BAHAWALPUR/SIALKOT/BAHAWALNAGAR/BHAKKARUp to 22-hour unscheduled loadshedding of electricity here is badly affecting the work of small and big sized industrial units, traders and studies of the students.In Bahawalpur, loadshedding periods have increased to 18 hours, making the people’s lives ...

SIALKOT  - Scorching heat claimed two lives in Sialkot district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Bajwat villager Bashir Hussain, 47, and Ghulam Rasul, 51, from Pasrur.The temperature rose to 43 degrees Celsius as the hot winds continue lashing the district and its adjoining areas. ...

LAHOREScorching heat claimed a life in the provincial capital on Monday. The 40-year-old man was rushed to hospital after he fell unconscious in the Model Town courts. Eyewitnesses told the police that the man was walking on the footpath when he fell.  He was taken to hospital where doctors ...

ROME  - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.“We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because ...

LAHORE - The City received rain on Tuesday with experts predicting mainly hot and dry weather and dust raising winds during the next 24 hours. Strong winds started blowing in the wee hours that followed by showers, making weather pleasant in the morning by causing considerable decrease in the ...

SIALKOTThe massive participation of the masses in PTI Chairman Imran Khan public meeting held at Jinnah Stadium here on Monday has proved that the “winds of political change” have started blowing and Sialkot might witness a big political upset, especially in National Assembly ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD - Facing fury from mainstream political parties over the provision of ‘slack’ security in the wake of repeated terrorist attacks, the Chief Election Commissioner has attempted to pacify the leaderships of three grieved parties and extended his ‘wholehearted’ ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Like other parts of the country, the city and its adjoining areas are in the grip of heat wave. As a result 8 people including two of them vendors fainted. According to detail, Badar, Mansha, Yousaf and Rani Bibi in village Vern were working in their field and suffered sunstroke. They ...

PATTAYA  - Japan's Ai Miyazato put on a performance to match the sizzling heat as she fired a five-under 67 to take the first round lead in the $1.5 million Honda LPGA Thailand tournament Thursday.Miyazato, who won the same tournament two years ago, took a one-shot lead over Australian veteran ...

ISLAMABAD - The city managers are weighing the merits and demerits of a proposal aiming to make the gigantic facility Pakistan-China Friendship Centre, a symbol of friendship, economically self-sustainable by renting/leasing out the portions of the building.Inaugurated on December 17, 2010 by ...

MULTAN - Despite the fact that much of public’s attention is focused on Prime Minister’s appearance in the supreme court, the electioneering is picking up in Multan as the prospective candidates have started submitting their nomination papers for two national assembly seats NA-148 and ...

NEW DELHI  - Less than a year after being hailed as India's greatest cricket captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni finds his head on the block after another woeful Test series abroad.The 30-year-old could do no wrong when he led India to World Cup glory at home in April last year, his second big ...

BRUSSELS  - Two weeks before a new summit, European leaders are under pressure to deliver a credible solution to the debt crisis after Standard & Poor's punished their policies with stinging credit downgrades.Eurozone governments face an uphill battle as they scramble to avoid a messy debt ...

BERLIN  - Germany’s main opposition party piled pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday over a scandal dogging her handpicked candidate for president, calling for new elections if he were to step down.As new revelations emerge almost daily about Christian Wulff, 52, and a home ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE  - US President Barack Obama lands in Washington Tuesday after his Hawaiian vacation, facing a buzz saw of Republican campaign attacks as his reelection bid enters an intense new phase.Obama left behind the idyllic beaches, sumptuous restaurants and golf courses of his ...

For most people, the holiday season is a time spent with family and friends, but for many it can be a time of intense loneliness. Scammers count on that.Internet scams don't just come in the variety of a letter from a foreign country seeking funds, or phishing emails that seek to get your credit ...

The Gothic gloom of the House of Commons committee corridor is a baleful place for Conservative leaders; it was here that Margaret Thatcher was despatched by her own treacherous MPs in 1990. But on Wednesday night against the odds David Cameron was greeted like a hero. Stick it up em, carry on, ...

NOORPUR THAL - Despite light rain in some areas the other night, Thal remained hot and humid on Thursday. The Maximum temperature went up one to two degrees. The maximum temperature in Noorpur Thal and almost every area of Thal rose, further intensifying the mugginess. Moist easterly winds are ...

LAHORE (PPI) - The transformers and feeders for supplying the power have been failed due to scorching heat in the country and loadshedding timings have been increased up to 8 hours in urban and 10 hours in rural areas. According to details, the power supply has badly been affected due to tripping ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Consumers raised due and cry after the life was paralysed mid last night in several parts of Mirpur district, the major economic hub of AJK, following the sudden long power breakdown besides the frequent unscheduled load shedding of power slapped by PEPCO that lasted for over three ...

SARGODHA - A man died while scores of others fainted due to severe hot weather while worst power load shedding irked the people. Safdar, a resident of Jinnah Colony passed away due to severe heat. Similarly many of people affected by heat were brought to the hospitals for medical treatment. In ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Most parts of the country including the City remained in the grip of severe heat wave on Wednesday with experts predicting the prevailing weather conditions to persist during the next 24 hours. According to the experts, low pressure area lies over Afghanistan and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The plains of Punjab including the City remained in the grip of heat wave on Tuesday with experts predicting the prevailing weather conditions to persist during the next 24 hours. Maximum temperature in the City increased by 02 degree Celsius, ending up at 43 C, making ...

Dr Jehanzeb Farooq and Dr M. Ijaz Tabassum WHEAT provides 20 per cent dietary calories of the world. Wheat is the most important source of carbohydrate in majority of countries. Wheat contains minerals, vitamins and fats and with a small amount of animal or legume protein added is highly ...

Pakistan's capital market maintained its bullish posture during the first week of the new year while rising deficit was plaguing the economy and domestic politics had experienced parties' bizarre somersaults jolting the ruling coalition led by PPP. To start with the market sentiment had a minor ...

ATHENS (AFP) - Greece kept cool on Wednesday despite another turn of the interest rate vice on its debt crisis just as crucial talks over a possible rescue with the EU and IMF began. The finance minister said the country was not overawed by a leap in its borrowing rate above 8.0 percent, adding to ...

STOKE-ON-TRENT (England) (AFP) Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini insisted he is not under any pressure despite watching Stoke City end his sides hopes of silverware this season by dumping them out of the FA Cup. A Dave Kitson goal gave Stoke the lead with just over 10 minutes to go before ...

US physicists have created matter at around four trillion degrees Celsius, the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, simulating the quark soup that scientists believe existed at the universes birth. A spokesman for the Department of Energy lab where the record-breaking temperature was ...

A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the worlds poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then ...