Saturday, August 5, 2023

New census may delay Pakistan polls August 05, 2023 at 02:00PM

NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 after 'interstellar shout' August 05, 2023 at 04:19AM

NASA has succeeded in re-establishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an "interstellar shout" that righted the distant probe's antenna orientation, the space agency said Friday. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and serve as a beacon of humanity to the wider universe, it is currently more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from our planet -- well beyond the solar system.

Pakistan elections likely to be delayed as cabinet endorses census results August 05, 2023 at 04:56AM

Pakistan's general elections could be delayed, albeit briefly, following the unanimous endorsement of the latest census results by a top constitutional body on Saturday. The Ministry of Planning in a briefing to the meeting of the Council of Common Interest (CCI), chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and attended by Cabinet ministers, provincial chief ministers as well as other senior officials, showed that Pakistan's population had reached 240.10 million.

Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker transporting fuel near Crimea August 05, 2023 at 12:00AM