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Need blood in a hurry? Punjab's government hospitals are getting QR emergency buttons that connect you to Helpline 15 and blood donors. You can also call 15 and press 4. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/l...
Need blood in a hurry? Punjab’s government hospitals are getting QR emergency buttons that connect you to help
Scan the code to reach Helpline 15 by call, chat or video and find blood donors through the Safe City Virtual Blood Bank, or call 15 and press 4
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Shah Alam Market, handloom and all-black menswear: what stood out as 43 shows took over Lahore for LAAM Fashion Week's second season. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/l...
From Shah Alam Market to all-black menswear: what stood out at LAAM Fashion Week’s second season
Forty-three shows in Lahore put bridal, handloom and streetwear side by side, and connected the runway straight to your phone
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Is your tikka spot allowed to stay open? Working suction hoods are now mandatory under Punjab's smog rules, and in one September sweep 27 of 30 Lahore restaurants inspected were sealed. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/l...
Is your tikka spot allowed to stay open? What Lahore’s smog rules mean for the city’s barbecue
Working suction hoods are now mandatory, and in one September sweep 27 of 30 Lahore restaurants inspected were sealed
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Going to Murree this winter? The new safety plan brings 19 help centres, thermal drones over the roads and fixed prices at hotels and petrol stations. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/l...
Going to Murree this winter? Here’s what the new safety plan means for you, from 19 help centres to fixed hotel prices
Officials have activated Mission Safe Winter after the first snowfall in the Galiyat, with the tourist season running from December 15 to February 15
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NASA has asked private companies how to save the Hubble Space Telescope, which is working well after 36 years but is on course to fall back to Earth in 2033 or 2034. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/n...
NASA seeks ideas to save Hubble before it falls to Earth around 2033
The 36-year-old telescope still works well, and administrator Jared Isaacman says it deserves the effort
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Canva is making changes that affect 1,271 jobs, 22% of its staff, including layoffs and moves to Sydney. Chief executive Melanie Perkins says "small changes won't be enough". ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/n...
Canva shakes up 22% of its jobs, with layoffs and moves to Sydney
Chief executive Melanie Perkins says the design company needs to be ‘refounded’, in changes affecting 1,271 people
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Lahore's air has passed 500 on the index. Close up, stop burning things, mop rather than sweep and make one clean room: how to keep smog out of your home. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/l...
Lahore’s air has passed 500 on the index. Here’s how to keep smog out of your home
Close up, stop burning things, mop rather than sweep and make one clean room: what the WHO and US EPA advise
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Imported wheat has reached Karachi and the grain is cheaper, but your roti is still Rs20. Here is what you are paying, why, and which cities pay the most for flour. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/l...
Imported wheat has arrived, so why is your roti still Rs20?
Grain is cheaper and mills have cut their rates, but the tandoor and the corner shop have not. Here is what you are paying, why, and which cities pay the most.
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NASA satellite images show what looks like a grinning skull in the ice on Antarctica's Vega Island. A warm winter has left it exposed, and a glaciologist says melting could change its jawline. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/02/s...
NASA images show a grinning ‘skull’ in the ice on Antarctica’s Vega Island, and melting could change its face
Landsat photographs reveal large areas of bare ice after a warm winter, which a glaciologist says will wear away the skull’s jawline and eye socket
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Europe's Hera spacecraft has its first sight of Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA deliberately hit in 2022. It is closing in to find out what the collision did. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/n...
Europe’s Hera probe gets first sight of the asteroid NASA hit in 2022
The spacecraft is closing in to measure what the deliberate crash did, in a test of how to defend Earth from asteroids
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"Yes, you can even vote from space!" Three NASA astronauts have cast ballots in the US midterms from the International Space Station, using a bedroom as the voting booth. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/n...
US midterms: Three NASA astronauts vote from the space station
Anil Menon says he, Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins filled out electronic ballots, and his sleeping quarters served as the voting booth
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Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente has resigned six days after a train crash killed at least 69 people, saying he could not stay after two such accidents in less than a year. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/n...
Spain’s transport minister resigns six days after train crash killed 69
Óscar Puente told Congress he could not stay after two such disasters in a year, and also quit as a candidate in this month’s general election
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Nearly 50 years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from home on November 18. Say hello and you'd wait two days for a reply, NASA says. It's already farther than anything we've built. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Voyager 1 is about to become the first probe a light-day from Earth
A hello will take two days to answer. The 49-year-old probe reaches the milestone on November 18, weeks after it briefly fell silent
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The SECP has banned Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and deceptive multi-level marketing, including on apps and social media. Genuine direct selling based on real sales stays legal. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
SECP bans Ponzi and pyramid schemes, including on apps and social media
New rules target schemes that pay from recruitment instead of real sales, but genuine direct selling stays legal
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Libya's highest religious authority has told Muslims not to buy, sell or wear Nike, saying the brand is named after a Greek goddess. It is a religious ruling, not a state ban. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Libya’s top clerics issue fatwa against wearing Nike, citing Greek goddess
The Dar al-Ifta says the logo promotes polytheism and accuses the company of supporting Israel, but the ruling is not a state ban
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Spanish police have opened a routine inquiry after Jesus de Miguel's death, but the chief prosecutor says a criminal case would be "very difficult". Messi and Mbappe lead the tributes. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/04/s...
