Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will award the UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) the country’s highest civilian honour in recognition of health workers’ service during the pandemic, the government announced Monday. The award of the George Cross, which is the civilian equivalent of Britain’s Victoria Cross for extraordinary military heroism, comes amid outcry from medical professionals over pay and working conditions …

The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) recently submitted the revised Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP) for the regulator’s approval. Alongside other revisions, it indicates an increase in the planned hydropower share to more than half of the country’s total energy mix by 2030. The hydropower component of the IGCEP displays an ‘alarming trend’, according to the comments on …

GUJRAT: The federal and Punjab governments will jointly provide funds for establishment of the University of Applied Engineering and Emerging Technologies (UAEET) in Sialkot. The Punjab government has provided a free-of-cost 500 acres piece of land near Sambrial for the project whose total estimated cost is Rs16.8bn. The federal and Punjab governments will provide half of the amount each for …

ISLAMABAD: While Islamabad has well-managed weekly bazaars, the neglect by authorities is creating conditions for the benefit of the sellers instead of the buyers. The H-9 Peshawar Mor Bazaar is the largest and the most prominent of the several weekly bazaars in the city and the only place where controlled rates markets are held three days a week — on …

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II honoured UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) staff, past and present, with country’s highest civilian award –the George Cross– in recognition of their services during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Buckingham Palace announced it on its official Twitter handle. The Royal Family tweeted Queen’s message which reads: “It is with great pleasure on behalf of a grateful …

Kim Kardashian mesmerised people with her chic appearance as she enjoyed  exotic cuisine  at the Trevi restaurant in Rome. The 40-year-old ‘KUWTK’ beauty shared several snaps from her chic outing in Italy on Sunday as her excursion continues. The ‘Keeping UP With The Kardashians’ star also shared snaps outside the Trevi fountain in the Italian capitol while rocking a stylish …

Disgraced actor and comedian Bill Cosby has thrown his weight behind his on-screen wife Phylicia Rashad after she caught flak for celebrating his rape conviction being overturned. In a statement issued by his spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, Cosby told Howard University—where Rashad was recently named the Dean of the College of Fine Arts—to support her “freedom of speech” amidst calls of …

Katie Price is reportedly in horrendous  pain as she underwent major cosmetic surgery to elevate her beauty. The Former glamour model has reportedly lift on her lips and eyes to achieve a cat-eye look in addition to full body liposuction in Tukey. A media outlet , citing source, claimed that the mother-of-five is ‘very swollen and bruised’ but feeling ‘really …

Meghan Markle’s feud with the British royal family has been going on since quite some time but as it turns out, things have been sour since the start. Royal biographer Penny Junor spoke in a new documentary, titled Harry and William: What Went Wrong, and said that the Duchess of Sussex was apparently irking people since early on. “I was hearing …

Alarm bells rang at British music executive Simon Cowell’s house in London after a suspicious person lurking around was spotted. According to a report by The Sun, the music producer’s staff was alarmed over the presence of a stranger seen on CCTV “loitering” around his London residence last week, and subsequently returning a few more times in the area. Cowell, his …