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Euro zone set to approve 2.8b euros for Greece
ATHENS - Senior euro zone officials will meet on Monday to approve payment of another 2.8 billion euros (2.35 billion pounds) in rescue loans for Greece, on condition that the country’s lawmakers approve a reform law the day before, the country’s finance minister said on ...
Thunder, Spurs win to grab 2-0 playoff series leads
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City and the San Antonio Spurs held off fourth-quarter rallies for crucial NBA victories on Wednesday, each club seizing a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook each scored 29 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder over Houston ...
Woman eats 2,500 calories while asleep
CHESHIRE TG - A British woman with a rare disorder eats up to 2,500 calories a night in her sleep. Lesley Cusack, 55, keeps herself on a strict diet during the day because she has no control over what she eats while asleep at night. The mother-of-three from Warrington, Cheshire, said: “I can ...
2 PML-N leaders imprisoned over dual nationality, fake degree
The district and sessions courts of Kasur and Sahiwal on Thursday sentenced two more PML-N leaders former, MNA Rao Mazhar Hayat in fake degree case and Zahid Iqbal in dual nationality case. Sahiwal sessions court sentenced PML-N worker Zahid Iqbal to 15-month imprisonment in dual nationality ...
Mobilink launches ‘Teach 2 Transform’ programme
LAHORE (PR): Mobilink Foundation has launched the ‘Teach 2 Transform’ (T2T) initiative to educate the underprivileged across Pakistan. The programme aims to involve Mobilink Torchbearers to offer teaching assistance at marginalised schools in the country.The pilot phase for T2T was ...
Girl, 2, survives 30ft fall without a scratch
MUNICH (GN): A two-year-old girl had a miraculous escape when she fell from a fourth floor balcony, bounced off a canvas canopy and landed unhurt on grass. Little Maria Kohler scrambled on to the balcony to watch passing trains, inMunich,Germany, when she slipped and fell. A doctor at the ...
US report cites 2,000 IHK mass graves
washington - The admission made by an official human rights body of Indian-occupied Kashmir's "government" in August last year about the existence of over two thousand unmarked graves has been featured in a U.S. report on human rights.The report, titled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices ...
Jamie’s geeky make-over for Spider-Man 2
NEW YORK:Hollywoodhunk Jamie Foxx as you’ve never seen him before. The actor has undergone a geeky make-over to star in the new Spider-Man film, which was shooting inNew Yorkthis weekend. Jamie plays nerdy engineer Max Dillon, who’s struck by lightning while working on a power line - ...
French embassy in Tripoli bombed, 2 injured: sources
A car bomb blasted the embassy of France in Tripoli early Tuesday, injuring two French guards and causing serious damage to the building, embassy and Libyan sources said.An AFP correspondent at the site said the wall surrounding the property was destroyed and the embassy building extensively ...
Strong quake hits China; 71 dead, more than 2,200 injured
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 71 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) ...
Britney goes Ooh La La for Smurfs 2
LOS ANGELES Reuters Britney Spears is going "Ooh La La" for the Smurfs with a song for upcoming summer movie "The Smurfs 2," movie studio Sony Pictures said."I have always loved the Smurfs as a kid and now my boys are the biggest Smurfs fans EVER. I wanted to surprise them with a song in the ...
South Asian bodybuilding from May 2
LAHORE - Lahore will be the focus of a major bodybuilding activity by hosting the 10th South Asian Bodybuilding Championship and Mr South Asia contest from May 2 to 6. “SAARC member countries are invited to take part in this competition and majority of them have confirmed their participation ...
FBR constitutes 2 task forces to meet revenue target
ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has constituted two task forces to formulate policy measures to increase revenue, enhance efficiency in tax department and bring more transparency in tax administration.According to a notification, the FBR chairman has constituted two task forces ...
2 missing kids found dead
LAHORE - Police Tuesday recovered dead bodies of two minor boys from different parts of Lahore. Both the kids were missing for the last couple of days under mysterious circumstances, police investigators said. The police have removed the bodies, recovered from Gujjarpura and Shera Kot areas, to the ...
Zardari okays nomination of 2 LHC judges
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday on the advice of the Prime Minister has approved nomination of two judges of Lahore High Court, Mr. Justice Muhammad Anwaarul Haq and Mr. Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa to function as Appellate tribunal No.3 in addition to the already constituted ...
