COLOMBO: A black box from a container ship sinking off Sri Lanka was recovered on Sunday, but a dive to check for oil leaks had to be aborted. The voyage data recorder (VDR), also known as “maritime black box”, was found intact and is expected to help investigators review procedures and instructions ahead of an accident. The navy said divers …

Reality TV star and beauty mogul Kim Kardashian recently took to social media and unveiled a black-and-white family portrait in celebration of ‘baby love’. The post featured all of Kim’s four children, North, Psalm, Saint and Chicago West huddled around her in a candid still. Check it out below:  

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has granted pre-arrest bail to a former provincial energy secretary in connection with the Nooriabad power projects investigation, which is being conducted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). An IHC division bench comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Justice Babar Sattar granted bail to former Sindh energy secretary Agha Wasif Abbas against surety bonds …

LAHORE: The Parks & Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to compile data of all the trees and saplings it owns in its controlled areas to assess the Lahore’s actual requirement and the authority’s initiatives to improve the situation and overcome related issues. “We have no reliable data related to total number of saplings, plants/trees we have or lost in the …

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab police chief has decided to conduct frequent psychological profiling and drug testing of police personnel and not to offer field assignments to those who are mentally disturbed. This decision was taken at a meeting, recently chaired by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Inam Ghani and attended by regional, city and district police officers. Regional Police Officer (RPO) …

TAXILA: Officials of the district administration and health department have convinced nomad families to allow them to administer polio drops to their children below the age of five years. A large number of nomad families living in mud houses near Hazro had been refusing to administer anti-polio drops to their children due to misconceptions. The refusal by these over 20 …

ISLAMABAD: With around 420,000 people having been completely or partially vaccinated in the federal capital, health authorities are aiming to administer 25,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine daily. On the other hand, Islamabad reported 74 more cases with the positivity rate falling to 1.5pc whereas Rawalpindi district saw two patients succumbing to the virus and another 28 getting infected. As …

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has expressed its deep concern over recent incidents of landmine explosions in various parts of Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of and injuries to children. “Unicef is deeply concerned by the death of three children, age 10 to 16, who were reportedly killed in the detonation of a landmine in South Waziristan, one of …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has asked the government to take the parliament into confidence over the regional security situation likely to emerge after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The demand was made by PPP information secretary and former deputy speaker of the National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi and Senator Rubina Khalid at a news conference …

At least 40 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured on Monday after two passenger trains collided near Daharki, a city located in the Ghotki district of upper Sindh, according to officials. According to a spokesperson for Pakistan Railways (PR), the accident took place at around 03:30am after a Millat Express train — headed from Karachi to Sargodha — …