Tag: Months

Blackburn scored their first victory in three months with a 1-0 victory over Bolton on Saturday, easing the club’s relegation fears after a prolonged...

KARACHI - The authorities on Wednesday extended the powers of rangers for three more months due to the deteriorating law and order situation in the city.
According to a private TV, Sindh Home Department has issued an extension notification on the directives of the Sindh government.
According to the powers, rangers can carry out operations in any areas and make arrests.
Owing to the deteriorating situation in Sindh's capital, rangers in Karachi were given special powers

SIALKOT - All the cluster development agents (CDAs) in Sialkot have been deprived of their monthly salaries for the eight months owing to the alleged slackness of the officials of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).
The affected CDAs told newsmen that they had been working as cluster development agents (CDAs) to boost the Sialkot exports through networking for the last three years under the supervision of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) in active

TOKYO - The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant said Sunday it aims to reduce radiation leaks within three months and to achieve a "cold shutdown" within six to nine months. Japan's embattled Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) offered the timeline more than five weeks after a giant quake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems at its six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi atomic power station.
The damage sent atomic core temperatures soaring in partial fuel rod meltdowns, in

ISLAMABAD - The capital police have failed to identify more than 10 dead bodies recovered from various parts of the city during past three months. It was generally suspected that the recovered bodies belong to the people who were murdered outside the limits of capital city's police stations where they were dumped only to divert attention of investigators," a police source told Pakistan Today.
The source said most of the bodies had been recovered from areas falling within the

KARACHI - Inflow of Portfolio Investment has compensated for a decline in the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment to Pakistan during the first nine months of FY11.
The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) underwent a 28 percent decline and stood at $1.08 billion in the aforementioned period of FY11 compared to $1.50 billion received in the same period of FY10.
However, Portfolio Investment (PI) recorded an inflow of $235 million from July-March FY11 compared with an outflow of

ROME - World food prices fell for the first time in eight months in March after record highs largely due to oil prices, though the situation remains volatile, the UN's food agency said on Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation's Food Price Index dropped to an average 230 points in March, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March 2010, the Rome-based agency said.
"The decrease in the overall index this month brings some welcome

TOKYO - Japan's government warned on Sunday it may take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, as more bodies were recovered in devastated areas of northeast Japan.
An aide to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government's priority was to stop radiation leaks which were scaring the public and hindering work on cooling overheated nuclear fuel rods.
"We have not escaped from a crisis

KABUL - Continued militancy and skirmishes have claimed the lives of more than 100 soldiers with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the first quarter of the current year.
Since the beginning 2011, according to iCasalties, a website tracking the casualties of NATO-led forces in war on terror in Afghanistan, 103 soldiers with majority of them Americans have been killed in the post-Taliban country, a Chinese news agency reported.
The fatalities of

ISLAMABAD - Exports of services from Pakistan surged by 55.69 percent during the first seven months of current fiscal year as against the same period of last year.
The overall export of services was recorded at US$3.424 billion during July-January (2010-11) as against the exports of US$2.199 billion during the corresponding period of last year, according to data of Federal Bureau of Statistics.
The services that contributed in the positive growth in exports included

KARACHI - In sharp contrast to the hue and cry over the deterioration of the domestic economy in the country, the deposits of the banks have marked astounding growth of Rs 389 billion in eight months of FY11.
By February 2011, deposits of the scheduled banks have mounted to Rs 5.05 trillion, from Rs 4.661 trillion in June 2010. Thus, the deposits have surged by 8.34 percent from July-February period of FY11. In term of US dollars, the growth in deposits amounts to $4.54 billion,

ISLAMABAD - Despite an alarming energy deficit, the production of Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) grew by 1.03 percent during the first seven months of the current year compared to the same period last year.
The overall Quantum Index Numbers (QIN) of LSM stood at 200.63 points during July-January (2010-11) as compared to 198.59 points in July-January (2010-11) last year, according to data of Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS).
The QIN shows industrial productivity of 100

JALALABAD/KABUL - The death toll from Saturday's suicide attack in east Afghanistan has risen to at least 40, making it the deadliest nationwide for more than eight months, and the worst insurgent assault in that region. Seven gunmen and suicide bombers, dressed as border policemen, attacked an office of private Kabulbank in Jalalabad city, starting a gun battle which lasted several hours.
The last toll given on Saturday put the number of dead at 18. But on Sunday, Nangarhar

CAIRO - Egypt's ruling Higher Military Council hopes to finalise constitutional amendments within 10 days and put them to a referendum within two months, paving the way to democratic elections, members have told youth activists. Wael Ghonim said on his Facebook page that he and seven other activists involved in protests that brought down Hosni Mubarak last week met two members of the council on Sunday evening.
Ghonim, a Google executive who was detained for two weeks during the

KARACHI - Remittances sent home by the Pakistani Diaspora continued to grow, as an amount of $6.12 billion was received in the first seven months (July-January) of the Fiscal Year 2010-11, showing an increase of $919.92 million or 17.70% compared to $5.19 billion received over the same period in the last fiscal year.
The inflow of remittances in the July-January 2011 from UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, GCC countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman), UK and EU countries

KARACHI - The chief engineer of the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) assured the Cantonment Board president at a meeting held at the CBC office on Wednesday that the work on new pipelines in Defence would be completed in the next two months. Chief Engineer Niaz Hussain told the CBC President 5 Corps Brigadier Anis Ahmed that the work is being carried out in a professional manner.
CBC Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Hayat Mahar, Board Member Aziz Suharwardi, Lt Col Zafar Iqbal, Lt

LAHORE - A large number of nurses from the Saeeda Waheed College of Nursing and Fatima Memorial Hospital held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday against non-payment of allowance for the past seven months. They chanted slogans against the administration for not releasing the due allowance.
"The administration got an eight-year service bond signed by nurses while it was not paying our allowance for the past seven months," said one of the nurses. The protesters