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Google on Tuesday said it would invest $15 billion in India over the next five years as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country’s south. “It is the largest AI hub that we are investing in anywhere outside of the US,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, at a ceremony in New Delhi. He announced “capital investment of $15bn” over the five years and a “gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam”, a city in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Google has plans for the centre to eventually “scale to multiple gigawatts”, Kurian added. Demand for AI tools and solutions has surged in India — projected to have more than 900 million internet users by year’s end — driven by growing adoption by businesses and individuals. India’s Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, thanked Google for the investment. “This digital infrastructure will go a long way in meeting the goals of our India AI vision,” he said. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu called it a “very...

Petroleum prices in Pakistan are expected to decrease from October 16, following a downward trend in the international oil market, sources confirmed on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted mainly dry weather across most parts of the country on Tuesday, with cold conditions likely to prevail in hilly and northern areas during the night and early morning hours.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has cautioned users about possible internet slowdowns or temporary disruptions for up to 18 hours due to maintenance work on the country’s undersea communication network on Tuesday (today).

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has directed the provision of all possible facilities for the upcoming annual congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat in Raiwind next month.

LAHORE - An anti-polio campaign targeting more than 2.

ISLAMABAD - Chinese high-tech agricultural machinery is at the heart of Punjab’s bold new Rs30 billion mechanization programme, launched last week to revolutionize farming across Pakistan’s largest food-producing province.

ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting was convened at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination to review progress and discuss measures for advancing shared goals to strengthen Pakistan’s carbon market rules, pricing mechanisms, and governance frameworks under the Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation.

Karachi - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday launched the province-wide anti-polio campaign by administering drops to two newborns at KMC Gizri Maternity Home.

• 42 battered Pakistanis reunite with their families at Edhi Centre • Six others still await government clearance in Lahore • Returnees say beatings, burn injuries and forced labour became routine after Pakistan-India conflict KARACHI: Some 42 of the 48 Pakistani fishermen released from Indian jails and handed over to Pakistani authorities through the Wagah Border reached Karachi on Monday after a long wait of over a month because of the uncertain situation in Lahore. There are still six of them awaiting government clearance in Lahore. The expected time of arrival of the fishermen reaching the city by road from Lahore, thanks to the Edhi Foundation, was 12 noon, though they reached the Edhi Centre at Kharadar after 2:30pm. Still, the media gathered there already felt like they knew each and every one of them, as they had heard so much about them from their family members waiting for them there since morning. What’s common is the story of the horrible torture they endured in custody after the May conflict betw...

PESHAWAR: Newly-elected CM Sohail Afridi addressing KP Assembly.

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court’s Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar on Monday remarked that constitutional matters will only be heard by the constitutional bench.

LAHORE - At least five people including one Station House Officer (SHO) were killed and dozens others injured, some critically, as clashes erupted between police and thousands of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters marching in support of Palestinians in Muridke on Monday, police sources and witnesses said.

ISLAMABAD - Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, Dr.

ISLAMABAD - A government delegation called on Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence yesterday to discuss the evolving political situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban regime should not allow its land to be used for terrorism against other countries and it should focus on formation of an inclusive and truly representative government, instead of engaging in baseless propaganda, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said on Monday.

RAWALPINDI - Namaz-e-Janaza for the 12 Shuhada who embraced Shahadat while defending the motherland against the unprovoked and cowardly aggression committed by Afghan Regime on night of 11/12 October 2025, was offered here on Monday at Chaklala Garrison.

• Taliban foreign minister claims omission of women journalists from his first media interaction was ‘unintentional’ • UN terms Afghan restrictions on women ‘gender apartheid’ • India’s Ministry of External Affairs denies any role in Friday’s press interaction at Afghan embassy A PICTURE is worth a thousand words — and the image splashed across Indian newspapers on Monday, showing female journalists seated prominently in the front row at the Taliban foreign minister’s press conference in Delhi, perfectly embodies that sentiment. The conference — Amir Khan Muttaqi’s second press event at the Afghan embassy within 48 hours — was convened following widespread outrage over the exclusion of female journalists from his initial briefing on Friday, BBC News reported. Mr Muttaqi said at Sunday’s conference that the exclusion was unintentional and not “deliberate”. “With regard to the [Friday’s] press conference, it was on short notice and a short list of journalists was decided, and the participation list that was pre...

ISLAMABAD - The Third Trilateral Speakers’ Meeting of the Parliaments of Pakistan, Türkiye, and Azerbaijan, hosted by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, concluded in Islamabad with the unanimous adoption of the “Islamabad Declaration.

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Defense Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Monday said that Pakistan desires peace and trade ties with neighboring country but infiltration of terrorists from Afghan borders would not be tolerated at any cost.