An Indian-American man was shot dead on an afternoon stroll to community park near his home in Cary, North Carolina, August 27. According to the Cary police’s brief made to the media, a 911 call was made around 4pm about a wounded man near the community pool. The woman who made the 911 call reportedly heard five gun shots ring …

Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple Inc on Tuesday announced a new system that will enable public health authorities to use smartphones to assist in contact tracing without having to build an app. The new system – called Exposure Notifications Express – will allow public health officials to submit a small configuration file to Apple and Google. The two tech companies …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 441 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, lifting the national tally of cases to 296,590. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), eighteen more people succumbed to the highly contagious disease during this period, pushing the death toll from the virus to 6,318 The number of active cases has gone …

ISLAMABAD: The hospitals in the federal capital Islamabad put on high alert by the higher authorities after the Met Office forecast heavy rainfall which may generate flash flooding upper parts of the country. The district administration has put the state-owned Poly Clinic, PIMS and CDA hospitals on high alert and sent written instructions to the medical facilities. The letter stated …

KARACHI: Facebook has removed 453 Facebook accounts, 103 Pages, 78 groups and 107 Instagram accounts being operated from Pakistan over “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, it announced on Tuesday. Facebook removes content for coordinated behaviour when it finds domestic, non-governmental campaigns that include groups of accounts and pages seeking to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing while …

KARACHI: Bulls stor­m­ed the stock market at the sound of the opening bell and remained in control throughout the session. The KSE-100 index clocked in gains of 266 points (0.65 per cent) and closed at 41,377. The market capitalisation surged by Rs43 billion and was flushed with liquidity; economic numbers are looking up while Covid-19 new cases have defied the …

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to PM on Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood on Tuesday said the government agreed that erstwhile five zero-rated industries would be given a rate of gas of 7.5 ¢/kWh for July and August and nine ¢/kWh thereafter. For gas, the rate will be $6.5/mmBtu throughout the period, the adviser said on his twitter account. “In a meeting …

ISLAMABAD: Inflation eased to 8.2 per cent in August, from 9.3pc in July on the back of a slight decline in prices of essential food products, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Tuesday. Inflation during the month fell despite a significant rise in the petroleum prices. The data showed chicken prices dipped by 36.45pc in …

ISLAMABAD: After questioning the justification for furnace oil-based expensive power generation, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday reserved judgement on 86 paisa per unit increase in electricity rates demanded by ex-Wapda distribution companies (Discos). “The decision will be issued after carrying out analysis with regards to the statements made by National Power Control Center (NPCC) during the …

ISLAMABAD: Serious differences have cropped up among the independent power producers (IPPs) after signing of their memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with a negotiation committee of the government for tariff reduction. Two large groups of IPPs have fallen out with each other amid mutual mistrust, and the head of the IPP Advisory Committee (IPPAC) — Khalid Mansour — who had headed …