Web archive - March 25, 2021

World

US Covid-19 response could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths: research

United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic

World

India locks down some towns as coronavirus cases hit five-month high

India’s overall case load stands at 11.8 million, the third-highest behind the United States and Brazil

World

Bill Gates says world should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines

Microsoft co-founder says this is an incredible tragedy, the only good news was the access to vaccines

Business

Foreign exchange: SBP reserves rise $275m to $13.3b

Central bank cites no reason for increase

World

Saudi official denies threat to harm UN Khashoggi investigator

Agnes Callamard says a Saudi official threatened that she would be 'taken care of'

Pakistan, Sindh

Pakistan’s first entrepreneurial institute for e-commerce, digital skills established

It has been established for disseminating a full spectrum of affordable pre-university to post-graduate competency

Pakistan

PM Imran resumes limited official activities

Premier is isolating at home after testing positive for Covid-19

Technology

Slack to fix error in new direct messaging feature over harassment concerns

Slack Technologies said it was working to fix an error in the direct-messaging feature it introduced earlier

Pakistan, Punjab

LHC disposes of NAB petition seeking Maryam's appearance sans PDM workers

Court observes that the law will take its own course if violated

Pakistan

Greetings from Bangladesh on Pakistan Day ‘good gesture

Hasina said her country is committed to "peaceful and cooperative" relations with Pakistan