New Zealand will take on Sri Lanka in Guyana, while hosts West Indies will start their campaign of the World Twenty20 cricket today against Ireland on the inaugural day of the tournament. Defending champions Pakistan will start title defence on Saturday against Bangladesh. The event has been divided in four groups and total 27 matches [...]
Pakistani Taliban chief ‘ Hakimullah Mehsud ‘ is now believed to have survived a US missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior intelligence official said Thursday. Mehsud was reported to have died in a drone strike in South Waziristan in January 2009 but, although Pakistan’s interior minister [...]
TORONTO – Canada, which is home to the world’s first Naked News channel, finally joins the US and other western nations in getting its first full-fledged pornography TV channel. Called Vanessa, the French-language porn channel will start airing from Oct 28. Though to be broadcast nationally, it will mainly target Quebec which is the French-speaking province of [...]
NEW DELHI: India arrested its diplomat, working in the Indian Embassy in Pakistan for passing secret information to Pakistan. The female diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who was arrested from New Delhi, has been charged with giving secrets to Pakistan for at least two years. She was second secretary in Press and Information Wing. Second Secretary-level woman [...]
The load shedding of 9 to 16 hours is still going on across the country despite different measures taken by government under energy conservation policy Prolonged load shedding was carried out as per routine despite two weekly holidays and decreased shortfall. The residents of twin cities faced difficulties due to seven to eight hours of [...]
Lahore: Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, Sunday said those who chanted slogan of ‘Roti, Kapra aur Makan’ (food, clothing and shelter) gave nothing to the people in the past 62 years. Muttahida Qaumi Movement is held conventions in three Punjab cities simultaneously today. The MQM chief says that his party’s resolve [...]
PARIS: Starting smoking and addiction to it could be driven to a large degree by your genes, a trio of studies published on Sunday suggested. Researchers reported that single yet widely prevalent changes in the DNA code on several chromosomes were associated with a range of smoking habits. The papers, published online in the journal [...]
NASA space agency has released some spectacular photos and videos of our sun; we’ve included a few below. The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of our solar companion using four telescopes looking at the sun in different wavelengths. The results are unusual and beautiful, fulfilling the mission’s goal of [...]
Sachin Tendulkar turns 37 today. We have few of our Bollywood stars wishing the cricketing genius a long innings at the crease and expressing their love and gratitude for him. Shilpa Shetty, owner of Rajasthan Royals IPL team says “We Wish you a very happy birthday and we wish to see many more hundreds, many [...]
Swedish Royal Court says Princess Madeleine has broken off her engagement with fiance Jonas Bergstrom. In a statement from the Royal Court in Stockholm on Saturday, the couple is described as “going separate ways” and that they together have decided that that is the best for them. Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine – the Princess of [...]
