Chairman Samanabad Town Emergency Response Committee and Provincial Secretary Schools Muhammad Aslam Kamboh on Thursday directed concerned authorities to immediately retrieve Ichhara graveyard and Gulshan-e-Ravi Moon Market from illegal occupants.While presiding over a weekly meeting, Kamboh ...

  MOFFETT AIRFIELD,California   The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone landed in the dark at a major southwesternUSairport, a live feed from the organizer's website showed early Saturday. Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand ...

LAHORE : New Lahore Development Authority Director General Ijaz Munir took over on Monday. Additional Director General (HQ) Mariam Kayani briefed him.Earlier, on his arrival at LDA Plaza the new DG was received by Director Rana Muhammad Shahzad, Director Administration Khalid Pervaiz and other ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia  - A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air - which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes -- missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the sea but everybody on board survived.The Boeing jet carrying more than 100 passengers missed the ...

KARACHI - As general elections are drawing close, all the political parties of the country should come forward with renewed commitment and play their due role for computerisation of land record so as to end illegal occupations by feudal lords.“The computerisation of land will significantly ...

Officers of financial crunch hit Pakistan International Airline (PIA) continue to get VIP treatment for them and families also as Islamabad-bound PIA flight was made to land at Lahore airport allegedly to drop the airline officer’s daughter.According to details, PIA flight PK-562 from Karachi ...

RAWALPINDI - A 54-year-old man was hit by a train while crossing a railway line at Rahimabad Bridge here on Friday. The man sustained severe injuries at his ribs and shifted to nearby hospital for medical treatment, informed Rescue 1122 spokesman,According to details, a citizen Shaukat Maseh was ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Housing and Works Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat has urged the Supreme Court of Pakistan and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to help out his ministry in curbing corruption and recovering its illegal occupied lands.Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, ...

ISLAMABAD - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has emphasised the need for normalising Pakistan-India relations for greater benefit of people of the two neighbours.Addressing a dinner hosted by National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza in the honour of the Indian parliamentary delegation on Tuesday, ...

JHANG - In response to an Assembly question, Revenue Department officers of all the four tehsils of Jhang have recently collected data of state agricultural and residential lands which have been occupied by different land mafias, it has been learnt.According to the figures collected by this ...

Al Pacino has been cast to voice a character in the upcoming Despicable Me 2. Pacino’s character is said to be a nemesis to the lead character Gru (Steve Carell) in the animated sequel, reports Deadline.The news comes after Javier Bardem dropped out of the sequel in January. He was in talks ...

Samantha Barks has landed one of the lead roles in the film version of Les Miserables. She will star as Eponine alongside Hollywood actors Russell Crowe (Javert) and Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) in the glittering production, which is bound to catapult her to global superstardom. Casting for the ...

CAIRO - Egyptian authorities grounded a Libyan Airlines flight on Wednesday after an attendant found a suspected bomb in a toilet on the aircraft, airport officials told AFP. Tripoli-bound flight 203 was due to leave Cairo International Airport when a member of the cabin crew found “a metal ...

ISLAMABAD - Dr Naeem Taj, a surgeon of the Capital Hospital CDA, has earned fame and prestige for the nation by registering his name in the Guinness Book of World Record by removing 25.5 cm long gallbladder through 1 cm incision.Dr Naeem after operating 70-year-old patient Rasheeda Bibi at CDA ...

A stolen car landed on the roof of an apartment building in California after the driver hit a rock and a tree stump. The thief, who fled the scene in his boxer shorts, is said to have lost control at speed in foggy conditions.No one was injured in the incident in Fresno, California despite two ...

Johnny Depp is set to produce a biopic about the beloved childrens author Dr. Seuss. The Pirates of the Caribbean star has signed on to develop the live-action film with executives from Illumination Entertainment and Infinitum Nihil, with the possibility of starring as the classic writer ...

PESHAWAR - Chief National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MNA Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti has alleged that the government has made huge embezzlement in sale of Charsadda Paper Mills expensive land. The government has planned to sell out the paper mills expensive land, the market value of which is about Rs ...

Veteran actress Shirley Maclaine was honoured for her longstanding career at the Deauville American Film Festival in France on Sunday. The star, who made her debut movie appearance in 1955s The Trouble with Harry, boasts an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA - and now shes got another ...

Britney Spears will be the guest of honour at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards with a special tribute honouring her lengthy career. The Toxic hitmaker, who released her debut single ...Baby One More Time in 1998, has been thrilling American audiences with her Femme Fatale tour this summer and is ...

SAN DIEGO (AFP) - Serbian teen tennis player Bojana Jovanovski had two days to forget after she went to Carlsbad, New Mexico instead of Carlsbad, California for the WTA San Diego Open. The 19-year-old Serb, ranked 53rd in the world, almost missed her Monday first-round match after she was somehow ...

CAPE CANAVERAL (AFP) - Atlantis touched down for a final time Thursday, ending its last mission to the International Space Station and bringing down the curtain on NASAs 30-year space shuttle program. The shuttle and its four-member US crew cruised home to a predawn landing at Kennedy Space Center ...

LAHORE - Seven years ago, in a tiny district of Tharparkar, a courageous man Sajan took his first step towards prosperity; a step that led him through the difficult and complex terrains of life to liberate him from conditions of extreme poverty in search of a brighter and better future for his ...

ISLAMABAD - Dilly-dallying and dodging tactics of the high-ups of the Livestock and Dairy Development Punjab and indifferent behaviour of the provincial government towards some 400 contractual veterinary doctors has deepened feeling of job-insecurity among young vets, who have been waiting for ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule Friday, Russian Mission Control said. Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker landed at 4:47 GMT near Arkalyk in ...

KARACHI - PIA flight PK-782, which stopped at Stockholm (Sweden) due to security concerns, landed at Jinnah International Airport on Sunday at 7:40am with 254 passengers on board, PIA spokesman said in a Press release issued here on Sunday. The passengers of the flight were received by General ...

MADRID Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, who arrived here Tuesday on a two-day official visit, will discuss bilateral relations between Pakistan and Spain with his counterpart and others. Prime Minister Gilani who is heading a high-level Pakistani delegation is expected to sign three ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Food Department has shifted several wheat procurement centres to the lands of influential politicians, situated in remote areas, with a view to favour them by reducing their transportation expenses. Sources told The Nation that the Food Department has set up new wheat ...

KATY Perry is to lend her voice to the upcoming Smurfs movie. The singer - whos currently engaged to British comedian Russell Brand - will reportedly take on the role of Smurfette. British actor Alan Cumming and How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris are also linked to the project, a ...

OBERSTDORF (Germany) (AFP) Austrias Olympic silver medalist Andreas Kofler won the opening leg of the Four Hills skijump event on Tuesday on home snow at Oberstdorf. Kofler garnered 265.2 points from jumps of 125 and 134 metres to see off Janne Ahonen of Finland, a five-time competition winner who ...

FOZIA AZAM and Kashif Abbasi ISLAMABAD Chairman Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hyderi, Liaqut Baloch, and few other Ulema were rushed to the Federal Government Services Hospital (FGSH) on Thursday after falling ill mainly due to food poisoning. The incident ...