LAHORE (PR): Warid Telecom has announced the lucky winners of its exciting ‘Reload offer’. The winners of the daily prize of Rs.100,000 are: Adeel Aslam from Lahore and Muhammad Nadeem from Faisalabad. Winners were presented cheques by Sohail Ahmed, famously known as Azizi.Warid reload ...

PARIS - When China’s new first lady Peng Liyuan, a glamorous former folk singer famous in her own right, chose homegrown fashion label Exception de Mixmind for her husband’s first overseas trip, speculation on Chinese social media went into overdrive.Was this Exception’s ...

RANCHO MIRAGE: China's photogenic "first lady" Peng Liyuan played steel drums in Trinidad, strolled hand-in-hand with a coffee farmer's daughter in Costa Rica and snapped pictures with her iPhone in the shadow of Mayan ruins in Mexico.But the glamorous and popular wife of Chinese President Xi ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Railways Khwaja Saad Rafiq, on first day after assuming charge of his ministry, ordered withdrawal of perks and privileges especially vehicles above the entitlement of Pakistan Railways (PR) officials.This little action would not prove enough to put on track the sinking ...

STAR CITY - Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said on Friday she was ready to score another coup and fly to Mars, even if it would be just a one-way trip. “Mars is my favourite planet,” the 76-year old told a news conference in Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star ...

LONDON: The Duchess of Cambridge will reportedly become the first royal to have an official baby shower. Kate Middleton - who is currently expecting her first child with Prince William - is said to have been given the Queen’s blessing for the event, according to The Sun. Pippa Middleton is ...

BEIJING  -China will next month conduct its first “digital” technology military exercise, state media said on Wednesday, against growing concern in Washington and elsewhere about Chinese hacking attacks.A brief report by the official Xinhua news agency said the exercise, in north ...

LEEDS:- Rain meant there was no play on the first day of the second and final Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley on Friday. Heavy overnight and early morning rain meant the square was still fully covered when the captains should have been tossing up at 10.30am. And after several ...

ISLAMABAD - Defending champions Wapda girls dominated the inaugural day of the 45th National Athletics Championships female events held here at the Jinnah Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex on Friday. Defending champions Army maintained their supremacy in male category. In the 10,000 meter female ...

LAHORE (PR): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that the Samsung GALAXY S4 is TCO Certified, the first smartphone to be awarded such an honor. TCO Development, an independent body that focuses on sustainability in the IT industry, found the GALAXY S4 was sustainably designed and ...

DUBLIN - Ireland once again underlined their ability to compete with the heavyweights of world cricket, coming agonisingly close to recording another famous victory over Pakistan but in the end had to settle for a tie in the first One-Day International at Clontarf in Dublin.Paul Stirling's second ...

IRVING - South Korea's Bae Sang-Moon won his first US PGA title on Sunday, firing a one-under par 69 to win the $6.7 million Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over American Keegan Bradley.In windy conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, the 26-year-old South Korean finished on ...

KATHMANDU - GN - Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 metres.Baig completed the climb to the summit at around 7:30am local time with her brother Mirza Ali, who becomes the third and youngest ...

BEIJING - Xinhua - During his first international trip as a government head, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is on an official visit to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany till May 27."Li's visit is an important diplomatic activity of the new Chinese government toward neighboring countries and ...

UNITED NATIONSThe United Nations General Assembly Hall, the only conference room in the entire building carrying UN emblem, is undergoing its first ever repair work in the last 60 years.With a seating capacity for over 1,800 people, the General Assembly Hall is the largest room in the United ...

LAHORE - After taking charge of the government, PML-N has started deliberations over such measures which will provide an overview to the people of its bona fide intentions in its first 100 days of governance. Able and competent individuals are being put in charge of institutions, and made members ...

LONDON - New Zealand took charge of the first Test at Lord's on Thursday, reducing England to 160 for four when rain forced an early close to the first day. England captain Alastair Cook won the toss and batted but his side rarely got out of first gear in the face of some accurate bowling by the ...

KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia's economy grew a solid but slower than expected 4.1pc in the first quarter as weak manufacturing and mining dragged on overall performance, according to data announced Wednesday. The numbers from the central bank came on the heels of a 2012 fourth quarter in which Southeast ...

EDINBURGH: Susan Boyle is heading out on tour for the first time after finally feeling ready to perform a string of live shows. The unlikely superstar shot to fame in 2009 when she auditioned on Britain's Got Talent. She has restrained from touring in subsequent years, but has now confirmed she ...

WASHINGTONThe US Navy successfully launched an unmanned plane off the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday, in what officials called a breakthrough for robotic aviation.The bat-winged X-47B drone took to the air after being launched by a catapult aboard the George H.W.Bush ...

  LONDON     New Zealandseamer Tim Southee has been passed fit to play in the first Test againstEnglandat Lord's on Thursday. The 24-year-old paceman limped out of action during last week's drawn match with the second-string England Lions in Leicester, the tourists' final match ...

NEW YORK: Lady Gaga returned to the stage on Sunday for the first time since undergoing hip surgery after making an unannounced appearance at a New York bar. The Poker Face hitmaker has been in recovery since receiving treatment on 20 February to fix a hip injury which prompted her to cancel the ...

ESCONDIDODutchman Lieuwe Westra seized the yellow jersey at the Tour of California after winning the 165 kilometre (130 mile) opening stage on the outskirts of San Diego on Sunday.Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) outduelled Spaniard Francisco Mancebo in a sprint over the final kilometres while Slovak Peter ...

  MULTAN   A couple deciding to celebrate their marriage on the polling day reached a polling station along with their guests (baraat) to cast their votes. This incident was reported from Multan NA-151, where a Christian couple decided to celebrate their wedding on the polling day, so ...

LONDON - Despite an indifferent conclusion to England's overseas winter in New Zealand, the selectors are unlikely to see the need for significant changes for the start of the home summer that will be dominated by the Ashes but firstly includes the return series against Australia's close ...

ISLAMABAD - Shaikh Saqib, Farhan Zaman, Tayyab Aslam and Mansoor Zaman booked their berths for the second phase of trial matches here at Mushaf Ali Mir Complex on Thursday. The trials were conducted for the selection of Pakistan squash team for the upcoming World Team Squash Championship to be held ...

ISLAMABAD - Chaudhry M Zaka Ashraf managed to become the first elected PCB chairman for tenure of four years as prescribed in the newly drafted PCB constitution after the first Board of Governors (BoG) meeting held here at a local hotel on Wednesday. The International Cricket Council (ICC) directed ...

BAKU : The Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday approved a prisoner amnesty proposed by the country’s glamorous and powerful first lady that will likely see thousands of convicts released. The move — put forward by Mehriban Aliyeva, the influential wife of strongman President Ilham Aliyev ...

    Austin, US BBC The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in theUS. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defence Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the ...

islamabad - A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said on Monday."The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year," the World ...