Pakistan

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Lack of fumigation against flies, mosquitos have allowed the spread of gastric diseases and dengue

Teachers' body demands strict action against those responsible

JI threatens protests; GDA says people who have to buy their fuel struggling to make ends meet

Plan to establish 100 non-formal education centres across four districts

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Saeed Ghani says new vehicle number plates aim to curb crimes, vehicle theft

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Most opposition MPAs averse to accepting condition to avoid references

As the government shuts down night shelters, people sleeping on footpaths and sidewalks are left exposed to harsh weat

Residents say WASA failed to address waterlogging in over 100 localities

Four suspects arrested, police launch investigation

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Astronomers said on Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system. The new planetary system is forming around the baby star HOPS-315 — which resembles our own Sun in its youth — 1,300 light years from Earth in the Orion Nebula. Young stars are surrounded by massive rings of gas and dust called protoplanetary discs, which is where planets form. Inside these swirling discs, crystalline minerals that contain the chemical silicon monoxide can clump together. This process can snowball into kilometre-sized “planetesimals”, which one day grow into full planets. In our home Solar System, the crystalline minerals that were the starter dough for Earth and Jupiter’s core are believed to have been trapped in ancient meteorites. Now astronomers have spotted signs that suggest these hot minerals are starting to solidify in the disc surrounding HOPS-315, according to a new study in the jour...

Surgeon removes 95% of brain tumour using advanced equipment

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PTI founder Imran Khan has prohibited his party members from publicly discussing the party’s internal matters, according to his conversation with his family and lawyers at Adiala Jail shared on his official X account on Wednesday. On Sunday, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur seemed to throw a wrench in the works of a nationwide protest, annou­nced by Imran, which is expected to climax on August 5, marking two years of the former prime minister’s imprisonment. At a press conference on Sunday, where party leaders were expected to announce the plan for this protest, CM Gandapur caused confusion when he came up with a new 90-day timeline for what he called ‘a final push’, with PTI Punjab chief organiser Aliya Hamza Malik later expressing her reservations over this announcement. “Publicly airing internal matters or individual concerns before the media is entirely unacceptable,” Imran’s post read. “My instruction is firm: whether a senior officeholder or a junior member, no one is to express inter...

At least three people were killed and six others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in Balochistan’s Kalat district early Wednesday morning.