Kashmir: Overcoming challenges, woman entrepreneur emerges as role model in Doda

Bhaderwah, (PTI): Finding no takers for her handicraft art initially, Aneeza Mushtaq kept her spirits high to pursue her childhood dream of making a living from paper mache art by using her eco-friendly innovations. Mushtaq (35), a resident of Bhaderwah town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district is fast emerging as a successful female entrepreneur […]

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Russia Reportedly Raises $13 Billion for 2023 Defense Spending

In its intelligence update Saturday, Britain’s defense ministry said that on Wednesday, Russia held its “largest ever debt issuance in a single day.” The issuance, the ministry said, “is a key mechanism to sustain defense spending, which has increased significantly since the invasion of Ukraine.” The issuance raised $13.6 billion, according to the update posted […]

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Pakistan: (FM) Bilawal calls on own govt to ‘revisit’ TTP strategy

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday called for revisiting the strategy to deal with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP), which has stepped up terror activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “It is time to review decisions we took or we were made to take with regards to internal security and terrorism,” Mr Bhutto-Zardari said in response […]

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Portugal’s public sector workers strike over pay amid inflation

Thousands of Portugal’s doctors, nurses, teachers and civil servants have staged a walk-out to demand wage increases amid rampant inflation, challenging the majority Socialist government a week before a final vote on the 2023 budget. Across the country many schools and courts were shut on Friday, hospital appointments and surgeries have been cancelled, and rubbish […]

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