Tag: Largest

Second largest Muslim congregation ends in Bangladesh

The first phase of the second largest annual Muslim congregation, after Haj, ended in Bangladesh on Sunday afternoon with millions of devotees from home...

Largest structure in universe discovered

Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to...

China becomes world’s 2nd largest film industry

Moviegoers in China spent 17 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) on tickets last year, turning the country into the second-largest film market in the world,...

King launches largest expansion of Prophet’s Mosque

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah laid the foundation stone for the largest expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque. The new project will...

S Korea’s Kia sees small drop in Q2 net profit

South Korea's second largest automaker Kia Motors said Friday its second-quarter net profit fell 2.8 percent from a year earlier due to losses on...

Pak 2nd largest in UN peacekeeping

When the world celebrated UN peacekeeping day this year, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations being second largest troops contributor country in...

Students paint ‘world’s largest national flag’

Pakistani students broke the Guinness world record on Friday by painting the world’s largest canvas to mark the Pakistan Day. The painting of the...

PTI’s campaign to be largest in history: Imran Khan

Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday in his twitter massage directed to launch nationwide membership campaign for winning support of masses. "PTI is...

Eiffel Tower could become ‘world’s largest tree’

The Eiffel Tower could be transformed into the world’s largest tree if a project to cover the iconic structure’s 327-metre height with plants comes...

Largest container ship berths at Port Qasim

Port Qasim Authority (PQA) safely berthed the largest container ship that has ever visited the country’s second largest port. According to a statement issued...

Qubee conducts Pakistan’s largest viral video competition ever

Qubee, the newest WiMAX provider in the Pakistani broadband market, recently conducted ‘Shoot-em-up’, a viral video competition that received nationwide participation. The activity involved 9...

World’s largest gold minaret set up in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has completed a project to install the world’s largest gold minaret on top of the newly-built giant clock tower in the holy...

UK to carve out largest human sculpture

The world’s largest sculpture of a human body is being carved out of the British landscape using more than a million tonnes of rock...

Kasur-Depalpur Road: Punjab govt’s largest project

KASUR - The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) has said the Kasur-Depalpur Road project is currently the largest road project of the Punjab government. In a press release, the FWO said it took full advantage of the local expertise, labor, materials and services, adding that this mega road project would bring tremendous benefits for the locals and people of other cities as well. It said the dual road would serve as an important link between Lahore and Multan via Kasur, Khudian and

Africa’s largest state set to split on July 9

KHARTOUM - South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare its independence in final results of a referendum made public on Monday, opening the door to Africa's newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.
A total of 98.83 percent of voters from Sudan's oil-producing south chose to secede from the north in last month's referendum, according to a video display of the vote seen by Reuters at the venue of the announcement.
The referendum is the climax of

Brazil to be fifth largest economy by 2016: Lula

RIO DE JANEIRO - Outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has claimed that Brazil would be the world's fifth biggest economy by 2016, as he laid the cornerstone of a new Fiat factory.
"Fiat was right to set up in north-eastern Brazil, and if it were up to me, whether I am president or not, other companies would set up in other states" in the region, Lula said Pernambuco state. "Brazil will be the fifth largest economy in the world before the Olympic Games" to be held in Rio

Country’s largest steel mills to start production in March

KARACHI: "We currently are in the cold commissioning phase; our project will then enter the hot commissioning phase. In March 2011, our plant will commence production with an expected output of 1.28 million tonnes per annum solely reliant upon local raw materials," told TSML Director (Projects) Zaigham Adil Rizvi in an exclusive interview to Pakistan Today.
He revealed that the TSML complex is spread over an area of 220 acres at Bin Qasim and employs the world's most advanced