Cinema great Rangeela being remembered today
May 24th
Staff Report KARACHI: Great juggernaut force behind Pakistan’s cinema with multiple fortes and flairs, Rangeela is being remembered on his death anniversary today (Thursday). Rangeela was born as Mohammad Saeed Khan in 1937, in Parachinar, પાકિસ્તાન
Famous modern Urdu poet, Majrooh Sultanpuri’s anniversary today
May 24th
Staff Report KARACHI: One of the foremost lyricists of sub-continent and the modern and great names in Urdu poetry, Majrooh Sultanpuri is being remembered on his death anniversary today (Thursday).
Oprah Winfrey teams up with Huffington Post
May 24th
LOS ANGELES: Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is expanding her online empire by teaming up with the Huffington Post for a section dedicated to the chat show host that will engage her audience, the Oprah Winfrey Network said on Wednesday. The Huffington Post Oprah section will launch in August, and will curate content from Oprah.com, which features the motto “Live Your Best Life” and accompanies Winfrey’s OWN TV programming with videos, articles and advice on health, fashion and culture
Karachi: Four more dead in Liaquatabad gunfire
May 24th
Staff Report KARACHI: At least four people were overnight gunned down in the city area of Liaquatabad, SAMAA reports Thursday. Meantime, the Rangers contingent arrested a target-killer from an area of Jamshed Quarters in an operation conducted overnight.
Toyota to sell $6k cars in India: report
May 24th
TOKYO: Toyota is to begin selling cars in India priced at around $6,000, a report said, as the Japanese auto giant looks to boost its share of the country’s growing affordable car market. The company will seek to avoid devaluing the Toyota name by creating a new brand for the sector, which it hopes to enter in 2016, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Thursday without citing sources. Japan’s biggest automaker began selling its low-cost sedan Etios in India in 2010, but with a price tag of $10,000 it is still expensive compared with cars made by rivals such as Tata Motors, whose Nano sells for as little as $2,900
HP laying off 27,000 workers in restructuring
May 24th
PALO ALTO, Calif: Hewlett-Packard says it’s laying off 27,000 કામદારો, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.
Egyptians look for ‘superman’
May 24th
Egyptians say they want their next leader to be honorable, smart, a knight, a man with a heart, a military man, a religious man, one who goes down and meets with the people. What they are really looking for is a superman. Egypt s next president is facing an incredibly tall order of problems, from a tumbling economy and a beat-up security force to decrepit schools and hospitals that can t even provide enough incubators for premature babies.
Possibility of giving up euro real: Greek PM
May 24th
The euro hit its lowest point against the dollar since July 2010 on Wednesday ahead of a European Union summit aimed at dealing with the threat that Greece could exit the eurozone. A day after former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned that the possibility that Athens could give up the euro is "real", the euro fell to $1.2582 against the dollar at 2100 GMT, from $1.2684 late Tuesday
Quetta: Teachers continue hunger strike on 10th day
May 24th
The Balochistan Teachers’ Association has set up a hunger strike camp outside Quetta Press Club while teachers from all districts of Balochistan are participating in the strike. Three protesting teachers in critical condition were taken to civil hospital on Wednesday. The teachers are on strike for the acceptance of their 26 demands including increase in salaries
Scientists deploy genetics in search for bigfoot
May 24th
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists. In a project announced this week, Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists and Yeti aficionados to share hair samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature. New genetic tests will be done on just a few strands of hair and should be completed within weeks.
Pioneering US commercial spaceflight quiets critics
May 24th
A pioneering commercial spaceship closed in on the International Space Station on Wednesday, a key test in a controversial program to reduce the US government s role in human space flight. Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launched its Dragon cargo capsule into orbit on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for a test run to the $100 billion orbital outpost.
Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid vie for 2020 Olympics
May 24th
Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid made the first cut among bidders to host the 2020 Olympics, as the International Olympic Committee announced that Baku and Doha were dropped from the running.
Thousands of students protest media in Mexico
May 24th
Thousands of university students marched through central Mexico City on Wednesday to protest media coverage that they say favors the candidate of the former ruling party in upcoming presidential elections.
Sargodha: Father sells four months old son
May 24th
According to details, four-month-old Gulroze was soled for Rs 20 thousand by his father Nauroze Khan to a man named Sajjad. It was also decided in the deal that Sajjad will have to pay further 50 thousand rupees in case of death of the child. Nauroze had earlier sold two of his daughters due to poverty and wanted to sell his other children too.
Multan: Woman killed in name of honour
May 24th
According to details, 20-year-old Shahbaz shot dead his mother, Bindia Begum, over a family dispute in Arifabad area near Multan and also attacked his neighbourers’ and injured a man.
Altaf asks politicians to avoid controversial statements
May 24th
Talking to a delegation of coordination committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain said that solution to every controversy lies in the equal distribution of resources.


















































