Tag: Control

Rupert Murdoch fought to contain a crisis engulfing his media empire on Tuesday after allegations surfaced that journalists at several of his News Corp...

Egypt’s ruling military council insisted on Tuesday that it will not cede control over the transition from ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s regime amid mounting...

The authorities have claimed that after flushing militants from certain border regions of Upper Dir on Sunday, the situation in the area is under...

“I neither have Alladin’s lamp nor any magic wand to make the situation in Karachi better within seconds. It will take time and people...

Five-time champion Venus Williams cruised into the last 16 at Wimbledon with a straight sets victory over Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez on Friday. The...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says operations in Afghanistan remain a “key operational priority” for the alliance and predicted the Afghan government will...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the Defence Ministry to take control of night raids, one of the most controversial tactics used by foreign...

Weak and frail, Rani is lying in bed waiting for her seven-year-old daughter to bring her something to eat. Her weak body is no...

The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed ‘The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill 2010’ which recommends 14-year to lifetime imprisonment sentence and...

KARACHI - The business community of Karachi is now at ease with measures and proposals of the law enforcement agencies to contain criminal activities - bhatta mafia, kidnapping for ransom - in industrial areas, alluded Sindh Chief Minister's Advisor on Investment Zubair Motiwala while speaking at the inauguration of construction work of the Afza Altaf flyover. While expressing satisfaction over the proposals and measures being taken by the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Karachi

TOKYO - Japan plans to put Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), operator of a stricken nuclear plant, under effective state control so it can meet its compensation payments, a report said Wednesday.
Tokyo will set aside several trillion yen in public funds that TEPCO can dip into if it runs short for payouts to people affected by radiation leaking from its Fukushima Daiichi plant, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The nuclear power station was damaged by Japan's March 11 earthquake and

ISLAMABAD - Eminent health experts and lawmakers here on Tuesday stressed the creation of federal health division to retain national role in health sector after devolution of ministry of health to provinces. They were speaking here on Tuesday in a Legislative forum on 'Health and the 18th Constitutional Amendment' organized by PILDAT and Heartfile, two civil society organization. Speaking on the occasion Dr Nadeem Ehsan, MNA, Chairman National Assembly Standing Committee on Health

QUETTA - A person sustained serious injuries in a remote control bomb explosion in Dera Bugti here on Thursday.
As per details, a remote control bomb explosion, planted at the edge of the road, injured a person severely in the remit of Dera Bugti. He was then removed to the hospital.
Police started investigations after registering the case against unidentified people.

KARACHI - Karachi Administrator Fazlur Rehman assured representatives of consumer associations on Sunday that the city government will take their viewpoint into consideration while making any decision on the rates of milk items.

KARACHI - Although 126 different cultural sites, monuments and historical places have been transferred to Sindh, the provincial government will approach the Federal government to hand over several others still under their control, said Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo on Thursday while reviewing the progress of devolved matters pertaining to the Culture Department.
Culture Secretary Abdul Aziz Uqaili briefed the minister about the sites, monuments and historical places that

TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi warned on Thursday that the West has started something in Libya which it cannot control, the state news agency JANA reported.
"They have started something dangerous, something they cannot control. It will be out of their control no matter what methods of destruction they have at their disposal," Gaddafi said. He was referring to the Western coalition led by Britain, France and the United States which launched a military campaign against

LONDON - An epidemic of measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "spiralling out of control", the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday. The doctors group said it had counted 21,000 measles cases since September 2010 in an epidemic sweeping through the central African country.
It said urgent international action was needed to halt the spread of the highly contagious disease. "Since September 2010 we have vaccinated more than 1.5