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LAHORE: The Sikh pilgrims from India reached Lahore on Sunday to attend celebrations of the 10-day Baisakhi festival at various Gurdwaras in Punjab. As many as 2,470 pilgrims crossed the Wagah-Attari border on foot to enter Pakistan to celebrate Baisakhi mainly at Gurdwara Panja Sahib (Hasanabdal), Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib, Gurdwara Dera Sahib (Lahore) and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib (Kartarpur), …

Aiden McCarthy’s photo was shared across Chicago-area social media groups in the hours after the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, accompanied by pleas to help identify the 2-year-old who had been found at the scene bloodied and alone and to reunite him with his family. On Tuesday, friends and authorities confirmed that the boy’s parents, Kevin McCarthy, 37, …

By: Raja Zahid A Khanazada Houston, Texas: As the public activities have started to transpire, for the Houstonians, beginning of Ramadan 2022 meant the exciting news that in-Person “Houston Iftar: Annual Ramadan Dinner with Mayor” is happening on April 10th, 2022, at the established picturesque Bayou City Event Center. During pandemic in 2022 and 2021, this event was held as …

UNITED NATIONS: UN experts said in a new report that nearly 2,000 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthi rebels died on the battlefield between January 2020 and May 2021, and the Iranian-backed rebels continue to hold camps and courses encouraging youngsters to fight. In the report to the UN Security Council circulated, the experts said they investigated some summer camps in …

Dallas County is ending the year on a grim milestone: More than 2,600 new COVID-19 infections were reported on New Year’s Eve, as people ring in 2022 and cases of the highly contagious omicron variant soar nationwide. The county reported 17 new coronavirus deaths and 2,614 new cases Friday. Of the new cases, 1,902 were confirmed and 712 were probable. …

ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus claimed 42 more lives in Pakistan during the previous 24 hours, raising the nationwide death toll to 27,524. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), as many as 2,060 new infections were reported after 44,958 samples were tested during this period, showing a national positivity rate of 4.58 per cent. The country’s tally of …

MUMBAI: Indian police said on Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in Kolkata. Vaccination rates rose sharply this week after the Indian government made shots free following a devastating pandemic surge in April and May. Police in Mumbai …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston ISD Board of Trustees approved a $2,500 pay raise for teachers Thursday night at its board meeting. Trustee Elizabeth Santos initially proposed a $5,000 pay raise for teachers, but the board later cut it in half before voting to approve it. Santos wanted the raises to be paid out of the district’s fund balance. …

ISLAMABAD: An audit of the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) for the year 2019-2020 has revealed that 9,756 employees are working in the organisation’s 42 regions against the sanctioned or authorised strength of 7,662. The auditors recommen­ded an independent inquiry into the matter to fix responsibility. According to the audit report, 2,094 extra emplo­yees are an extra burden on the already …

ISLAMABAD: The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has shown that the COVID-19 has claimed 43 more lives, whereas, 2,521 new infections were reported during the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, 43 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 10,951. As many as 1,540 patients have recovered from the virus …