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 …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Cy-Fair Fire Department firefighter was rushed to the hospital after working to contain a building fire in northwest Houston, according to officials. The firefighter suffered minor burns while working to contain the fire, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office.   The Cy-Fair Fire Department was called to Corrosion Control Service, a sandblasting services …

ISLAMABAD: As seven more people lost their struggle against Covid-19 on Sunday, the capital administration has advised coronavirus patients to seek medical help and avoid self treatment at home. “It has been observed that Covid-19 patients who were in very critical state were being brought to hospitals as majority preferred to isolate themselves in their homes and use oxygen cylinders, …

The country’s education ministers, in a meeting on Monday, decided to reopen educational institutions in the country in phases from January 18. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad after the meeting, Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood said that in the first phase, classes nine to 12 would be allowed to resume from Jan 18. He said that in the next …

hb ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz on Sunday said PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz during her address at the Bahawalpur rally forgot to mention that her ‘royal family’ had robbed funds meant for the people of south Punjab in the name of Lahore renovation. He said that people of south Punjab were deprived of education, health facilities …