Apple will launch its first online store in India next week, the Silicon Valley giant said on Friday, hoping to cash in on the country’s festive season and grow its tiny share of the booming market. The company is a small player in India, where sales of its smartphones lag those of South Korean rival Samsung, with the iPhone maker …

US President Donald Trump’s administration posted controversial recommendations on coronavirus testing to the US health agency’s website against its objections, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The guidelines, which said testing was not necessary for people who were exposed to Covid-19 but not displaying symptoms, were criticised when they were issued last month. That is because healthcare experts at the time were …

A tunnel nearing completion in the Indian Himalayas will slash by hours the time it takes troops to reach the Chinese border, part of an infrastructure blitz by New Delhi that is gathering pace since a bloody border clash. The nuclear-armed Asian giants blame each other for a brutal high-altitude battle in June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unspecified …

A wedding in rural Maine became a coronavirus “superspreader” event that left seven people dead and 177 infected, renewing fear of the disease in the northeastern US state that had hoped the worst of the pandemic was behind it. The nuptials in early August were attended by 65 people, breaking the official limit of 50 allowed at a gathering. A …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday declared that it would decide the petition seeking the disqualification of Prime Minister Imran Khan on Oct 13. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Nasir Mehfooz adjourned the hearing after the lead counsel for the petitioner, Inamullah Khan of the Justice and Democratic Party, didn’t turn …

KARACHI: The government of Turkey will assist Pakistan in installing tram service at Karachi’s M.A. Jinnah Road and I.I. Chundrigar Road as Turkish Consul General Tolga Ucak on Thursday offered city Administrator Iftikhar Ali Shallwani his country’s support for the project. In a meeting held at Karachi Metropolitan Corporation office here, Mr Shallwani expressed gratitude to the Turkish consul general …

LAHORE: The Punjab police in a massive “search operation” launched at a village in Kasur district in the wee hours on Thursday took into custody five more relatives of Abid Malhi, the fleeing suspect in the motorway gang rape, and shifted them to Lahore for ‘questioning’. A heavy contingent of the personnel of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Crime Investigation …

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah has summoned Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar, along with high level police and capital administration officials, over the deteriorating law and order in the city. During the hearing of a case related to the abduction of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) official …

ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday challenged the confiscation of his three luxury vehicles that he says he bought from Toshakhana. The accountability court sought a reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by Sept 24 to the application moved by the former president. Established in 1974, Toshakhana is a department under the administrative control of the Cabinet …

KARACHI: Four private schools in Orangi Town were sealed on Thursday after Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani on a surprise visit to them found pre-primary classes under way there while only students of class nine to 12 have been allowed to return to school for now. The little children attending classes were also found to be sitting close …