ISLAMABAD (APP) - In Pakistan, annual production of honey is about 10,000 tons and about 15-20 per cent of honey is lost due to the ignorance of the hunters and traditional beekeepers. The traditional beekeepers have very little knowledge about the extraction and processing of honey and they need ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed for immediate provision of 10,000 tents to PDMA Sindh for relief assistance in rain-affected areas of the province out of the stock of ERC Cabinet Division. The Prime Minister has also directed the Finance Division to sanction Rs 120 ...

India is setting up five nuclear energy parks each having a potential of producing 10,000 MW in the country and the reactors were built in technical cooperation with other countries of evolutionary design based on extensive experience of operation, the Rajya Sabha was informed Friday. In written ...

Gordon Brown showered Barack Obama with presents worth more than 10,000 while he got a set of 25 classic film DVDs in return, White House papers revealed yesterday. The Queen probably got the true value of the U.S.-UK 'special relationship in better perspective, sending the Obamas framed ...

SAHIWAL - Former President Sahiwal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sheikh Azmat Saleem has expressed great concern over the prevailing energy crisis. He said, because of energy crises, only in Sahiwal region more than 10,000 industrial workers have become unemployed. He demanded of the federal ...

Close to 10,000 total flights have been canceled since the beginning of a holiday blizzard that blanketed much of the U.S. northeast with snow and left thousands stranded. Airline representatives from AirTran, American, Continental, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, United, U.S. Airways, Spirit and ...

It might look like an odd version of the Mexican wave but these Chinese students were participating in a human domino challenge. The theme was 'hug the nature, kiss the grasslands and the event was to encourage citizens to take part in more exercise. It also made for a great visual in Ordos City of ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) has decided to immediately dispatch 10,000 ration packs worth of Rs25 million as a token of help to deserted people of Khyber Pakhtu-nkhwa. Weighing over 400 tones, the ration packs containing dry and fresh rations along with other ...

KARACHI - The stock market started the new week on dismal note and the KSE 100-index once again failed to sustain the psychological mark of 10,000 points with the volume falling to the lowest level for the current year, mainly due to profit-taking in the banking sector ahead of monetary policy ...

THE glowing embers left behind by one of the most powerful type of explosions in the Universe have been revealed for the first time. Remnants from giant fireballs unleashed by a supernova are still glowing at temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the Sun thousands of years after the event. They ...

KARACHI - Nervousness among investors pertaining to the issues likely to be debated in National Assembly restricted the momentum of the local bourse on Friday as the KSE-100 index shed nominal 7 points to close at 9,838 points. Profit taking was witnessed on the last trading day of the week as ...

KARACHI - Bullish behaviour helped local equity market to gain further 213.43 points or 2.31 percent on Friday to close at 9,436.82 points as Pakistans current account deficit shrinks to $527m in the first 2 months, while $82m surplus was recorded in August 2009. The KSE-100 index opened in green ...

LAHORE - Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh on Monday claimed that under the Green Tractor Subsidy Scheme at least 9,430 tractors have been delivered to farmers so far against the target of 10,000 tractors. The Punjab government had advanced subsidy of Rs 200,000 per tractor to ...

Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has issued tenders for buying super basmati rice and irri-6 5000 tons each. TCP released handout said that the interested parties could submit their offers by February 26. Rice Exporters Association (REA) president, Rahim Janoo said that TCP had earlier ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Almost 10,000 birds have been slaughtered in Bangladesh in the past two months, an official said Wednesday, as the impoverished country faces a new outbreak of deadly avian flu. Mozammel Haq, officer in charge of the government's response to the H5N1 strain, told AFP the birds had ...

FOR those of a patient disposition, there is something quite satisfying about completing a complex jigsaw. But for binman Graham Hill, who found 10,000 in cut-up banknotes, the challenge and the reward are considerably higher. The Bank of England has told him that if he can put the notes back ...

A beloved pet bulldog has been fitted with a 10,000 bionic leg, which will help advance prosthetic techniques used to help bombing victims. Coal, an eight-and-a-half year old hound had his left paw amputated because of cancer last year. He faced being put down because his other legs would be too ...

India is deploying additional 10,000 troops in Kashmir, which has been engulfed in week-long protests triggered by a dispute between Hindus and Muslims over allotment of land for Hindu pilgrims. At least nine people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the unrest that has gripped the ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) today witnessing a tumultuous trading session managed to dash pass 10,000 marks and the KSE-100 index closed at 10042 points, up by 189. Following persistent fearsome bearish spell, trading in the market today commenced late by over one hour and initially the index was ...

The devastated quake centered in Sichuan province in China has so far claimed 10,000 lives. According to Chinese state TV, hundred of persons were feared dead in many other areas of the province. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao monitored rescue works; Chinese army units were also engaged in rescue and ...