LONDON: Another Scottish independence referendum should not take place for a generation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday, as Scotland’s leader renewed calls for a fresh vote in the wake of Brexit. “Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events,” the prime minister told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. “They don’t have a notably unifying …

DHARMSALA: Hundreds of Tibetans in exile braved the rain and cold on Sunday in India’s northern city of Dharmsala, where the exiled government is based, and voted for their new political leader as the current officeholders five-year term nears its end. The voters wore masks, maintained social distance and used hand sanitizer as they cast their ballots during the first …

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned the country to expect tougher restrictions to combat spiralling coronavirus cases, as a row flared over whether schools should reopen. “It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country,” Johnson told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr …

In an extraordinary rebuke of United States President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence cautioned Sunday against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory”. The 10 men, both Democrats and Republicans, signed on to an opinion article published in The Washington Post that …

The US government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, a federal official said on Sunday. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine programme, said on CBS‘ “Face the Nation” that officials were in talks with Moderna and the Food and Drug Administration about the idea. Moderna’s vaccine …

Working alongside veteran names such as Nauman Ejaz and Sania Saeed as well as rising stars like Iqra Aziz and Faryal Mehmood, Hadiqa Kiani is all set to make her acting debut with upcoming serial, Raqeeb Se, — a passion project to indulge her artistic expression. “I had a wonderful experience working with such great actors,” said Kiani in a conversation with Images, …

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is planning to set up two mobile libraries to revive the culture of book reading. The initiative aims to provide citizens, especially youngsters, with all types of literary content at their doorsteps. These views were expressed by director general of the administration Syeda Shafaq Hashmi, while speaking about the Islamabad Reads Campaign launched by …

ISLAMABAD: The govern­ment has decided to ban a movie, The Lady of the Heaven, in Pakistan and directed the telecom sector regulator to restrict its spread through internet in the country. The Lady of the Heaven has been produced in Britain. The Pakistan Telecommu­nications Authority (PTA) on Sunday directed social media platforms to remove trailers of the “sacrilegious” movie. The …

LAHORE: The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has threatened to relaunch its protest if the government does not fulfill its promise of expelling the French ambassador by Feb 17 on the issue of blasphemy of Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW). “We’re bound to honour the agreement till Feb 17. A war for (protecting) the honour of the Prophet (SAW) has been waged. If …

KARACHI: As the Sindh government waits for first supply of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses by mid-January, the authorities have identified some 115,000 frontline health workers across the province who would be inoculated in the first phase of the programme in two major centres, becoming the first province in the country that had already designed such a strategy to meet the …