German climber wants to experience Everest in winter
Jost Kobusch wants to experience the highest mountain peak in the world in winter without oxygen supplement and alone.
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Major states snub calls for climate action as UN summit wraps up
MADRID: A handful of major states resisted pressure on Sunday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a
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Call for campus democracy through student unions to curb violence
Politicians, rights and student activists caution against the use of IIUI incident as a ploy for continued student union ban
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Chaining back the monster of intolerance
By Shafqat Aziz What else could engulf one with a more dreaded feeling than the intense fear of
Read MoreTabla legend Ustad Ajmal is no more
He played tabla with Noor Jahan, Mehdi Hassan Khan, Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Abbas and many more.
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Pakistan tops list of best 2020 holiday destinations
View of K-2 & Muztagh Tower from Abruzi Glacier”. The adventure traveller’s must-visit goes from strength to strength, wrote the award-winning
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As COP25 goes into the night, UN chief calls for more climate ambition
Madrid: With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN
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Destroying Soviet architecture in Central Asia
Herald Report Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central
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Can crops’ wild relatives save troubled agriculture?
Cultivating a limited number of crops reduced the genetic diversity of plants, endangering harvests. Seed collectors hope to fix it by finding the plants’ wild cousins, writes Lela Nargi in Jstor Daily.
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Student killed in IIUI campus violence
Over a dozen students belonging to different organisations injured in a clash between two groups on IIUI campus. Herald Report
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Rumi – an inspiration to Pakistani poets, writers
Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi – a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar – as famous poets
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Tajik MPs approve bill legalizing stateless residents
Parliamentarians green-light bill that will legalise 20,000 stateless residents from former Soviet republics DUSHANBE: Tajik lawmakers have approved a
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Mountains matter, if you’re young, UN declares
Covering around 27 percent of the earth’s land surface, mountains play a critical role in moving the world towards sustainable economic growth
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Sanna Marin the rising star on Finland’s political scene
President Sauli Niinisto greeting Sanna Marin before her first meeting as prime minister of Finland. Credit…Lehtikuva Sanna Marin becomes the
Read MoreClimate change: mountain water towers at risk, say scientists
Researchers have ranked the world’s most important, most threatened mountain water towers, provide new insight on mountain glacier–derived water resource systems, impacting up to 1.9 billion people globally
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