rawalpindi - The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) and NICON Group of Colleges inked an accord to enhance mutual cooperation in research and development sector. President RCCI Manzar Khurshid Sheikh and Executive Director NICON Group of Colleges Dr Syed Kashif Ijaz signed ...

CAIRO : A campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and for early presidential elections has gathered over two million signatures, organisers told AFP.The "Tamarod" (Rebellion in Arabic) campaign seeks to withdraw confidence from the Islamist leader because he has failed ...

LOS ANGELES: Kanye West was nursing more than a bruised ego during a house hunting trip in LA after he walked into a sign post in front of a group of paparazzi. The Stronger hitmaker was leaving a property viewing in Beverly Hills with his girlfriend Kim Kardashian when he accidentally walked ...

ANKARA :JapanandTurkeyon Friday signed a long-awaited deal to build a sprawling nuclear power plant onTurkey’sBlack Seacoast, a milestone for the Japanese nuclear industry as it recovers from the 2011Fukushimadisaster. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the $22 billion contract as a ...

ABU DHABI : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country will sign a nuclear treaty with the UAE on Thursday as he stressedTokyo’s cooperation with itsMiddle Eastpartners. Abe, making his second visit to the Gulf country as prime minister, arrived late on Wednesday in theUnited Arab ...

KARACHI (PR): Pakistan State Oil (PSO) and Habib Bank Limited (HBL) have signed an agreement for the deployment of ATM’s at PSO retail outlets nationwide. This agreement between the nation’s leading Energy Company and the country’s largest private sector bank promises to be a ...

NEW YORK  -  Despite their saturation coverage of the Boston Marathon episode, American print and electronic media found space to carry reports about former President Pervez Musharraf's legal troubles in Pakistan.Most newspapers and channels have been reporting about the activities of ...

KARACHI (PR) - MCB Bank Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Hashoo Group to provide exclusive facilities to its privileged customers at hotels across country.According to the MoU signed by Sohail Malik, Head of Alliances MCB Bank Limited, and Musharraf Riaz, Director Sales ...

LAHORE - A memorandum of understanding was signed between Lafarge Pakistan Limited and All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) for provision of training and awareness to all its members on health & safety.Amr Reda, CEO of Lafarge Pakistan, observed, “The cement industry ...

ISLAMABAD – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the National University and Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, and Grafton College of Management Sciences for academic collaboration between both the institutions at the campus of Grafton College Islamabad. The MoU was signed by ...

DUSHANBE – Construction of the railway link connecting Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan as well as implementation of the Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA 1000) were the focus of a meeting of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon with Afghan Foreign ...

Stanley Wolpert paid tributes to the Quaid in following words, “Few individual significantly alter the course of history. Few still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone could be credited with creating a nation State. Muhammad All Jinnah did all three”. The Lahore resolution, as it ...

The Polish Oil and Gas Company (POGC) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) have singed an agreement of Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) to add 30 mmcfd tight gas into system of SSGC from Kirthar block in Sindh.Officials of the Ministry of Petroleum ministry told Online here on Tuesday ...

By AMJED JAVEDGod provided the Quaid-i-Azam  Muhammad Ali  Jinnah the opportunity to convert the idea of Pakistan into a reality. Stanley Wolpert paid tributes to the Quaid in following words, “Few individual significantly alter the course of history. Few still modify the map of the ...

MIAMI  - More than one million people have signed an online petition calling for criminal charges against a crime-watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a gated Florida community, organizers said Thursday. The activist group Change.org said their campaign was seeking ...

Simon Cowell is ‘’desperate’’ to sign Adele as a judge on US ‘X Factor’. The music mogul is putting together a lucrative offer to land the ‘Someone Like You’ hitmaker for the programme - which is short of two panellists following the sacking of Paula ...

LAHORE - United Arab Emirates Squash Association (UAESA) and Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has signed an agreement for hosting Pakistan in the off shore venue. Talking to the reporters at meet the press programme of Sports Writers Association of Punjab (SWAP) here on Tuesday at national hockey ...

JUBA  - South Sudan has signed a ceasefire with the largest of several rebel groups which threaten the stability of the world's newest nation, the government said on Tuesday.The deal to integrate an estimated 1,800 guerrilla fighters into the South's army comes after rebel chief and renegade ...

It was good to see that Pakistan Air Force engineers at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra with the help of Chinese hardware has developed a PACPAD  1(a device like iPad). The price of PACPAD is $200 which is almost half of price of Apple or Samsung devices. Few months ago India ...

KARACHI - PIA and Airbus signed an agreement for transfer of ownership of six A310 aircraft, which were acquired by the airline on lease in year 2004.Transfer of ownership of the six aircraft to the national flag carrier is another step forward in implementing the Business Plan under vision 2020 ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan will start issuing banknotes bearing the signature of SBP Governor, Yaseen Anwar with effect from February 10, 2012 from the field offices of SBP Banking Services Corporation. The banknotes bearing the signature of his predecessors will continue to remain in ...

KARACHI - Former Captain Shahid Khan Afridi is delighted to see Pakistan team developing winning habit under Misbah-ul-Haq and their 3-0 whitewash against England is a historic accomplishments."It will go down in the history books as Pakistan's greatest victories and Misbah's name will be there as ...

KARACHI – DuPont has announced signing of a distribution agreement with ICI Pakistan. Under the agreement, ICI Pakistan will market and distribute in Pakistan DuPont™ Corian® solid surface, world-class quality material for interior design and architectural applications, says a press ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Centre (PITAC) has signed an agreement with a UK based organisation, World Education Centre (WEC), to enhance the quality of vocational training programmes and employability of youngsters in the country. In the initial phase, more than 10,000 ...

DHAKA  - State firms from Bangladesh and India on Sunday signed a deal to build a $1.5-billion coal-fired power station that would be Bangladesh's biggest and help ease acute power shortages.The chairmen of Bangladesh's Power Development Board (PDB) Alamgir Kabir and India's National Thermal ...

FRANKFURT : Crisis-hit eurozone banks are parking record amounts of cash at the European Central Bank for overnight storage, despite low interest rates, indicating to some analysts the threat of a new credit crunch.Every day seems to bring a new record. On Wednesday, the ECB revealed that banks had ...

LONDON : Leicestershire are hoping Pakistan veteran Mohammad Yousuf will agree to be their overseas player this year. Leicestershire coach Phil Whitticase told BBC Radio: "Mohammad is one of the guys we have looked and we have offered something to him. "But it doesn't mean we will get him. There ...

ISLAMABAD - LG Electronics (LG) and Intel have entered into a strategic alliance to adopt and jointly promote Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, says a press release. Intel WiDi will be embedded into next year’s LG Cinema 3D Smart TVs, making them the first in the TV industry to ...

 KARACHI – TCS Financial Services (Pvt) Ltd., and AsiaCare Health and Life Insurance Co. Ltd. signed an agreement in Karachi today related to collaboration of services between two companies. The agreement was signed by Ghazanfar Azzam, CEO, TCS Financial Services (Pvt) Ltd., and Dr. ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry Monday urged the government to sign Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bosnia Herzegovina without any further delay.This was stated by LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while talking to Ambassador of Bosnia Herzegovina Armin Limo here at ...