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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be moved to hospital, following complaints about his poor health.A three-judge panel ordered that the cricketer-turned-politician be taken to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad in the next 48 hours to be examined by physicians.The court also said Khan would be allowed weekly meetings with family members and telephone calls with his sons.Khan has been imprisoned since 2023 on corruption charges, which he says were politically motivated.The Pakistani government has not publicly commented on the court ruling.In Tuesday’s court order, the panel wrote: “We are mindful of the constitutional…
Andy Burnham has registered accepting £345,000 of donations over the past year including £164,347 from businessman Lord Sainsbury. The donations, listed in the most recent version of the MPs’ register of interests,, external are the prime minister’s first declarations since he was elected to Parliament in June. Separately, Burnham has also listed hospitality and gifts he received in the year before he returned to Parliament, including trips to Glastonbury, Lancashire Cricket Club and the Aintree Racecourse.A Labour Party spokesperson said: “It’s right that political campaigns are funded by the generous support of party donors, rather than via the public purse.”All…
Burnham said: “No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station. But we’ve seen it for so long that it feels like Westminster has started to accept it. I won’t accept it.”The prime minister said he wanted to build on the success of Everyone In, a Covid pandemic-era scheme that saw thousands of rough sleepers housed in hotels and temporary accommodation.About 37,000 people were helped by the scheme following its launch in March 2020. The charity Shelter found that about a quarter of them had found settled accommodation, in the form of housing lasting at least…
Some days ask for polish, others ask for grit. This one wants grit, Virgo. Mars is a force that increases the effort required, Saturn adds pressure, and you might feel each result you see today is only after pushing twice as hard.Stress and anxiety can sneak into your life if you stare at your entire list instead of focusing on the next job. So bring your mind back to the immediate. A call to make, a form to submit, a train to catch, a chapter to revise. That’s enough. One reassuring feature stands out, younger siblings or younger people around…
Quote of the day by Hayden Panettiere: ‘People can tell when you’re happy with being you and when you’re not…the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you,’ life lesson from ‘Heroes’ star explaining that self-acceptance and self-worth are keys to happiness. (Instagram) Hayden Panettiere’s death at 36 has brought renewed attention to some of the difficult chapters she spoke about during the final months of her life, including her experience with postpartum depression and a painful fallout with beauty brand Neutrogena.Panettiere, known for Heroes and Nashville, died on…
Securities market regulator Sebi will float a consultation paper on the distribution framework for corporate bonds in the next few days, a senior official said on Tuesday.”We are looking for a potential distribution framework for bonds. Work is in process, and the consultation paper in this regard will be out in a few days,” said Maninder Cheema, Executive Director at Sebi, during a panel discussion of Great Indian Bond Festival by Grip Invest.Cheema refrained from giving further details on the proposed norms to be added in the consultation paper.The founder and group CEO of Grip Invest, an online bond platform,…
Srinagar, Aug 18: Jammu & Kashmir is facing a significant decline in student enrolment as children move through successive stages of school education, with the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) falling to 44.8 per cent at the higher-secondary level, according to a NITI Aayog report.The report, titled “School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement”, points to a widening gap in enrolment between the early years of schooling and Classes XI and XII. The figures indicate that while enrolment is high at the primary stage, a large number of students do not continue through the higher…
Coco Gauff needed to battle following a sizzling first set on Tuesday to complete a 6-1, 7-6 victory over Ann Li to reach the fourth round of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters.Gauff finds a way into the Cincinnati fourth roundThe 2023 champion had it all her own way in the opening set against her 29th-ranked American compatriot, but it proved more difficult to close the match out in a tight second set.After Gauff swept the first in 30 minutes, the pair exchanged early breaks in the second on the way to a tie-breaker.Gauff sprinted to a 4-1 lead and closed out…
In this image posted on Aug. 12, 2026, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor during a meeting at Nirvachan Sadan, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump’s post appreciating India’s mandatory elector identification system followed an Aug 12 meeting between chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and US ambassador to India Sergio Gor at Nirvachan Sadan. Kumar apprised the latter that electoral photo identity cards had been issued by EC to nearly 1 billion electors and that the turnout in recent Indian polls was higher than that in major democracies of the world.The…
Vinesh Phogat and Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh NEW DELHI: Congress leader and wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, calling him a “goon and a criminal” and accusing the BJP of backing him despite allegations of sexual harassment levelled by women wrestlers.Phogat, a former World Championship bronze medallist and Asian Games gold medallist, made the remarks while speaking to reporters in Jind on the sidelines of a political programme. Her comments came amid her continued criticism of Singh, who was at the centre of a high-profile…