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RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed three terrorists and arrested four others, during two intelligence-based operations in Balochistan. The killed and arrested terrorists belong to Fitna al Hindustan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported. According to ISPR, an IBO was carried out in Kech District, where security forces raided a hideout and gunned down three India-sponsored terrorists. A large quantity of weapons, ammunition, and explosives was recovered. The slain militants were actively involved in a number of terrorist activities, the ISPR added. “Security forces of Pakistan remain determined to eliminate India-sponsored terrorism from our soil and are committed to bringing all perpetrators…
President of Microsoft North America Judson Althoff speaks on stage during We Day at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, on April 23, 2015.Mat Hayward | Getty ImagesMicrosoft’s top-ranking sales leader, Judson Althoff, has been promoted to a bigger role as CEO of the company’s commercial business.Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, wrote in a memo on Wednesday that marketing and operations will move under Althoff’s organization. Most of Microsoft’s revenue comes from commercial offerings such as productivity software subscriptions and cloud-based Nvidia chips for running artificial intelligence models.”Our success depends on enabling commercial and public sector customers and partners to combine their human…
Migrants walk in a caravan during U.S. Presidential election day, in an attempt to reach Mexico’s northern border, in Tapachula, Mexico November 5, 2024. Daniel Becerril | ReutersA group of about 1,200 migrants set out walking before dawn in southern Mexico on Wednesday aiming for the capital where they hoped to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border.Cubans made up the majority of the migrants, but there were also people from Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil and Haiti.Unlike earlier migrant “caravans” with a goal to reach the United States, Wednesday’s group and others over the past year are…
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday kept Pakistan’s economic growth forecast unchanged at 3% and cautioned that failure to meet revenue targets and delays in executing critical reforms remain “top concerns.” In its biannual flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook, the Manila-based lender said it did not expect any major adverse impact of the floods on inflation and economic growth, though it stressed the urgent need for reforms. “Pakistan’s economic outlook faces several downside risks that could adversely affect growth and macroeconomic stability,” warned the lender. It said missing revenue and fiscal consolidation targets or delaying critical reforms…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNASA is requiring employees involved in Artemis missions with contractors SpaceX and Blue Origin to stay on the job during the government shutdown, CNBC has learned.Their work will be unpaid during the shutdown furlough, but employees should record their time, NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Kelly Elliott wrote in an email to staffers on Wednesday. NASA employees are expected…
Saving your gums, a plant at a time Source: REUTERS Great news for parents, you can now scare your children into eating apples and figs (specifically their peels), with something new: gum disease. That’s right. A team of researchers based at São Paulo State University tested morin, a naturally occurring compound in plants like the above, against multiple bacteria. It has shown anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antimicrobial effects against bacteria which cause gum disease. But you can’t just get access to morin’s benefits by simply consuming something with it; it has to be processed first. The researchers are trying to find a…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carry out a raid as part of Operation Cross Check in Sherman, Texas, on June 20, 2019.Charles Reed | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | ReutersAn Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces.The class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday by concrete worker Leo Garcia Venegas with the public interest law firm Institute for Justice, demands an end to what the firm calls…
ISLAMBAD: The Islamabad High Court rejected on Tuesday the post-arrest bail plea filed by Adil Mehmood, who is accused of burning his wife alive in the Kirpa area of the federal capital. A single-member bench, headed by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, heard Mehmood’s plea during which the court was presented with the victim, Sania Bibi’s dying declation. Sania, a mother of three, accused her husband Mehmood and his father Mustab Hussain of setting her on fire after a heated argument. Sania’s testimony was recorded while she was under treatment at PIMS Hospital Islamabad. Based on the dying declaration, Sania and…
Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks at the company’s Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. April 29, 2025.Laure Andrillon | ReutersIntel is in early talks with AMD to manufacture chips for it in its foundry business, according to a report from Semafor.Intel shares rose 7% on Wednesday. AMD shares were up over 1%.If AMD were to start manufacturing chips with Intel, it would be a significant win for the company’s foundry business, which is currently seeking big customers. Analysts say that a big customer would allow Intel Foundry to confidently invest in developing its manufacturing technology and would…
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, from left, Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, and US Vice President JD Vance speak to members of the media following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has canceled nearly $8 billion in funding for climate-related projects in primarily Democratic-controlled states, a top administration official said on Wednesday.The move came hours after the same official, Office of Management…