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A staff member wearing a flowery headwear introduces local travel photography products via live-streaming at Xunpu Village of Quanzhou City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Aug. 18, 2025. Xunpu flowery headwear has been a signature of Xunpu Village and was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.The beautiful flowery headwears attracted millions of eyes in the cyber world in early 2023, followed by a sustainable tourist boom in the village. Photo-shooting, dining and other hospitality services have diversified the source of income for residents of this small coastal village that used to rely on fishing and mudflat aquaculture.Since 2025,…
ISLAMABAD: A Chinese-led consortium has said that any delay could pose a risk to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) concessionary financing for the Rs146 billion N-55 expansion project as it may potentially make the project financially unviable in the future due to rising costs. The consortium is all set to build the much-anticipated additional carriageway on the Indus Highway (N-55) between Rajanpur and Dera Ismail Khan. The Rs146 billion project, funded under the ADB’s Central Asia Regional Economic Corridor programme, will help ease congestion, enhance safety and strengthen regional trade linkages. Speaking to The Express Tribune, Imdadullah Khan, the spokesperson…
India’s National Sports Governance Bill has become an Act after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the legislation, which promises to overhaul India’s sports administration, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Tuesday. The development comes days after India said it will bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, seen as part of a wider push by the cricket-mad nation to host the 2036 Olympics. The presidential assent came on Monday, stated a gazette notification by the central government. The legislation has been described as a path-breaking reform by Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, PTI reports. “The following Act of…
A Lijian-1 Y10 carrier rocket with seven satellites onboard blasts off from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone in northwest China, Aug. 19, 2025. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)JIUQUAN, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday launched the Lijian-1 Y10 carrier rocket with seven satellites onboard.The rocket blasted off at 3:33 p.m. (Beijing Time) from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone in northwest China and successfully sent the satellites into planned orbit. ■A Lijian-1 Y10 carrier rocket with seven satellites onboard blasts off from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone in northwest China, Aug. 19, 2025. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)A Lijian-1…
LONDON/ISLAMABAD: With speculation rife over a possible 27th Amendment, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday said there was “no need” for any such constitutional tweak as the country was finally finding its political footing and turning the economic corner. “We are still digesting the 26th Constitutional Amendment, so there is no need for a 27th right now. The country is running well. There is stability and economic improvement,” the foreign minister said while speaking to reporters in London during his official visit to the United Kingdom. “We are putting our full attention towards GDP growth and…
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersOn the face of it, talks on Monday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders went well.The U.S. and Ukrainian leaders were pictured looking jovial and smiling together — a far cry from the extraordinary shouting match and public humiliation inflicted on Zelenskyy during his last trip to the White House in February.Monday’s talks, which involved a raft of European leaders, appeared…
General view of a Home Depot store in Midtown Manhattan on February 26, 2025 in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | Corbis News | Getty ImagesHome Depot will report quarterly earnings before the bell on Tuesday, as the retailer leans on roofers, landscapers and other home professionals to help drive sales growth and weather tariff-related uncertainty.Here’s what Wall Street expects for Home Depot’s fiscal second quarter, according to a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $4.71 expected Revenue: $45.36 billion expectedFor about two years, Home Depot leaders have pointed to challenging dynamics that have slowed homeowners’ appetites for big projects. Higher interest…
QUETTA: Security forces have foiled a major terrorist attack that was planned for August 14 by the proscribed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), implicating a university professor as facilitator. “This was not just an attackit was part of a larger plan to break Pakistan and destabilise Balochistan. Our agencies acted swiftly and crushed their conspiracy,” said Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, addressing a press conference in Quetta on Monday. He said that BLA’s Majeed Brigade employs multiple tactics, adding that the group has claimed responsibility for previous terrorist attacks as well. The accused, identified as Professor Usman Qazi, holds a PhD…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday launched a subscription plan in India priced at 399 rupees ($4.57) a month, the ChatGPT maker’s most affordable offering yet, as it looks to grow in its second-largest market by user base. The new plan, called ChatGPT Go, provides expanded access to the latest model GPT‑5, and other features at a lower cost, the Microsoft-backed firm said in a statement on its website. Nick Turley, who leads ChatGPT, said in a social media post that the plan provides 10 times more message limits, image generations and file uploads, plus double the memory compared to the…
LAHORE: Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Manzer Ali Gill has observed that the May 9 violence did not qualify as a peaceful protest by any global standard, noting that coordinated attacks were simultaneously carried out across different cities, specifically targeting state buildings, military installations and monuments associated with the armed forces. Issuing the detailed judgment in the Rahat Bakery case, Judge Gill said evidence showed that party leaders had been involved in hatching a conspiracy in connection with the attacks that followed the arrest of PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan. It is pertinent to note that PTI leaders Omer Sarfraz Cheema, Ijaz…