TEHRAN: Hundreds of runners took part in Tehran’s first-ever marathon on Friday, but many women were outraged to find they could only run a short distance in a closed-off stadium. While men ran through Iran’s capital in the morning, women were allowed to run just 10 kilometres in Azadi stadium in the afternoon – with no male spectators or officials
As the economy shows some signs of recovering from a prolonged low growth patch, there is a need to decipher how the economy plunged into the mess in the first place. This understanding is absolutely essential to sustain the recovery and put the economy on a high growth trajectory. Who better to do this for us than Dr Shahid Amjad
Having just assumed presidentship of the UN Security Council, earlier this week, the US ambassador to the UN has stated that the Trump administration will try to make efforts to de-escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. This comment follows President Trump’s own conversation with our prime minister alluding to such a possibility. These recent developments also come at a time
A mutually agreed nuclear disarmament treaty between India and Pakistan has never been on the cards and is never likely to be. Both maintain a nuclear arsenal and both have the capacity to deliver nuclear weapons anywhere within the territory of the other. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is indeed assured. Neither state presents a nuclear threat face to any other
PALM BEACH/MOSCOW/BEIRUT: The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched, the first direct US assault on the government of Bashar al Assad in six years of civil war. The missile strikes were one step away from clashing with the Russian military, Russia’s
A 13-member Afghan media delegation arrived in Islamabad on Friday, stressing for greater cooperation based on mutual trust rather than blame game to purge the two countries of terrorism According to the Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) the aim of the visit is to let the Afghan media know efforts made by the government of Pakistan on war against terrorism, which
Tillers and Cultivators are awesome tools for any gardener to have in their shed. This is especially true if you have a larger garden, or you are starting from scratch and have compacted dirt, sod, or other plants in the way of your future garden plot. While tillers and cultivators may look very similar, they actually do quite different jobs.
WASHINGTON– Republican legislation letting states deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers squeezed narrowly through the Senate Thursday, rescued by an ailing GOP senator who returned to the Capitol after back surgery and a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence. In Congress’ latest clash mixing the politics of abortion, women’s health and states’ rights,
FISHERS, Ind. — A new "Special Needs Data System" was launched Tuesday by the Fishers Department of Fire and Emergency Services, in conjunction with the City of Fishers Disability Awareness Roundtable. The database aims to provide first responders with valuable information regarding the presence of special needs inside a residence they may be responding to. This can include things like
Though the only rodents in my care right now are a pair of troublemaking chinchillas, they aren’t the only members of the Rodentia order I’ve had in my life. I once had a pair of gerbil brothers named Nickel and Dime, the latter of which lived to be nearly four. Growing up, my brother had a couple of Syrian hamsters
