KARACHI (PR): Emirates’ innovation, investment and customer service was further recognized at an international level last night with an array of awards from two prestigious awards ceremonies.At the Business Traveller Middle East Awards, Emirates was crowned Best Airline Worldwide as the ...

BRIDGETOWN:- Legendary Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has been named the final international franchise player for the lucrative Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 event which bowls off in July. The 41-year-old Muralitharan grabbed a record 800 wickets in 133 Tests and 534 in 350 one-day ...

KARACHITen finalists of National Science Fair will represent Pakistan in the upcoming Intel International Science & Engineering Fair 2013, to be held in Phoenix, Arizona from May 12 – May 17.A special ceremony was held on Friday to praise and encourage the 10 finalists of National Science ...

KARACHI Karachi cricket chiefs on Friday banned three international players, Sohail Khan, Fawad Alam and Khalid Latif, for lack of discipline during a domestic Twenty20 tournament.Sohail, 29, is banned from playing for Karachi in any domestic match, and Alam and Latif for playing in Twenty20s. All ...

LAHORE - Wapda and Punjab shared equal honours by winning two gold medals apiece on the second day of the International Women Cycling Championship here at the cycling velodrome on Tuesday.  Wapda won the individual road time trial and road scratch race as Punjab stamped their supremacy in the ...

ISLAMABAD – The International Day of Human Space Flight will be marked tomorrow across the globe including Pakistan. As a day that is epic in every sense of the word and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first female flight in space, the theme of year 2013 would be “Women and ...

SARGODHA - The University of Sargodha has achieved the membership of “Talloires Network International America”. Now the University would be better known through administrative, educational, research and social point of view at international level. “Talloires Network International ...

KARACHI - International stars from France and Germany together with Pakistani maestros enthralled music fans at a well-attended fusion concert held here at the Alliance Francaise on Friday night.The organisers said that Abaji from France, Mehmet Ergin from Germany and eminent Pakistani musicians ...

KARACHI - The 5th Women in Business Conference will be organised at a local hotel on January 29. The event organiser Yasmin Hyder, Chief Executive of the New World Concepts, said that the moot would be held under the auspices of the Pakistan Society for Training and Development. Yasmin said that ...

When the Pakistan-Norway Association (PANA) this year organized a few gatherings in Islamabad to observe Christmas and the New Year, the initiators were Pakistani-Norwegians. Shiblee Kamal, a senior oil engineer in the large Norwegian company Statoil, the backbone of the Norwegian prosperous ...

ISLAMABAD - PTDC MD Mir Shahjahan Khetran has said International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life. Speaking at the occasion to celebrate World Mountains Day on Monday, Shahjahan said this. The ceremony of Mountains Festival organised was ...

KARACHI - The 9th Regional Steering Committee of the Mangroves for the Future (MFF) initiative was inaugurated in Karachi on Sunday.Representatives of the eight MFF member countries, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam gathered here to discuss and ...

KARACHI  - The Beaconhouse Group has arranged its first overseas educational conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia , on November 20-21.An official of the institution said here on Thursday that over 600 educationists, philosophers, modern day thinkers, classroom practitioners, leaders and others ...

LAHORE – The Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) observed International University Day on Tuesday. The event was organised by International Resource Centre at Lahore College for Women University’s Directorate of Faculty Development and Internationalisation, with the purpose to ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ch Zaka Ashraf has vowed to be inches away from hosting an international team and it may be happened even in current year.The PCB chief, while talking in a live programme ‘Insight’ of Waqt channel, said the Pakistan fans would hear ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday suspended the notification issued by the federal government for tax increase on incoming international calls.According to a private television channel, Justice Ijazul Hasan heard the case at the LHC.During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsel informed ...

NEW DELHI  - Close on the heels of five Indian cricketers found involved in spot-fixing, a latest sting operation has revealed that six umpires were ready to be bribed during the recently concluded Twenty20 World Cup and Sri Lanka Premier League in August.India TV, which had earlier conducted ...

JOHNNY BARBEROn this International Day of Peace I am sitting in Kabul, Afghanistan with a handful of youth that want nothing but peaceful coexistence in their lives. This in some respects is like a dream because their entire lives have been surrounded by war, death, corruption, and struggle. Peace ...

KARACHI - The Department of Youth Affairs, Government of Sindh, in collaboration with the Habib University Foundation (HUB) will organize an event on August 12 at a local hotel to celebrate the International Youth Day.An announcement here on Wednesday said that the celebration of this day was ...

LAHORE – The International Violin Day, like elsewhere in the world, was celebrated in the City on Sunday with enthusiasm and fervour.A function was held in this regard in the Gulberg area on Sunday. The event was organised by Akhtar Javaid Law Associates in honour of renowned violinist Ghulam ...

RAWALPINDI – Acting President Fire and Safety Association Pakistan Ghulam Muhammad Naz said that International Fire Fighters Day was a day marked to pay respect to the living rescuers and fire fighter whereas to pay homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives while protecting and rescuing ...

In his book, A Century of War, F. William Engdahl writes: “By 1920, Morgan’s partner, Thomas W. Lamont, noted with obvious satisfaction that, ‘as a result of four years of war and global devastation, the national debts of the world have increased by $210,000,000,000 or about 475 ...

TOKYO  - American comic book “I Kill Giants” has won the top prize in the Japanese government-sponsored annual international award for manga, the foreign ministry said.The 2008 book, created by American writer Joe Kelly and Spanish cartoonist J.M. Ken Niimura, was awarded the gold ...

BUCHAREST- A new wave of Romanian cinema came to fame at the Cannes film festival a decade ago, but many prizes later, filmmakers still struggle to win the box office in their homeland.Directors Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu, who have won recognition in Europe and the United States, say they ...

ISLAMABAD – Bahria Town, Asia’s largest private real estate developer, has been making progress not only within the country but the efforts are also being realised globally. International media like CNN, Newsweek, LA Times & Euro Asia Industry have all recognised Bahria Town’s ...

SYDNEY(AFP) - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova Saturday withdrew from January’s Brisbane International due to an ankle injury, but said she expected to be ready for the Australian Open later that month.Sharapova twisted her left ankle at the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in September ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president on Friday condemned "tainted" international allegations of a military massacre of civilians during an assault to end a Tamil rebellion. President Mahinda Rajapakse appealed for international support as pressure mounted for the UN Human Rights Council to ...

KARACHI The Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) will take place in Busan, Korea, from November 29 to December 1, 2011, says a press release. The HLF-4 presents a unique opportunity for achieving better aid and development through more effective, harmonized cooperation among ...

LONDON (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch sacrificed his embattled British newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks and issued his first apology over phone-hacking Friday as he tried to defuse the growing crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. As an FBI investigation spread the crisis to the United States, Murdoch ...

LA PLATA (AFP) - Veteran striker Diego Forlan on Tuesday won his 79th cap, equalling a Uruguayan record held by former keeper Rodolfo Rodriguez, as he ran out to face Mexico at the Copa America. Uruguay needed a win to ensure qualification for the quarter-finals, which would enable the Atletico ...