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Shaukat Tarin, the former Finance Minister and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, resigned from the upper house of parliament on Sunday, according to Dawn News, which was accepted by the chairman of the Pakistan Senate.Citing financial and health reasons, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf declared his permanent resignation from the party and politics. He claimed that his financial situation and his “deteriorating health” following “double Covid episodes” had made the past 2.5 years “very challenging” for him. “Therefore, at the insistence of my family and friends, I have decided to resign from active politics for good and move on,” Mr. Tarin...

As the conflict in the Gaza Strip raged more than two months after it started, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Hamas operatives to lay down their arms and declared that the Palestinian organization’s demise was imminent.“The war is still going on, but Hamas’s demise is just getting started. It’s over, I tell the terrorists from Hamas. For (Yahya) Sinwar, do not die. Give up now, “stated Netanyahu in a statement, addressing the head of Hamas in the Gaza region. “In the past few days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our forces,” Netanyahu stated.

while hosting his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had a moment of awkwardness. For a short while, the two leaders were locked out of his London home at 10 Downing Street.Online, there are numerous images and videos of Rishi Sunak pushing the famous black door while Mark Rutte is at his side. The British Prime Minister and Mark Rutte are seen standing on the steps of his home in the video, which was posted on X (formerly Twitter). The two watch for the door to be opened by a custodian. Rishi Sunak can be seen attempting...

In a video from a recent event, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wipes tears and appears emotional as he calls for efforts to address the country’s declining birth rates and encourages women to have more children.He is seen in the video, which is circulating on social media, looking down and wiping away tears. Numerous spectators can also be seen wiping away their tears.At the mothers’ event in Pyongyang on Sunday, Kim was cited by the news agency Reuters as saying, “Our housekeeping duties while working with mothers are preventing a decline in birth rates and providing good childcare.” In...

Anand Mahindra, an industrialist, is a social media enthusiast who shares interesting stories and popular subjects with his 10.8 million followers. Mr. Mahindra recently shared a video of a five-year-old girl being saved from a borewell in the Rajgarh village of Pipliya Rasoda, Madhya Pradesh, on X, the former Twitter platform. Both NDRF and SDRF were able to save the child. Concurring, the industrialist wrote that, in contrast to the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue operation, not much attention was paid to the incident. The girl’s parents, however, felt as though “their whole world was about to disappear.”

The country’s youths are in for a golden future, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who stated on Friday that in the past ten years, growth and development have supplanted casteism, nepotism, and corruption.Speaking at the national conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) opening in Burari, he stated that education is important not only for forming careers but also for building the nation. The youth of this nation are in for a golden future. According to Shah, the nation has seen significant transformation over the past ten years, with growth and development replacing nepotism, corruption, and casteism.

The trash produced by lithium-ion batteries, which have revolutionised renewable energy and storage technologies, is just as harmful.Since lithium-ion batteries are used in the majority of plug-in hybrids and electric cars (EVs), electric vehicles are currently playing a significant role in India’s efforts to reach a net zero carbon objective. However, the disposal of these batteries has alarmed environmental specialists.According to him, the current cost of electric automobiles is more than that of petrol or diesel vehicles. “Electric cars are incredibly common. The sole issue is that e-automobiles are more expensive than petrol or diesel vehicles, and this cost difference...

The Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday sacked several officials charged with misuse of power, negligence in work, and corruption, sources informed. Consolidation officer Anuj Saxena of Muzaffarnagar was among those dismissed from service for not discharging his duties, sources informed. The government has also withheld the annual salary increment of Consolidation Officer Shiv Shankar Prasad Singh, who was posted at Ballia and terminated the service of Assistant Consolidation Officer Manoj Kumar Neeraj, who was posted in Meerut.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has ranked 32nd in the Forbes’ list of world’s most powerful women that also featured US Vice President Kamala Harris and musician Taylor Swift. Three other Indian women named in the list are HCL Corporation CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra (rank 60), Steel Authority of India chairperson Soma Mondal (rank 70), and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (rank 76). European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen topped the list, followed by European Central Bank boss Christine Lagarde at the second position and US Vice President Kamal Harris at number three.

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has urged the international community to declare “gender apartheid” a crime against humanity, drawing a comparison between the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women in Afghanistan and the persecution of Black people under apartheid in South Africa.The speaker at the 21st annual Nelson Mandela Lecture here on Tuesday was Malala Yousafzai, who was recognised for her advocacy for girls’ education in Pakistan and who was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17. Every year on the anniversary of the global icon’s death, who went on to become South Africa’s first...