| Mar 15 | Police official defies orders LAHORE: Inspector General of the Punjab Police, Tariq Saleem Dogar ordered an inquiry against a DSP after demoting him to OSD for accusing the police high-ups for pressuring on dacoits release, Geo News reported Monday. Meanwhile, the DSP defying th.. |
| Mar 15 | Seven PHC additional judges take oath PESHAWAR: Seven additional judges of Peshawar High Court sworn in today in a ceremony held in Peshawar High Court building. Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan has administered oath to the new judges. The strength of the judg.. |
| Mar 15 | Sahiwals babies receives offers for free treatment ISLAMABAD: Various offers regarding free operation and bearing the expenses of treatment for the head-conjoined twins, who were born in Sahiwal, were received after Geo News telecast their news on Sunday; the PIA also announced to offer free travel t.. |
| Mar 15 | Nationwide polio campaign commencing today ISLAMABAD: A three-day national polio eradication campaign will start from Monday throughout the country to immunise children under five years of age. According to an official of Expanded Programme on Immunisation, a total of 30 million children will.. |
| Mar 15 | Taliban should prove if Hakimullah alive: Rehman ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud had died of wounds inflicted in a US drone aircraft attack in January and if this was not true Taliban must bring his video. He was talking to Geo.. |
| Mar 15 | Another TTP leader nabbed FAISALABAD: Another Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader, Qari Shabbir, was nabbed on Sunday in Faisalabad by security agency. According to the sources, Qari Shabbir is said to be a close associate of recently killed extremist Dr Moaz alias Umar Ku.. |
| Mar 15 | Protests in favour of policeman LAHORE: Lahoriites have protested in favour of a policeman and demanded his transfer be stopped. According to the details, some days ago, DSP Rang Mahal Police Station Imran Babar Jamil arrested a dacoit and later the gang leader was also nabbed. Hig.. |
| Mar 15 | Oil lower in Asia SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended losses in Asian trade Monday on worries of weak demand in the US, the world\'\'s biggest energy consumer, analysts said. New York\'\'s main contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, shed 44 cents to 80.80 dollars a ba.. |
| Mar 15 | Consumers Rights Day today KARACHI: As elsewhere, the \'\'World Consumer Rights Day\'\' will also be observed in the metropolis today. To mark the occasion, candles would be lit in front of the Empress market in Saddar here on Monday evening under the auspices of the Consumers Fed.. |
| Mar 15 | Shares to make uncertain start WELLINGTON: Asian stocks are set for a cautious start on Monday after US equity markets closed flat on Friday on a mixed bag of economic data. Wall Street\'\'s main indices were little changed on Friday, with the Dow edging up 0.1 percent while the SP .. |
| Mar 15 | Flooding concerns spur evacuations in NJ TRENTON: Hundreds of people in northern New Jersey have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers continue overflow their banks. About 700 Bound Brook residents were staying in shelters Sunday after the Somerset County community declared a st.. |
| Mar 15 | Britain looks to China to pressure Iran SHANGHAI: China and Britain agree on pressing Iran about its nuclear activities while also seeking engagement, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said at the start of a visit likely to focus on the nuclear dispute. Speaking in Shanghai on Monday before.. |
| Mar 15 | Mission Impossible star Peter Graves dies LOS ANGELES: Peter Graves, who starred in TV\'\'s Mission Impossible, and later spoofed his persona in the Airplane comedies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 83. Graves died of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, publicist Sand.. |
| Mar 15 | Khamenei tells Iranians to shun fire festival TEHRAN: Iran\'\'s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iranians to shun next week\'\'s Persian fire festival as an un-Islamic event which causes \"a lot of harm.\" Seven people have already been reported killed in the run-up to the festival, a local.. |
| Mar 15 | Website spotlights misdeeds of the rich and powerful AUSTIN: The swindling saga of legendary Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff has inspired the creation of The Vile Plutocrat, a website devoted to the notion that \"rich people suck.\" The Vile Plutocrat gathers news about the misdeeds of \"the entitled cl.. |
| Mar 15 | 26 killed as bus falls into dry riverbed in India JAIPUR: A bus fell from a bridge into a dry riverbed in northwestern India early Monday, killing at least 26 students and teachers on board, police said. Another 34 passengers were injured, 10 of them seriously, in the accident in Sawai Madhopur dist.. |
| Mar 15 | Australia 0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years: scientists SYDNEY: Australia\'\'s top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as \"significant evidence\" of climate change. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial R.. |
| Mar 15 | Bangladesh slaughters 117,000 birds over avian flu DHAKA: At least 117,000 chickens were destroyed in northern Bangladesh Sunday after avian flu outbreak on one of the country\'\'s largest poultry farms, a local official said. The deadly H5N1 strain of flu was detected on Saturday when 400 chickens die.. |
| Mar 15 | Gene splice helps fight crop disease, say researchers PARIS: Biologists on Sunday said they had found a potential superweapon in a long-running arms race with bacteria that threaten essential crops. Tested in a lab, their technique entails inserting a gene kit into a plant so that its immune system reco.. |
| Mar 15 | Thousands evacuated as powerful cyclone hits Fiji SUVA: A powerful cyclone battered Fiji\'\'s northern islands Monday, damaging homes and crops as thousands of people fled to evacuation centres, officials said. Cyclone Tomas was classified as a category-four cyclone -- the second most destructive on a.. |