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Indian, UAE groups ink pact for $11.5bn aluminium project in Odisha

India’s Adani Group and Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC) are looking to invest $11.5 billion in a massive aluminum project in the eastern state of Odisha, the Indian conglomerate said on Thursday.

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Rankings show priorities

THE recently revealed QS World Universities Rankings 2027 have become a topic of considerable conversation for Pakistani social and print media. Reports and posts on the subject have mainly pointed out that no Pakistani university has been ranked among the world’s top 350 universities. The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), at 381, is our top entry...

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Economic reform: German workers will no longer be able to call in sick

Germany’s ruling coalition has agreed on sweeping tax, labour and pension reforms, including scrapping the right to obtain sick notes by telephone to reduce worker absenteeism in the country.

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Unfinished business

THE landmark 18th Amendment and seventh NFC Award radically reshaped Pakistan’s fiscal federalism by transferring greater powers and financial resources to the provinces so that authority would eventually flow closer to citizens through local governments.

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Govt decides to extend Murree Expressway by 70km to Muzaffarabad

ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday decided to extend the Murree Expressway by 70 kilometres to Muzaffarabad during a National Highway Authority (NHA) meeting chaired by Communications Minister Abdul Aleem Khan.

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At least 40 killed, 8 injured as passenger bus falls into ravine near Balochistan-KP border

QUETTA: At least 40 people were killed and eight others injured when a Peshawar-bound passenger bus fell into a ravine just as it left the Dana Sar area of Balochistan’s Sherani district and crossed the provincial border into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, officials said.

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2 cops martyred as police patrol comes under attack in KP's Mohmand

MOHMAND: Two cops, including an additional station house officer (SHO), were martyred when Fitna al Khawarij terrorists attacked a police patrol in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand district on Thursday night, according to police.

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PTA says submarine cable fault resolved, internet services back to normal

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday that internet services in the country were back to normal after issues with the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) international submarine cable system were resolved.

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Army to get local wheat

ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday decided to supply 175,000 tonnes of 100 per cent fresh indigenous wheat to Pakistan Army and approved defining ‘forced labour’ in compliance with requirements of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Friday briefing: The US at 250: who gets to tell the story?

In today’s newsletter: As official celebrations spotlight a narrow cast of ​white heroes, communities across the US are reclaiming the histories that Freedom 250 leaves out

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Jacinta Allan admits criminals infiltrated Big Build but rejects calls for royal commission

Premier apologised over organised crime in some of Victoria’s largest construction projects, in op-ed that claimed a royal commission would not solve the issue

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Christian Brothers kept nine child abusers as members due to Gospel imperative to help ‘the needy’, court documents reveal

Exclusive: Documents also show the Catholic order sought financial support from the Holy See months before it declared it lacked money to pay survivors

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Ex-HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee, detained by China in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70
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Ex-HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee, detained by China in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Lam Wing-kee, a former Hong Kong bookseller who became a symbol of resistance to Beijing's crackdown on speech freedom after he was seized by Chinese authorities in late 2015, has died in Taiwan, the island's official Central News Agency reported, citing an unnamed sourc

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Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents
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Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents

Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and billionaire mogul who died in 2023, is often considered to have set the mold for President Trump with his mastery of the news media, gilded taste and, above all, legislative maneuvers that drew accusations of conflicts of interest. Mr. Berlusconi

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‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips
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‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips

As Narendra Modi touched down in Seychelles over the weekend, the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean swiftly bestowed one of its “highest” honours upon the Indian prime minister. Modi beamed as he accepted the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award from Patrick Herminie, the Seychelles presid

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