JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defence Forces statement said Tuesday."Overnight, shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military ...

  LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Friday issued notice to thePunjabgovernment, Lahore District Coordination Officer, former and sitting LDA director generals to summit reply in LDA plaza fire case until July 5. The court was hearing a petition seeking directives to bring to book officials ...

ISLAMABAD - Continuing to face criticism for its apparent failure to effectively act against the instances of poll rigging and an unprecedented delay in the general election results, the electoral body has announced re-polling in the polling stations of five more constituencies of Khyber ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority on Tuesday doubled the amount of compensation being paid to the bereaved families of 24 victims of fire incident at LDA Plaza and decided to give Rs one million to each of these families.LDA will also take care of the persons injured in the incident and a ...

SYDNEY : Sky-gazers were treated to an annular solar eclipse in remote areas of Australia on Friday, with the Moon crossing in front of the Sun to leave a “ring of fire” around its silhouette. The eclipse, which occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun but is too close ...

LAHORE - Pakistan People’s Party leader and candidate for NA 125 Naveed Chaudhry alleged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz plotted the fire at LDA Plaza on Thursday.Addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club, Naveed Chaudhary said that he had written a letter to the Election Commission ...

DHAKA : Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, ...

At least five persons were killed and two others injured while several others trapped when a fire erupted at LDA plaza in Lahore on Thursday, rescue sources said.Fire erupted at the seventh floor of 13-storey LDA building around noon and rapidly engulfed three other floors.Three men, in an attempt ...

LAHORE - A six-year-old girl was burnt alive when a fire broke out in her house in the Ghaziabad area on Tuesday. Resident of Tajpura Scheme, Kalsoom Javed, was sleeping when the fire broke out in the bedroom during the loadshedding, shortly after a burning candle fell on the bed. The daughter of ...

SIALKOT - The indiscriminate firing by the Indian security forces on Pakistani bordering villages in Shakargarh panicked the villagers on Tuesday.According to Chenab Rangers officials, villagers were offering Fajar prayer, when the Indian forces unleashed firing from Blair post on bordering ...

SAVAR A fire broke out in the rubble of a Bangladesh factory complex Sunday night, killing what the country’s fire chief described as the last remaining survivor from the building’s collapse five days earlier.“The fire broke out as we were cutting a beam to bring out what we ...

lahore -The international standard high quality Pak “Fire and Heat Proof” garments, especially manufactured for car racers (Formula I Racers) and motorbike riders attracted 20 foreign markets, including USA.Abdul Ghafoor Butt,CEO of BFW told APP here Sunday that Pak made fire and heat ...

LAHORE : The international standard high quality Pak “fire and heat proof” garments, especially manufactured for car racers and motorbike riders attracted 20 foreign markets. Abdul Ghafoor Butt, CEO of BFW, told APP here Friday that Pak-made fire and heat proof garments meet ...

LAHORE - Goods, machinery, and valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when huge fire erupted in a shoemaking factory at Bund Road in the Shafiqabad police limits on early Tuesday, police and eyewitness said. Firefighters said the fire, which erupted because of short-circuiting, ...

DAMASCUS  A Syrian government daily on Sunday accused the United States of having "thrown oil on the fire" of the country's conflict by doubling its aid to the opposition."The meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' held in Istanbul yesterday has thrown oil on the fire of the Syrian ...

Corporal punishment in government schools is very common in our society since decades. Brutal physical punishment always discourages children, instead of teaching them a lesson in behavior. Punishment instills fear in a child and lowers the self-esteem. Children mostly start hating their schools ...

MOSCOW - Russia's Olympic host city of Sochi ran into controversy Thursday after the city authorities announced a plan to exterminate more than 2,000 stray cats and dogs ahead of the Games next year. In a tender posted online this month, the authorities asked companies to bid for a contract to ...

CAPAS, Philippines  - US and Filipino marines staged armoured assault manoeuvres on Friday as part of annual military exercises the Philippines has deemed vital in building its capacity to defend itself.This year’s edition is taking part amid a tense territorial dispute between the ...

MAILSI - A sudden fire in 132/11KV Mepco grid station plunged the entire Mailsi Tehsil into darkness.As per detail, the fire erupted in the Mailsi grid station due to short-circuit plunged the entire Tehsil into darkness as power supply to 11 feeders including City-I, City-II, Saifan Alampur, ...

MULTAN - A huge quantity of paperboard was gutted when a fire erupted in a paperboard-making factory near Bahawalpur Bypass here on Monday.  According to recue sources, fire-fighters were called in to extinguish the fire.  According to rescue sources, fire started due to a short circuit, ...

JAIPUR  – A brace of double-wicket overs from fast bowlers, Rahul Shukla and Siddharth Trivedi, was the decisive blow that secured a second consecutive victory for Rajasthan Royals this season. They did not pick a spinner on a fast and bouncy pitch in their first home game at the Sawai ...

MULTAN - A huge quantity of paperboard was gutted when a fire erupted in a paperboard-making factory near Bahawalpur Bypass here on Monday.  According to recue sources, fire-fighters were called in to extinguish the fire.  According to rescue sources, fire started due to a short circuit, ...

QUETTA - President Balochistan National Party (BNP), Sardar Akhtar Mengal, has said he came back to Balochistan to douse fire in the province and revive peace and harmony.He asserted this while talking to media persons after many notables announced to join the party at the Mengal House, here on ...

Three labourers received burnt injuries when a paint manufacturing factory caught fire in Sham Nagar area here in Lahore on Monday.The fire engulfed the entire building due to presence of chemicals in the factory.The rescue and fire brigade personnel reached the spot and controlled the fire. The ...

As the election date draws nearer, Justice (r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, Chairman, ECP has become the focus of the print and electronic media. He has been in their line of fire and not a day goes by, without harsh and unkind words being said against him and his team. No doubt, up till now, ECP has not ...

RAMALLAH  - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas may fire prime minister Salam Fayyad, a Fatah member said, as the party criticised the premier’s government as being “improvised and confused.” Abbas “is leaning towards dismissing Fayyad from the head of the government and ...

Fire broke out at a cloth market in Multan early Saturday morning causing huge financial losses.Rescue sources said that fire broke out at Kalay Mandi Bazaar of the city early in the morning that gutted 15 to 20 shops rapidly.Eight fire tenders soon reached the site to tame the blaze, however, ...

KARACHI - Fire that erupted in National Medical Centre, a private hospital, on Tuesday morning was extinguished after the efforts of several hours.The hospital, located in Kala Pul area, suddenly caught fire, created panic among patients, doctors and other staff.Fire brigade staff was immediately ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Fire raced through a small garment factory in the Bangladesh capital on Saturday, killing at least seven employees and injuring 10, firefighters and witnesses said, two months after the country's worst factory blaze killed 112 workers. Fire service officials said the fire at Smart ...

TOKYO (AFP) - A fire has razed a 250-year-old wooden temple in Japan, police said Friday, at a site that has been a place of worship since the 13th Century.Tokumanji temple, which sits deep in the mountains of Nagano prefecture was destroyed by the fire, which started late Thursday night, police ...