LahorePakistan Muslim League_Nawaz (PML-N) central leader Shahbaz Sharif submitted his returns consisting on the expenses of his elections campaign, here on Monday.Shahbaz Sharif through his counsel advocate Rana Intizaar submitted his returns before Additional District and Sessions Judge Ghulam ...

LONDON: Rod Stewart has scored his first UK number one album for 34 years, going straight to the top with his LP, Time. Time is Stewart’s first album of new material for two decades and was inspired by the process of writing his recent autobiography. It entered the chart ahead of ...

MUMBAI - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago.Accompanied by family and friends, the 53-year-old was greeted by a crowd of journalists at the gates of his ...

islamabad - The FBR has extended the date for filing various tax returns up to May 20 (Monday) to facilitate the taxpayers. The extension has been given for  the payment of taxes or duty and filing of sales taxes and federal excise duty returns for the period of April 2013 for all registered ...

MOSCOW: Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the International Space Station that saw him shoot to global stardom by captivating people worldwide with his Twitter microblog. Hadfield landed safely in the Kazakh ...

NEW YORK: Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after US authorities announced they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils. At a ceremony on Monday, officials had turned over the nearly complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old ...

ISLAMABAD -  SECP has made it mandatory for all listed companies and companies in other categories to file documents, returns, accounts and applications, through SECP’s eServices online filing facility. The SECP had issued a notification in this regard on March 13, wherein, May 13 was ...

MADRID - Barcelona were able to welcome back Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets to training on Saturday morning after they missed the 3-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in midweek, but Victor Valdes has been ruled out of Sunday's match with Real Betis due to plantar fasciitis in his left foot. "Leo Messi ...

LAHORE - Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner Sarbajit Singh, slammed the Indian government for allegedly failing to take her brother back to India."I am very disappointed with the government because it could not take firm steps to help him," she said after she crossed into India from Wagha ...

The dejected family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was attacked in Kot Lakhpat Lahore jail last week returned to India via Wagah Border on Wednesday as the condition of the Indian prisoner remained highly critical amid reports that he is brain dead.Sarabjit Singh was attack by two death row ...

    MARRAKECH   Former world number four Francesca Schiavone won her sixth career title on Sunday with a comfortable 6-1 6-3 victory over Lourdes Dominguez Lino in the final of the Marrakech Grand Prix. The Italian, now languishing just inside the world top 50 at 48, has struggled in ...

lahore - The Federal Board of Revenue’s Web Based One Custom System (WeBOC) will damage the entire structure of sales tax return and duty drawback as the sales tax returns of last month are still pending due to non-acceptance of WeBOC.Though the stakeholders particularly industry appreciated ...

LOS ANGELES: Reese Witherspoon is getting back to normal. The actress returned to LA after her April 19 arrest in Atlanta for disorderly conduct and her husband Jim Toth’s DUI arrest the same night. “She is happy to be home with her kids again,” a source told People magazine. ...

MASSACHUSETTS: Matt Damon has been awarded a special accolade from America’s Harvard University. The actor studied English at the prestigious college from 1988 to 1992 but dropped out before graduating to pursue his acting career. He returned to the university to receive the 2013 Harvard Arts ...

LONDON : Italian bonds rose on Wednesday, extending the previous day's gains after a bumper retail bond sale, highlighting a hunt for higher returns as monetary easing by global central banks depresses yields on low-risk debt.Italian bonds outperformed Bunds - the euro zone's lowest-risk debt - ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf has filed reply in Supreme Court in treason case praying the court to constitute full court to hear the case.Reply containing six pages was filed by Ahmad Raza Kasuri counsel for Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. Several points have been raised in the reply.Chief ...

MADRID - Barcelona took another step towards their fourth La Liga title in five years as a hat-trick from Cesc Fabregas guided them to a 5-0 win over Mallorca on Saturday.Fabregas started up front in the absence of the injured Lionel Messi and made a welcome return to form as he also played a part ...

LAHORE-Former PPP MPA Shabina Riaz Sheikh has reportedly declined party leadership’s offer to be PPP’ nominee from a reserved seat of women in Punjab Assembly. In the first list compiled by the PPP in respect of reserved seats of women, her name appeared at priority number 33. But in ...

LAHORE – The ruling allies at the Centre – the PPP and the PML-Q – suffered a major blow in Punjab on Friday as a dozen of their leaders joined the PML-N ranks. The track-changers included two MNAs of the Q League, while nine of the ten PPP defectors are Punjab Assembly members. ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has returned summary regarding nomination of Vice Chancellors of two medical universities to the Health Department, TheNation has learnt. As per sources, the Punjab CM has directed Search Committee to remove names of Prof Jawad Sajid and Prof ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has returned home from Saudi Arabia after performing Hajj.Khadim ul Haramain Sharifain King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz had invited him as a special guest to perform Hajj.He also held a detailed meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and extended ...

PARIS : Former world number 20 Alisa Kleybanova, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, will return to action at the Miami WTA tournament, the Russian player announced on Thursday. The 22-year-old was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphona in May last year and was forced to withdraw from the season's ...

The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, a 27-pounder (12.25 kg) nicknamed “Rocky” with claws tough enough to snap a man’s arm, was released back into the ocean on Thursday after being trapped in a shrimp net last week, marine officials said. The 40-inch (one-meter) male ...

Fast bowler Mohammad Amir Sunday reached Pakistan after serving his jail sentence at the young offenders institute in Weymouth for spot-fixing charges in London.The 19-years-old Amir refused to speak to the waiting media on arriving at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.The banned ...

ISLAMABAD  - Despite depressive economic situation of the country, Pakistan on Friday repaid $417 million first installment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from foreign currency reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).An official who wished not to be named told Online that ...

LOS ANGELES  - Chris Brown will perform at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards for the first time since beating his then girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 on the eve of the music industry’s biggest night, which threatened to derail his music career.Rihanna also is among the stars performing live ...

JAGDISH BHAGWATIWhile developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled and even more importantly, highly skilled, people to ...

BAGHDAD  - Iraq's Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc returned to parliament on Tuesday, ending their boycott over a political crisis within Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, but several of its ministers held out by snubbing his cabinet.Iraqiya's return to parliament came as Iraq's ...

Kabul  - Germany this week returned an ancient pre-Islamic sculpture looted during Afghanistan's civil war, giving hope to Kabul's cultural mavens that the rest of its stolen treasures will also make their way home. Eight figures, one missing a torso and others without noses, make up the 30-cm ...

PESHAWAR - The Veteran female politician, stepmother of Asfandyar Wali Khan and former provincial president of Awami National Party, Begum Naseem Wali Khan announced on Saturday to rejoin politics and requested party leadership for the ticket to contest the upcoming Senate election.Party sources ...