index, which indicates how productive and influential a …

Amid rising oil consumption and import bill owing to higher international prices, the government is examining the possibility of fuel conservation through reduced working days a week. It hopes to save an estimated annual foreign exchange of up to $2.7 billion. In the first case based on four working days …

A person who was using a Twitter account with the username Rameez Raja Live was traced for making a fake account in the name of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Digital Media Abubakar Umer on Monday revealed that the person behind the fake account has been …