DERA GHAZI KHANLow turnout is expected in Dera Ghazi Khan District owing to the ongoing wheat harvesting, improper election campaigns, fewer numbers of the polling stations and voters' lack of interest in the rural and the tribal belts.Besides migration of the tribesmen from Suleman Ranges to the ...
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 ...
LONDON Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy is expected to announce his retirement this week, Britain's domestic Press Association news agency said on Monday. The 37-year-old track cyclist, who first won gold in the 1km time-trial in Athens in 2004, has been considering his future after adding ...
PESHAWAR - In order to have seat-to-seat adjustment in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, talks between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI-F) are in final stage and both parties are hoping to reach a consensus any time.Several rounds of talks between the JUI-F and PML-N have ...
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
KHYBER AGENCY – As electioneering is in progress, a tough contest is expected among contenders of different political parties on two National Assembly seats - NA-45 and NA-46 in Khyber Agency. Khyber Agency has been split in two constituencies for National Assembly. NA-45 comprises tehsils ...
ISLAMABAD – Due to favourable climate conditions, sufficient availability of agricultural inputs and best management practices, bumper wheat crop production of 25 million tons is expected during the current year.Different crop measuring indicators have shown significant improvement that ...
LAHORE - Sentiment at the local bourse remained positive this week, shored by anticipation of further easing in the upcoming monetary policy and positive rumours, particularly in the consumer space. While second and third tier stocks were in the spotlight, key sectors like cement (higher cement ...
ISLAMABAD - The expected extension in service of COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has been challenged in Islamabad High Court.A private TV channel on Sunday reported that the filed petition in the IHC pointed that the age of the incumbent COAS has crossed 60 years as on April 20, 2012 he was of 60 ...
LOS ANGELES - Mariah Carey said on Friday her husband Nick Cannon was expected to go home this weekend after being hospitalized with kidney problems. Cannon, 31, host of TV show “America’s Got Talent” fell ill with what Carey called “mild kidney failure” while ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - The first meeting of the Cotton Crop Assessment Committee, held under the chairmanship of Secretary Ministry of Textile Industry Shahid Rashid, has come to the conclusion that cotton production this year is expected to be 12.223 million bales. Representatives of the ...
our staff repoRE The expected cut in the SBP key policy rate and the drop in National Savings Schemes yields drove the bullish trend at the local bourses though uncertainty at global financial markets along with deteriorating US-Pak relations kept the investors nervous throughout the week. ...
LAHORE (Agencies) - PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt is likely to have an informal discussion on the Pakistan Task Teams (PTT) report with the ICCs top brass and PTT members during the Lords Test between England and India beginning on July 21. It will be the first, albeit unofficial, meeting between the PCB, ...
ISLAMABAD - Despite the dilly-dally by New Delhi in making the ongoing Pak-India dialogue a meaningful process, Islamabad has high hopes of the engagement as it seeks a constructive and result-orientated parlays with the eastern neighbour. We continue to say that we will not indulge in negative ...
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this weekend, sources informed. Invited by the government of Turkmenistan, President Zardari will attend a summit in Ashkabad on December 11 where the heads of governments of Afghanistan, India and ...
A RARE masterpiece by Titian is expected to sell for more than 13 million at auction after going on public display for the first time in 30 years. A Sacra Conversazione was painted around 1560 by the Old Master when he was in his seventies and will go on sale at Sothebys in New York in January. ...
LAHORE - Punjab University BA/BSc Annual Examinations 2010 result is expected in the third week of August. The PU has started advance booking for the result gazettes and only 100 copies at Rs 3,000 each will be sold on 'first come first serve basis. The amount will be deposited in designated ...
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Relieved Greek premier George Papandreou said early Saturday that Europe will hit the send button and transfer billions of euros of crisis loans within days. In the following days, Greece will receive the first tranche of the 110 billion euros from the EU and the IMF, Papandreou ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The global economy will grow at a faster-than-expected rate of 4.2 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, heralding the prospect of a rapid if patchy recovery. The Washington-based fund said the emerging markets of Brazil, China and India will drive ...
KARACHI - Due to the subdued operation in the early part of the year on account of negative domestic Gross Refinery Margins (GRMs), refinery throughput continued trailing in the 9th month of the current financial year, down 7 per cent to 6.1 million tons on year-on-year basis. However, GRMs ...
JHANG - While there has been much talk that by-elections results would gauge the popularity graph of the self-acclaimed political elite of the country, the stage is set today (Wednesday) for a decisive political battle between the PPP and PML-N at PP-82 (Jhang) seat. While other candidates seem to ...
KARACHI (APP) - Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar on Monday hoped to get off-shore drilling results of Block-M of Indus Basin from the Italian exploring company ENI Pakistan Ltd in a month. We are hoping to explore a big reserve of gas from this field, he said while ...
The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their findings appear December 20 in the advanced online edition of Nature ...
Saeed Ajmal has provided stingy off-spin option to Pakistan that can anchor the attack. In the game against England Saeed bowled well dismissing their two main players i.e. Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood. With Pakistan in a must win situation, the greenshirts will be hoping that the ...
Tillakaratne Dilshan proved to be an asset for his IPL side Delhi Daredevils with 418 runs at 41.8 and a strike rate of 122.78 at this year's edition. He will be aiming to replicate similar performance for Sri Lanka at this Twenty20 World Cup. Dilshan will be opening the batting here and if he ...
KARACHI - An aggressive bidding competition is expected to be seen during the bidding for acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland, Pakistan, sources told The Nation. They said that the Habib Bank Limited, MCB Bank and Jahangir Siddiqui Company are the leading financial institutions in Pakistan and ...
KARACHI - The economic growth target envisaged at 2.5 per cent for the year 2008-09 is still achievable on the back of better growth prospects in the agriculture and services sector. According to the Ministry of Finances Review of Economic Situation for the period July-February 2008-09 released on ...
KARACHI - The United Bank Limited (UBL) is likely to post earnings of Rs11.0 billion (EPS of Rs10.9) in 2008 versus earnings of Rs8.4 billion (diluted EPS of Rs8.3) last year, depicting a handsome growth of 32 percent YoY. It is expected that fee income could grow by 16 percent to Rs6.0 billion, ...
THE American 1918 inverted "Jenny" is one of the most famous stamps in the world. It features a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny in flight, mistakenly printed upside down. Only one sheet of 100 of the 24 cent stamps were printed incorrectly and the inverted "Jenny" has soared in popularity and value. The ...
GENEVA (AFP) - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising the sea level and fuelling climate change, a scientific survey revealed Wednesday. Warming in the Antarctic was "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic sea ...






