LAHORE - A report prepared by the general manager of National Fertilizers Marketing Limited has identified the administrative mess as major cause of famous urea crisis of Rabi 2011-12, TheNation reliably learnt.Sources in the NFML disclosed that the incumbent GM Fakhar Cheema, who joined the ...

DHAKA  A top investigator probing last week's garment factory disaster in Bangladesh on Friday blamed vibrations from four illegal generators for the collapse of the building which killed more than 500 workers.The preliminary findings of the government probe, as described by lead investigator ...

BUENOS AIRES - Damage from last week’s record rains and flooding in Argentina exceeded five billion dollars, according to officials, who said on Sunday that more than 350,000 people suffered losses in property. “More than 350,000 of our neighbours were affected directly or indirectly by ...

Action against spurious drug producers started in the light of UK laboratory report: ShahbazPunjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said action against fake drug producers had been kicked off in the light of a British laboratory report received by the government.“The laboratory has ...

HAFIZABAD - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Gujranwala Ahmad Mubarak Ahmed has called upon the citizens to promote the culture of tolerance and forbearance in society to deal with day-to-day petty problems and curb rising extremists tendencies.Addressing a gathering here at Jinnah Hall the other day, ...

PERTH (Agencies) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan is a courageous nation with unmatched resolve and urged the Commonwealth countries to be more relevant to the needs of its members by being more resilient. Gilani was speaking at the second Executive Session of the Commonwealth ...

A FLIGHT from Chicago to Frankfurt made an emergency landing in Canada when the pilot spilled his coffee. United Airlines Flight 940 was diverted to Toronto just after 10 pm Monday night. An airline spokesman said only that the plane had a communications problem and the pilot elected to divert the ...

KARACHI The energy sector - power, gas and oil - has suffered huge financial losses of Rs 5.430 billion in recent floods in the province of Sindh, sources informed TheNation. The official data of flood related damages assessed by Sindh Planning and Development Department, with the help of ...

WASHINGTON (Agencies) - In an unusual remark, Pakistan Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani has said that one of the reasons for recent devastating floods in his country could be human activity on the heavily-militarised Siachen Glacier. Haqqani told the American lawmakers that snowmelt pattern on ...

QUETTA (APP) - Former federal finance minister Shaukat Tarin on Monday said that the present government has successfully overcome the serious financial and economic problems which it inherited from the previous regime. Addressing the luncheon arranged by Balochistan Finance Minister Mir Asim Kurd ...

US actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia, but could have survived if she had seen a doctor in time, a Los Angeles coroner has ruled. Coroners spokesman Craig Harvey added that iron-deficiency anaemia and multiple drug intoxication were secondary factors in her death. The drugs were all ...

A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. Just as important, the team believes that the cognitive deficits caused by sleep ...

KARACHI The city of Chicago was denied the hosting rights of 2016 Olympic Games not because it was in any way inferior to other three cities in the race, but due to stringent security regime slapped after 9/11 in the USA, according to reports leaked to the media. Tokyo tried to sway the IOC voting ...

KARACHI - At least 26 out of 60 victims were died due to inappropriate safety measures along the riverbeds, nullahs and gutters, The Nation learnt here on Tuesday. According to the report, heavy downpour lashed the City which claims at least 60 lives in various parts of the City in different sort ...

KARACHI - In last one year, the KESC suffered a loss of Rs110 million from the incidents of copper wire theft, Naveed Ismail, CEO of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) said. Addressing a Press briefing, he said that not only such negative acts render financial loss to the utility, but caused ...

A PREVIOUSLY unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260 million years ago has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds. The eruption in the Emeishan province of south-west China unleashed around half a million cubic kilometres of lava, covering an area 5 ...

LAHORE - The opposition and treasury benches in the City District Assembly are at daggers drawn causing an inordinate delay, approximately 6 months, in the assembly session. Opposition members are hell-bent to call the session forthwith to actuate the functioning of district assembly, saying ...

LAHORE - Heavy roofs and thick brick walls of multi-storey buildings were the main cause of devastation and heavy death toll during the earthquake that hit Balochistan recently, and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir & NWFP on October 8, 2005. The remedy lies in the introduction of Reconstruction Policy ...

A University of Calgary scientist confirms that it is how our immune system responds, not the rhinovirus itself, that causes cold symptoms. Of more than 100 different viruses that can cause the common cold, human rhinoviruses are the major cause. The research, published in the American Journal ...

DURING this year's baseball playoffs, Chicago White Sox outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., 38, threw a picture-perfect strike from center field to home plate to stop an opposing player from scoring. The White Sox ultimately won the game by a single run and clinched the division title. Had Griffey been ...

KARACHI- Chairman Karachi Traders' Action Committee Siddiq Memon mentioned that due to the miscommunication and unexpected announcement of Eidul Fitr on Wednesday declared late at Tuesday night has caused 1.5b losses to the traders as the astrological and weathers expertise predicted Eidul Fitr on ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A raging, long-burning fire caused the collapse of World Trade Centre building number 7, which tumbled hours after hijacked jets hit the twin towers on September 11, 2001, investigators said Thursday. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that the ...