TEHRAN : Iran’s June 14 presidential election steps up a gear on Tuesday as the list of candidates bidding to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is finalised, with at least two well-known figures already targeted for disqualification.The two, moderate former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and ...
CAMBRIDGE,US MOL Ugandahas been revealed as the most ethnically mixed country on the planet according to a new scientific study that blows apart misconceptions that western nations are the most racially diverse. Academics atHarvardUniversity’s Institute for Economic Research spent a ...
There isn’t a better way to spend a day in New York City other than the Poet's Walk, often called the Literary Walk, located in the famed Central Park. The Poet's Walk is located on the southern end of the Central Park Mall and runs from 66th to 72nd Street. As I stroll down the walk, the ...
islamabad - Interior Ministry has recently placed the names of nine accused in RPPs scam on the exit control list (ECL) and at last, incumbent secretary interior Javed Iqbal, an upright officer, has taken a bold step to include the name of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the list, ...
ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to furnish the lists of persons who were allotted plots in the federal capital for agriculture purpose.A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprised Justice Jawwad ...
BEIJING : The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country’s richest citizens prompted online accusations of hypocrisy Thursday.Kong Dongmei, now in her early 40s, and husband Chen Dongsheng ranked 242th with personal wealth ...
NEW JERSEY: The aunt of rap icon Tupac Shakur has become the first woman to land on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists. Cop killer Joanne Chesimard, 65 - who was also reportedly Tupac’s godmother - was convicted in 1977 of murdering a police officer, Trooper Werner Foerster, in ...
WASHINGTON :The United States does not foresee taking Cuba off its blacklist of countries accused of supporting terrorism, which also includes Syria, Iran and Sudan, an official has said. "There are no changes in our list of state sponsors of terrorism," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell ...
LONDON SN - He may be in the twilight of his playing years, but the near-universal adoration heaped on David Beckham has helped him remain the highest earner in British sport, according to the Sunday Times Sport Rich List.Boxers, golfers, racing drivers and basketball players all fall by the ...
HOLLYWOOD ES - Gwyneth Paltrow has been named People’s ‘Most Beautiful Woman’ of 2013.The Iron Man 3 actress appears on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue after winning the honour, which has previously been held by stars such as Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts, Nicole ...
MANAGUA: Police inNicaraguaon Monday announced the arrest of Eric Justin Toth, an American on the FBI’s most wanted list, who is sought on child pornography charges. Toth, a former schoolteacher and camp counselor was taken into custody in the northern city ofEstelion Saturday, police said. ...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehereek-I-Insaf issued the final list of its candidates contesting polls for national and provincial assemblies across country.As repeatedly announced by its chairman Imran Khan, the list clearly shows that Punjab was the main focus of this fast popularizing political ...
Islamabad - The list made public by the Supreme Court on Monday was being anticipated to contain details of journalists supposed to have been lending their pen in favour of monetary benefit from the government. Instead, it was a laundry list of mostly routine expenses by the ministry of ...
LONDON : Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has topped an annual "rich list" compiled by Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, with a fortune of £13.3 billion ($20.3 billion).The 59-year-old tycoon, who started out manufacturing plastic bags, now owns Russia's biggest iron ore producer ...
Against the backdrop of the misuse of secret funds by the government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Ministry of Information to certify and re-submit the list of secret expenses it had incurred. The list would be displayed on the SC’s official website. A two-member ...
ISLAMABAD - ECP Saturday issued final list of minority candidates.According to the list, 71 candidates would be contesting for 10 minority seats reserved in the National Assembly. These candidates include: Lal Chand PTI, Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani PML-N, Ramesh Lal PPPP, Tariq Christopher ...
MOSCOW: Chelsea football club owner and superyacht enthusiast Roman Abramovich slipped out of the top 10 richest Russians in Forbes magazine's 2013 ranking published on Thursday.The flamboyant steel, mining, real estate and telecommunications tycoon has lost $1.9 billion of his fortune and is now ...
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and advocate for girls’ education who survived a would-be assassin’s bullet, is among the 100 most influential people in the world, Time magazine said Thursday. Malala is one of seven honorees to also appear on one of the various covers that ...
NEW YORK - ESJAY Z and Jennifer Lawrence have been named among the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.The publication has printed its annual Time 100, and the special issue of the publication features seven covers, each featuring a member of the list, including the rap mogul and ...
LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is ambivalent about awarding ticket and taking time to unveil final list of its contestants for the elections.Sources in the party say that 90 percent of the candidates have been finalised but the remaining 10 percent pending nominations is holding ...
LAHORE – MIAN DAWOOD - The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday admitted before the Lahore High Court that it didn’t prepare any list of the candidates found defaulters by the FBR, NAB and SBP. The court was hearing a constitutional petition seeking implementation of Article 62 ...
KARACHI - The Parliamentary Board of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) has finalised the list of its candidates for elections to 42 seats of Sindh Assembly in the metropolis.As per list issued by the PPPP secretariat here on Tuesday, the following ticket holders of the party will ...
ISLAMABAD - The name of former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has been placed on the Exit Control List.Directorate General Immigration and Passport has said that Musharraf's name has been put on ECL and a circular has also been issued to all the exit points, including airports.The ...
LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...
LAHORE – The SNGPL has finally made public the list of the defaulters worth Rs 9 billion. The list included the industrial sector default of Rs 7.96 billion and commercial sector default of Rs 890 million. An official of the company said that gas supply of some of the major defaulters was ...
KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company has sent defaulters list to NAB for recovery of over Rs64 billion debts though the company itself is defaulter of over Rs270 billion.Sources disclosed that the KESC had been ignoring to pay the various organisations for a long time and the default ...
Former Member of National Assembly, belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid (PML-Q), Begum Shehnaz Sheikh submitted a list of twenty dual national lawmakers in an open letter written to the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry alleging that all dual ...
LAHORE – The list of successful candidates for different posts in Rescue 1122 was displayed at the Emergency Services Academy and in respective districts of the province on Thursday.The staff has been recruited against vacant posts in the districts / tehsils of Ahmad Pur East, Chichawatni, ...
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MULTAN - The district government has decided to shift all factories and industrial units out of city area as the lists of these installations are being prepared for a crackdown on them.District Coordination Officer Mudassar Riaz Malik said on Thursday that the owners of all industries would be ...






