PTI protest keeps Islamabad on edge before next week's SCO meeting

IANS | October 12, 2024 3:32 PM

Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Security agencies in Pakistan remain on their toes with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announcing its plan to hold a major protest in Islamabad on October 15, the day SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting kicks off in the country's capital.

Japan's grassroots anti-nuclear weapon organisation awarded Nobel Peace Prize

IANS | October 11, 2024 3:45 PM

Oslo, Oct 11 (IANS) As nuclear powers modernise their arsenals and threaten their use amid various global conflicts, Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to showcase efforts to rid the world of these weapons of mass destruction.