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The chief of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), Allah Nazar Baloch, has criticised Pakistan’s policies in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), saying the growing resistance movement in the region shows that demands for rights and self-determination cannot be suppressed through force.According to the report published in The Balochistan Post, Baloch said the ongoing struggle by…

Every clean energy source comes with a condition attached. Solar stops the moment the sun sets. Wind quits when the air goes still. Even hydropower leans on whatever the season decides to send down the river. The one thing the global grid genuinely lacks is a clean source that simply runs through the night, through…

For just a fleeting moment under the pristine water of Swaraj Dweep, a group of divers converted months of hard work into a world record. Together, they managed to set up the tallest human pyramid under the water, breaking a record and earning themselves a place in the Guinness World Records. This was a difficult…

Vehicles set on fire by protesters. (AP Photo) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday strongly condemned the anti-immigrant violence that erupted across Belfast overnight, calling the scenes “shocking and completely unacceptable” and vowing that those behind the disorder would face the “full force of the law.““It is clear that people were targeted last night…

Indian-origin billionaire Dr Shamsheer Vayalil has announced a Dh1 million humanitarian support package for families affected by the recent Emirates Road crash that killed seven workers and injured nine others.Dr Vayalil is a radiologist, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings, a leading healthcare group in the Middle East, with…

In northwest China’s Shaanxi province, a 13-kilometre stretch of the Qin Straight Road is forcing archaeologists to redraw parts of one of antiquity’s most ambitious transport systems. The corridor, built more than 2,200 years ago under the Qin dynasty, is often described as a “four-lane highway,” a comparison that captures its width but not its…

The UK Gurdwara Alliance has issued a public clarification stating that social media commentators Harman Kapoor and Bobby Singh do not represent the Sikh community, Sikh institutions or any recognised Sikh representative body.In a statement, the organisations said neither individual had been authorised, appointed or mandated to speak on behalf of Sikhs. They stressed that…

The Akrotiri evacuation remains one of archaeology’s most uncomfortable puzzles because it does not behave like a disaster site. On Santorini, where a massive volcanic eruption buried entire settlements in ash around 1600 BCE, researchers expected a Bronze Age version of Pompeii, chaos frozen mid-moment, bodies left where they fell, daily life interrupted violently. Instead,…

Every summer, millions of people head towards America’s beaches expecting sunshine, surf, and warm coastal waters. Yet beneath those same waves lives one of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators. Shark attacks remain exceptionally rare, but they are not evenly distributed. Some areas of coastlines in the United States have more incidents of shark attacks than…

MacKenzie Scott has spent the past several years doing something few billionaires have attempted at such scale: giving away vast amounts of wealth as quickly as possible. That approach has now earned the Amazon co-founder and former wife of Jeff Bezos a place on Forbes’ Iconoclast 50 list, which recognises people reshaping industries and challenging…