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Delhi jailhouse rocks to live music therapy
May 12th
NEW DELHI: Strutting across the stage wearing red stilettos, red lipstick and a flower in her hat, Samara Chopra was always going to be a hit with the inmates of Tihar high-security jail in New Delhi.
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Loading ...‘Unannounced load shedding will be ended in next 24 hours’
May 10th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has said that unannounced load shedding will be ended by next 24 hours, SAMAA reported on Thursday. The minister said that the problem occurred due to the faults in power plants. ‘Three provinces have implemented the suggestion of the energy conference but the one , that stressed on that conference, is not doing so’, Qamar said
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Damascus blasts kill 40, wound 170: Syrian TV
May 10th
BEIRUT; Two bomb explosions killed 40 people and wounded 170 in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, incinerating people in their cars and damaging an intelligence complex involved in President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on a 14-month-old uprising. The bombings, the deadliest in the Syrian capital since the revolt began, further shredded a ceasefire which was declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12, but which has failed to halt bloodshed pitting Assad’s security forces against peaceful demonstrators and an array of armed insurgents. Opposition leaders said Annan’s peace plan was dead and that the government had systematically sabotaged it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Power crisis: People’s misery, Govt’s excuses
May 9th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: As the summer has started, power load shedding has also started making people’s life more miserable. The government sources always make excuses but do not solve the problems of the people
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...California student jailed 5 days without water drinks own urine
May 7th
SAN DIEGO: A California university student who was mistakenly left handcuffed in a cell without food or water for five days and survived by drinking his own urine is planning to sue, said his lawyer.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Malik surprised at Nawaz sympathy with banned PAC
May 5th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik says Nawaz Sharif’s sympathy for banned Peoples Amn Committee has proved that the Punjab Government is supporting Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rival rallies in Moscow ahead of Putin inauguration
May 5th
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin supporters unveiled plans on Saturday to draw more than 50,000 people onto the streets of Moscow in a show of force ahead of the strongman’s inauguration to a third presidential term. Russia’s current prime minister will take back the Kremlin seat he already held from 2000-2008 during a swearing-in ceremony on Monday that follows his thumping March 4 election win against only token opposition.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Baba Amr, Syria’s ghost town of rubble
May 3rd
HOMS: A terrorist haven in the eyes of the Syrian regime but “heart of the revolution” for its foes, Baba Amr is now a ghost town where residents move silently among the rubble of their homes. Two months of bombardment reduced this central district of Homs city to nothing more than a heap of ruins
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bajaur blast claims four lives
May 3rd
Staff Report KHAR: At least four people were killed and several others injured in a remote-control explosion in Bajaur Agency area of Chamarkand, SAMAA reports Thursday. According to sources, the injured and bodies have been shifted to nearby headquarter hospital.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CJ summons CM, home minister Baluchistan
May 3rd
Staff Report QUETTA: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry Wednesday, hearing the case concerning with target killings and missing people, issued summons to Chief Minister, Home Minister Baluchistan and representatives of spy agencies, reports SAMAA on Thursday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...China activist quits US embassy after Beijing deal
May 2nd
BEIJING: Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng on Wednesday left the US embassy, where he had sought protection after fleeing house arrest, following a deal with Beijing on his safety, US officials said. Beijing pledged that the legal campaigner and his family would be treated “humanely” and moved to a safe place, US officials said, hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in China for pre-arranged talks
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pietersen exits IPL cricket as Clarke makes debut
May 2nd
NEW DELHI: England batting star Kevin Pietersen
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...US targets foreign evaders of Iran, Syria sanctions
May 1st
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama signed an order on Tuesday giving the Treasury Department more power to take action against foreign in dividuals and companies wh o try to circumvent U.S.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Several killed in bomb attack in east Nigeria
Apr 30th
MAIDUGURI: A bomb blast struck a police commissioner’s convoy in the eastern Nigerian town of Jalingo on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 20, a witness and officials said, a day after two deadly attacks in other parts of the country. No group immediately claimed responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, has been blamed for many such previous attacks. Jalingo is the capital of usually peaceful Taraba state, which borders Cameroon and has so far been spared the insurgency plaguing Nigeria’s north.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...UK PM ‘deeply saddened’ by aid worker’s murder in Pakistan
Apr 30th
QUETTA: British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the kidnapped British Red Cross worker found dead in Pakistan, calling his murder a “shocking and merciless act”. Cameron said he “was deeply saddened” to hear about the death of Khalil Dale, and accused the attackers of having “no respect for human life and the rule of law.” “This was a shocking and merciless act,” added the leader. “Khalil Dale has dedicated many years of his life to helping some of the most vulnerable people in the world and my thoughts today are with his friends and family,” he said in a statement
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lyari death toll rises to 19 as two more killed
Apr 29th
Staff Report KARACHI: At least 19 people, including three policemen, were killed and more than 50 wounded as police and frontier Constabulary (FC) forces continued their operation in restive Lyari area for the third consecutive day on Sunday. In retaliation, two suspected gangsters were also killed. According to reports, around 2000 police and FC men are taking part in the operation started on Friday.
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