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News Desk Dhaka: Bangladesh has announced the indefinite closure of all public and private universities starting Wednesday after student protests against a government job quota system turned deadly, resulting in at least six fatalities…

Muhammad Murtaza Noor Islamabad: International Youth Skills Day, observed annually on July 15, emphasizes the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship.  This year’s…

APP New York: A key UN report has placed Pakistan, whose current population is over 245 million, in the group of countries whose population is expected to increase through 2054 and potentially peak in the second half of the century or…

APP United Nation: Global unemployment numbers will fall modestly this year, but unequal access to jobs is still a problem worldwide, particularly for women in poorer countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a Geneva-based…

APP Beijing: Dr Wu Jun, the Director of CPInS Lab, said Sunday that Pakistan, through further cooperation with China, was fully capable of becoming an artificial intelligence (AI) development hub in South Asia and the wider region.…

AFP/APP Pule Alam: Khurma had to borrow her neighbor's shoes to walk to Pul-e Alam city to collect a cash handout being given to the growing number of vulnerable Afghans who are struggling to survive the winter. The 45-year-old widow…

APP Islamabad: The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Water Financing Partnership Facility has catalyzed nearly $10 billion in water sector investments, benefiting around 123 million people across 20 developing member countries (DMCs) as of…

News Desk Islamabad: There is a 20 per cent decrease in new jobs in the US and a 22 per cent decrease in the UK. Meanwhile, there is a 150 per cent increase in the number of job applicants compared to last year, according to LinkedIn’s…

Ishtiaq Ahmed There are many damaging aspects of the current political malaise in Pakistan but perhaps the most damaging is the loss of public faith in politicians and the political institutions- the supposed agents of democracy. The…