ISLAMABAD: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has notified reduction in prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for the month of May, ARY NEWS reported.     According to a notification issued by the Ogra, the LPG price was…

SKARDU: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday unveiled a five-year Rs370 billion uplift package for the scenic region of Gilgit Baltistan. Addressing a ceremony here, the prime minister Imran Khan said: “I have done some mistakes…

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Friday warned that hospitals would not be able to cope with the COVID patients if cases continue to witness a rising trend, ARY NEWS reported. In a video message shared from the official Twitte…

KARACHI: Two commercial banks and a school were sealed in Karachi over COVID-related standard operating procedures (SOPs) violation, ARY News reported on Friday.  The action was taken in the city South District, where the assis…

As the third wave of coronavirus continues to sweep across the country, veteran actor Marina Khan has also tested positive for COVID-19. Khan shared the news with her followers on Instagram with a series of videos. “I have COVI…

As the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death draws closer, an exhibition at Les Invalides in Paris sheds light on his death in exile and his efforts to save his legacy as military genius and visionary leader. Banished by th…

ISLAMABAD: The government decided on Friday to form a three-member committee to decide the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) plea seeking review of its April 15 decision of banning the party over countrywide violent p…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) to hear Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) privatisation case on May 5, ARY News reported.  A three-member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Gulzar Ahmed will take up t…

India has recorded the world’s sharpest spike in coronavirus infections this month, with political and financial capitals New Delhi and Mumbai running out of hospital beds, oxygen and medicines. Scientists are studying what led…

KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday rejected allegations of the slow vote count in the NA-249 by-poll that saw PPP candidate Qadir Mandokhel securing the seat, ARY NEWS reported. “All presiding officers…

KARACHI: After a lengthy trial spanning 11 years, an accountability court on Friday acquitted all suspects in the Pakistan Steel Mills corruption reference. The accountability court-IV judge Suresh Kumar exonerated the suspects…

ISLAMABAD: Hungary has desired to boost its economic ties with Pakistan. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto while addressing the Pakistan-Hungary Economic Diplomacy event in …

LAHORE: Amid an increasing number of critical COVID patients, the ventilator occupancy at Punjab government hospitals has reached 96 per cent, ARY News reported on Friday.  As per the official figures, the bed occupancy situati…

A video of a hare swimming across a lake has gone viral on social media. Hares are classified in the same family as rabbits, and are fast-running, long-eared mammals. Indian Forest Service officer Susanta Nanda tweeted a short…

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday rejected NA-249 by-election unofficial and unconfirmed results, ARY News reported.  The polls were rigged with the alleged help of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and …

LAHORE: Punjab reported as many as 2,296 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, taking the tally of confirmed infections in the province to 301,114.    According to the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Depar…

ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to increase prices of petroleum products by up to Rs6, ARY News reported, quoting sources. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has forwarded a summary to the Petroleum Division seekin…

India posted a record daily rise in coronavirus cases of 386,452 on Friday, while deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3,498 over the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data. India has added about 7.7 million cases to its to…

PESHAWAR: The administration of Peshawar airport has sought action against the responsible persons involved in projecting laser lights on aircraft, ARY News reported on Friday. As per the airport administration, as many as eigh…

WhatsApp will soon make it easier for you to transfer chats between Android and iOS. The social media giant is planning to let users officially transfer their chat history between the two different platforms. At the moment if …

April’s full moon called the “Super Pink Moon,” wowed skywatchers as it shone brightly in the night sky. The images shared by International Space Station (ISS) on April 29 left netizens mesmerised. “The ‘Super Moon’ was recent…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered 131 more COVID deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing the nationwide tally of fatalities to 17,811, ARY News reported on Friday.   According to the latest figures issued by the National Command …

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has bagged the by-poll in the National Assembly constituency in Karachi NA-249, ARY News reported on Friday. According to unofficial results of all 276 polling stations released by the Dis…

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh have caught two people for bribing returning officer (RO) during NA-249 Karachi by-poll, ARY News reported on Thursday.  According to details, two workers of a political party tried to give env…

China’s Huawei Technologies is in talks to take control of a small domestic automaker’s electric vehicle unit, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, in what is seen as a strategic shift for the world’s largest tel…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to undertake a two-day visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) next month, ARY News reported. Diplomatic sources relayed that Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to travel to …

KARACHI: National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has suggested reducing international flight operations in the country by 80 percent owing to a surge in COVID-19 cases within the country, ARY NEWS reported. According to de…

LAHORE: An accused named in a fraud case climbed a water tank in a bid to escape from the Lahore High Court (LHC) after his interim bail plea was rejected, ARY News reported on Thursday. The accused named Shehbaz started runnin…

Samsung Electronics snatched back the crown from Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone producer, accounting for a fifth of overall global sales in the first quarter, market research firm Canalys said. China’s Xiaomi clocked i…

ISLAMABAD: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto will arrive in Pakistan on April 30 (tomorrow) on an official visit. He will be visiting Islamabad on the invitation of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood …

LAHORE: Punjab government has mulled over imposing complete lockdown in some cities of the province before Eid over reporting a higher positivity ratio, ARY NEWS reported quoting sources. According to sources, a meeting of the …

KARACHI: Sindh has overall seven percent coronavirus positivity ratio, a session of Sindh Coronavirus Task Force was briefed on Thursday, ARY News reported. The Task Force meeting, chaired by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah…

ISLAMABAD: One of three special airplanes of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying 300,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China on Thursday landed in Islamabad.  Three Boeing 777 PIA airplanes were sent to China by the …

KARACHI: A court on Thursday dismissed a pre-arrest bail plea of the key suspect in four TikTokers’ murder case and ordered the police to arrest him. The district and sessions court (South) rejected the bail plea of Abdul Rehma…