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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior will take up today (Tuesday) the Control of Narcotic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2025, a key legislation aimed at tackling drug use in educational institutions by further amending the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Introduced by PPP MNA Sahar Kamran, the proposed legislation aims to prevent drug use in educational institutions, promote student rehabilitation, protect mental health and introduce a treatment-based approach instead of a punitive system. Under the bill, new sections 53A, 53B and 53C are proposed to be added to the act. According to proposed Section 53A, candidates seeking admission…
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a space computing satellite constellation blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)GUANGZHOU, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — A Chinese commercial aerospace firm has successfully deployed a general-purpose AI model aboard its orbiting satellites, marking a major milestone for space-based computing.The GuoXing Aerospace Technology announced at a seminar on Monday that it has uplinked the Alibaba’s Qwen3 large language model to its inaugural space-based computing center, enabling end-to-end reasoning tasks entirely in orbit.”This marks the world’s first deployment of a general-purpose large-scale AI model…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday called for fast-tracking the development of Pakistan’s gemstone sector to boost exports and foreign exchange earnings, directing authorities to fully tap the country’s reserves and complete the Islamabad Gemstone Center by August 2027. Chairing a high-level meeting at the Prime Minister House to review the promotion of the gemstone and minerals sector, the premier ordered the engagement of internationally renowned experts. The experts will be hired for the construction of proposed Gemstone Centers in Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), a Prime Minister’s Office statement said. The premier emphasized that…
A general view of Micron Technology’s building in Singapore, June 23, 2020. Micron Gcm Studio | ReutersMicron Technology on Tuesday committed approximately $24 billion to expand its wafer manufacturing operations in Singapore, as the American memory chipmaker moves to expand production amid global shortages. In a press release, Micron said the investment would add 700,000 square feet of cleanroom space —highly-controlled manufacturing areas designed to prevent contamination — at an existing NAND manufacturing complex.Production of NAND, a type of memory chip widely used in personal computers, servers and smartphones, is expected to start in the second half of 2028.Demand for NAND technology…
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – OCTOBER 30: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk to a room for a bilateral meeting at Gimhae Air Base on October 30, 2025 in Busan, South Korea. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump has widened his tariff playbook, unleashing a string of warnings and policy moves that affect Beijing’s interests without directly escalating tariffs on Chinese goods. But analysts are hopeful that the recent geopolitical turmoil is unlikely to unravel the delicate U.S.-China trade truce, as Beijing appears to be betting that Trump’s threats will not…
ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary panel has proposed that each MNA be allowed to nominate ten people for Hajj every year. It has also suggested sending a ten-member delegation to Madinah on an official visit every year to offer salutations at the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) mosque. A meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs was held on Monday under the chairpersonship of MNA Shagufta Jamani. During the meeting, the committee recommended that a 10-member parliamentary delegation be sent at government expense to present salutations at Roza-e-Rasool (PBUH). The official delegation will also offer nawafil at Masjid-e-Nabvi and will offer…
The Tencent logo is displayed on the exterior of a building at the company’s headquarters, with a surveillance camera visible in the foreground, on November 30, 2024, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTencent plans to expand its data center footprint in the Middle East, a top executive at the Chinese tech giant told CNBC, as the company looks to boost its cloud computing business outside China. Dowson Tong, CEO of Tencent’s cloud group, told CNBC that the company plans to expand the number of “availability zones,” locations designated as sites for potential clusters…
Students at a tech university in Dublin are enjoying an unexpected perk of artificial intelligence — it’s helping heat their campus.Since 2023, the Technical University of Dublin’s Tallaght campus has been one of a growing number of buildings in the southwest suburban area of the city to be heated by waste heat from a nearby Amazon Web Services data center. Data centers have always generated excess heat, but integration with district heating networks has been slow, as the waste heat produced by these power-hungry facilities is typically too low-temperature to directly warm other buildings. That’s now changing. As the AI…
The twin pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei depart the Ueno Zoological Gardens by truck in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — The last remaining two giant pandas in Japan on Tuesday left Tokyo’s Ueno zoo for their return to China, marking the first time that there will be no pandas in Japan in around half a century.The twin pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, were transported by truck from the Ueno Zoological Gardens to Narita Airport, where they were scheduled to board a flight back to China.Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were born…
Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has laid down a definitive legal principle on tenancy, ruling that after the death of a property owner, legal heirs automatically become the rightful owners and no new rent agreement is required. The court further held that depositing rent in the name of a deceased landlord does not constitute a valid legal payment. Upholding the Sindh High Court’s decision, the ape court maintained the eviction order against tenants, directing them to vacate the shops and hand over possession to…