LAHORE -  The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday announced that its 21 cricketers on central contracts would get a 15-percent salary increase and a 10-percent rise in match fees this year. The PCB keeps 21 players on central contracts in three categories, marked by three different ...

LAHORE - The Government College University (GCU) has announced establishing a state-of-the-art modern medical college with hefty donations from a group of eminent Old Ravians led by noted businessman and GCU Endowment Fund Trust (GCU EFT) President Iqbal Z Ahmad. The announcement was made by GCU VC ...

Lahore - The provincial capital is expected to emerge as a potential electoral battlefield between the PML-N and PTI, making it highly likely that the former provincial ruling party will put extra efforts in NA-122 for a showdown with PTI chief Imran Khan on May 11. Against the backdrop of low ...

juba  - Singing and dancing marked South Sudan's revival of oil production this month, raising hopes the precious resource could finally benefit a nation that fought for decades to gain control of it.But along with the celebrations have come warnings that strict accountability will be needed ...

ROMEThe re-election of Italy's 87-year-old president Giorgio Napolitano has raised hopes of an end to a two-month impasse on forming a new government but failed to answer calls for change, experts said on Sunday.Napolitano had ruled out standing again but changed his mind on Saturday, becoming the ...

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean and US forces raised their alert status to “vital threat” Wednesday before an expected North Korean missile test, with tensions wound tight during a five-day buildup to a key anniversary.The North last week told foreign diplomats in Pyongyang they had until ...

DOHA  - A Darfur donor conference has raised $3.6 billion in pledges to finance the development of war-ravaged Darfur in west Sudan, mostly from Khartoum itself, host country Qatar which contributed $500 million announced Monday."These pledges cover more than the $177 million needed for ...

A surge of violence in northwest Pakistan culminating in the assassination of a senior provincial minister has raised fears of a renewed Taliban campaign that could threaten national elections, analysts say.The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjacent Federally-Administered Tribal Areas, ...

KARACHI - In the wake of growing demand of new provinces, the Sindh Assembly on Friday condemned the wall-chalking and pasting of posters in favour of ‘Mohajir’ province.Expressing their anger, the lawmakers from all the parliamentary parties demanded the government to expose the hands ...

ISLAMABAD - Owing to increase in electricity generation cost, Nepra, while raising the tariff of Iesco and Pesco, has jacked up per unit cost of electricity between Rs1 to Rs6.50 thus added woes and worries for hard-pressed power consumers. It is learnt that Nepra has given its approval to further ...

NEW YORK — Supreme Court has inserted itself as the third player in the military-civil confrontation, raising fears that its widening role could damage democracy and lead to military intervention, according to a dispatch published in a leading US newspaper on Monday.‘Once they were ...

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Board on Tuesday in a special Board meeting approved the sharp increase, up to 100 per cent, in fees/penalties for housing societies, besides accepting bids worth approximately Rs 1 billion offered during an open auction of residential and ...

LAHORE Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has strongly criticised the repeated increases in petroleum prices and said that it is an ample proof of governments non-seriousness towards the wellbeing of the masses who are suffering due to multiple reasons. Chairman PIAF Sohail ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pak-Arab Refinery Company (PARCO) on Saturday increased its LPG base-stock price by 10 per cent. State-owned PARCO, which is the countrys largest refinery, increased its LPG price to Rs 68,615/MT on Oct 8 from the price it had notified just days earlier, Rs. 62,400/MT. ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The United Nations in Vienna raised Wednesday the flag of Libyas National Transitional Council, a month after the international community formally recognised the countrys new leaders, the UN announced. The new green, black and red flag was raised among the colours of the other 192 UN ...

CAIRO (AFP) - A walkabout in central Cairo by Egypts military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi donning civilian clothes has unleashed a torrent of questions about his political intentions. Tantawi took a stroll in Cairos Downtown area on Monday night wearing a business suit and with no personal ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS on Sunday increased the amount it said it had lost on rogue equity trades to $2.3 billion and alleged a trader concealed his risky deals by creating fictitious hedging positions in internal systems. UBS stunned markets on Thursday when it announced unauthorised ...

ISLAMABAD - The deadliest incident in which 30 US soldiers and eight Afghans were killed as a result of helicopter crash in central Maidan Wardak province the other day has raised many eyebrows within Afghan government and the Nato. Well-placed diplomatic sources told TheNation on Sunday that Nato ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - To meet the future challenges and demand, Fauji Cement Company Limited has installed country's biggest single unit plant to enhance production capacity by almost 200 per cent. FFCL, the No 1 company by capacity utilization of 90.67 per cent against an overall average of 71.65, ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Pakistan Agricultural Storage & Services Corporation Limited (PASSCO) has completed its target of procuring 1.3 million tons of wheat, besides ensuring issue of bardana through proper monitoring and vigilance. However, the government has now enhanced the wheat procurement target of ...

RAJANPUR - The Jampur Bachao Tehreek (JBT) organised a fund-raising conference to bear the fuel expenditure of three bulldozers, provided by the district administration for timely repair and maintenance of dykes to protect the Jampur City against floods in the upcoming monsoon season. It is to be ...

Fresh fears over a nuclear leak at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima plant have re-ignited after a rabbit born close to the facility was discovered with no ears. Locals have been left wondering whether this earless bunny, which was reportedly found near the facility at the end of last month, is the ...

LAHORE Condemning termination of 127 doctors and statements of Minister Health Balochistan, Young Doctors Association Sheikh Zayed Hospital has demanded the provincial government to withdraw orders and accept legitimate demand of revising service structure of medics. Addressing a press conference ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago. The reassessment to a major accident with widespread health and environmental effects was based ...

KARACHI - Attock Oil Refinery has once again increased the prices of lube base oil by Rs11 per litre which would result in sharp increase in all the lubricating oils. All Pakistan Lubricants Manufacturers Association (APLMA) Chairman Mian Zahid Husain, while condemning this arbitrary act of ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited (formerly National Commodity Exchange Limited) announces increase in trading hours. Going forward PMEX will open market at 5:00 am instead of 10:00 am. With this change, the Exchange is now operating 21 hours a day. This extension of trading hours ...

POP star Lady Gaga has collected $250,000 from the sales of a wristband she designed to raise money for Japans earthquake victims. The singer urged her twitter followers to buy the $5 red and white accessory, which has a message We pray for Japan both in English and Japanese. Gaga is among many ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Planning Commission has raised a number of objections over the procedure adopted by the management of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to purchase eight Boeing-777 worth millions of dollers aircrafts for the Airlines. According to sources of the Planning Commission, the ...

EATING large portions of cheese on a regular basis could increase the risk of bladder cancer, according to new research. Scientists found the risk increased by more than 50 per cent in those who ate more than 53g, or around 1.8oz a day - roughly the same weight as a small chocolate bar. But eating ...

NOR AABA, Afghanistan (Re-uters) - The hills around dusty Nor Aaba are laced with gold but villagers have blocked work on a new mine in a dispute over jobs, a warning that Afghan plans to ramp up mining may bring trouble as well as treasure. Security and corruption problems that have made ...