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) ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) has established 200 wheat procurement centers across the country to carry out wheat purchase campaign for current crop season. Gov has given PASSCO the task of procuring 1.6 million tons wheat from its operational areas ...

BERLIN (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens said Thursday it is planning to cut over 3,000 jobs in its industrial division as part of a vast plan to save six billion euros ($8b) as it faces falling profits.In a presentation published on its website, the company said 500 jobs would be cut at its ...

ISALAMABAD - Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday directed the Estate Office to get 200 government residential flats vacated from the officials of Islamabad police who occupied these flats during Lal masjid operation. IHC Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui issued these directives after a division bench ...

KARACHI – Following the orders of Supreme Court for removal of no-go areas from the metropolis, police and rangers held at least 200 suspects on the first day of the operation.The suspects were taken into custody during targeted operation in Karachi’s top most wanted no-go area, ...

KARACHI – The Customs on Saturday celebrated International Customs Day under the umbrella of World Customs Organisation (WCO).The celebration started in the morning at the Custom’s House Karachi was done by Chief Guest of the event, member customs FBR Muhammd Riaz, with the hoisting of ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A vicious cold snap across Russia and eastern Europe has claimed nearly 200 lives, officials figures showed Friday, as forecasters warned it would last until Christmas Eve.In Russia, the cold has killed two people in the past 24 hours, the Ria-Novosti agency reported, citing medical ...

TRIPOLI  - Almost 200 Libyan prisoners have escaped from a jail in the southern town of Sabha in unclear circumstances, officials said on Wednesday. “One hundred and ninety-seven prisoners escaped the prison of Sabha yesterday (Tuesday),” a member of the security services told AFP ...

KARACHI  - The traffic police on Tuesday, during the city-wide operation against second-rate CNG cylinders installed in the vehicles, took more than 200 buses into custody.According to details, the traffic police on the court directives conducted operation in Saddar, MA Jinnah Road and ...

CHUNIAN (INP) - At least 200 people were affected by gastro in different areas of Chunian Tehsil due to drinking polluted water here on Sunday.According to details, the dwellers of Chunian by drinking water which became unhygienic due to unknown reasons were attacked by gastro.Hospital sources said ...

RAWALPINDI – Around 200 gardeners of Rawal Town Municipal Administration (RTMA) and Parks and Horticulture Agency (PHA) on Thursday held a protest demonstration on non-payment of salaries.They staged a sit-in in front of RTMA offices and Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) demanding ...

RAWALPINDI – Nearly 200 teachers, appointed on the direction of government of the Punjab, have not received their salary for the last two months. Non-payment of salary to the teachers has left them in a state of depression, whereas the scenario has revealed at large, the mismanagement of the ...

HAFIZABAD - The City Police conducted a raid in Mohallah Hussainpura and arrested a notorious drug peddler and recovered 200 grams of heroin from his possession.On a tip-off, the City Police raided in Mohallah Hussainpura and arrested Muhammad Mushtaq and seized 200 grams of heroin from his ...

LAHORE – The Punjab University’s College of Information Technology organised a job fair at its campus on Monday. The aim was to provide employment opportunities to IT students. Over 500 students participated in the event and over 200 were interviewed by 22 national- and multi-national ...

RAWALPINDI Students from various universities on Tuesday participated in “Cut Flower Show.” Students actively participated in the show and used flowers in making different styles and shapes. The programme was organized by Parks and Horticulture Authority Rawalpindi in connection with ...

LAHORE – A delegation of 200 lawyers of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan will leave for India tomorrow (Wednesday) to interact with lawyers in Chandigarh and Delhi. The delegation will cross Wagha border on Wednesday and travel to Chandigarh to attend a seminar at the Chandigarh ...

LAHORE – Police here on Saturday booked more than 200 people, including 15 rickshaw drivers, who had clashed with cops on Friday and created a lawlessness-like situation during their protest at the Babu Sabu Interchange against traffic police. However, no arrests were made in this regard till ...

YAOUNDE  - Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a “massacre” fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan had decimated the elephant population of Bouba Ndjida National Park ...

 More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.Death tolls cited by activists and opposition ...

LOS ANGELES  - Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 200 people and four people were injured as anti-Wall Street protesters tried but failed to take over downtown buildings, including City Hall, in Oakland, California.Protesters from Occupy Oakland - the local offshoot of Occupy Wall ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Railways has planned to repair as many as 200 locomotives in a period of one year as department has almost managed Rs10 billion in this regard. Among these 200 locomotives, 96 will be repaired from the recently received bank loan of Rs6 billion while rest of locomotives ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Ministry of Railways has invited private parties to invest in repair of 200 inoperative locomotives under its policy to encourage public-private partnership (PPP).Organizations including National Logistic Cell (NLC) have shown interest to rehabilitate the locomotives as a draft ...

LAHORE - The National Fertilizer Marketing Limited (NFML) has terminated licences of over 200 agencies, which were involved in black marketing of fertilizers in the country and violating company’s rules and selling urea at exorbitant rates. This was stated by NFML marketing head Uzer Abu ...

WATULIMO, Indonesia, (AFP) - More than 200 people were feared dead after a heavily overloaded boat packed mostly with Afghan and Iranian asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia en route to Australia, rescuers said Sunday. Australias government called the sinking a terrible tragedy, but came under ...

More than 200 suicide bombers are living in Britain and planning attacks, it has been claimed. Ministers have been warned about the scale of the threat in the run-up to next year's Olympics. A secret government report says the would-be bombers are among 2,000 extremists believed to be based in the ...

THE showdown over "The Lone Ranger" is coming down to a final financial shootout three sunsets from Saturday. A few weeks back, Disney shut down the pre-production on the planned Johnny Depp-starring big screen remake, unhappy with a proposed $250 million budget coming from director Gore Verbinski. ...

Pakistan has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile and it could achieve 150-200 warheads in a decade despite the political instability in the country, two top American atomic experts have said. Pakistan is in the process of building two new plutonium production reactors and a new ...

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Tornadoes overnight in northeast Kansas killed one person and damaged some 200 homes, and resulted in a state of emergency being declared for 16 counties, state officials said on Sunday. Elsewhere in the country, towns along the lower Mississippi River were coping with ...

The Sialkot education department officials have stopped the salaries of as many as 200 male and female educator teachers. District Education Officer (DEO) Sialkot Rehana Kausar told the newsmen that the salaries have been stopped as the academic degrees of 200 male and female teachers have not yet ...

Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry. Libyan security forces opened fire on mourners at a funeral for anti-government protesters in the ...