Tag: Lost

NATO says lost US drone helicopter in Libya

NATO said it lost radar contact with a drone helicopter conducting a reconnaissance flight over Libya on Tuesday, denying a Libyan television report that...

Google’s guitar doodle cost £166m in lost productivity

The Google guitar doodle marking Les Paul's birthday last week cost the world £166million in lost productivity. The late guitar pioneer was celebrated on...

Why FB lost 6m US users

Market saturation, or the beginning of the end? The social networking giant reportedly lost quite a few friends in May. Facebook may be nearing...

America’s lost trillions

One reason that the US economy still struggles to achieve sustained growth is that Americans are a long way from recovering the trillions of...

Rediscovering lost heritage through ‘Begum Jaan’

The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) Repertory Theatre recently announced the schedule of its upcoming play titled ‘Begum Jaan’ during a press briefing...

‘$8b cotton crop, 30MAF water lost to poor farming practices’

Pakistan loses cotton crop worth $8 billion every year and wastes some 30 million acre foot (MAF) of water because of poor farming practices...

Hopes fade for 150 refugees lost at sea

ROME - Hopes faded on Thursday for some 150 African refugees fleeing Libya whose boat capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean in stormy weather, a day after 53 survivors were plucked from the sea.
"We are still searching for 150 people. The hope of finding other survivors is fading by the hour," Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in parliament. Italian and Maltese coast guard vessels and planes, as well as two commercial vessels, were taking part in the high-seas rescue

Hopes fade for 150 Libya boat people lost at sea

ROME - Hopes faded on Thursday for some 150 African refugees fleeing Libya whose boat capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean in stormy weather, a day after 53 survivors were plucked from the sea.
"We are still searching for 150 people. The hope of finding other survivors is fading by the hour," Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in parliament.
Italian and Maltese coast guard vessels and planes, as well as two commercial vessels, were taking part in the high-seas

Pakistan lost in Mohali but inside central jail it’s a different...

KARACHI - Ecstatic, the victorious green shirts felt like dishing out their hearts to their blue-shirted rivals after winning the match... the scenes inside the Karachi Central Prison were wishful thinking for those who had gunned for Pakistan to win the cricket world cup semi-final clash against India on March 30.
These celebrations - after Saturday's match between Pakistani and Indian teams - were a part of a cricket world cup going on inside the city's largest prison with

Gilani’s visit to India: an opportunity lost?

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's visit to India on Wednesday to watch the Cricket World Cup semi-final clash between Pakistan and India and hold talks with his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of the match was more a "picnic party" than serious diplomatic business.
Prime Minister Gilani reached Mohali on Wednesday morning with a delegation of more than 50 members, including leaders and representatives from almost all political parties as well as several

Punjab govt has lost right to govern, says PML-Q

LAHORE - The Punjab government has lost its right to govern because it has failed to provide roll number slips to thousands of students, PML-Q Punjab Information Secretary Akram Chaudhry said this on Saturday. Speaking to party workers at the Muslim League House, Akram said that the health and education departments have yet to get ministers, which showed that the Punjab chief minister had turned a blind eye to issues concerning these sectors.
"The Punjab government has launched

Flood plan only to rebuild lost infrastructure

ISLAMABAD - The government is unable to take measures for minimizing chances of flood damages in the future owing to financial constraints and would reconstruct only the lost infrastructures, said National Flood Reconstruction Plan, a report by the Planning Commission of Pakistan.
The government's reconstruction plan, based on the estimates of the Damages and Needs Assessments (DNA) Report, prepared by the World Bank and the Asian Development (ADB), said the government had

KP Police has lost 500 men to militancy since 2007

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police have lost 500 men from constable to top level officers as the frontline force was confronting the highly trained and equipped militants in the ongoing fighting against terrorism since 2007, the official statistics stated.
The sufferings of policemen's lives in KP were higher than that of any other province in the country as the police officials were killed in bomb blasts, suicide attacks, remote controlled explosions and target

Westerners ‘lost in desert of lust’: Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticised Western culture on Thursday, saying its people are "lost in a desert of lust," and also took aim at his own country's family-planning policy, the Ilna news agency reported. "We do not want man lost in the desert of lust but we want man up in heaven," he was quoted as telling a group of provincial administrators in the central city of Yazd. Rejecting Iran's successful family-planning programme, he told Iranians to procreate,

Wahlberg lost cash from ‘Fighter’ film

Mark Wahlberg was left £333,333 out of pocket by the time he finished filming 'The Fighter' - because he spent more money preparing for the role than he was earning.
The Hollywood actor took a massive pay cut to play real life boxing star 'Irish' Micky Ward in the biopic and he blew his salary on paying personal trainers to teach him how to fight. Wahlberg ended up losing money by the time filming finished, but he has no regrets about taking such a financial risk on the

‘The US has lost a great diplomat in Holbrooke’

LAHORE: America has lost a great diplomat after the sad demise of Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Tuesday.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Kasuri said that even though Holbrooke became the special representative after his tenure as foreign minister ended, he (Kasuri) always found the special envoy full with vision to address the varied conflicting issues.
Kasuri also commended

2010 – another year down the drain for KESC with Rs...

ISLAMABAD: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has incurred an approximate loss of Rs 21 billion during the outgoing calendar year 2010.
Well-informed source in power sector informed Pakistan Today on Tuesday that there was a serious threat of power riots in the largest metropolis of the country during the coming summer, as KESC lacked funds to meet its operational expenses for the year 2011.
According to source, KESC's approximate revenue during last 12 month was