surabaya Japan won its bid to enter talks on a massive Pacific trade pact Saturday after winning over its last opponent, Canada, for a proposed agreement that would account for more than 40 per cent of the global economy.The decision became unanimous when Canada “successfully concluded” ...

ISLAMABAD (PR): Cambridge is launching its second largest store in Islamabad’s grand Centaurus Mall. This follows the successful launch of Cambridge’s Beverly outlet, which is the largest Cambridge outlet. Located in the upscale Blue area, the new premium Centaurus outlet covers ...

LAHORE - The federal government should divert the money being spent on subsidy of electricity to build dams on war footing so that Pakistan does not face water shortage in the coming years, said Punjab United Front President Engineer Faisal Malik at a seminar on Friday. The seminar titled ...

On February 10, the metro bus hit the road with an announcement of one-month free ride that was withdrawn just a week after due to lack of ‘metro awareness’ on part of both the public and the managers.Since its launch, the government has been all praise for the project while the ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Labour, Sher Azam Wazir has said that work on several labourers’ friendly mega projects is in progress while construction work on a mega welfare project for the workers of Lucky Cement Factory will start this year.Talking to media here on ...

ISLAMABAD - With the induction of Syed Tahir Shahbaz as the new chairman of Capital Development Authority, work on 11 mega projects at Lake View Entertainment Zone has picked up momentum.For the first time in three years, Ahmed Humayun Toru, Director Project Management Office (PMO) and Manager ...

The police foiled a mega terror bid as they arrested three Afghan nationals and recovered weapons and explosives from their possession here in Wah Cantt on Friday.According to details, the police on secret reports conducted raid in the forest near Wah Cantt graveyard during which three foreign ...

THE prize in a US lottery has reached a record-breaking $540m (£340m), making it the biggest lottery jackpot in history, organisers say.With a world record $540 million (and growing) jackpot at stake, much of the nation is gripped by Mega Millions fever.Millions of lottery tickets are being ...

ISLAMABAD - JAVAID-UR-RAHMAN - Astronomical escalation cost running into billion of rupees in delayed mega development projects throughout the country especially of Balochistan province that could only be avoided if smooth funding is provided for next ten years in budgetary allocation, which seems ...

MULTAN - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the foundations of democracy in the country were built with the blood of martyrs of PPP and therefore this building would never cave in.The premier observed this while talking to the notables of South Punjab region here at Prime ...

PARIS (AFP) - A virus found in the sea off Chile is the biggest in the world, harbouring more than 1,000 genes, surprised scientists reported on Monday. The genome of Megavirus chilensis is 6.5 percent bigger than the DNA code of the previous virus record-holder, Mimivirus, isolated in 2003. ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Sardar Wazir Ahmad Khan Jogezai has held mandate of PPP-ruling coalition insufficient to deal with the mega constitutional matters. During an exclusive interview with TheNation over proposals for new provinces, he said, PPP-led ruling ...

LAHORE Both main units of Khan Khawar Hydropower Station have started generating 68 megawatt electricity, after inflow of sufficient water, as per their cumulative installed capacity, delivering over 1.1 million units of electricity to the National Grid daily, which is equivalent to over Rs 10 ...

ORLANDO (Reuters) Sprint Nextel Corp cried foul over a planned merger between AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA, saying the deal would stifle competition and potentially hurt its profitability. Sprint executives attending a wireless industry event on Monday criticized AT&Ts proposed $39 billion of ...

ISLAMABAD - After the Bank of Punjab scam, another mega corruption scandal of over Rs100 million has surfaced in the Punjab Provincial Cooperative Bank Limited allegedly involving the top management of the bank while the high-up of the bank are being probed by FIA. Unfortunately the bank, which is ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Will Ferrells animated supervillain comedy Megamind took in some mega cash over the weekend, with a 46-million-dollar debut at the North American box office, final data showed Monday. DreamWorks Animations 3D movie, which also features the voices of Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah ...

LAHORE (PR) - Al Barari, property developer in Dubai, has handed over multi-billion dirham residential project first phase completed under his flagship despite challenging market conditions. Al Barari is a first-class residential sanctuary located in Dubais royal enclave of Nad Al Sheba. Built on ...

KARACHI Federal sports minister Aijaz Hussain Jhakrani and Inter provincial minister Pir Aftab Shah Jillani were among the host of high officials who praised the Pakistan Boxing Federation president Doda Khan Bhutto for successfully hosting the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto international boxing ...

KARACHI - Gwadar Mega City Project is tilting because of poor management and corruption, resulting in bankruptcy of several investors. Several investors have decided to withdraw their investment from the mega project to utilise it somewhere else, The Nation has learnt. According to a survey ...

ARACHI - The property prices in Dubai have slumped sharply in the backdrop of the current World economic meltdown. Dozens of new projects either have been shelved or suspended by the developers in Dubai amid intensifying crisis in real estate business. The ongoing financial crisis has pushed back ...

KARACHI - The federal government has decided to obtain loans from the Friends of Pakistan (FoP) for Bhasha Dam and other mega development projects. The federal government officials are firming up a final list of projects, including Bhasha Dam that would be presented before the next meeting of the ...

Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has claimed responsibility in a video message for an August ambush that killed 10 French soldiers, an Afghan news agency reported Monday, saying it had seen the footage. In the video statement, Hekmatyar also says he lost 10 men in the battle in Sarobi, ...