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Google announced on Thursday that it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline in their traffic. The Alphabet subsidiary began integrating more A...
Authorities closed a central New Delhi park Friday before a fresh protest seeking the removal of India’s election chief over a voter-roll revision that critics say has disenfranchised millions. Organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the campaign has become the focal point of opposition anger ...
Despite tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him into a...
Yemen’s Houthis have built up a missile and drone arsenal that allows them varied and sustained strike capabilities, as Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government it sponsors are finding out. ‘Tit for tat’ strategy Since early September, the Houthis have hit key oil infrastructure and airports across Sa...
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, killing four people including three children, before being killed by an armed member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said. The shooter entered Silver Rail Elementary School b...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile and clothing exports rose 5.26 per cent to $5.026 billion in the first quarter of 2026-27 from $4.775bn in the same period last year. The marginal rise in export proceeds was attributed to elevated input costs, which eroded exporters’ competitiveness, and external shoc...
IT has been nearly a year since I last wrote an opinion piece. This was not really intentional, just a result of a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness that made me question whether writing is an exercise in futility. But recently, I was surprised when an educationist told me that my last piece ...
KARACHI: A sealed report prepared by the judicial commission formed to investigate the circumstances and possible negligence in Mir Raza Ali’s murder investigation was handed over to the provincial government on Thursday. The commission, headed by Justice Omar Sial of the Sindh High Court, concluded...
WHILE the Balochistan insurgency has been simmering for many decades, in recent years, it seems to be spinning out of control. In July this year, Balochistan became the country’s most violent province, replacing KP for the first time. Some sources say there were 176 terrorist attacks, killing 438 pe...
AT LEAST 30 children, most of them younger than 13, and a teacher have died in Peshawar after the roof of their private school collapsed during morning classes. Dozens more were injured, some critically. The victims had arrived at the Al Khair school expecting an ordinary day. Instead, rescue worker...
AMID growing calls for the resignation of India’s top election official Gyanesh Kumar for alleged voter roll manipulation, a key issue has come to the fore: the process of the chief election commissioner’s appointment, resignation and termination. The campaign to remove Gyanesh Kumar from office beg...
LAHORE: Getting access to government services can prove costly, time-consuming and confusing. Though a myriad of services are provided through free government-run e-platforms, these remain fragmented across various domains, forcing people to run from pillar to post just to ascertain how they should ...
