CAIRO - Ex-president Hosni Mubarak, on trial for the death of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him, said future generations would judge him "fairly" in an interview published on Sunday.  "I have said in the past that history would bear witness and judge, and I am still ...

islamabad - Pakistan and Turkey have historic brotherly relations, therefore Turkish Airline being global airlines wants to further enhance mutual relationship and deep love held between Pakistani people and the Turkish people.Alp Yavuzeser, General Manager, Turkish Airlines North & Central ...

DHAKA  - Bangladesh police arrested the editor of an influential pro-opposition newspaper on Thursday after he was accused of sedition and inciting religious tension in the Muslim-majority nation.The arrests follow a nationwide crackdown on the opposition including the detention of more than ...

ISLAMABAD - Walking 6,000 or more steps a day can decrease the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease for women in their midlife, a new study has claimed.The study published in the journal Menopause, found that habitual physical activity whether it comes from exercising or just activities of ...

LAHORE – The City District Government has raised salaries of the work-charged employees and District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal has issued notification in this regard.The DCO said the hardworking work-charged employees are an asset of the CDGL and their rights would be protected ...

THE Daily Talk is a unique news medium published on a blackboard in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city. As most Liberians lack the money and means to access conventional mass media, this chalk-written daily “newspaper” is the most widely read report in Monrovia.In the Western world, ...

LAHORE – Daily wages workers employed in Wapda at various projects and offices would be brought on regular cadre and the Wapda staff would be granted two pay scales up-gradation alike their counterparts on completion of five years service instead of ten years, assured Wapda Chairman Syed ...

MULTAN – The prices of different daily use items and edibles registered another 9.87 per cent hike during the last week, disclosed a report issued by National Bureau of Statistics. The report pointed out that the portion of society earning around Rs. 35,000 was badly struck by the recent wave ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday that the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) suffered Rs 26.5 billion loss due to corruption and mismanagement during the financial year 2008-09, while the daily deficit in running the organisation currently stood at Rs 40 million (Rs 1.2 billion per ...

Bloomberg has started publishing a daily ranking of the world’s 20 richest people in an effort to keep track of wealth creation round the world, competing directly with Forbes’ well-known list. The new rich list, announced late on Sunday, is another effort by the private financial news ...

DIET soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it everyday may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new US study.Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, in an effort to improve the transport facility in the City, said that some 9,000 people would travel in the first 27-km Bus Rapid Transit System in the City. Addressing a high-level meeting at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park on Monday, the Chief Minister ...

ISLAMABAD - National flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), has been sustaining an average loss of Rs 70 million per day during the year 2011, however, still there is no proposal under consideration of the PIA management to withdraw the facility of free air tickets to its ...

HAFIZABAD - Hundreds of daily wagers of power loom factories in the area are made jobless due to sky rocketing prices of cotton yarn and partly due to prolonged loadshedding, Power loom Factories Association President Mian Yousaf Tehami said here.He urged the Gepco to ensure uninterrupted power ...

Our staff Reporter SIALKOT - Socio-political circles have expressed deep concern over the lowest gas pressure in various parts of Sialkot as a result of which the people in general and housewives in particular facing multiple problems on a daily basis. The residents are of the view that the ...

LAHORE The City District Government and the Pakistan Poultry Association have agreed to continue the demand and supply mechanism for fixation of the poultry rates on daily basis, as the government has withdrawn the earlier decision of forcing the poultry dealers to sell the chicken meet at the ...

Daily pain from sickle cell disease may be far more common - and severe - than previously thought, research suggests. Virginia Commonwealth University researchers asked 232 sickle cell patients to keep diaries. The Annals of Internal Medicine study found many experienced daily pain - but many tried ...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabaos upcoming 3-day official visit to Pakistan reflects the Chinese governments special attention to the development of China-Pakistan relations. This visit will further consolidate the friendship between China and Pakistan and elevate the bilateral strategic cooperative ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Newsweek, the venerable but struggling US magazine, and two-year-old news and blog site The Daily Beast joined forces on Friday in a marriage of print and pixels. Tina Brown, The Daily Beast founder and a former editor of The New Yorker, will be editor-in-chief of the new media ...

The sale of sub-standard daily commodities is in full swing in different areas of Dina while the administration is playing role of silent spectator. As per details, sub-standard meat, yogurt, milk, spices and other food items are being sold freely due to negligence of administration. The residents ...

CPO Rawalpindi Muhammad Wisal Fakhar Sultan has directed all the SHOs of Rawalpindi city to hear public complaints for two hours on routine basis. According to details CPO Rawalpindi Muhammad Wisal Fakhar Sultan issued directives to all the SHOs of Police stations in the city to separate their two ...

KARACHI - The contract employees of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take action against the delaying tactics of airline administration in making them confirmed. Chairman All Pakistan Daily Wagers Action Committee Waheed Iqbal Butt in a press ...

President Asif Ali Zardari allegedly received millions of dollars in kickbacks for the purchase of three French submarines for the Pakistani Navy in 1994, a French daily has reported. Citing documents acquired by it, the daily Liberation in Tuesday's edition claimed Zardari received $4.3 million in ...

LONDON (AFP) - Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers found that the risks of bleeding from taking aspirin were such that its routine use in healthy people cannot ...

As holy month of Ramzan is fast approaching in the country, Prices of more than 25 daily commodities including sugar, rice, pulses, chicken, beef, mutton prices have immensely increased by 20% to 20%. Daily commodities like sugar, rice, pulses, chicken, beef, mutton, vegetables and fruit prices ...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will not be among 3,000 people to attend U.S. President Barack Obamas historic speech shortly after noon Thursday. The official reason for his absence is the death of his 12-year-old grandson, but the child died in mid-May after health complications. Mubaraks eldest ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Tuesday said that 250-mega watt electricity was being saved daily by advancing the official clock one hour. The Ministry of Water and Power had successfully saved about 500MW through the austerity drive that included the advancing ...

The top government health official in Sri Lanka's northern war zone says 40 civilians are killed every day and more than 100 others wounded in the fight between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Dr. Thurairajah Varatharajah said on Friday that the makeshift hospital he is running out of a ...

HIS name is Harvey and he's a surfer of the highest pedigree. After all, it's not everyone who can balance with four feet on the board at once - let alone use his tail as a rudder. The three-year-old labrador is the pet of Scott Pearson and his 16-year-old son James, both keen surfers. He ...

A daily aspirin taken to ward off heart attacks could do more harm than good, scientists warn today. Routine use of the drug fails to prevent victims of type 2 diabetes suffering a first cardiac arrest, their research suggests. They say there is no evidence to show it prevents a heart ...