SYDNEY: Rio Tinto said Friday it was putting up for sale the biggest “red” diamond ever produced by its Australian mine amid an “explosion” in demand from Asia for the rare pink-hued stones. The Argyle Phoenix, a 1.56 carat gem, is one of three red diamonds on offer at the ...

ISLAMABAD : The world’s largest international trade fair Bauma ended in southern German city of Munich with a record number of visitors.About 530,000 visitors from 200 countries came to the specialized exhibition in Munich, according to the local trade association, which is responsible for ...

KARACHI - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan Karachi Chief Aslam Ghauri claimed that the historic conference at Minar-e-Pakistan has proved that JUI would be the largest religio-political party of the parliament after winning the upcoming general election.He stated these views while talking to the ...

LLANO CHAJNANTOR - In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world’s largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business Wednesday ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might.“What is so very special about this place ...

KARACHI - The largest consignment of crude oil ever to be brought into Pakistan through a single oil tanker was discharged through the Byco’s deep sea Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility and into the Byco Oil Refining Complex.The crude oil parcel was brought by the M.T. Quetta which moored at ...

THE world’s largest television has been unveiled - and it’s so big it has to be kept outside.The C SEED 201 boasts 16ft-wide screen and costs £414,000 - four times as much as a Porsche 911 sports car.It’s made in Austria by made by the supercar company’s Porsche Design ...

TONGI  - More than a million Muslims gathered on the banks of a river in Bangladesh on Friday to pray and listen to religious scholars at the start of the world’s second largest annual Islamic congregation. The streets of Dhaka were largely deserted as devotees flocked to the River Turag ...

LAHORE – Pakistan’s largest steel producing mill in private sector – The Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited - is ready for commercial production in the first week of January 2013. It would cater not only the steel needs of the country but would also be able to export value-added ...

Noam Chomsky, American prominent philosopher and public critic, has rightly quoted Gaza as the ‘World’s Largest Open Air Prison’. He is so right, when one examines the present situation in Gaza. The recent attacks of Israel are as inhumane and unlawful as is the treatment of ...

IT is the world’s largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers - and not a cloud in sight.Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there are bound to be towel-fights over them - especially as this ‘indoors paradise’ is in Germany.The Tropical Island Resort in Krausnick, ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia Friday created the world’s largest network of marine reserves, protecting a huge swathe of ocean environment despite claims it will devastate the fishing industry. The announcement, after years of planning and consultation, will significantly expand the ...

Recently, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving, but never-ending war on terror. Unfortunately, many commentators missed the report’s key message: drones are terrorising an entire civilian population. I was one of the ...

LAHORE – LG Electronics, recently unveiled The Ultimate Display Technology: The world’s largest and slimmest 55-inch OLED TV during a ceremony which took place at GITEX Shopper. Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, unveiled this ...

JOE Wos, a Pittsburgh-based cartoonist and performer, is currently working on what he hopes will be the new world’s largest most difficult hand-drawn maze. Creating this thing is one daunting task, but nowhere as difficult as finding someone willing to spend approximately 40 hours trying to ...

WINDHOEK  - The huge “Cherenkov” telescope, the size of two lawn tennis courts and the biggest of its kind, has started to capture cosmic rays from its base in Namibia, scientists have announced. The 600-tonne telescope structure with its 28-m mirror will be observing the most ...

AT the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile, a quick dip could well turn into a marathon.Swimming a length in this, the world’s largest outdoor pool, would mean stroke after stroke for more than three fifths of a mile - that’s 20 Olympic-size swimming pools.The enormous man-made lagoon ...

New Zealand troops are to take part in a training exercise in the United States for the first time in almost 30 years, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced Friday. NZDF personnel from all three services would join 21 other nations in the world's largest international maritime drill, ...

MOSCOW  - A university in Russia’s Chechnya claimed on Tuesday to have found an unprecedented stash of giant fossilised dinosaur eggs in a remote mountainous area of the North Caucasus region. The Chechen state university uploaded photos of the egg-shaped protrusions on a rock face ...

KARACHI - The largest bulk cargo laden carrier, MV Rapallo, carrying 60,000 Metric tons of Australian Canola has docked at FAP Terminal on Friday. With a draft of 12.3 meters and an LOA of 220 meters, the vessel is a landmark for FAP Terminal as well as for the country as it is the largest bulk ...

The world’s biggest ever deckchair has been displayed on Bournemouth beach. Unveiled on Friday, the chair is taller than a double-decker bus and weighs more than an elephant.With temperatures set to soar in the south-east this weekend, tourists and locals will be allowed to sit on the huge ...

India is the world's largest recipient of arms while South Korea is second and Pakistan and China are tied in third place, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in a study on international arms transfers.The volume of worldwide arms transfers in 2007-11 was 24 per cent ...

LAHORE - Auriga Group a subsidiary of Sayban International held its annual conference at a local hotel. The conference was attended by a large number of dealers from all over Pakistan. Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, in his address, said that Auriga Group will achieve its target of becoming the largest ...

CHUNIAN - Throwing the Lahore High Court orders into the dustbin, the unbridled wood mafia in connivance with the forest officials are rapidly deforesting the worlds largest artificial forest and so far more than 60 percent of Changa Manga Wildlife Park has been deforested, TheNation has learnt. ...

TWO teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar-one of the brightest and most violent objects in the cosmos - the researchers, led by scientists at the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan enjoys largest text messaging in Asia and around 151.6385 billion text messages were exchanged during the Year 2009, which is 1532 Short Message Service (sms) per subscriber, while the messages exchanged from July-Sep 2010 were 48,846 Million. Pakistan has seen a stunning ...

IT makes the Great White shark in Jaws look like a goldfish. But this giant prehistoric shark jaw comes from the largest predator ever to have existed on Earth. The 16-metre long Megalodon shark, which died out 1.5 million years ago, was once the true king of the ocean, weighing an awesome 100 ...

LAHORE While the IMF team in Islamabad is prodding the federal government on revenue generation, the tax authorities have detected usury fraud to the tune of billions of rupees in the provincial metropolis. Tax experts in the cash-strapped country are focusing on unearthing parallel banking ...

KARACHI - The biggest bulk dry cargo vessel, M/V Panagiotis D, carrying about 55,000 metric tons canola oilseed, docked at Fauji Akbar Portia Marine Limiteds terminal, Port Qasim Authority on Wednesday, Captain Gul Aleem Khan Deputy Conservator of PQA confirmed on Wednesday. The vessel is unique ...

LAHORE - Vice-Chancellor Punjab University Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that during 140 years of its existence, the Oriental College has produced the largest number of scholars in Urdu language and literature than any other institution in the subcontinent. These scholars have rendered ...

LAHORE - Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Dairy Development Company (PDDC) has said that the country can bring revolution in rural areas by introducing best dairy practices, thereby augmenting milk production as well as increasing livelihood opportunities for poor people. Mian Mazhar Ahmad ...