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A SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chip displayed at the Semiconductor Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChipmakers and analysts are warning of a memory chip shortage that could hit the consumer electronics and automotive industries next year, as companies prioritize massive demand from the artificial intelligence boom. In an earnings call on Friday, the CEO of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China’s largest contract chipmaker, reportedly said that fears of a memory chip shortage were prompting its customers to hold back orders for other types of chips used in their products.”People don’t dare place too many…
At COP30, Dr Musadik Malik calls upon developed world to support preservation effortsFederal Minister of Petroleum Musadik Masood Malik, speaks with Reuters during an interview in Islamabad, June 11, 2024. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has urged the international community to act swiftly to protect the rapidly deteriorating cryosphere, warning that accelerated glacier melt in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya (HKH) region is placing millions at increasing risk. In a virtual address to a high-level dialogue at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, Pakistan’s climate minister, Senator Dr Musadik Malik, said the world is witnessing “unprecedented” changes across glacier systems, permafrost zones and snow-covered regions.…
She added that Pakistan’s economic relationship with US “has always been strong, continues to progress”US Acting Ambassador to Pakistan, Natalie Baker. Photo: (file) ISLAMABAD: US Chargé d’Affaires Natalie Baker has said Pakistan is a sovereign nation and must safeguard itself from falling into any country’s “debt trap”, stressing that the country should fully implement its privatisation programme and complete the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) reform agenda to ensure long-term economic stability. She was speaking informally to journalists at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Sunday, where she had arrived to attend the ceremony in which President Asif Ali Zardari conferred the country’s highest civilian…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif awards a laptop to a student in Islamabad. Photo: Online There are moments in life when a dream feels too distant to touch — until one day, faith turns it into purpose. In 2011, I was a young student during college, balancing books and ambition, holding onto a quiet belief that one day I could serve my country beyond the four walls of a classroom. The world outside felt vast, and my aspirations, perhaps too grand for a girl from an ordinary background, sometimes felt impossible. Yet, one name kept me inspired: Shehbaz Sharif. His tireless…
With climate policy focused largely on agriculture, infrastructure, children suffering remain sidelined LAHORE: The phrase “climate change” usually brings to mind flooded plains, destroyed crops and lost livelihoods. Yet the true victims of natural calamities are the children whose hopes for the future are washed away by melting glaciers. Fourteen-year-old Ayesha has witnessed climate disasters terrible enough to drain the colours of life from her eyes. Standing on the rooftop of her home in Lahore’s Theme Park area, she looks toward the sky, not to find the sun, but to see nothing except a yellow haze. As Lahore’s smog season…
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks on stage during the Labour Party conference on Sept. 29, 2025, in Liverpool, England. Ian Forsyth | Getty ImagesU.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves is walking a tightrope as her critical Autumn Budget looms, as pressure mounts to appease voters, shore up public finances and convince money markets her policies are sound.Thanks to her self-imposed fiscal rules, which she has doubled down on in recent weeks, Reeves has been left scrambling to find strategies that can plug a multi-billion-pound hole in public finances by the time she delivers the budget on Nov. 26.That means…
This collage shows PPP’s Faisal Rathore and AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly will vote today (Monday) on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul-Haq. The special session, scheduled for 3pm, will be chaired by Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar. The resolution seeking Haq’s removal was submitted to the assembly secretariat on Friday. The PPP has nominated Faisal Rathore for the top slot. Rathore also enjoys the support of the PML-N, which has backed the motion but chosen not to join the government. اسلام آباد: پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری…
A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Republicans in Congress to vote to release files related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a sharp reversal from previous resistance within his inner circle.”House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump said in a lengthy post on his Truth Social account. “And it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated…
.A file photo of Pakistan’s security forces. PHOTO: AFP DI KHAN: An important commander of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed, along with a number of other terrorists, in a drone strike on the outskirts of restive DI Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) provinces, security sources revealed on Sunday. The attack was carried out on a TTP hideout located in the mountainous Kot Zafar Bala Dasti area of the troubled Tehsil Kulachi in DI Khan. Sources claimed that the strike killed TTP’s senior commander Alam Mehsud along with several of his associates. After Abu Zakwan, Alam Mehsud was the second…
Humanoid robots hold medals during the award ceremony for the men’s 92kg of boxing at China’s 15th National Games in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, on Nov. 14, 2025. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)From humanoid robots to robotic dogs, technology is integrated with China’s 15th National Games, easing manual work and showing what the future holds.GUANGZHOU, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — Boxers on the podium at China’s 15th National Games were greeted by an unusual sight as humanoid robots helped present their awards.In Shenzhen, a city long known for its cutting-edge technology, robots carried medals and sashes to the podium, electrifying the audience as…