Tag: Comes

LPG price further comes down by Rs5/kg

The price of LPG has further reduced by Rs5/kg in the country amid the strike call of distributors and threat to halt distribution by...

Famed designer Ruby Shakel comes to Lahore

Ruby Shakel has been in the fashion industry for the past twenty years. Her designs enable her clients to enter a world of opulence...

US comes up with $155m elixir for Sindh’s education woes

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sindh government signed an agreement on Wednesday for the US-funded project worth $155 million...

Chariya’s insane killing spree comes to a sane end

Pakistan Rangers-Sindh personnel arrested a “most-wanted target killer” during a search operation in Shah Faisal Colony on Monday, whereas Maj Gen Ijaz Chaudhry was...

Torrential rain comes close to breaking records

After warnings of severe weather by the Met Office, the highest rainfall of the season was recorded in the provincial capital on Monday. The...

Zaheer’s England tour comes to an end

India paceman Zaheer Khan has been ruled out of the remainder of his side's tour of England after being told he requires ankle surgery,...

Khalid Iqbal comes in as new PAL DG

Renowned poet and scholar Khalid Iqbal Yasir has assumed the charge as Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) director general. Iqbal had been working as...

Ferrari dream comes true for Korean design students

Three design students from South Korea on Tuesday won a once-in-a-lifetime chance to help design the Ferrari of tomorrow. The students from Hongik University in...

Govt comes up with fresh excuse

As the deadline given by the Supreme Court (SC) to the government for the appointment of a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman and prosecutor...

SCBA audit comes up Rs 8.9m short

The Supreme Court Bar Association has come across the shortage of over Rs 8.9 million in the Bar’s Trust account. The audit conducted on the...

Cyclone busts… in comes rain and thunder

Rescue workers and fisherfolk who had returned to the shores after heeding to the Met Office’s forecast of tropical cyclone in Arabian Sea can...

‘MQM to resolve Kashmir issue when it comes into power’

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will resolve the Kashmir issue and also protect the rights of the people of that region when it comes...

Tough choice for jury as Cannes curtain comes down

The Cannes film festival jury led by Robert De Niro faces a tough choice on Sunday as it picks the winner of the Palme...

Ufone comes through for PTCL

An end to Technical Service Fee (TSF) payments to Etisalat post FY12, the freezing of salaries in the upcoming budget and mergers and acquisitions...

Fairytale comes true…

Prince William married Kate Middleton in regal splendour at Westminster Abbey on Friday as huge crowds and a global TV audience watched Britain’s monarchy...

Govt comes up with yet another energy plan

ISLAMABAD - The government on Thursday unveiled its energy conservation plan for the year 2011, which it claimed would save between 1,000MW to 1,100MW in six months until September, as power shortfall increased to 3,135MW from 2,965MW.
Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar informed the National Assembly that the government had finalised an energy conservation plan to combat the power shortage during the next six months. Qamar said that a two-pronged policy had been devised

French woman defies burqa ban as law comes into force

AVIGNON - A young woman left the southern French city of Avignon for Paris Monday wearing a niqab to defy a ban on full-face veils in public places on the first day it came into force.
"I had been invited to take part in a television programme which I am going for and I find that today is April 11, the first day of the application of the ban," Kenza Drider, 32, told reporters before boarding a train for Paris.
"This law infringes my European rights, I cannot but defend them