Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
21 gold Michael Phelps still rules the pool
In an unforgettable display of Olympic power Michael Phelps won two more finals to take his historic all-time record load to 21 golds and entrench his legendary status. His majesterial display came on a day that Hungary’s ‘Iron Lady’ Katinka Hosszu took her third gold of the week while American gymnast Simone Biles made a flying start...
Putin and Erdogan meet to mend ties after jet downing rift
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jets into Russia on Tuesday for his first meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin since the two strongmen leaders began healing a bitter feud over Ankara’s downing of a Russian warplane. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed...
Secretary wants to enhance surveillance on Polio, Congo Fever
Primary and Secondary Healthcare Secretary Ali Jan Khan on Sunday directed the executive district officers (EDOs) to improve monitoring and surveillance in polio eradication and Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Punjab. Chairing the monthly meeting of EDOs, he said that in view of the coming Eid, the EDOs must enhance coordination with...
Obama says Trump ‘unfit’ to serve as president
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Republicans to reject Donald Trump in some of his strongest comments yet about the party’s White House nominee, saying he is “woefully unprepared” and “unfit” to be president. “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing...
PIMS put on high alert after CCHF virus reports
After the surfacing of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus cases in various parts of the country, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has been put on a high alert to control the disease, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably. According to the sources, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) Vice Chancellor...
Russian TV coverage of DNC shows what Kremlin thinks of Hillary
To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the US president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and cannot be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further...
Trump encourages Russia to hack Clinton emails
Donald Trump sensationally challenged Russia on Wednesday to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails as a furious Democratic campaign accused the Republican nominee of inviting foreign spies to meddle in the US presidential election. At a wide-ranging news conference, the New York billionaire tried to undermine his White House rival, implied...
China-Pakistan power projects to be completed by next year: Shehbaz
Punjab Shandong Business Conference was held on Wednesday in the Chinese city of Jinan, capital of Shandong province. Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Vice Governor of Shandong province Ji Xiang Qi jointly presided over the conference. Vice Governor of Shandong province Ji Xiang Qi while speaking on the occasion, warmly welcomed Chief...
The world’s tallest people are from these countries
Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height...
Russian pranksters call heads of WADA, U.S. anti-doping agency
Russian media published on Friday calls by two comedians to the heads of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) pretending to be Ukrainian Sports Minister Ihor Zhdanov. Pranskters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov separately called WADA President Craig Reedie and USADA chief executive Travis Tygart,...
