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Listen to article The Tezgam Express, travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi, derailed at Rohri station, with one of its bogies leaving the track. Upon receiving the report of the incident, a crane was dispatched from the loco shed to promptly restore the derailed bogie onto the track, Express News reported. Railway sources have confirmed that the accident has blocked the up-track, causing damage to the rails. As a result, several trains have been delayed, unable to proceed to their destinations. The Bahauddin Zakariya Express has been halted at Begamaji station, while the Shah Hussain Express, Green Line Express, and Fareed Express have…
The first major set of economic reports last week reflect the state of the United States economy during President Donald Trump’s first full month in office. The data reveal a spike in layoffs and slower hiring growth across both the public and private sectors, with looming cuts suggesting larger economic woes in the months ahead. The US economy added 151,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department report, which came out on Friday – well short of economist expectations showing a stall in economic growth. Approximately 7.1 million Americans are currently receiving unemployment benefits compared with 6.5 million this time last…
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes since Israel’s West Bank operation began.Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA) says. Police special forces fought a gun battle on Tuesday with armed Palestinians barricaded in a house in Jenin, killing two and wounding another man, the Israeli military said in a statement. In another incident on Tuesday, a man who opened fire on Israeli soldiers was killed, it said. The PA said soldiers firing from a checkpoint also killed a 60-year-old woman. There was no…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that if there is a recession “there’s one person to be blamed, and that’s President [Donald] Trump.””If we go into a recession, it will be called the Trump recession,” Ford warned in an interview with CNBC’s “Money Movers” after the U.S. president said that he would raise tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum to 50%.Trump said he was hiking those tariffs in retaliation for Ford’s Ontario province imposing a 25% surcharge on electricity exported to the United States, which will affect about 1.5 million customers.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders including Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng attend the closing meeting of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) — The 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, concluded its third session Tuesday.Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders including Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng attended the closing meeting of the session at the…
Listen to article LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan has said that the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are on the same page and aligned in their commitment to the country’s development. During a meeting with Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, he attributed Pakistan’s economic struggles to the policies of the previous government and reaffirmed that the PPP would support the coalition government’s positive initiatives. Governor Saleem Haider praised the role of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in economic recovery. The discussion focused on Pakistan’s economic development, key challenges and potential opportunities for…
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesWaymo on Tuesday announced it is expanding its service to include another 27 square miles of coverage around the San Francisco Bay Area.With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California. The Alphabet-owned company opened its robotaxi service to the general public in San Francisco in June.Waymo will initially limit the availability of its Silicon Valley service to users of…
Dick’s Sporting Goods on Tuesday said it’s expecting 2025 profits to be far lower than Wall Street anticipated, making it the latest retailer to forecast a rocky year ahead as consumers contend with tariffs, inflation and fears around a potential recession. In an interview with CNBC, Executive Chairman Ed Stack said the company’s exposure to China, Mexico and Canada for sourcing is very small, but it recognizes that falling consumer confidence could impact spending.”I do think it’s just a bit of an uncertain world out there right now,” said Stack. “What’s going to happen from a tariff standpoint? You know, if…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged a noisy protest, raising slogans and waving placards to disrupt the joint session on Monday, as President Asif Ali Zardari delivered his eighth address to parliament. The PTI protest started as soon as the president began his speech. Thumping desks in defiance, the opposition members kept raised slogans in favour of party founder Imran Khan. National Assembly Opposition Leader Omar Ayub repeatedly slammed a book on his desk. However, despite the protest, Zardari remained composed and continued his speech, occasionally, smiling towards the opposition benches. To counter the noise, both Zardari and…
Kyiv, Ukraine – On Sunday, a top Russian security official in Moscow lauded dozens of servicemen who used an abandoned natural gas pipeline as a tunnel to infiltrate a Ukraine-occupied area in the western Russian region of Kursk. “The lid of a boiling cauldron is almost closed! Good job!” Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president and prime minister before becoming deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram. But a Ukrainian serviceman deployed in Kursk offered a starkly different version of how the Russians barely got out of the pipeline on Saturday – only to be reportedly killed en…