SAVAR   Rescue teams found around 50 people alive Friday on the third floor of a collapsed garment factory compound on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, a fire brigade official said. “We have found around 50 people still alive at several places on the third floor after ...

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actor-filmmaker Ben Affleck says he will take the Live Below the Line challenge next week and spend no more than $1.50 on food and drink in a day. OMG! said the “Argo” director is attempting to raise awareness and funds for The Global Poverty Project, which is ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif alleged that funds amounting to 50 billion rupees were embezzled during the last 5 years.Addressing a public gathering in Khanewal on Wednesday‚ he said we will change the lives of farmers after assuming power.He said due to ...

lahore -  salman abduhu -  The recent surge in transportation cost for both cement and coal would notably increase freight costs for the local manufacturers and analysts are expecting an increase of 50 rupees in the price of 50kg cement bag.Though cement industry will pass on this rise to ...

baqaul mohsinbahawalpur  - Nine persons were killed and 50 others injured when a speeding air-condition bus rammed into a tree while saving a motorcyclist here near Chak 5/BC on Hasilpur Road. The injured included the bike-riders.According to details, the Bahawalpur-bound bus coming from ...

lahore - Excise and Taxation (E&T) authorities on Thursday sealed more than 50 properties in Zone-A extended Region-B. Director General Excise and Taxation, Hamayun Mazhar formed team headed by Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer (AETO), Malik Aslam and team members, Raja Asif, Shahid Ameen ...

BAGHDAD  - Dozens of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, killed 50 people on Monday, just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.The violence, which mostly struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead ...

JERUSALEM  - Israel’s Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday said that 50 new homes would be built in annexed east Jerusalem to house Holocaust survivors. “These 50 homes, which will be added to those existing homes for the elderly in east Talpiot, will be earmarked for Holocaust ...

SIALKOT - The Pasrur Police have registered a case (No. 85/2013) under sections 147, 148, 224 and 225 PPC against 50 local lawyers for attacking the court of a local civil judge and ransacking furniture and other articles there during a vandalism and hooliganism in court here the other day. On ...

LAHORE - The Pak-India trade Promotion Committee Convener and Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry former Vice President Aftab Ahmad Vohra has asked the government to ensure presentation of business community in the newly-announced Pakistan Land Port Authority (PLPA) on the patron of Karachi ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 50 people, including policemen, were injured in Bangladesh on Monday as Islamist activists protested against the prosecution of their leaders on the charges stemming from a war of independence 40 years ago.The protesters set off crude explosives and threw bricks on the ...

SIALKOT - As many as 50,000 employees have been terminated from their jobs due to CNG closure at 360 filling stations. All stations have been lying closed for the last two weeks in Gujranwala Division's all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts. CNG ...

SIALKOT - As many as 50,000 employees have been terminated from their jobs due to CNG closure at 360 filling stations. All stations have been lying closed for the last two weeks in Gujranwala Division's all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts. CNG ...

At least eleven people were killed and more than 50 including three FC personnel were injured in a powerful blast Bacha Khan square area of troubled city of Quetta, officials said on Thursday.According to CCPO Quetta, Meer Zubair Mahmood, the bomb was planted in a car parked at Bacha Khan square on ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has announced with a lot of fan fair the setting up of a pilot project of power generation by using wind power near Jhimpir to produce 50 MW of energy which is peanuts considering the so-called 50 thousand MW and 40 thousand MW potential from wind and hydel sources. We ...

KARACHI  - The police in their ongoing drive against criminals, arrested 50 accused during the past 24 hours. A police statement on Thursday said that those arrested included 28 absconders and one proclaimed offender. It said that there were five encounters in which two gangs of alleged ...

SHEIKHUPURA - The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) impound raw building material from about 50 shops for violation of rules and regulations and spreading material on roads. The authority also got registered cases against the owners here the other day. According to details, on special direction ...

BAHAWALPUR – The Punjab government has linked 50 colleges of Bahawalpur Division to online system. People now can get information regarding colleges through internet, said the deputy director colleges.During the inaugural ceremony of the online system at Sadiq Ejerton College Bahawalpur, ...

NEW DELHI - After months of dilly-dallying, India has finally agreed to sell and lease out its locomotives to Pakistan, thus helping the neighbouring country restart its defunct train services, reported Hindustan Times on Wednesday.In the first-of-its-kind deal, the Indian railways will deliver 50 ...

ISLAMABAD  - Shehzad Town police Islamabad on Saturday conducted search operation in its various areas and nabbed a total of 50 suspects, a police spokesman said.The search operation was conducted by Shehzad Town Police Station in various areas, including Sawan, Khana, and Pindorian. ...

NEW DELHI  - Fifty years ago India tasted bitter defeat at the hands of China in a brief border war, and the memory still spooks New Delhi’s leaders as they try to compete with their powerful Asian neighbour.In 1962, badly-equipped Indian troops were humiliated in the four-week battle ...

JACOBABAD (SIKANDER B KHOSO) - Literacy Coordinator National Commission for Human Development Ahsan Abro said that 50 centres would be established to educate the women across the district. Addressing corner meetings at different villages of taluka Thul including Pyaro Mahar, Sardar Khan, Chttal ...

ISLAMABAD – Sabzi Mandi Police Station on Thursday conducted search operation in its respective jurisdiction including slum areas and nabbed 50 suspects, a police spokesman said. In the search operation, 50 suspects were arrested, who could not produce any document for their identification. A ...

CALIFORNIA (WO) Rapper 50 Cent is set to tell all about his top fitness tips in a new exercise book. The rapper is teaming up with bosses at publishing house Penguin Group USA to release Formula 50: A 6-Week Total Body Transformation Plan. And the hip-hop star, real name Curtis Jackson, who ...

ISLAMABAD  - Visas have been stamped on the passports of over 50,000 people intending to perform Haj under the government scheme this year, said an official of Ministry of Religious Affairs.Talking to APP he said, the Haj flight booking of government scheme hujjaj would begin from Monday (Sep ...

KARACHI - The government has prepared a list to withdraw the reward money on Lyari gangsters.PPP leader Abdul Qadir Patal while talking to the media said that that the government is re-examining list of reward money imposed on Lyari gangsters and assured the withdrawal of reward money imposed by ...

KARACHI - Following the reports of possible terror threats to “sensitive” prisons in the province, the Sindh government has shifted at least 50 dangerous prisoners to other jails in rural districts from Karachi. Issuing security alerts for the jails, the government has also decided to ...

KARACHI - The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has got vacated the land allocated for the S-III sewerage project in Mauripur, from the land mafia.A KWSB statement on Saturday said that the 50 acre land worth billions of rupees.It said that a case has been got registered against the ‘Qabza ...

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Saturday informed that an area of 50 acres had been allotted to the federal law enforcement agency, Pakistan Rangers, on nominal price of Rs2 per square for residential accommodation in Karachi. Moreover, the Defence Housing Authority has yet to pay the remaining ...

SITTWE, Myanmar  - Fifty people have been killed in communal clashes in western Myanmar, state media said Saturday, as the UN warned of “immense hardship” faced by thousands displaced by rioting.State mouthpiece the New Light of Myanmar said 50 people have died, with 54 injured ...