London: Rihanna has allegedly signed up for love therapy. The ‘Stay’ hitmaker is said to be pining for the ‘’love of her life’’ Chris Brown following their recent split and his decision to rekindle his relationship with fashion designer Karreuche Tran, and is ...

The headlines in the papers after the elections were exhilarating, invoking new hope after a long, dark period. One, in particular, was very inspiring. “Pakistan, the bravest democracy in the world,” it declared. Truer words were seldom spoken.None of the other nations preaching ...

CALIFORNIA: One Direction has added even more zeroes to its bank balances by signing megabucks publishing deals. Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik And Liam Payne are now set to cash in properly on all songs they have a credit for writing - not as a band split five ways, but as ...

KARACHI (PR): Warid Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Monet and Meezan Bank for rollout of the Warid Telecom Payment Gatewayfor Meezan Bank’s branchless banking services, with Monet as the technology partner for the venture. Through this memorandum, Warid Telecom and Bank ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on the advice of the Prime Minister on Saturday approved the “Representation of the people (amendment) Ordinance, 2013”.Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said the Ordinance which amends the representation of the people Act, 1976 by ...

        LAHORE   Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Afghanistan Hockey Federation (AHF) to provide technical assistance in restructuring and reformation of the game in Afghanistan on modern lines, becoming the first ...

KARACHI (PR):  Habib Bank Limited recently signed an agreement with Daewoo Pakistan Express Bus Service, the first and largest foreign investment company with an advanced and organised transport system in Pakistan, to provide state-of-the-art electronic cash management solutions. The agreement ...

LAHORE - The Government College University (GCU) on Monday signed an accord of educational, research and cultural cooperation with Turkish university, Suleyman Shah University Istanbul (SSU), for strengthening friendly relations between Turkey and Pakistan.GCU Vice Chancellor Dr Khaleequr Rahman ...

LAHORE – Pakistan T20 captain M Hafeez has become the fourth international 'franchise player' to join the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 tournament. The other international cricketers who have committed to playing in the league - and have been assigned icon or 'franchise player' status as ...

NEW YORK  - Connecticut passed the toughest US law on owning military-style rifles early Thursday, after an impassioned, hours long debate in a state where a gunman massacred 20 small children and six adults in December. The northeastern state’s House of Representatives passed the gun ...

KARACHI – Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KW&SB) managing director said that the organisation was dedicated to provide clean drinking water to the citizens. The KW&SB would improve performance of our laboratories and filter plants to ensure that water supplied to citizens is up to ...

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that Pakistan’s economy continues to show signs of recovery with improvement in key macroeconomic indicators. Despite major external and internal shocks, the economy has shown resilience and is projected to grow by 4.3 percent in FY13 after a ...

The recent declaration of President Obama that in view of their values of freedom of speech they cannot take any action to prohibit the making of derogatory films that injure the feelings of 1-1/2 billion Muslims of the world. This is a caricature of the very word value. No doubt in a society like ...

KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company has embarked on the first of its kind project in Pakistan, with the aim to convert its 1,260 MW (210 MW x 6 units) Bin Qasim Power Plant into a coal-fired generation plant. This project will have a step-wise execution, the phase-one of which will see the ...

NEW YORK - Amanda Knox, the American former college student cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, has sold her memoir to HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the publishing house said on Thursday.The HarperCollins spokeswoman declined to comment on financial terms of the deal or elaborate ...

MOSCOW  - Syria has signed a $550 million (425 million euro) contract to purchase 36 Yak-130 advanced training fighter planes from Russia, the Kommersant business daily reported on Monday. The deal was signed in December with Russia’s Rosoboronexport state defence corporation, Kommersant ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has singed two loan agreements worth of $513.24 million that included $270 million for the tranche-2 of the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Programme (PIAIP) and $243.24 million for tranche-3 of the Power Transmission Enhancement ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has signed a $662 billion national defence authorisation bill into law that, among other sweeping measures, freezes $700 million in aid to Pakistan until Islamabad gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).While ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Sunday faced a new congressional gridlock over a payroll tax cut after he signed into law a $1 trillion spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The US Senate passed the spending bill and a two-month payroll tax holiday extension on Saturday, ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - NetSol Technologies has signed agreement with Minsheng Financial Leasing Co, a provider of aircraft leases in Asia, to implement the NetSol Financial Suite solution. The agreement, which includes product licenses, business process consultancy and on-site implementation ...

TheNation Monitoring WASHINGTON UN investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with AQ Khan, the father of Pakistans atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms. The buildings in northwest Syria ...

ISLAMABAD Telenor Pakistan has signed an agreement according to which it will outsource part of its customer services operations to Sybrid. For the purpose, Sybrid will establish a contact center in Islamabad which will initially comprise 100 customer relations officers but with the capacity to ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Punjab Board of Investment & Trade (PBIT) signed a facilitation MoU with Em-Zealand Sloutionz (EZS), which was inked by Director General Facilitation PBIT Dr Sajid Yoosufani, under the guidance of the Chief Operating Officer PBIT Iftikhar Hussain Babar and Peter Davey, ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD In pursuance and implementation of an agreement for a technical grant of 42.4 million Euros already signed last month between National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) and German Development Agency GIZ, NAVTTC is entering another public private ...

ISLAMABAD - The Bahria University has recently entered into academic partnerships with three Chinese universities by signing MoUs with Tongji University, Fudan University, China Agricultural University and Xuzhou Normal University, says a press release. Its Rector Vice Admiral (R) Mohammad Haroon ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Indian government on Saturday signed a pact with one of India's oldest rebel groups to end militant violence in the restive northeastern state of Assam and pave the way for peace talks. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the largest separatist outfit in Assam, is ...

THRILLED Cheryl Cole will be returning to TV - in a 1.5 million deal. Cheryl has been offered a series of prime-time slots for ITV, including a possible chat show. The channel beat three other stations to land the former X Factor judge, who was axed from the US version of the show in May. The ...

KARACHI Haier Group Corporation and Sanyo Electric Co on Saturday signed an MOU regarding Haiers intention to acquire SANYOs refrigerator, washing machine and other consumer electric appliances business in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, says a press release. The ...

KARACHI - Saudi steelmaker Al-Tuwairqi Group, the parent company of the ongoing steel project in Pakistan namely Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited has inked a 7.5 billion riyal business debt restructuring deal with 18 local and international banks in Saudi Arabia that would enable Al-Tuwairqis ...

ISLAMABAD - Zong, the fastest growing telecom network of Pakistan, has signed an MoU with ISIC Association represented by Alive Asia in Pakistan for providing exclusive telecom services to all International Student Identity Card (ISIC) holders in Pakistan, says a press release. The MoU was signed ...