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KARACHI - Sindh Board of Revenue's Land Utilisation department has provided 1,000 acres around the Keenjhar Lake in Thatta to the Sindh Tourism Department to promote tourism in the area.
Sindh Chief Minister's Adviser on Tourism Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh disclosed this during a meeting of the Gorakh Hill Development Authority (GHDA). The meeting was also attended by Sindh Tourism Secretary Shahid Gulzar and GHDA Director General Abdul Qadir Mangi among other officers.
Shaikh said

KARACHI - A Singapore-based majority shareholding company of the NIB Bank has injected Rs 6.40 billion ($74.08 million) into the bank. Bugis Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fullerton Financial Holdings of Singapore, has injected its share of the proposed capital increase of Rs 6.4 billion in the bank, NIB announced on Friday. It said in August last year the NIB Bank had shown its intention to increase its capital with a view to make the bank stronger. To this end, the bank

Barry Sandrew, the founder of Legend films that specializes in coloring few of the best Hollywood black and white films is very impressed by Dev Anand's classic 'Hum Dono'.
Legend films has colored the black and white version of film 'Hum Dono' with the most advanced technology in US. The film has been colored using 65,000 colors while 'Mughal-e-Azam' and 'Naya Daur' had used the color scheme of 16 and 32 colors respectively. Legend films have colorized films like 'Holiday Inn',

ISLAMABAD - The Upper House of parliament on Thursday passed the 19th Amendment Bill with all 80 votes in favour and none against it.
The National Assembly could not pass the bill unanimously as MNA Kashmala Tariq voted against it.
Senators Hafiz Rasheed Ahmed and Muhammad Idress Safi had jointly proposed an amendment in Clause 246 of the bill seeking inclusion of 25 villages of Charsadda and Peshawar districts in the Tribal Areas. However, the House rejected the

MOSCOW - A Moscow judge handed former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky a 14 year jail term Thursday in his second trial on money laundering and embezzlement charges, an AFP correspondent reported.
Taking into account time served since his first arrest in 2003, this means that the Yukos oil company founder and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev will stay in jail until 2017, Russian news agencies said.
The defence, which has vowed to appeal the conviction, has yet to comment on the

Reese Witherspoon has become the latest star to join the race to the altar in 2011 as the actress and her Hollywood agent boyfriend Jim Toth are engaged. The star began dating Toth at the beginning of 2010 shortly after she and Jake Gyllenhaal split, and now her publicist has confirmed the Oscar winner is planning a second trip up the aisle. Witherspoon and actor Ryan Phillippe divorced in 2008. The actress joins Leann Rimes, Natalie Portman, Hugh Hefner, Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason

Elton John and his partner have become the proud parents of a son born to a surrogate in California on Christmas Day. The boy, named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, is the first for the British rock star and Canadian filmmaker David Furnish,
who have been together since the early 1990s. "We are overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment," the pair has adding, "Zachary is healthy and doing really well, and we are very proud and happy parents." The pair

LAHORE - Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam was in for a rude shock when the voice recorder of his mobile phone in New Zealand responded to callers by calling him as Indian manager.
The media and others were stunned when they called Intikhab in New Zealand and the voice recorder of his phone kept on saying that the manager of the Indian team was not available at the moment and will try to return the call later. Irked by the mistake, the Pakistan team management had to remind

When everybody is speculating whether there is a strain in the friendship between Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif especially after it was reported that the macho Bollywood actor's digs about Ranbir Kapoor did not go down too well with Katrina.
It hads been reported that Sallu's ex-flame paying him a visit on Saturday night. Kat drove into Salman's Galaxy pad in Bandstand (Bandra) late evening and even stayed there for at least one-and-a-half hours bonding with him as well as his

ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday appointed Muhammad Ali Ghulam Muhammad chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) for a three-year term with immediate effect.
The post was lying vacant since November 29 when the term of Salman Ali Shaikh expired. The new chairman has an MBA from IBA and has served as member of the Karachi Stock Exchange Board. He is expected to take charge of his duties on December 27. Sources said the government was expected to

DASKA - The provincial health secretary ordered the medical superintendent of Civil Hospital Daska to bring the six-member blind family to the hospital for check-up and provide them with free medical facilities after the story of this poor family was published in Pakistan Today on December 14.
Rehmat Ali, 65, appealed to the government for help stating that his income was very low and he could not afford medical treatment of his family. When the news was published in Pakistan

KARACHI: The Sindh government has acquired 20,000 acres of land in Thatta and Badin to set up crab and shrimp farms - a plan aimed at consolidating the dwindling fishing industry, which is suffering due to a ban on fish imports from Pakistan, and helping fishermen capitalise on market opportunities in Karachi.
This was disclosed by the provincial Fisheries Director General Ghulam Mohammad Mahar while addressing a seminar organised by the Indus for All Programme, WWF-Pakistan.

LAHORE: Mushtaq Mirani with his pepper gray hair and spectacles, looks exactly like a thinker. Presently serving as chairman and associate professor at Electrical Engineering Department at the Mehran University, Jamshoro, Sindh, Mirani has achieved much more as an individual, along with a reputation for being an outspoken critic of many issues that others would think twice of speaking against.
Recently, his work in inundated areas of Sindh and for sustainable land development

Justin Timberlake feels "humbled" by the positive reaction to his new movie 'The Social Network' following a string of top awards nominations. The film, about the rise of Facebook, has won rave reviews and garnered a number of top honours from critics' groups in New York and Los Angeles, as well as six Golden Globes nominations announced on Tuesday.
Timberlake's co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield will both compete for acting titles at the upcoming awards show, while

KARACHI: People in Karachi are faced with a fresh dent as the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has allowed KESC to swell the security deposit for installation of new connections by five times the previous amount.
The previous charge was a meager one thousand rupees, however, the revised charges mean that a five kilowatt power connection would cost six thousand rupees, sources said.
NEPRA has accommodated majority of the KESC demands and has allowed

LAHORE: On Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's orders, 13 new ventilators have been purchased for Rs 27 million for the Lahore General Hospital (LGH), Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Saturday.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting to review the progress of development work at the LGH. He said that the LGH was a specialised hospital for neurosurgery and patients of other provinces were also referred to the hospital while head injury patients were

LAHORE: Former PCB COO Wasim Bari has been appointed as Director Education and Training on contractual basis. He will be based at National Stadium Karachi. This is a new position created to implement PCB's new code of conduct and anti corruption programme.
After taking over he said, "Cricket is facing new challenges but as custodian of the game we are committed to fight for its integrity and survival. Players need to be trained and educated on problems they may face while