The image of an Indian woman giving CPR to her dying husband in an attempt to save him from coronavirus has broken hearts worldwide. The harrowing image is a reflection of what thousands in India are going through as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the country. India has been reporting more than 300,000 coronavirus infections over the past …

WASHINGTON: An unprecedented upsurge in Covid-19 infections in South Asia could push global infections to 15 million a day by mid-May, says an American health institute which correctly projected Covid deaths and infections in the United States last year. “Our latest projections show that the number of infections driven by the surge in India — and perhaps also driven by …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Senator Shibli Faraz on Tuesday said his ministry will expedite the registration of ventilators with the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) to ensure their timely availability for induction in the healthcare system and export. He stated this while chairing a meeting held to discuss efforts being made to counter the effects of Covid-19 …

ISLAMABAD: The scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday disallowed the use of laptops for scrutiny of PTI accounts by two chartered accountants engaged by the petitioner in the foreign funding case. The development took place on the first day of perusal of the accounts of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on the orders of the ECP. …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to secretaries of the cabinet division and ministry of national health services and head of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) for not fixing price of Covid-19 vaccine. The single-judge bench of SHC headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar observed that besides a divisional bench, the federal authorities concerned had …

Pakistan recorded more than two hundred Covid-19 deaths in a day for the first time since the start of the pandemic on Tuesday, as the government said it was considering stricter lockdowns. A total of 201 new deaths were recorded on Tuesday, bringing the country’s overall death toll from the virus to 17,530, according to the National Command Operation Centre (NCOC), …

MUZAFFARABAD: General elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) would be held sometime in July this year, schedule and the code of conduct for which would be announced in June, the region’s constitutional electoral body announced here on Tuesday. According to a spokesperson for the AJK Election Commission, an ‘action plan’ had been prepared for smooth conduct of polls. Registration …

LAHORE: Students and social activists have begun an online campaign demanding the resignation of Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood for his failure to get the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) examination postponed. O and A level students took to Twitter running a #ResignShafqatMahmood trend. They seek grades on the basis of teachers’ assessment and complete cancellation of the examination. Eesha Batool tweeted, …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday indicated that the government might go for complete lockdown in coronavirus-hit cities and stressed the need for smooth supplies of food items during lockdown. “The prime minister has directed that food supplies should be improved if we go for complete lockdown,” said federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry in a press conference after weekly …

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is likely to launch a fresh probe into the multi-billion-rupee sugar scam after removal of the head of the investigation team that had instituted first information reports (FIRs) against the estranged leader of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Jahangir Khan Tareen, and other sugar barons. “After removal of the sugar scam inquiry team head, …