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Sermitsiaq Mountain looms behind a row of houses in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 4, 2025. Odd Andersen | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump is fixated on taking control of Greenland, a vast, sparsely populated and mineral-rich island situated between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean. “It’s so strategic,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday. “Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.” His comments, which came hot on the heels of an audacious military operation in Venezuela,…

RAWALPINDI: Significant progress has been made on the Chirah Dam Water Supply project in the Chirah area of the federal capital, Islamabad. Under the Punjab Irrigation Department, construction of the dam will cost Rs43 billion. Meanwhile, under the Rawalpindi Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA), a feasibility study costing Rs80 million has been approved for a water treatment plant and a main supply line. The installation of the treatment plant and laying of a 20-kilometre-long main water supply line will require an estimated Rs55b. The total project cost will be jointly funded by the federal and Punjab governments on an equal…

ISLAMABAD: What could be discouraging for any profession, over 70% of officers of Pakistan’s Information Service Group are expected to retire at the mid pay grade of 19 despite spending over three decades in service, underscoring the urgent need to review the service structure, reveals an internal official analysis. Due to the narrow pyramid at the top, all current grade-17 and grade-18 officers of the Information Service Group will never reach grade 20 unless the civil service structure is reviewed, according to an assessment prepared by the Ministry of Information for the purpose of career progression of its backbone -…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan shake hands during a National Assembly session on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Photo: X/Government of Pakistan ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) stepping up preparations for a street movement and the establishment maintaining a firm stance against the opposition party, Pakistan’s political landscape remains fraught with uncertainty and deepening mistrust. Against this backdrop, a senior minister in the PML-N government has once again floated the idea of a high-level dialogue involving the country’s principal power centres, an idea that has surfaced before but never progressed beyond rhetoric. Prime Minister’s Adviser…

This undated file photo shows a porcelain jar unearthed from the tomb of Ma Sanniang, wife of Dong Shunxian, a military officer in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.(Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology/Handout via Xinhua)XI’AN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Archaeologists in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province have discovered a tomb dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), unearthing a collection of ceramics, bronze ware, and gold and silver artifacts, according to the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology on Tuesday.The excavation took place between January 2022 and April 2024 in the Jiali village of Chang’an District in Xi’an, capital of…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attend a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission event, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersThe Trump administration on Tuesday night said it was freezing $10 billion in federal grant funds for certain child care and family assistance programs in five states because of “serious concerns about widespread fraud” in state-administered programs.All five states targeted by the freeze — California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York — are led by Democrats.The action applies…

An oil tanker is docked at a pier at the El Palito refinery of the state oil company PDVSA.Jesus Vargas | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States.Trump, in a social media post, said the oil will be sold at its market price, “and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!””I have…

A startup in the clean-water space is making a curious bet on beer. Curious, because the beer is made from recycled shower and laundry water. San Francisco-based Epic Cleantec launched in 2015 as a wastewater recycling company using its proprietary technology to clean and reuse water in office and apartment buildings. At the time, CEO Aaron Tartakovsky said, “We need to overhaul our flush and forget society.” Now, he’s taking it to the next level. “A lot of it was psychology,” he said. “It is getting people comfortable with the concept of recycled water. And we found that if you…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2026.Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday said that the company is seeing “very high” customer demand in China for its H200 AI chips, which the U.S. government recently signaled that it would approve for export. Huang added that Nvidia has started producing the chips again and is working out the final details about export licenses with the U.S. government. Nvidia’s chips are critical for companies developing artificial intelligence models. “We’ve fired up our supply chain, and H200s are flowing…

KSE-100 gains 2,653 points as banks, cement, oil & gas, and automobile stocks lead rally The bullish momentum at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained firmly intact on Tuesday, as aggressive buying drove the benchmark KSE-100 index past the 185,000 mark, setting yet another historic high. The market posted fresh intra-day highs and a record close, reflecting strong investor confidence at the advent of CY26. The index recorded an intra-day high of 185,481.45 and a low of 181,182.07, before adding 2,653.87 points, or 1.45%, to close at 185,062.11. Buying interest was broad-based, with strong participation seen across key sectors including…