WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Sunday faced a new congressional gridlock over a payroll tax cut after he signed into law a $1 trillion spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The US Senate passed the spending bill and a two-month payroll tax holiday extension on Saturday, ...

UKULELE virtuoso Bill Tapia died in his sleep Sunday night at his home in Westminster, California. Born January 1, 1908, he was a month short of his 104th birthday. Pat Enos, a close friend and caregiver, said that Tapia had been in failing health since late May when he cancelled plans to come to ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly witnessed a little verbal clash among the members of parliament from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Muttahida Qaumi Movement over the issue of allegations levelled against Altaf Hussain. Besides, the controversial memo issue was slightly discussed by only one ...

ISLAMABAD - The Upper House of the Parliament Thursday unanimously passed the Delimitation of Constituencies (Amendment) Bill, 2011 by bringing changes in the Delimitation of Constituencies Act 1974. The statement of objects and reasons of the Bill, that was moved by Law Minister Moula Baksh ...

ISLAMABAD - The government on Tuesday faced a jolt when Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs noted that federal government could not impose Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) through money bill, as the Supreme Court could reject it if it was challenged in the ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates coolly parried some harsh criticism from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, in an interview with ABC television Sunday, saying their professional rivalry was positive. Gates, who maintained a long rivalry with the Apple innovator, was asked about an ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Lady Gaga serenaded Bill Clinton with a personalised version of her hit Bad Romance on Saturday night at a star-studded tribute to the former US president and his decade-old foundation. Dressed in a blond wig for a Marilyn Monroe moment with Clinton, the pop superstar wished him ...

NANCY (AFP) - A Frenchwoman found proof of the maxim that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes, when she received a bill in the name of a grandfather who died in 1949. I didnt think Id hear any more about my grandfather, whom I never knew, Martine Courtois told AFP, after reading the ...

ISLAMABAD - The countrys oil and food import bill had surged by over 36 per cent in one-year period, as it has recorded at $3.478 billion during the first two months (July-August) of the current financial year 2011-2012 against the $2.545 billion of the same period last year. The import bill of ...

Affirming that there was a lot of scope for give and take on the Lokpal Bill, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that the government was open to discussion and dialogue on the issue. Calling for a broad national consensus on the controversial issue, Dr. Singh expressed the hope ...

WARBURTON - The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited Sheikhupua has sent a shocking sui gas bill to Govt High School Warburton City amounting to Rs1.3 million for the month of June 2011. It was very surprising to see the unpredicted bill which has never exceeded Rs250 since its installation in ...

PESHAWAR - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, termed the Actions in Aid of Civil Power - 2011 Regulations Bill for FATA and PATA, a gross violation of human rights and announced to challenge it in court. Addressing a press conference at Almarkaz-e-Islami, Peshawar on Sunday, the JI KP Ameen ...

The National Assembly Wednesday passed Finance Bill 2011 giving legal effect to the budgetary proposals for the next financial year. With this, the new budget with a total outlay 2767 billion rupees stands approved. A number of amendments proposed by the Finance Minister were incorporated in the ...

ISLAMABAD - The countrys food import bill would increase to $ 7.943 billion during the outgoing financial year 2010-2011 against the government target of $ 2.416 billion mainly due to the failure of crops because of unprecedented floods in the country. The government officials blamed heavy floods ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The German cabinet signed off Monday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe's biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan's Fukushima plant. "I am convinced that the government's decision today represents a milestone in the economic and social ...

ISLAMABAD - After a brief verbal brawl among its members, the NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice rejected the bill with majority about giving status of national language to regional languages. With Begum Nasim Akhtar in chair, the committee met on Wednesday and took up several issues ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday singed the National Defence University (NDU) Bill-2011 into a law which provides for the establishment of the NDU at Islamabad. According to a press release issued on Saturday, the NBU Bill was passed by the National Assembly on February 21, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Marlee Matlin says she is selling her Los Angeles-area house and taking her four children out of private school to ease a cash crunch that has left her owing $50,000 in back taxes. Matlin, 45, told People magazine that she was working out a payment schedule with the ...

Brussels has demanded that British taxpayers stump up more than 682million in extra contributions to the European Union next year to meet a proposed 5.5billion increase in spending that has defied David Camerons repeated calls for austerity. The European Commission will today ignore pleas from the ...

ISLAMABAD - PTCL has introduced public cash/card payment machines (PCPM) - Bill payment points for the convenience of its customers, says a press release. The PTCL Bill Payments Points in the first phase are being installed in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, says a press release issued here on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters converged on Ohio's state capital on Tuesday as legislators considered a bill to curtail collective bargaining rights for public workers and eliminate their right to strike. Republican supporters of Senate Bill 5 say the limits to public workers' ...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has tabled a bill in the National Assembly, calling to clean the country from illegal arms. Addressing a news conference after submitting the bill here on Monday, the MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said the illegal weapons have become a serious threat to the national ...

KARACHI The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill, which aims at regulating and controlling the manufacturing, selling and use of used syringes, which are causing danger to the human lives. A penalty of at least two-year imprisonment and Rs 0.5 million fines has been suggested for violators ...

ISLAMABAD - Women belonging to Scheduled Caste Hindus from Sindh and Southern Punjab on Saturday converged in front of the National Press Club and held a protest demonstration demanding for proper legislation for their marriage registration. Families of scheduled caste Hiunds living in different ...

Interior Minister, Rehman Malik said that bill for restoration of Commissionary system in Sindh would not be tabled before National Assembly. Talking to media here outside Bilawal house on Saturday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that PPP is not going to present bill for restoration of ...

SHE claimed she wasnt broke - but that was before California officials filed another federal tax lien against Pamela Anderson ... this time in the amount of $180,000. The new lien - filed last month - is the latest in the former Baywatch stars alleged tax troubles ... in fact, just last year, the ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani while describing the passage of 19th constitutional amendment as a landmark step has that today the parliament and the political leadership has shown their political sagacity. Speaking in the National Assembly after passage of the Bill here on Wednesday, he ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has introduced a unique Bill Alert Service for the facilitation of its landline and wireless postpaid customers. The newly introduced service has been launched to facilitate the customers and save them from any hassle of additional surcharge ...

Market players could foresee even better than the fortunetellers. That is why perhaps they find hardly any hurdle in the way of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST), unlike the political analysts that are counting numbers in National Assembly. Indifferent to the havoc this extension of the General ...

The federal cabinet approved Reformed General Sales Tax 2010 bill, report said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired the meeting. The meeting also reviewed the decisions of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) and the law and order situation. The finance minister brief the cabinet ...