US actress and singer Hilary Duff has revealed that she suffered painful eye infection from taking too many coronavirus tests while filming for her TV series, Younger. The former Disney star, who is expecting her third child, also disclosed that she was rushed to hospital after she suffered the eye infection on Christmas. Hilary turned to Instagram and shared the details …

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of General Assembly Volkan Bozkir have condemned the terrorist attack in Mach which claimed lives of 11 innocent coal miners in Pakistan. “The secretary-general strongly condemns the terrorist attack and killing of at least 11 coal miners in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. He extends his sincere condolences to families of the miners …

BEIJING: The former chairman of one of China’s largest state-controlled asset management firms was sentenced to death on Tuesday for soliciting $260 million in bribes, corruption and also bigamy. Lai Xiaomin, a former Communist Party member, gave a detailed televised confession on state broadcaster CCTV last January, which showed footage of safes and cabinets stuffed with cash in a Beijing apartment allegedly …

NEW DELHI: Represen­tatives of the Indian government and protesting farmers have failed again to reach agreement on the farmers’ demand that new agricultural reform laws be repealed. With the government refusing to revoke the legislation, the farmers pledged to continue blockading key highways linking the capital with the country’s north. The two sides agreed to meet for more talks on …

OSLO: Norway has become the first country in the world where electric cars account for more than half of new registrations, according to figures published on Tuesday by an industry group. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic delaying the release of several new models, electric vehicles accounted for 54.3 percent of the new car market last year, up from 42.4 percent a …

WASHINGTON: A Republican lawmaker has moved a bill in the 117th Congress, seeking to strip Pakistan of its status as a major non-Nato ally of the United States. The US media, however, pointed out that “the legislation comes at a moment of uncertainty over the incoming Biden administration’s posture towards Pakistan after four years of tumultuous relations in the Trump …

Bitcoin traded above $35,000 for the first time in Asia on Wednesday, rising to a high of $35,879 and extending a rally that has seen the digital currency rise more than 800 per cent since mid-March of 2020. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency had crossed $20,000 for the first time ever almost three weeks ago on Dec 16, 2020. At …

DALTON: With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared on Monday night he would fight like hell to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote. Electoral voters won by President-elect Biden are “not gonna take this White House! he shouted …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has detected coronavirus in five people, who returned from Britain recently, and is waiting for confirmation if the infected people have the UK’s strain of virus. The health department started tracing the people, who returned from UK, on the instruction of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to see if they had dangerous Covid-19 …

LONDON: Britain toughened its coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, with England and Scotland going into another full lockdown, as a new variant spreads. Surging numbers of positive cases, and fears the a new variant of the virus is running out of control, prompted tougher action, which includes shutting schools, and a ban on leaving home except for essential shopping, medical reasons …