MUMBAI - At least 47 people were crushed to death on the outskirts of Mumbai when an unauthorised partly-built apartment block collapsed, officials said Friday, highlighting the dangers of India’s illegal housing boom.The seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday evening into a mangled heap ...

SIALKOT - Because of having “no political influence”, 47,000 applicants have been on the tenterhooks for gas connections for the last three years across Sialkot district. The applicants including Muhammad Iqbal, Khalid Mehmood, Bashir Ahmed, Rukhsana Bibi, Naseem Akhtar, Khalida ...

The government has allocated Rs 47,192.3 million for the water and power sector in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2012-13 for 78 ongoing and new projects. According to the budgetary documents released on Friday, the government has specified Rs 6,000 million for raising ...

KARACHI - Police used water cannons and truncheons to break up an anti-government demonstration on Wednesday, wounding at least 47 protesters as scores of women and men paramedics demanding raise in salaries tried to enter into the Red Zone despite the near-certainty they would be attacked and ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - President Asif Ali Zardari, who is in Dubai for health reasons, said he was absolutely fine but doctors are not allowing him to travel back home, reported private TV channels on Friday. The president said how could Article 47 of the Constitution be imposed on him as he was ...

An average of 47 Facebook statuses referencing the royal wedding were posted every second in the run up to Prince William and Kate Middletons nuptials, it has been revealed. Updates on the social networking site totalled 684,399 in just four hours, with the royal couple, best man Prince Harry and ...

KARACHI - Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology (FUUAST) has published about 47 books in Urdu language for higher classes (BSc and MSc) in different scientific disciplines. Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation (BCC&T) of the Urdu University has achieved this target ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices rose back above 47 dollars on Monday as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on and major crude producer Iran said OPEC would hold a special meeting next month. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in February climbed 78 cents to 47.69 dollars a barrel in late morning ...

KARACHI - Having the largest share in local consumer durables industry and being a main component of large scale manufacturing sector, the growth in cars and jeep production showed a steep decline of 47.2 per cent during July-September 2008-09 due to energy constraints, high input cost of auto ...

ISLAMABAD - The government has approved 47 development schemes with an estimated cost of Rs 50.1 billion, which would be completed during the next three to eight years. Central Development Working Party, headed by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission M Salman Faruqui, approved these projects ...