TOKYO, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) Japan’s Nikkei share gauge fell nearly 2 percent on Monday on rising expectations for central bank rate hikes to tame inflation. The benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 1.97 percent to 65,096.63 in early trading. The broader Topix slipped 0.84 percent to 4,111.71. Yields on…
WASHINGTON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) Karina rapidly intensified into a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean but posed no immediate threat to land, according to meteorologists. The US National Hurricane Centre said Karina gained hurricane strength on Sunday before intensifying within hours into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane,…
NICOSIA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) At least eight people died and 18 were missing after a ferry carrying around 270 passengers and crew capsized off North Cyprus on Sunday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull. The privately owned ferry left the port of Kyrenia at 12:30 pm…
PESHAWAR, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 31st Aug, 2026) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Aftab Alam has inaugurated newly completed Rustamabad-Siab Road in district Kohat and inspected ongoing asphalt work on the Dhodha Road. In a statement issued here Sunday, former Gumbat Tehsil Chairman Sajid Iqbal and large number…
ABU DHABI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Education, Human Resources and Community Development Council, has congratulated students and education professionals today on the start of the new academic year. In a…
SEJONG, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) The Republic of Korea’s industrial output remained flat in July from a month earlier due to a base effect and a strike in the automobile industry, data showed Monday, while retail sales lost ground and facility investment advanced. Industrial production remained unchanged in…
LOS ANGELES, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 31st Aug, 2026) More than 20 people may be missing or unaccounted for following a flash flood in Grand Canyon National Park in the US state of Arizona, authorities said Sunday. The “significant flash-flood event” occurred in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area…
ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 31st Aug, 2026) Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to undertake a three-day official visit to the Kyrgyz Republic from today till September 2, 2026, at the invitation of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Nurgozhoevich Zhaparov. During the visit, the prime minister will…
ABU DHABI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 30th Aug, 2026) The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Central Bank of Egypt affirmed their full and continuous cooperation and coordination regarding the continued normal operation of all activities of Banque Misr branches in the United Arab Emirates. The statement came as…
KARACHI, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 30th Aug, 2026) The Governor of Sindh Syed Muhammad Nehal Hashmi, addressing the fifth graduation ceremony of Denning Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship, said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a great leader of the subcontinent who, through his political vision, struggle and leadership, secured an…
