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. The writer is Provost, University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore. He can be contacted at s.m.asghar.zaidi@gmail.com Somewhere in Pakistan this week, a university scholar will be made a professor by a piece of paper. The registrar’s office will issue a notification. The pay scale will move up. Colleagues will bring sweets to the … Read more
[The magazine, which is reviewing a payment from the founder of Shook Research to its former top editor, also canceled a summit in Las Vegas scheduled for October.
Our Canada bureau chief tells us how the countries got into a trade war and how people north of the border are experiencing the rift.
State Dept coordinating with DHS to revoke visas of visitors who later seek asylum to stay in US The State Department said earlier this month that under the Trump administration, it had revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals.. PHOTO: FILE President Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant … Read more
The salvage company that has been awarded the rights to recover, but not sell, items that sunk with the ship, has proposed selling 100 of them.
. Recently, I was invited to speak at a programme on Dr Jameel Jalibi’s landmark work, Pakistani Culture: The Question of National Culture. Revisiting the book reminded me that some books belong to their time, while others continue to interrogate every generation that follows. Jalibi’s work, first published in 1964, is firmly in the latter … Read more
Some leaders of the health movement are challenging a pillar of the president’s energy agenda.
President Trump’s “Economic D-Day” is intended to break the stalemate with Iran. But decades of sanctions have done little to change the country’s behavior.
Brazil steps up scrutiny of platforms’ safeguards for minors as countries tighten social media rules A logo is displayed over a door at the US headquarters of the social media company TikTok in Culver City, California, U.S. January 17, 2025. REUTERS Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) has fined TikTok owner ByteDance 153.8 million reais ($29.81 … Read more
A thriving ‘conflict economy’ is extracting minerals while the military and armed groups inflict abuse on civilians, according to a new report on the scale of recent violence in Myanmar.