De Miguel’s death: Police open inquiry, but prosecutor doubts a case
Goalkeeper Jesus Owono has faced abuse since the collision, as Messi and Mbappe lead tributes to the Tenerife striker
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India's Election Commission says voters struck off the draft rolls can re-apply and will not face action, after many held back for fear of prosecution over a "first time" declaration. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
India says struck-off voters will not be punished for re-registering
Many held back from Form 6, which makes them declare they are first-time voters, for fear of being prosecuted for a false statement
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Punjab has denied reports that Air Punjab has been scrapped. The airline has its licence and is leasing six aircraft, the transport secretary says, with delays blamed on the war. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Air Punjab has not been scrapped, government says, blaming war for delays
The airline has its licence and is leasing six aircraft for its first phase, the provincial transport secretary says
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Bomb threats hit four European flights on Tuesday and briefly closed a Warsaw airport. All the planes landed safely and no explosives were found. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Bomb threats hit four European flights, briefly closing a Warsaw airport
All the planes landed safely and no explosives were found, a day after fighter jets escorted a Wizz Air flight to Budapest
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The record $6.3bn theft from Binance began with a fake job interview, the exchange says. An engineer was told to download an "assignment" that was really malware. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Binance says a fake job interview opened the door to its $6.3bn hack
An engineer was told to download an ‘assignment’ that was really malware, and the hackers then used a compromised AI tool to reach two more laptops
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GTA VI will need up to 212GB, Rockstar has confirmed. Pre-loading starts on November 10, and the game launches on November 19 at $79.99, digital only. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
GTA VI needs up to 212GB, and you can start downloading it on November 10
The game launches on November 19 at $79.99 and is digital only, so even boxed copies will contain just a download code
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Americans are voting with few problems so far, despite months of fraud claims from Trump. Asked if he will accept the results, he said: "I will if they're honest elections." ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
US midterms: Voting goes smoothly so far as Trump keeps casting doubt
A machine fault in a New York suburb and floods in the Southwest are the main problems so far, and the feared federal interference has not appeared
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Petrol falls by Rs5.45 a litre to Rs369.06 from Wednesday, while diesel rises by Rs3.68 to Rs398.88, OGRA says. It is the second price change in two days. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Petrol cut by Rs5.45 a litre to Rs369.06, diesel up Rs3.68 to Rs398.88
The new rates apply from Wednesday, a day after the last revision, as the minister had hinted
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Israel's five main opposition leaders have agreed to recommend Gadi Eisenkot as prime minister, a day before President Herzog begins talks on forming a government. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Israel election: Five opposition leaders back Eisenkot for prime minister
They will recommend him to President Herzog, whose talks begin on Wednesday, but remain split over the Arab-led parties they would need for a majority
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US polls close from 4am to 11am Wednesday, Pakistan time, but control of Congress may take far longer. Here is why mail ballots and Alaska's count could take days. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
US midterms: Why you may not know who won when you wake up on Wednesday
Polls close from 4am to 11am Pakistan time, but mail ballots in California and ranked-choice voting in Alaska could take days
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Trump attacked Abdul El-Sayed again on polling day, saying "only fools" would vote for the man who could become the first Muslim elected to the US Senate. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
US midterms: Trump says ‘only fools’ would vote for El-Sayed as polls open
Haley Stevens says the Democrat is ‘not fit to serve’ as Michigan votes in a race that could decide the Senate
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Pakistan has successfully flight-tested the Fa'az, its first indigenously developed air-to-air missile, the ISPR says. It can engage aerial targets at longer ranges. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Pakistan tests its first homegrown air-to-air missile, the Fa’az
The ISPR says the missile can hit aerial targets at longer ranges and will strengthen the Pakistan Air Force
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India's financial crime agency says it has now frozen or seized about 231 billion Indian rupees of Anil Ambani group assets, including two aircraft and two windmills. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
India freezes Rs231bn in Anil Ambani group assets, including two jets
The Enforcement Directorate has also taken two windmills in its money-laundering cases, and says 10 people have been arrested so far
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West Ham have sacked head coach Nuno Espirito Santo, with the club eighth in the Championship and six points off the top after being tipped for automatic promotion. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/s...
West Ham sack Nuno after poor start in the Championship
The club is eighth, six points off the top, after being widely seen as favourites for automatic promotion
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Security forces killed 17 Indian-sponsored terrorists in two operations in Kachhi and Kharan, Balochistan. Sepoy Hikmat Ullah, 25, of Karak was martyred, the ISPR said. ✍🏼 Read: thursdaytimes.com/2026/11/03/n...
Seventeen terrorists killed in Balochistan, soldier martyred, ISPR says
Forces stopped an attempted roadblock in Kachhi and raided a hideout in Kharan, where Sepoy Hikmat Ullah was martyred
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