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Despite massive funding of cash by the federal government, Pakistan Railways has failed to control long delays of trains, which are arriving and departing...

The late arrival of trains continued on Thursday for the 15th consecutive day, with almost all the express trains reaching the Lahore Railway Station...

An urgent meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet (ECC) has been called on Thursday (today) to settle the contentious issue of...

Commuters were stranded for hours along the canal on Thursday evening as activists of the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) blocked the city’s main artery at...

Traffic flow remained suspended for hours on both sides of canal on Thursday evening as the activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) blocked the...

Somali pirates have released the Kuwaiti crude oil tanker Zirku, held since late March, along with its 29 crew members, including 17 Pakistanis, after...

Veteran TV actor Jamil Fakhri was hospitalised in Mayo Hospital after suffering a massive stroke on Tuesday. Fakhri was admitted to the ICU Ward...

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Bank has not only sustained a huge loss of around Rs1.5 billion as it failed to recover loans...

Massive load shedding will haunt intermediate students who get ready for their final examinations from May 7. Out of the 606 examination centres established...

SANAA - Massive protests took place across Yemen on Sunday demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as the opposition joined a Gulf Arab meeting in Riyadh on a plan for the leader's departure.
Security forces deployed heavily in Sanaa where hundreds of thousands of men and women took to the streets in protest against Saleh's call for an end to men and women joining together in anti-regime protests, and calling for his ouster.
Protesters also took to the streets

SANAA - Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Yemeni capital Sunday for the funerals of some of the 52 people killed in a bloody crackdown on protesters by loyalists of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Around 30 bodies were laid out in neat rows and the square near Sanaa University overflowed with mourners, who massed under tight security and despite a two-day-old state of emergency.
The victims were killed Friday when pro-Saleh gunmen raked demonstrators in the square with

KARACHI - Setting aside the concerns by industrialists over massive irregularities in audit reports, the Sindh Industrial Trading Estates (SITE) Limited is continuously approving the erroneous financial reports from a firm.
Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that despite the SITE General Body private members terming the accountancy firm's performance as unsatisfactory; the SITE senior management was insisting to carry out auditing from the same firm to cover up its financial

DASKA - Local and export purchase orders for cricket goods and garments industry such as green cricket shirt, trouser, team bats, batting gloves, pads and cricket balls have massively increased in Cricket World Cup 2011, said Director of Malik Sports Malik Zahid.
Three famous Pakistani brands MB, CA and AS have captured 60 percent of total world cricket goods market. He said that Pakistan produced around half a million batting pads and gloves annually - out of which around 0.2

SANAA - Huge crowds poured onto the streets of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday in what the opposition hailed as the biggest protest yet against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule.
The veteran leader, whose supporters staged a large counter-demonstration, dismissed the opposition rally as a copycat action mimicking protests in other Arab countries that he charged had been fanned by Israel and the US. Saleh then sacked the governors of five provinces where

LAHORE - Lahoris continued to enjoy the pleasant weather resulting from the massive hailstorm which hit the city on Saturday and shared pictures and videos of the snowcapped city on various social networking websites. Citizens claimed it was snowfall not a hailstormt that hit the city at the weekend.
Talal Raza, a local student studying in the US, was mesmerised by the pictures posted on social networking site Facebook and wrote, "Did it snow in Lahore?" Raza said that he went

LAHORE - The number of customers and stalls decreased at the Sunday Bazaars, as the massive hailstorm hitting the city on Saturday forced people to stay indoors. Vegetable and fruit prices increased around Rs 5 to 20 per kilogramme making it the second consecutive Sunday on which prices have hiked.
The massive hailstorm affected the bazaars in many ways, as water was present at the Model Town, Green Town, Johar Town and Wahdat Road Sunday Bazaars. Vendors said that people

LAHORE - A whopping rush was seen on the second day of the 18th exhibition and conference, being held under the aegis of HVAC society at Expo Center Friday. People from different walks of life started pouring in the mega event since morning and flux continued till dusk.
Representatives of industries and manufacturers also thronged on the occasion and visited various stalls showcasing modern products including domestic and commercial air-conditioned, solar energy, generators,