‘Hydel power generation cut to 2,800MW’
LAHORE– The Water and Power Ministry told the Lahore High Court on Monday that hydel power generation in the country has plummeted to 2800 mega watts from full capacity of 6500 mega watts due to scarcity of water in dams as snow melting on mountains has not started so far.This was ...
2 AJK women honoured for social work
MIRPUR (AJK) - In acknowledgement of exceptional welfare services to the ailing humanity, two top lady social workers of AJK including Syeda Najma Shakoor and Syeda Noureen Hameed were awarded gold medals at a ceremony held at town hall here on Sunday.The ceremony was arranged by Pakistan Social ...
DCO suspends 2 market committee officials
LAHORE – District Coordination Officer Lahore, Rizwan Mehboob on Sunday suspended Sub Inspector Market Committee Shadman Ijaz Bhatti and officials Gulberg Town Shahzad and Waheed Gulzar on their absent from Model Town Sunday Bazaar. He also issued showcause notice to District Officer ...
2 cattle thieves held
LAKKI MARWAT - Police claimed to have arrested two cattle thieves and recovered a stolen bull from their possession in Kaichi Kamar area. A police official said on Thursday that one Abidullah had nominated Noor Aslam and Arab Khan in the FIR for stealing his bull. He said that police raided ...
Fish exports up by 2.48 per cent
ISLAMABAD : Exports of fish and fish preparations witnessed increase of 2.48 per cent during the first eight months of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year. Overall exports of fish and fish preparations were recorded at $199.949 million during July-February ...
Pasni grenade attack kills 2 boys
QUETTA - Two boys were killed in a hand grenade attack in Pasni, a coastal town of Balochistan, on Wednesday.According to police, unidentified people lobbed a hand grenade in a house in Ward No 2 in Pasni town which landed inside with a huge blast, killing two children immediately.The deceased were ...
2 killed in shell blast in Kyrgyz capital
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Two men died in a blast in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Tuesday after trying to saw open an artillery shell inside a house, police said. “An explosion went off in the western part of the capital at 6:30 pm (1230 GMT),” interior ministry spokesman Ernis ...
2 women beheaded for sorcery in PNG
SYDNEY (AFP) - Two elderly women were beheaded in Papua New Guinea after being tortured for three days, a report said Monday, the latest in a string of sorcery-related crimes. The Post-Courier newspaper said police were present during the killings last week but were outnumbered by an angry mob and ...
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Influential Khattaks in field to conquer Nowshera
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
2 SDOs sent home over illegal act
FAISALABAD - Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Chief Executive Officer Dr Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan has suspended two Sub-Divisional Officers (SDOs) and two Line Superintendents (LSs) on the charges of shifting load from one feeder to another illegally. According to details, Razabad SDO ...
NAB nabs 2 accused involved in Rs22m scam
LAHORE –Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday claimed to have arrested two accused allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 22 millions. In first case, Imran Rafique was arrested for getting loan of Rs 20 millions fraudulently. Imran’s father and others were also ...
Blast kills 2 top govt officials in Thailand
BANGKOK (AFP) - A bomb blast killed two top provincial officials on Friday in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, authorities said, blaming the attack on rebel fighters seeking to derail peace talks. The deputy governor of Yala province, Issara Thongthawat, was killed along with Yala ...
1 killed, 2 hurt in militants attack
PESHAWAR - A person was killed and three others injured when militants fired three rockets on the FC Headquarters in Hayatabad area of Peshawar on Friday. Police said that the rockets were fired from the Shalobar area of Khyber Agency and its target was FC Headquarters. All the three rockets ...
Police arrest 2 outlaws
LAKKI MARWAT - Police claimed to have arrested two outlaws during surprise raids in Inayat Adamzai and Paharkhel Thall localities.A police party of Lakki Marwat police station raided over the house of a proclaimed offender Rehan in Paharkhel Thall village and arrested him. Separately, another ...
2 get bail in ephedrine case
RAWALPINDI – Control of Narcotics Substance Court (CNSC) Special Judge Arshad Mehmood Tabbasum on Thursday granted bails to two men accused of having links with Syed Ali Musa Gillani, a former PPP MNA from Multan, in the case of illegal allotment of Ephedrine quota.The Special Judge granted ...
