LAHORE- Punjab Olympic Association (PbOA) has decided to stay away from the so-called National Games being held later this month at Islamabad. PbOA secretary Idrees Haider Khawaja said this at a news conference after a special general council meeting of the body held under the chairmanship of its ...

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Sports Board (PCB) released Rs58million grant on Friday to the Interim Committee of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) to hold the 32nd National Games from June 28 while the remaining Rs22m will be released in few days. The PSB formed three-member committee which includes PSB ...

TAIPEI - Finger fatigue after hours of video gaming may become a thing of the past, as firms unveil headsets that measures users’ brainwaves and allow them to interact with apps installed in computers.The new technology is part of a wider exhibition of wearable computing, the next great ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Sports Board has approved RS 80 million grant for the hosting of 32nd National Games in Islamabad from June 28 to July 3, this was revealed by Rana Mujahid, member POA Interim Committee while addressing a press conference on Thursday. Paksitan Sports Board Director General Syed ...

CANNES: Jennifer Lawrence attended the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday to promote her upcoming film release The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.The Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook star was joined by cast-mates Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne) and Sam Claflin (Finnick Odair), and the ...

ISLAMABAD - Older people who play video games challenging their mental processing speed could delay the ageing of their minds, a new study has found.According to the study from the University of Iowa, researchers found that elderly people who played just ten hours of a game priming their mental ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) interim committee member Rana Mujahid Wednesday said the 32nd National Games would be held in Islamabad from June 20 to 27. Talking at a press conference held at PSB Media Center, Rana said: “All the required funds for hosting of games will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Electronic Arts on Monday announced that it will “retire” some Facebook games that seem to have fallen out of favor with players at the leading social network. EA said that ‘The Sims Social, ‘SimCity Social’ and ‘Pet Society’ will be ...

SYDNEY - Better use of resources rather than more government funding will help Australia return to the top five Olympic nations, Australia Olympic Committee president John Coates said on Friday.The AOC has set another top-five target for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics after Australia slipped to ...

LAHORE - The interim committee of Pakistan Olympic Committee will meet on April 16 at Islamabad to take important decisions. “The most important item on the agenda is to fix the dates of the national games which will be held at Islamabad in due course of time ‘, said secretary of the ...

MANILA (AFP) - Thousands of US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Friday that the Philippines said were vital to building its defence capabilities to face the rising threat of China.Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario used the launch of the 12-day Balikatan ...

LAHORE - With the slogan ‘Ride off Cancer’, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) in collaboration with Junior Polo League (JPL) and Golden Goals is organising an event with children to raise funds to treat children suffering from Cancer on Saturday ...

Pakistan provided a desperate win to the Aussies after they went down to tenth spot on the ICC T20 rankings as the green shirts bundled out to just 74, their lowest ever T20 total (previous 89 against England in 2012) in the third and final clash of the three match series. Inconsistency remains the ...

LONDON  - The Queen declared the London Olympics open after playing a cameo role in a dizzying ceremony designed to highlight the grandeur and eccentricities of the nation that invented modern sport.Children's voices intertwining from the four corners of her United Kingdom ushered in an ...

While many among Pakistani leadership describe Mansoor Ijaz as an unreliable person and an enemy of Pakistan, the description more or less fits quite a few of our politicians in and out of government. It is thanks to these people, and of course military interventions, that we are in the miserable ...

Peter Moores believes England paid the price for not being mentally prepared for the first Test against Pakistan. And the Lancashire coach feels they can't afford to let the 10-wicket defeat dent their confidence ahead of the second Test in Abu Dhabi, which starts Wednesday.England went into the ...

GARETH PORTER AND JIM LOBEThe postponement of a massive joint United States-Israeli military exercise appears to be the culmination of a series of events that has impelled the Barack Obama administration to put more distance between the United States and aggressive Israeli policies toward Iran.The ...

Political statement by Army even for clarification or premiere criticism of Army Chief and DG ISI reflects great cracks within the current dispensation. While Pakistan is at war with itself and with enemies, having lost more than 35 thousands lives, including our soldiers, officers and ...

TEHRAN  - Iran announced plans on Friday for new military exercises in the world's most important oil shipping lane, the latest in weeks of bellicose gestures towards the West as new sanctions threaten Tehran's oil exports.Real Admiral Ali Fadavi, naval commander of the Revolutionary Guards ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain will have 13,500 troops on duty for the 2012 London Olympics, and will also deploy two warships, warplanes and ground-to-air missiles, the defence minister announced Thursday. Philip Hammond said the games were a "once in a generation" event for the country and that Britain ...

LAHORE - Senior Minster Punjab Sardar Zulifqar Ali Khosa inaugurated the fourth Inter School, Collegiate Games 2011 here at the Punjab Stadium on Tuesday. President Punjab Olympic Association (POA) Syed Shahid Ali, Sr Vice President Iftikar Ali Malik, Secretary POA Idrees Haider Khawaja, Associate ...

Earlier this month, India's representative to the UN stood up at a conference and declared that if Syria changed Article 8 of its constitution which enshrines the supremacy of the Baath Party then that would be reform enough. The families of the thousands who have been murdered and tortured are ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Hemlines are a little longer at this years annual online gaming fair in Shanghai, as companies take to heart a government directive against vulgarity, a Chinese newspaper reported on Friday. The ChinaJoy Expo, an annual online game showcase, is well-known for its spicy girls ...

OSLO (AFP) - Usain Bolt delivered a stunning 200m victory at the Bislett Games on Thursday but Caster Semenya was outshone by unheralded Moroccan Halima Hachlaf in the women's 800m. Bolt, the double world and Olympic champion and world record holder in both the 100 and 200m, was making his season's ...

ISLAMABAD - Johann Koss, one of the great athletes of all time and four-time Olympic gold medallist in speed skating on Thursday discussed his future plans in detail and the work done by his NGO, 'Right to Play', in Pakistan and other developing countries. In a press conference at a local hotel ...

KARACHI - The Sports Journalists Association of Sindh (SJAS) will honour Asian Games gold medallists belonging to Sindh province in a ceremony to be staged on January 6 here at the PSB National Coaching and Training Centre. This was decided in the SJAS Managing Committee, which met at the Karachi ...

PESHAWAR - Aamir Atlas, the gold medal winner for Pakistan in the Asian Games, will kindle the torch while former legendary Olympians will line up in a row as a sign of efforts to promote sports during the opening ceremony to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on December 25. ...

LAHORE Pakistan weightlifter Matiur Rehman will flex his muscles in the 69 kg weight category of the Asian Games weightlifting competition on Monday (today). Earlier, Pakistani weightlifter Abdullah Ghafoor lifted 224 kg weight in 56 kg weight category and earned 12th position in the Asian ...

LAHORE - Glow by Warid is the most favorite cellular youth brand of Pakistan. Recognising the importance of games amongst youth, Warid Glow sponsored 3rd Inter school & Inter collegiate games which concluded last week. This is one of the largest games event in which over 225 schools and colleges ...

LAHORE Pakistan Football Federation Secretary General Lt Col (r) Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi has slammed the Pakistan Olympic Association for excluding football from the 31st National Games to be staged in Peshawar next month. These types of decisions will send negative impression to all those who are ...