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ISLAMABAD: After a decades-long delay, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has started granting first-ever separate licences of Suppliers of Last Resort (SoLR) to existing distribution companies (Discos) for 20 years to bifurcate their distribution (wire & pole infrastructure) and electricity supply (commercial & billing etc) businesses for future bilateral competitive power business. This should have happened in the …

DUGWAY: A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end on Sunday when a Nasa capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became …

Samreen Amir has been appointed as the first woman additional station house officer (SHO) in merged districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to Kurram District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Imran, who said this was also the first instance of a Christian woman’s posting as the SHO in the province.   Samreen Amir has been posted as the additional station house officer …

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) while expanding its scope of work is going to launch mega development projects in rural areas and has called bids in this regard. The engineering wing has called tenders from construction firms to award contracts of 17 projects worth Rs2.8 billion in the first phase of the total Rs10 billion projects for rural areas. …

An experimental drug appeared to rid people of rectal cancer in an unprecedented study, according to The New York Times. A group comprising 18 patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for around six months, and in the end, every one of them saw their tumours disappear. In conversation with the New York Times, Dr Luis Diaz, an author of a paper, said …

KARACHI: The rupee crashed to an all-time low against the dollar on Thursday, crossing the 180 threshold in the interbank market. The local currency fell 0.35pc (or 63 paise) against the US currency to close at Rs180.07, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data. With the fresh slide, the rupee has now lost around 2pc since the beginning …

CAIRO: Radwa Helmi made history on Saturday as the first woman judge to sit on the bench of Egypt’s State Council, a top court in the Arab country. Helmi, making her appearance in a Cairo courthouse, was among 98 women appointed last year to join the council, one of Egypt’s main judicial bodies, following a decision by President Abdel Fattah …

KARACHI: For the first time in the country’s history, the Pakistan Army has promoted two officers belonging to the Hindu community in Sindh to the rank of lieutenant colonel on Friday. Both the officers belong to the Army Medical Corps. Born in 1981, Major Dr Kelash Kumar hails from Tharparkar district. He got commission in the army in 2008. Major …

The United States announced on Monday that India would allow imports of US pork and pork products for the first time, welcoming the removal of an old block on US farm trade. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai made the announcement in a statement. “This new opportunity marks the culmination of nearly two decades of …

Can four people who’ve never been to space before spend three days spinning around Earth after only a few months of training? That’s the challenge SpaceX has set for itself when it launches its first tourism mission on Wednesday, the first time a crew of exclusively private citizens will orbit our planet. A five-hour launch window for “Inspiration4” opens from …