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Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab has announced that all cemeteries across the city will be registered. Currently, 38 graveyards are managed by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), but the city has over 200 burial grounds. He announced that the official rate for a grave within KMC-administered cemeteries is set at Rs14,300. The mayor also issued a warning to gravediggers and caretakers charging unauthorised fees, calling for strict action against violators. Read: KMC ends charged parking at 32 roads In January, the KMC began displaying banners at registered cemeteries to show the fixed burial rate of Rs14,300, following directives by Mayor Murtaza. Cemeteries…

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle sits parked at an EVgo charging station in Los Angeles, California, on May 15, 2024.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesWaymo said it will begin testing in Philadelphia, with a limited fleet of vehicles and human safety drivers behind the wheel. “This city is a National Treasure,” Waymo wrote in a post on X on Monday. “It’s a city of love, where eagles fly with a gritty spirit and cheese that spreads and cheese that steaks. Our road trip continues to Philly next.”The Alphabet-owned company confirmed to CNBC that it will be…

Listen to article Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has launched Pakistan’s first-ever artificial intelligence-based Customs Clearance and Risk Management System (RMS), Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif announced during a meeting to review ongoing FBR reforms. Under the new system, AI and BOTs will assess the nature and cost of imported and exported goods. Officials said the system will use machine learning to automate and refine customs operations over time, reducing delays and human intervention. Initial testing showed a 92% improvement in system performance. Tax determination through Goods Declarations (GD) rose by 83%, while green channel clearances more than doubled. The government expects…

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan emphasised on Monday that the legislature’s primary function is to legislate, not protest, defending his move to file disqualification references against 26 opposition lawmakers. Addressing a press conference on Monday, he referred to recent disruptions in Assembly, stating that the opposition had turned the house into a platform for protests rather than constructive debate. He said that while he is not in favour of expelling any member, it is within the constitutional right of petitioners to have their applications decided within 30 days, as per Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution…

Avishek Das | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLithuania’s central bank on Monday said it has contacted Robinhood seeking clarifications over its tokenized equities after OpenAI raised concerns over the product last week.”We have contacted Robinhood and are awaiting clarifications regarding the structure of OpenAI and SpaceX stock tokens as well as the related consumer communication,” Bank of Lithuania spokesman Giedrius Šniukas told CNBC via email.”Only after receiving and evaluating this information will we be able to assess the legality and compliance of these specific instruments. The information for investors must be provided in clear, fair, and non-misleading language.”The Bank…

What was once a life filled with love and laughter for middle-aged Jumma Deo Ji Hanjoora has now become a heartbreaking tale of loss and devastation. His life turned upside down when a five-storey residential building in the Baghdadi area of Lyari collapsed, taking six members of his family with it. Among the victims were his wife, two sons, their wives, and his young granddaughter. Jumma Deo, a professional plumber, narrowly escaped the tragedy, as he had left for work that fateful morning, unaware of the unimaginable pain that awaited him. The haunting memory of his granddaughter’s voice still rings…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a remote video hearing held by subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on “Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation” in Washington, March 25, 2021.CNBCBlock CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks, with no internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails required.The Twitter co-founder announced Sunday that the beta version is live on TestFlight, with a full white paper available on GitHub.In a post on X Sunday, Dorsey called it a personal experiment in…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the memorial hall commemorating the Hundred-Regiment Campaign during the war of resistance against Japanese aggression, when inspecting Yangquan City, north China’s Shanxi Province, July 7, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)YANGQUAN, Shanxi, July 7 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, paid tribute to martyrs who died in a major campaign in the war of resistance against Japanese aggression, when inspecting Yangquan of north China’s Shanxi Province on Monday.At the monument square…

Listen to article Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir has categorically rejected claims of foreign support in Operation Bunyanum Marsoos against India, terming them ‘irresponsible and factually incorrect’. “Insinuations regarding external support in Operation Bunyanum Marsoos are irresponsible and factually incorrect. They reflect a chronic reluctance to acknowledge indigenous capability and institutional resilience developed over decades of strategic prudence,” he said. Last week, Indian Deputy Army Chief Lt General Rahul Singh admitted India’s military defeat in the operation, further complicating India’s already failed attempt to cover up its humiliation. Lt Gen Singh’s statement, made two months after the operation’s…

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator, left, testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in Washington on May 8, 2025.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence-oriented cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave said Monday it will acquire Core Scientific, a data center infrastructure provider, in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $9 billion.CoreWeave stock was down about 2% in trading on Monday afternoon, while Core Scientific stock was about 16% lower. Shares of both companies rallied at the end of June after the Wall Street Journal reported that talks were underway for an acquisition.”I think that, like many things that we do,…