Two athletes living in the Olympic Village have tested positive for Covid-19, the first to do so with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday. Organisers confirmed the positive tests on Sunday, saying both were listed as non-Japanese. No names or other details were provided. Organisers also said another athlete had tested positive but this person was not residing in the …

Julia Ducournau’s Titane, a wild body-horror thriller, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Ducournau just the second female filmmaker to win the festival’s top honour in its 74 year history. The win on Saturday was mistakenly announced by jury president Spike Lee at the top of the closing ceremony, broadcast in France on Canal+, unleashing a few …

KARACHI: The vaccination process at the Expo Centre — the country’s biggest mass immunisation centre against coronavirus — was suspended on Saturday after data entry operators went on strike, forcing many people to leave for home without getting vaccinated. The staff claimed that they had not been paid their salaries for three months. Sources said the doctors, nurses and entire …

ISLAMABAD: While a large number of people intending to get the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine are sent back from vaccination centres because they fail to show the SMS that their second dose has become due, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday decided that no one would be sent back unvaccinated. In another development, Pakistan received 1.23 …

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Sunday said that the taxi drivers who drove the daughter of Afghan ambassador before her brief abduction in Islamabad on Friday have been interrogated and a first information report has been registered. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the interior minister said: “I want to inform the international media that the police is investigating the …

MUZAFFARABAD: In the absence of Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, his younger sister Aseefa Bhutto Zardari joined the party’s electioneering campaign in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, as PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz claimed that the people of AJK had already made the decision in her party’s favour. Ms Bhutto-Zardari asked the party workers who had gathered at …

  PESHAWAR: The health department is struggling to increase coronavirus vaccination rate and ensure the enforcement of smart lockdowns in the province amid the growing detection of Delta, Alpha and Beta strains of the virus, insist officials. The officials told Dawn that the health department had sent samples of 50 Covid-19 confirmed cases to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, for gene …

LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) on Saturday restored the legal practicing licence of Advocate Hassaan Khan Niazi, nephew of Prime Minister Imran Khan, earlier suspended on a complaint of the counsel for widow of Balochistan former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, who also got an FIR registered against him. On being summoned, Mr Niazi appeared before the executive committee of …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Saturday slammed the government over its decision to increase prices of wheat flour, ghee and sugar being sold through the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) and termed it “cruelty with the nation”. In separate statements, the opposition leaders belo­n­g­ing to the Pakistan Mus­lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said that only a day after …

ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid has disclosed that a 15-member team of Chinese investigators has joined the ongoing investigations into the Dasu bus explosion. The investigations were at an advanced stage and the culprits would be taken to task soon, the minister told a presser in Islamabad on Saturday. He said the Chinese team of investigators arrived on Friday …