Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that tsunami of change has started in the country which cannot be stopped. Addressing a press conference at the residence of S A Hameed here in Gujranwala on Thursday, Imran Khan said that he would announce a revolutionary manifesto on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Actor/director Paddy Considines debut feature Tyrannosaur, about a widower trying to conquer crippling anger, picked up three Honours at the British Independent Film Awards including best picture. Considine also won the Douglas Hickox Award for best first-time director and Olivia ...

AARON Allard-Morgan has won the 2011 series of Big Brother, as the first series of the show to be shown on Channel Five came to a close. The 30-year-old self-confessed lothario fought off competition in Fridays final from Jay McKray, after receiving the most votes from the public over the past ...

PARIS (AFP) - Researchers said Wednesday they had discovered a unique microscopic channel through which malaria parasites must pass to infect red blood cells, a finding that opens up a highly promising target for a vaccine. The doorway mechanism is common to all known strains of the deadliest ...

LAHORE Remaining once again the centre of attraction on this Eid, the Lahore Zoo overflowed with the visitors especially the children who enjoyed the tricks of monkeys and other animals. With these kind of visitors, the Zoo administration claimed to generate record revenue as maximum footfalls ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Police officials on Monday arrested two females namely Ayesha Malik and Mah-e-Noor the sister and nice of former Town Nazim Yousaf Ahad Malik when they came to court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Arif Hameed Sheikh on Monday in connection with an interim bail ...

ISLAMABAD - The infamous National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam has taken a new turn as its chief investigator Zafar Ahmed Qureshi in his fortnight report submitted before the Supreme Court has stated that money was laundered in the mega corruption scandal and Moonis Elahi, one of the ...

LAHORE As per the report of the Punjab government regarding the leaking of entry test questionnaire of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), it has been figured out that the teaching staff was not involved in the crime, rather low ranking officials were involved in it. It has been ...

SALLY Bercow has agreed the terms of a 100,000 contract to appear alongside Amy Childs on Celebrity Big Brother, according to a report. The outspoken wife of House of Commons Speaker John Bercow was linked with the Channel 5 reality show last week, but used Twitter to hint there was nothing in the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Sheraz Kayani on Monday dismissing an application seeking addition of Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 to the FIR registered against DSP Riasat Bajwa and three other policemen for staging a fake encounter, ...

PORT OD SPAIN (Agencies) - Chris Gayle has been named international cricketer and Test player of the year at the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) awards. Allrounder Stafanie Taylor picked up the international women's player of the year award. Gayle's recognition was chiefly inspired by his ...

LAHORE - Instead of providing relief to the citizens, the operation clean-up and excavation work for commencement of various development projects in the city are not only posing a threat to the surrounding buildings, but are also a major nuisance for general public, a survey conducted by The Nation ...

PARENTS, please note - your childs wrists could indicate whether they have a risk of developing heart disease when they grow up, say researchers. A new study has found that the bigger wrist size, the higher the childs resistance to insulin, a factor which could push up the chances of heart ...

LAHORE Nawa-i-Waqt Group in collaboration with SozoWorld Cinema will organize Cricket Mania and show quarter-finals, semi-finals and final on big screen at the SozoWorld Cinema. Cricket fans praised Nawa-i-Waqt Group and SozoWorld for this joint venture. They maintained that Pakistan team is ...

ISLAMABAD Probing the Haj scam, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is tightening its noose around some of the main accused but turning a blind eye to certain other big shots, including the PMs son, primarily under pressure from FIA DG Waseem Ahmed. The FIA on February 21 handed over a ...

ISLAMABAD - The disqualification of fake degree holder politicians is still a far cry as big guns, allegedly, still influence the degrees scrutiny process carried out by Election Commission of Pakistan, it is learnt. Apart from the 22 cases that have been sent by the ECP to the district police ...

LAHORE - PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has appointed a prominent campaigner of his release during his seven years in jail and his spokesperson at the time, Mian Shams, as the partys new Central Deputy Secretary Information after Haider Zaman Qureshi resigned on Monday. He was chief campaigner ...

A day after he inadvertently read out bits of the Portuguese foreign minister's speech at a Security Council debate, Indian external affairs minister S M Krishna on Sunday said that these things happen because many of these speeches make the same initial points. "There was nothing wrong in it," ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Angry investors took to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital on Sunday after the national stock exchange suffered another dramatic fall, in the latest of a series of collapses that forced trading to halt several times last month. The benchmark Dhaka Stock Exchange index shed 5.7 ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Cities and towns across the United States started to dig out on Thursday from a winter storm that stretched for thousands of miles, with many areas still grappling with treacherous travel conditions. Airlines face a huge job untangling schedules and getting travellers on their ...

LAHORE - Governor Sardar Latif Khosa and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who met at the Governors House on Monday, had a unanimous view that kite flying should be allowed during the upcoming basant festival. Governor Khosa, said sources, argued: If a plane crashes, all other flights are not ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)'s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat's decision to call Palestine footballers to visit Pakistan for Soccer series will be a landmark in the history of Pakistan football despite all the relations with the country who was founded in 1952, but was ...

LAHORE - Large local refineries are likely to take over small OMCs like Admore, Hascombe and OOTCL amidst oil price de-regulation growing circular debt scenario in energy sector in the country, it was learnt. The BYCO presently is hungry to find new avenues to market its bulk supplies and is eager ...

Graeme Smith struck a fighting century to put South Africa on track for a big total against a hapless Pakistan attack on the opening day of the first Test here on Friday. Smith hit eight boundaries in his 152-ball 100 and shared a 153-run opening stand with Alviro Petersen (67) before Hashim Amla ...

Abdul Razzaq has said that wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider made a big mistake by leaving the team without reporting to the respected team management. Talking to media men after arriving from Abu Dubai at Allama Iqbal International Airport Abdul Razzaq said that team management did not drop the ...

BAHAWALPUR Khadija Waran, the PPP candidate, won the by-election held in NA-184 Bahawalpur-II on Saturday. According to unofficial results, Khadija won by a big margin of over 27,000 votes, as she obtained 75,507 votes while his PML-N rival could manage 48,145 only. The seat had fallen vacant ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday said apart from the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the flood-hit areas, the other great challenge was to preclude and neutralise the extremist elements taking advantage of the prevailing situation. He also stressed the need of early ...

LAHORE Lahore Tigers, Lahore Stags and Bank Alfalah Lahore Blues won their matches by beating Lahore Wizards, Lahore Oranges and Lahore Sufis respectively in the Lahore Premier League on Wednesday. Lahore Tigers crushed Razi Pharma Lahore Wizards by 177 runs. Batting first, Lahore Tigers posted a ...

KARACHI- Imposition of Agricultural Income became a bone of contention between the two major coalition partners, PPP and MQM with legislators of former opposing and latter supporting the levying of the tax in their speeches made on the floor of the Sindh assembly during the debate on the provincial ...

LAHORE Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt said here Tuesday that he has taken the vice-captaincy as a challenge and urged the PCB to be patient with him and give him ample time to prove his leadership credentials. The vice-captain of the Pakistan team said that the players at the training camp ...