ISLAMABAD: As the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has expressed fears that Covid-19 cases may rise during Eidul Azha holidays, China on Wednesday handed over 200 mobile oxygen concentrators to Pakistan. The oxygen concentrators were handed over to chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt Gen Akhtar Nawaz by China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong at a …

ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of people, who came to Islamabad from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for vaccination, blocked 9th Avenue for hours during a protest on Wednesday after being told by staff at F-9 vaccination centre that they ran short of Pfizer and AstraZeneca. Over 2,000 people moved towards the F-9 Vaccination Centre and police were unable to stop them, officials of the capital …

The Pakistan Army has inducted the first batch of the state-of-the-art VT-4 tanks, according to the military’s media affairs wing. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that Commander Mangla Corps Lt Gen Shaheen Mazher Mehmood visited the Armoured Division and inspected the first batch of VT-4 tanks. Maj Gen Rashid Mahmood briefed the commander …

xcce Dallas police have released video of a shooting that wounded a 4-year-old girl and four women outside a southeast Dallas apartment building earlier this month. Officers responded about 4:30 p.m. June 11 to the 300 block of North Jim Miller Road, where the shooting was reported after two groups were involved in a disturbance, police said. The child, who …

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson released his latest roster of City Council committee appointments Wednesday. And in a departure from his first two years in office, he appointed all 14 of his colleagues to leadership positions. The move echoes recent statements the mayor has made about trying to be more collaborative with the latest iteration of the City Council, which includes incumbents with …

A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy who was walking through a neighborhood in White Settlement with his brother, police said. Jamaine Taylor, 31, was taken into custody without incident at a business in Fort Worth and booked into the White Settlement jail on a charge of murder in the slaying of …

A teenager has been indicted on a capital murder charge after a robbery in Far East Dallas that led to the victim’s death two months later. A Dallas County grand jury handed up the indictment of 17-year-old Melvin Alexander Cruz on Wednesday. According to police, Cruz approached 21-year-old Kasey Lewis about 5:45 a.m. Feb. 11 as he walked to his …

Garland police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing man who left his home over the weekend to drive to Georgia. A Silver Alert has been activated for Paul Welch, 86, who has dementia and other health conditions. Police say Welch left his home in the 2300 block of Heather Ridge Lane on Sunday. On Tuesday, police were …

HUNTSVILLE — A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago. John Hummel received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 2009 killings. Authorities say Hummel stabbed his wife, Joy Hummel, more than 30 times, then used a baseball bat …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble under …