03-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day to spotlight media freedom around the world. This year, UNESCO’s theme, Journalism Under Digital Siege, will focus on the effect of digitization on freedom of expression, access to information …

03-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ DAMASCUS/ ISLAMABAD: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan’s women, girls and human rights, Rina Amiri, said that at an Iftar dinner ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries “agreed that the Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls.” Amiri said that …

03-05-2022 KYIV: Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ran into delays on Monday and hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, the last stronghold of resistance to the Russian siege. It was not immediately clear what was causing the hold-up. A …

03-05-2022 LONDON: A 34-year-old man in England, Harry Matadeen, has claimed that drinking his own urine daily “cured” his depression and made him look 10 years younger, media reported. The publication cited New York Post as stating that Matadeen’s desperation to get rid of his mental health issues drove him …

03-05-2022 SEOUL: South Korea’s consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years in April on the back of surging food and energy prices, in the latest sign of high inflation taking off in Asia. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its consumer price index (CPI) rise 4.8 percent last …

02-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al Jazeera KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: People across Afghanistan celebrated Eid on Sunday, but for millions of Afghans, it was yet another day of struggle to bring food to the table. More than 90 percent of Afghans have been facing a shortage of food, …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives. Successive …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia will discuss the option of extending the terms of its $3bn deposit in Pakistan’s central bank to help Islamabad’s faltering economy, according to a joint statement. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has provided Pakistan with $4.2bn of support in the form …

02-05-2022 LONDON: A British legislator from the governing Conservative Party resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. Neil Parish, a Member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision on Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse …

Hyderabad, May 1 (PMI): TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy today said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was scared of the visit of their party leader Rahul Gandhi to the State. He asked the CM as to why he was obstructing the visit of Rahul Gandhi to the Osmania University. In …