India: Public health emergency declared as Delhi chokes
New Delhi: As the blanket of haze over the national capital continued to thicken with overall Air Quality Index (AQI) rising to 459 on Friday morning, a Supreme Court-mandated panel…
Security firm says Chinese hackers intercepted text messages
Washington: A cybersecurity firm says Chinese hackers with a history of state-sponsored espionage have intercepted the text messages of thousands of foreigners in a targeted operation.###FireEye says in a report…
Multitasking makes teens feel both positive and negative
New York: Multitasking makes adolescents feel both more positive as well as more negative about the main task they are trying to accomplish, says a new study.###The study, published in…
In UAE, it’s the show that matters, not platform
Dubai: For web TV subscribers in the UAE, all that matters is how soon they get to catch their favourite show or movie. Which app or streaming platform delivers it…
Fugitive Malaysian 1MDB financier offered asylum: spokesperson
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian financier wanted for his role in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB financial scandal has been offered asylum abroad, his spokesman said Friday.###The news came a day after US…
Gulzar questions Indian society’s slipping standards at Sharjah Book Fair
Click:EGP nicotine pouchesSharjah: The crass and bawdy lyrics used in Bollywood songs is a reflection of where we stand as a society, Oscar-winning Indian film director, lyricist and Urdu poet…
Three men electrocuted while evading police in Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur: Three people were electrocuted while trying to evade the police here on Wednesday.###A villager had laid a live electricity cable without cover around the periphery of his field to…
Pakistan to use DNA tests to identify train fire victims
MULTAN, Pakistan: Pakistan’s forensic experts will carry out DNA tests to identify most of the victims of the massive train fire in eastern Punjab province on Thursday that killed 74…
Funerals begin as town mourns victims of Pakistan train fire
MIRPURKHAS, Pakistan: Distraught relatives gathered on Friday for the first funerals of some of the 74 people killed when fire ripped through a crowded train in Pakistan, with many of…
#MeToo: In Afzal Mehmood’s death, not much will change in Pakistan
###Speaking up does not guarantee justice.###Even death does not guarantee justice.###In our world marked with cruelty, crime, violence and lawlessness, the absence of justice stands bewildered like a misplaced question…