CARACAS: Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage, leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls. When new stocks arrive at supermarkets customers have been rushing in to fill their trollies. Venezuela is used to a scarcity of basic food ...

SIALKOTPakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf (PTI) President Javed Hashmi has said that they are collecting evidence of massive irregularities and rigging in election across the country. “We will bring out a white paper on the massive rigging in polling after gathering evidence.”Addressing a news ...

SIALKOT - Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf (PTI) President Javed Hashmi has said that they are collecting evidence of massive irregularities and rigging in election across the country. “We will bring out a white paper on the massive rigging in polling after gathering evidence.”Addressing a news ...

HELSINKI - In the wake of mobile giant Nokia's spectacular fall, another pillar of the Finnish economy is struggling to adapt to the digital age: the paper industry.As the distribution of everything from magazines to airline tickets shifts online, major Finnish paper suppliers are scrambling to ...

Lahore - Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan from hospital bed on Sunday welcomed the high turnout in elections as a step forward for democracy, but claimed ‘foul play’ on the polling day and vowed to submit a report on alleged vote-rigging shortly. Khan, who fell from a hoist ...

Last month, the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, published a white paper on its armed forces. The document scrutinises the latest situation, fresh challenges and new missions; examines building and development of China's armed forces; reflects on defending national ...

  SEATTLE ODC Taras Lesko is an incredibly talented designer who likes to create beautiful things both on his computer and with his own two hands. Though his graphic designs are nothing short of impressive, it’s his paper craft creations that really catch the eye. Tarasspends months ...

karachi - Hike in the prices of printing paper is being witnessed after the announcement of May 11 general elections schedule by the Election Commission of Pakistan. On the other side, Punjab Textbook Board has started the printing which is also the main cause of printing paper shortage or price ...

AFPMANILA A top Philippine newspaper Saturday was taken in by a spoof cover of Time magazine depicting President Benigno Aquino with his mouth agape, running the picture on its front page.“We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake,” said a short statement issued by the ...

RAWALPINDI A solved paper of In-Organic Chemistry, BSc final year of a female student has been lost under mysterious circumstances from the Examination Hall soon after she stepped out from the examination hall at the Federal Government (FG) College for Women, Abid Majeed Road, here on Thursday. The ...

NEW YORK - “It seems Lahore is fated for yet fewer kites in the sky and more intolerance on the ground,” a prominent Pakistani columnist wrote in a leading American newspaper, referring to the Punjab caretaker government’s decision to suspend plans for the revival of ...

ROME (AFP) - A parcel bomb was sent to the offices of Italian newspaper La Stampa on Tuesday but failed to detonate when opened, prompting an evacuation of the building as bomb disposal teams were deployed, the police and the daily said. “Inside there was a mechanical system, which did not ...

ISLAMABAD - Seeking a detailed briefing for federal interior secretary and director general passport and immigration regarding import of lamination paper from a US company that allegedly do not meet criteria, Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday stayed the process of import of lamination paper ...

LAHORE - Terming budget strategy paper 2013-14 as unrealistic and impractical, the business community has said that it does not contain measures to achieve macroeconomic targets.They observed that the revenue target for next year has been set at Rs2.83 trillion which is unrealistic as the currents ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-profile British-Pakistani banker has won a high court apology and substantial libel damages from the Associated Newspapers’ powerful title The Mail on Sunday over articles that the banker was at the heart of a criminal mortgage fraud estimated to be £49m, reported ...

Pakistani sports officials Monday rubbished claims by a British newspaper to have uncovered a visa scam that could have allowed potential terrorists into the Olympic Village.The Sun tabloid said it had busted a racket involving a politician in Lahore that could have given access to the London Games ...

LAHORE – The Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has disqualified six paper setters on account of preparing wrong instructions for marking of answer sheets of the Secondary School (Annual) Examination, 2012. Marking of answer sheets for the Secondary School (Annual) ...

LAHORE – All Pakistan Teachers Federation (APTF) Chairman Azam Butt has said that the Federal and Provincial Governments should not only erase sales tax on paper but also import it from India. Without decreasing price of paper educational development was impossible, he said. Talking about the ...

LAHORE - The noted businessman Syed Babar Ali has urged the entrepreneurs of the printing and publishing sector to keep them abreast with the latest technological development taking place at world level. He was addressing the presentation ceremony of ‘Drupa’, the world’s largest ...

LAHORE - An Indian professor has plagiarized the research paper of a Punjab University’s assistant professor, it was reliably learnt here on Saturday. Professor Emeritus Dr. SK Awasthi’s book “Terrorism as War,” published in 2009 by New Delhi-based publisher MD Publications ...

Sony has unveiled a paper-powered battery prototype in Japan. The technology generates electricity by turning shredded paper into sugar which in turn is used as fuel.If brought to market, the innovation could allow the public to top up the power of their mobile devices using waste material. The ...

LAHORE – Anti Corruption Establishment failed on Thursday to arrest accused allegedly involved in paper leakage scam of University of Engineering & Technology (UET). Sources claimed that about 20 people were involved in leakage of Entry Test question paper of UET last July and out of them ...

PARIS (AFP) - The offices of a French satirical newspaper that published a special Arab Spring edition with caricatures as "guest editor" were destroyed in a suspected firebomb attack Wednesday, police said. Charlie Hebdo published a special edition Wednesday to mark the Arab Spring, renaming the ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Members of the Dutch Senate, or upper house of parliament, wont strain their backs or weigh down their bike panniers by carrying stacks of printed documents from work anymore, since they are all now expected to work on their Apple iPads. When members of the Senate returned ...

LAHORE As per the report of the Punjab government regarding the leaking of entry test questionnaire of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), it has been figured out that the teaching staff was not involved in the crime, rather low ranking officials were involved in it. It has been ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A judicial magistrate handed over three accused to Anti-Corruption Establishment after extending their three-day physical remand allegedly involved in leaking out the entrance test paper of University of Engineering and Technology (UET). The ACE produced the accused ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK - A leading US newspaper Tuesday sharply criticised the French ban on the full-face veil, saying the move serves only to encourage the spread of Muslim-bashing in France and elsewhere in Europe. In an editorial, The New York Times said there was no question about the ...

LAHORE Sufferings of Hajj and Umra pilgrims have once again started with the shortage of lamination paper at Directorate General of Immigration & Passport Islamabad, due to which delivery of passport to the applicants is being delayed by one to two months, applicants gathered at a regional ...

MA RAHMAN NIAZI THE word paper takes its name from 'papyrus which is a reed growing in swampy localities. This plant grows abundantly along river Nile in Egypt. In remote past, paper was used to be made in a crude form from the stem of papyrus plant in Egypt around 2500 B.C. Paper making in true ...

LAHORE - Sayid Paper Bucks and Versatile registered wins in the fourth Sayid Paper Mills Cricket League here . In the first match of non professional group, Sayid Paper Bucks beat Ufone by six wickets. Ufone scored 158 for all out in 30 overs match after batting first. Aamir Ghani (34), Mohsin ...