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Bangladesh protesters torch home of country’s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Thousands of protesters set fire to the home of Bangladesh’s founding leader, as his daughter, ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivered a fiery social media speech calling on her supporters to stand against the interim government. Witnesses said several thousand protesters, some armed with sticks, hammers, and other tools, gathered around the historic house and independence monument, while others brought a crane and excavator to demolish the building. The rally was organised alongside a broader call, dubbed “Bulldozer Procession”, to disrupt Hasina’s scheduled 9pm online address on Wednesday. Protesters, many aligned with the “Students Against Discrimination” group, had expressed their fury over Hasina’s speech, which they viewed as a challenge to the newly formed interim government. Tensions have been escalating in Bangladesh since August 2024, when mass protests forced Hasina to flee to neighbouring India. The interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...

President Zardari, Chinese Premier Li Qiang vow strengthening Pak-China cooperation

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, with the two sides vowing to strengthen the Pakistan-China strategic cooperative partnership, according to a statement from the President’s House. The development comes during President Zardari’s ongoing visit to China along with a delegation comprising senior ministers. A day prior, he met Chinese President Xi Jinping, as both sides noted the “positive trajectory” of their bilateral relations. According to the statement, during his meeting with the Chinese prime minister, President Zardari highlighted the “enduring and deep-rooted China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, nurtured by successive generations of the leaders of both countries.” He reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to further strengthening bilateral ties, emphasising the time-tested, deep-rooted, and enduring partnership between the two countries. Zardari also talked about the “pivotal role of t...

Canadiens earn much-needed win with desperate effort in San Jose

Samuel Montembeault slid across his crease, sprawled out on his belly, extended his leg and glove and not only saved consecutive shots from Macklin Celebrini but also saved his Montreal Canadiens from a sixth straight loss. It was pure desperation, and there was nothing pretty about it, and it preceded the shorthanded break Jake Evans started and Joel Armia finished to put a bow on this ugly win. Yeah, this was far from a Picasso from the Canadiens. It wasn’t even a piece of high-quality graffiti on the side of a rundown building. But the Canadiens didn’t need to post art on this night, they needed to post a win and find their footing in an Eastern Conference playoff race that was speeding away from them. It didn’t matter that it came against the 32nd-placed San Jose Sharks. No opponent would be a walkover for the Canadiens — with their confidence plundered by habitually finding ways to lose over the last two weeks — and the Sharks were anything but one at SAP Center....

Pims automated prescription system falls prey to patients’ burden

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Enormous burden of patients has failed a new automated system at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). The system called ‘one patient one identity’ has been introduced with good intention as it is being implemented in most of the private hospitals of federal capital. Muhammad Naeem, a resident of Islamabad, said that he went to the hospital along with his wife and managed to get the outpatient department (OPD) slip but after reaching in the OPD he came to know that a doctor will have to type details of the patient and then will print the prescription. “It was quite impressive for me as it is practiced in private hospitals. However soon my excitement turned into disappointment as almost 10 patients were in the room of the doctor and he was looking puzzled as he had to enter the identity number of each patient and then type medicines for them,” he said. “In the meantime, attendants of two patients argued with the doctor that he was taking too much ti...

OpenAI announces new ‘deep research’ tool for ChatGPT

US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called “deep research” that can produce detailed reports, as China’s DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. The company made the announcement in Tokyo, where OpenAI chief Sam Altman also trumpeted a new joint venture with tech investor SoftBank Group to offer advanced artificial intelligence services to businesses. Altman and SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son will meet the Japanese prime minister later on Monday and will reportedly announce plans to boost Japan’s AI infrastructure. It comes as AI newcomer DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy , with some calling its high performance and supposed low cost a wake-up call for US developers. OpenAI, whose ChatGPT led generative AI’s emergence into public consciousness in 2022, said its new tool “accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours”. “You give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyse, and synthesi...

Bears take hold of PSX as shares decline 1,300 points in intraday trade

Bears took hold of the trading floor on Monday at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) as shares proceeded to decline 1,300 points in intraday trade. The benchmark KSE-100 index declined 1178.46, or 1.03 per cent, to stand at 113,077.26 points at 12:50am from the last close of 114,255.72 points. After robust performances in the last five months, the PSX turned bearish in the first month of 2025 due to uncertain global and internal political scenarios after the execution of Donald Trump’s America First Policy , which includes boosting the US manufacturing sector by imposing import tariffs on its major trade partners. The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, effective Feb 1, which may trigger a trade war, disturbing the global trade balance and causing a fallout. However, the Pakistani shares remained depressed in the last two weeks of January, pushing the stock exchange into the red zone. Amid the situation, nervous investors continued offloading thei...