IRVING - Keegan Bradley, trying to win the Byron Nelson Championship for the second time in three years, fired a two-under par 68 Saturday and clung to a one-stroke lead over South Korea’s Bae Sang-Moon. In windy conditions at the par-70 TPC Four Seasons Resort course, Bradley closed with a ...

  ISLAMABAD National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has finally issued notifications of last eight month's fuel price adjustment (FPA) under which recovery from power consumers would be made in monthly bills to be issued from June to October 2013. Islamabad High Court (IHC) ...

WASHINGTON : Federal authorities have charged a Texas man with illegal possession of bomb making materials, but would not say whether the arrest is linked to a probe into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant.The US Justice Department said in a statement that Bryce Ashley Reed, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio US police interrogated three brothers Wednesday as grim details began to emerge about how three young Ohio women were kidnapped and held captive for 10 yrs in an unremarkable city home.Cleveland police chief Michael McGrath said he expected the trio, a group of men in their fifties, ...

PESHAWAR : Awami National Party senior leader and former federal minister for railways Haji Ghulam Bilour on Wednesday warned to nominate the army chief, chief justice, president, and chief election commissioner if any attack was carried out against his family and ANP leadership in the ...

RAJANPUR - Newly posted DCO Ziaullah, DPO Ishfaq Ahmed, AC Manzoor Ahmed, DSP Rao Farooq Ahmed and SHOs of the police stations of Rajanpur district have assumed charge and started working. Meanwhile, District Police Officer Ishfaq Ahmed appealed to the people not to get FIRs registered against ...

BUREWALA - Newly-appointed Assistant Commissioner Naeem Ullah Bhatti assumed charge of his office here.As part of the reshuffling of Assistant Commissioners across the province, Naeem Ullah Bhatti took charge of the office of AC Burewala. Similarly his predecessor Saifullah Sajid has been ...

BUREWALA - Newly-appointed Assistant Commissioner Naeem Ullah Bhatti assumed charge of his office here.As part of the reshuffling of Assistant Commissioners across the province, Naeem Ullah Bhatti took charge of the office of AC Burewala. Similarly his predecessor Saifullah Sajid has been ...

HAFIZABAD - Captain (r) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal has taken over as DCO Hafizabad vice Dr Farah Masood who has been transferred to Toba Tek Singh.Faisal Ali Raja has taken over as DPO Hafizabad vice Gohar Mushtaq Bhutta transferred to Narowal. Meanwhile, Waris Bharwana has taken over as DSP Saddr ...

RAWALPINDI – As many as 25 new station house officers (SHOs) have been appointed by City Police Officer (CPO) Abdul Razzaq Cheema in the police stations of Rawalpindi district in a bid to hold the general elections 2013 in free, fair and partial manner.All the newly appointed SHOs have ...

LAHORE - Azhar Saeed Butt, Vice President and Regional Chairman FPCCI and Muhammad Ali Vice President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) have assumed charge of their offices here at FPCCI Regional Office Lahore. At this occasion Mr. Azhar Saeed Butt and Mr. Muhammad ...

LAHORE : Mehr Khaliq Dad Lak took over the charge as Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) on Monday.  In a statement  on Monday, Mehr Khaliq Dad Lak pledged that the provision of conducive environment for free and fair polls would be his top priority besides making police a ...

 SARGODHA - The Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) has arrested a policeman over charge of taking bribe.According to the ACE, a Salabat Khan, resident of village 75, had filed a complaint against Jhal Chakian police Assistant Sub-Inspector Raja Aftab that he took away his cattles in a raid ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLMABABD - Federal Minister for Commerce, Maqbool H. Rahmatoola assumed the charge of his office on Thursday. Secretary Ministry of Commerce Munir Qureshi gave him briefing over working and performance of the ministry and its attached departments. Senior officials of the ...

QUETTA - Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghaous Bakhsh Barozai expressed concerns over Saindak Project, saying that he would demand of the prime minister during his visit to Quetta that the project should be handed over to Balochistan.The Mines and Minerals Department on Thursday gave a ...

ISLAMABAD – A counsel for Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) said Monday that a group of men detained for years on suspicion of terror attacks had been held on “moral grounds”, admitting there was no evidence against them.Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

LAHORE – Punjab Excise and Taxation Department Director General Hamayun Mazhar Sheikh framed charge sheet against 14 inspectors while issued show cause notices to 8 other Assistant Excise and Taxation Officers (AETOs) on their poor performance, negligence, inefficiency and misconduct ...

US President Barack Obama believes it is time for Afghan forces to take charge of the country's security and American troops need to return home, his spokesman said."The president, working with countless allies, has established a policy to draw down our forces in Afghanistan and to end that war by ...

 KARACHI – Upon the completion of fire brigade’s dousing operation and rescue services at the site of burnt garments factory in Baldia Town, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation gave the charge of the gutted building to the SITE Limited for further action on ...

LONG BEACH  - Engineering professor Donald Sadoway on Thursday used an old-school chalk board at the prestigious TED gathering to write the formula for a liquid battery that could one day cut the need for new power plants.“The way things stand, electricity demand must be in constant ...

ISLAMABAD - While promoting Member Customs to Grade 22, the government on Monday decided to give additional charge of Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to Member Customs Mumtaz Haider Rizvi with immediate effect from February 13. According to the notification issued by FBR, “In ...

LOS ANGELES - A former producer of the reality TV show “Survivor” was extradited to Mexico on Wednesday to stand trial for the 2010 murder of his wife in the resort town of Cancun, attorneys in the case said. Bruce Beresford-Redman is charged in Mexico with the brutal killing of ...

LONDON  - John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy for the second time in two years on Friday after mounting concern his ongoing racism court case had made his position untenable.The English Football Association confirmed in a statement that chairman David Bernstein had contacted Terry ...

MARTIN Scorsese’s 3D epic adventure film Hugo leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards with 11 nods.The movie was nominated for best film, along with War Horse, The Artist, Moneyball, The Tree Of Life, Midnight In Paris, The Help and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.Meryl ...

KARACHI – Naeem Yahya Mir has assumed the charge of Managing Director, Pakistan State Oil.A commercial marketing and refining expert Mr. Naeem Yahya has over 21 years of experience in leading national and multi-national oil companies with an emphasis in downstream operations including ...

The provincial police chief Inspector General Javed Iqbal has given additional charge of the post of Director Police Sports Board of the Punjab to Sohail Ahmed Khan, Deputy Inspector General (Operations PHQ Lahore) in addition to his present assignment, with immediate effect and till further ...

LOS ANGELES  - A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday dismissed the cocaine possession case against pop star Bruno Mars after he successfully completed court-ordered drug education classes and community service, even exceeding the amount of hours he was told to serve.Clark County District Court Judge ...

PATTOKI - Ghulam Mustafa Sheikh took charge as Assistant Commissioner in Tehsil Pattoki here the other day.  After assuming office, he told media persons that addressing public grievances would be given top priority. “My priority is to solve public problems. The public can meet me any ...

LAHORE (PR) Dr. Zaheer-ul-Islam Shakoori has taken the charge of Wapda Medical Services as its DG here on the other day. A press release issued on Friday says before his appointment, he has served as Director Medical Services. Dr. Shakoori joined Medical Services in 1984. During his service ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed from service two lower-rank court employees on charges of corruption. Earlier, an inquiry was conducted under instructions from Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry. It found Qasid Akhlaq Ahmad and Naib Qasid Salamat Bhatti guilty of ...