Friday, March 12th, 2021
‘Valheim’ rides Viking gaming mania to 5 million sales
Brussels, March 12 : If you’ve felt a recent urge to unleash your inner Viking, you’re not alone: millions of people have been riding the waves, swigging mead and slaying the enemy in a craze for the video game “Valheim”. Designed by a tiny Swedish games studio, “Valheim” has proved an unexpected smash-hit, selling five million copies since its early-access release last month on the online gaming platform Steam. At one point, more than half a million people were playing online simultaneously. “We didn’t expect this kind of success atRead More
SCO Secretariat celebrated International Women’s Day
BEIJING (DNA) -As part of the activities coinciding with the 20thanniversary of the SCO, the SCO Secretariat hosted a reception to mark International Women’s Day (March 8) on March 5. The head of SCO diplomatic missions, Special Representative of the PRC Government for Eurasia, Mr. Li Hui, Deputy Chairman and Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women’s Federation, Ms Xia Ze, and other distinguished guests from members of the SCO Women’s Club and the Chinese sideattended the celebrations. Congratulating women on the International Women’s Day, the SCO Secretary General,Read More
Fairy tales and postage stamps of SCO member states are published
DNA BEIJING: As part of the activities to mark the 20thanniversary of the Shanghai Organization,The SCO Center for Public Diplomacy in Tashkent, published the collections “Eighty-Eight Tales of the Eight Nations” and “Countless Proverbs of the Eight Nations”. These include the most ancient sayings and wisdoms of the legends of Indian, Kazakh, Chinese, Kyrgyz, Pakistani, Russian, Tajik, and Uzbek. The collections were prepared under the guidance of Zuhriddin Isomutdinov, Candidate of Philological Sciences. A souvenir album “Postage Stamps of SCO Countries” showing national symbols, historical and cultural heritage of theRead More
Uzbekistan-Pakistan Momentous Relations
Dr. Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan It seems that ancient “Silk Route” between the Republic of Uzbekistan and Pakistan is in its “resurrection”. Civilizational “linkages” are remerging. Historical connections are “reinvented”. Political understandings are getting momentum. Economic preferences are reshaping. Investment prospects are widening. Now Tashkent and Islamabad are getting closer and closer and fairies of true friendship, brotherhood and mutual respect are flying high on the connecting mountains. Commercial diplomacy is now at its peak and bilateral relations between the Republic of Uzbekistan and Pakistan are strengthening day by day.Read More
Biden lays out next phase of COVID fight, urges vigilance in national televised speech
WASHINGTON : President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would direct U.S. states to make all adults eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans in a televised address to stay vigilant against the virus, hours after he signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law. In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the first anniversary of the pandemic lockdown, Biden said he was working to speed COVID-19 vaccinations to create a greater sense of normalcy in the country by the July 4Read More
2,701 new cases, 54 COVID-19 deaths reported in 24 hours
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan has recorded 54 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 13,430. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 54 more lives and 2,701 fresh infections were reported during the said period. The total count of active cases is 18,703 and the positivity rate increases up to 6.56 per cent. In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,573 patients have recovered from the virus in a day and 1,709 patientsRead More