ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has promulgated an ordinance to run the National Institute of Health (NIH) through a board of governors (BoG). Sajid Shah, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS), said the ordinance will not only improve the performance of the NIH and the Pakistan Health Research Council (PHRC) but will also help in addressing …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) retained the mayorship of the capital after winning the by-election on Monday. Pir Adil Shah Gillani of the PML-N bagged 43 votes against PTI’s Malik Sajid Mahmood who bagged 26 votes. The mayor-elect is the custodian of the shrine of Pir Imam Ali Gillani located in Rata Hotar near Bari Imam shrine. In the …

LAHORE: A teenage boy on Monday confessed in police custody to have committed necrophilia after murdering his seven-year-old cousin at a village in Mohlanwal area and then dumped her body in a pond. According to police, the minor girl (name withheld), daughter of a labourer, a resident of a village in Mohlanwal area, was lured by her cousin and his …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to face the opposition forcefully during the Senate session requisitioned for Wednesday and expressed confidence that the government will have a comfortable majority in the upcoming Senate elections, PM’s Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan told Dawn after their meeting at PM House on Monday. The opposition had requisitioned the Senate session on a …

ISLAMABAD: As Pakis­tan saw active Covid-19 cases falling by 10,000 in a month, it also reported another 1,974 people contracting the virus and 55 dying of it on Monday. The national positivity ratio stood at 6.13 per cent. Abbottabad once again recorded the highest rate at 15.95pc, though the percentage was lower than Sunday when it was calculated at 25.53pc. …

Pakistan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed cases of a new coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom earlier this year. According to the Sindh health department, 12 samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the Covid virus in the first phase. “The genotyping showed 95 …

Mesquite has a message for New Year’s Eve partiers: don’t even think about shooting off illegal fireworks or firing guns. The city plans to wage an aggressive campaign to stop both, as well as drunken driving, and city leaders say they will seek to punish perpetrators. Shingle Mountain removal begins Workers begin to remove shingles from what is known as Shingle Mountain, …

Over the last two weeks, frontline health-care workers in Texas have been receiving the COVID-19 vaccines that are available as part of the state’s Phase 1A distribution. Beginning this week, pharmacies will take a leading role in distributing the vaccine to long-term care facility residents and staff members. That’s part of the 1A plan, too. Shingle Mountain removal begins Workers begin …

WASHINGTON — The House voted Monday to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain. Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional assistance. They had settled for smaller $600 payments in a compromise with Republicans over the big year-end relief …

Police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing elderly man last seen driving in North Richland Hills. Shingle Mountain removal begins Workers begin to remove shingles from what is known as Shingle Mountain, a pile Fred Harvey, 97, was last seen about 11 a.m. Monday leaving the 6100 block of Glenview Drive for an appointment and has not …