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Costliest year in history: Natural disaster damage cost America $306 billion in 2017

NEW YORK: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a barrage of fires, freezes, floods and hurricanes that...

How Pakistan’s economy fared in the year 2017

Pakistan's economic growth has historically been tumultuous and unsteady, which adds to the uncertainty of the country’s economic conditions. However, the latest trends show...

ANALYSIS: Pakistan’s Tilt Towards Right

In twilight days of 2017 Pakistan passed through a full-throttled political crisis posing serious questions over governance and highlighting fissures within the ruling Pakistan...

2017 – A year of turnaround for Pakistan cricket

The year 2017 was productive for the country in terms of sports as this year marked the revival of International Cricket in Pakistan after...

Here are political turncoats who switched sides in 2017

Driven by self-interests and political convenience rather than any principles, values, and ideology, politicians (political leaders) in Pakistan change party colours faster than the...

Pakistani controversies that made headlines in 2017

Pakistan politics is more about rabble-rousing than fulfilling promises. What keeps our politicians more relevant is their frequent motor-mouthing and this is something that...

2017 in review: Tumultuous happenings that jolted Pakistan’s politics

It has been quite a tumultuous year with full of surprises that sought to redraw the country's political landscape. The Panama Papers that came to...

‘The Year of AI’: Top trends and innovations in science and technology in the year 2017

2017 was an eventful year for innovations in science and technology as the world started embracing Artificial Intelligence , more countries announced ambitious projects...

9 fake stories of 2017 that people believed were true!

2017 has been an eventful year and if we look back at the outgoing year – a number of stories came into global spotlight...

Year 2017: Rise of a little known religious group that shocked Pakistan govt

Year 2017 was different for the country’s political climate which has previously been polarized between the civil and the military leaders. The year saw a...

Pakistan’s entertainment industry: Here’s what went viral in 2017

Unlike every year, 2017 had some different crisp, sensation and turnarounds for Pakistan entertainment industry in particular and the celebrities in general. Thanks to social...

Key global events in 2017: A year of shocks and surprises

From the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, to the escalation of the North Korea crisis, and Brexit negotiations, 2017 has been a rather...

7 ‘Mujhe Kyun Nikala’ moments Pakistan saw in 2017

The 2017 saw many top Pakistan leaders, in fact a sitting prime minister, being shown the door either by the courts or the government...

Discovery of neutron star collision is ‘breakthrough’ of 2017

MIAMI: The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time,...

65 journalists and media workers killed globally in 2017: RSF

PARIS: Sixty-five journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2017, according to annual figures published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday. Among them...

Defeated militarily in 2017, IS remains a global threat

PARIS: The year 2017 saw significant destruction to the Islamic State (IS), which lost almost all of its self-proclaimed "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria,...

2017: The year the bitcoin craze reached Wall Street

NEW YORK: Bitcoin burst out of the shadows in 2017, seducing Wall Street and individual investors alike even though many still struggle to understand...

‘Youthquake’ named 2017 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries

CALIFORNIA: "Youthquake" was crowned Friday as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017, following a five-fold increase in usage. The word is defined as "a...

2017: The list of most ‘Googled’ people in Pakistan is out!

Google has unveiled the annual Year in Search which highlights the top searches in Pakistan in the outgoing year 2017. Google’s Year in Search provides...

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