WARSAW - One of the oldest salt mines in Europe, Poland’s Wieliczka, called for photos of salt from across the globe for a contest and show at its underground museum.“We thought it would be good to learn about the rest of the world’s salt and compile a portrait of it,” ...

MANILAA coin toss has decided the lucky winner of mayor for a small Philippine town, after rival candidates were tied at the end the vote count, en election official said Thursday.The dramatic conclusion to the contest for San Teodoro, a farming town of about 16,000 people in the central ...

LAHORE : The Nespak has won two projects of national importance in Karachi and Balochistan by setting up a winning streak. Lately, it won first prize in an open architectural design competition for the Balochistan High Court Complex at Turbat.  As per press release, total of 23 architectural ...

DUBAI : An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the presidential race on Friday, with authorities keen to make the June vote a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that followed the disputed 2009 poll. Reformist groups have been suppressed or sidelined since then and the next ...

SWATA neck and neck contest is expected between PML-N's heavyweight Syed Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha Lala and PTI's Murad Saeed in NA-29 (SWAT).All major political parties have started feverish election campaign for NA seat NA-29, (SWAT-1).The PML-N and PTI are being considered main competitors while ...

KARACHI - Former captain Rashid Latif has said that he would challenge the manner in which Zaka Ashraf was elected Pakistan Cricket Board chairman under the new constitution by filing a petition in the High Court."After my first petition, the PCB introduced a few amendments to its constitution. ...

PARIS - German Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach Thursday officially announced his candidature to succeed Jacques Rogge as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president. He is the first IOC member to declare intention to take over from Rogge who is retiring after 12 years. In a ...

lahore - Who should one vote for? This will be the major question before the people on Saturday when they will be standing in polling booths to exercise their constitutional right to choose the rulers for the next five years. They would certainly support the party or parties which, in their ...

SAHIWAL In NA-161 which consists of rural areas including Ghala Mandi, Dera Rahim, Kameer, Bahadur Shah and a few other villages of Yousafwala, a neck and neck showdown is expected between PML-N candidate Ch Muhammad Ashraf and PTI candidate Muhammad Yar Dhaku.In the constituency, Muhammad Ashraf ...

Dorset, UK BBC - More than 700 biscuit athletes have entered a throwing competition in Dorset.The Dorset Knob Throwing contest in Cattistock involves participants tossing a locally made, spherical biscuit as far as they can. Organiser Nigel Collins said 5,000 people were expected to attend the ...

ATLANTA: Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and paid a $100 (£64) fine after her arrest last month.She was detained while arguing with a policeman who was giving her talent agent husband a sobriety test in Atlanta, Georgia. While ...

PESHAWAR - WAJIDULLAH  - Neck and neck contest is expected between Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Syed Aqil Shah and Muttahida Deen-e-Mahaz (MDM) nominee Ibrahim Qasmi at PK-4, Peshawar in scheduled May 11 polls.With general polls less than ten days away, electioneering is in full swing ...

ATTOCK - In National Assembly constituency, NA-58 Attock, five candidates are trying their luck in the general election 2013.The candidates include Malik Aetbar Khan (PML-N), Malik Sohail Khan (PTI), Malik Mazhar Hussain (MQM) while Arshad Mehmood Qadri and Maj (Retd) Tahir Sadiq are contesting in ...

Karachi - The NA-240 constituency will be a battle ground between the rightist and secular political parties in the upcoming 2013 elections on May 11. The constituency comprising of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual segments was won by the MQM while the PPP was the runner up in 2008 elections. The ...

Karachi - The ex-coalition partners,-PPP, MQM and ANP, while joining hands, announced on Monday not to bow down to the religious extremists and Taliban and participate in the elections despite terror attacks and threats from the religious extremists. The leaders of the three parties, addressing a ...

GUJRANWALA -A tough contest is expected in NA-95 constituency among Usman Ibrahim (PML-N), Ali Ashraf Mughal (PTI) and Ch Muhammad Siddique (PPP) on the elections day. Usman Ibrahim is former MNA while Ali Ashraf and Ch Muhammad Siddique are contesting for the first time. The political ...

KARACHI - With the record of criminals’ activities, constituency of NA-249 will pose a challenge for the caretaker government and the law-enforcement agencies for conducting peaceful general elections.The serious issues in the constituency have been target killings and extortion which ...

RAWALPINDI - It is a sure-enough battle of nerves in NA-56 having all the ingredients of either shattering the PML-N popularity credentials or taming down the PTI Tsunami waves before they could penetrate the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The city, till date, is a political fortress of the Sharifs ...

LAHORE - Nationalist parties of Balochistan feel they had made a mistake by boycotting the 2008 elections, but now they want to participate in the electoral process so that the elected representatives could take steps to solve people’s problems.This was stated by intellectual, journalist and ...

Lahore  -  The Lahore High Court full bench on Tuesday allowed Muhammad Aslam Madhyana, a leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, to contest elections from PP-31 Sargodha, suspending the returning officer’s decision.The full bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan also granted ...

Lahore - Dr Ghazanfar Mehdi, a candidate for general elections 2013, has announced to contest elections from NA-40.  Dr Mehdi also presented his manifesto comprising seven major salient features. He said that he was going to take part in active politics to save the country and its people from ...

Lahore - A total of 2,367 and 5,758 candidates for 148 National Assembly seats of Punjab and 297 Punjab Assembly general seats respectively will contest in general polls to be held on May 11th.According to Punjab Election Commission statistics issued here on Sunday, total 3,569 were validly ...

LAHORE  - A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday stopped a PPP candidate from contesting the polls by dismissing his petition and provisionally permitted the PML-Q candidate Ch Wajahat Hussain to contest election. The court also allowed three candidates of PML-N and one of PTI to ...

ISLAMABAD -A Pakistani student has bagged a silver medal in international environmental competition held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The students representing 47 countries presented 123 projects in the 7th International Environmental Project Olympiad (INEPO Eurasia).Alvaz Adnan, a student of PakTurk ...

LAHOREThe Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust held a speech contest in connection with Allama Iqbal celebrations at the Pakistan Movement Workers’ Trust on Thursday. NPT Vice-Chairman Prof Rafique Ahmad has said that students can make the country developed and powerful according to its ideological ...

lAHORE­:- A declamation contest among the students on Allama Iqbal’s thoughts will be held at the Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan today (Thursday). The NPT in collaboration with the Tehreek-i-Pakistan Workers Trust will organise the event.  Also, the students and teachers of ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday conditionally allowed former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to contest elections from NA-51.The court has ordered to include his name in the final list of contesting candidates.During hearing Farooq H. Naek, Latif Khosa, Ahsan Bhon and Abid Saqi were appeared ...

SAHIWAL - The former PML-N’s MPA from PP-222 Sahiwal-III has announced to contest election independently after he was denied a ticket by PML-N.Addressing the media at his residence, he expressed the hope that he would the election with the support of his supporters in the constituency.He said ...

SAHIWAL - The former PML-N’s MPA from PP-222 Sahiwal-III has announced to contest election independently after he was denied a ticket by PML-N.Addressing the media at his residence, he expressed the hope that he would the election with the support of his supporters in the constituency.He said ...

Swat- National ‘Qiraat’ competition was held at the Wadudia Hall Mingora here on Monday. The programme was organised by the Pakistan Army in which more than 15 participants from different parts of the country participated. A team of judges comprising Mulana Dr Ahmed Mian Tahnawal and ...