LONDON: The UK’s Labour Party appears poised for its largest parliamentary majority in a century, it emerged on Monday. According to a YouGov poll, Labour led by Keir Starmer is set to secure a 194-seat majority, marking the biggest electoral victory since 1924 when Conservative politician Stanley Baldwin triumphed with 208 seats. This projection, the first from YouGov since the election …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was winning a majority of seats in early vote counting trends in the general election on Tuesday, but well short of the landslide predicted in exit polls, TV channels showed. BJP was in first place on 38.68 per cent with half of votes counted, national election commission data showed. The elections for the 18th Lok Sabha, …

ISLAMABAD: A police constable sustained injuries after being hit by a speeding car driven by a British diplomat on Monday. Police officers told Dawn that after the incident the police impounded the official car owned by the UK High Commission driven by the country’s third secretary. The incident took place at Radio Pakistan Chowk on Constitution Avenue where traffic was being manually …

ISLAMABAD: After the federal government failed to pay for the health card service, the residents of Islamabad, Azad Jammu Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan have been deprived of the healthcare facility as opposed to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa residents. Raja Zafran Bhatti, 41, is a heart patient based in Islamabad. He recently visited Pims for medical treatment but the hospital refused him …

ISLAMABAD: Finally, the electric buses are set to hit Islamabad’s roads as 10 buses will be arriving in the city on Tuesday (today) followed by 20 more in the next 24 hours. “A fleet of 30 buses will reach Islamabad in two days: on Tuesday and Wednesday,” said an officer of the CDA. He said these 30 buses will be …

LAHORE: Former President Dr Arif Alvi says the army trial of civilians will eventually defame the army at home and abroad. “It is high time to heal the nation and distance itself from spreading bitterness,” he suggested. Speaking to media persons after a visit to the Punjab Assembly and meeting with PTI-backed MPAs on Monday, Dr Alvi said the PTI …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has questioned the premier spy agency’s ability to deal with threats of ‘fifth generation warfare’ after it failed to trace X accou­nts involved in the doxxing of Justice Babar Sattar. The case was initiated after Justice Sattar filed a complaint over a malicious social media campaign in which the personal information of his family, including their …

HYDERABAD: As a tiff between Sindh and Punjab over the distribution of water through the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) continues to simmer, the former has reiterated its claim that the province faced a water shortage in the early Kharif season, despite ample storage available in the country’s reservoirs. This resonated with earlier claims made by Sindh in the last …

QUETTA: At least 11 people died after inhaling methane gas inside a coal mine in the Sanjdi area, some 50km from Quetta, on Monday. The victims include nine coal miners, a coal company manager and a contractor. “The coal miners were working around 1,500 feet deep in the mine when the gas eruption started and quickly spread to the place. …

RAWALPINDI: A Christian man, who was badly injured in a mob attack in Sargodha after being accused of committing blasphemy, died late on Sunday night after fighting for his life at a hospital for eight days. Nazir Masih, 70, had sustained head injuries before he and other Christians were rescued by police amid violence by an enraged mob in Sargodha’s …