Tag: Red

Andy Murray was hugely impressive in his straight sets demolition of Richard Gasquet of France. Murray seems to have found the right formula for...

A bomb failed to explode outside the international Red Cross office in Karachi on Saturday, police said. A small blast did take place from...

Over 1,000 spectators witnessed the best team from ASIA “Chaar Payee” which bagged 4th position in the Red Bull Tum Tum Pa World Finals...

Iran has sent submarines to the Red Sea, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, citing an unidentified source, in a move that...

Countries across the globe will celebrate ‘World Blood Donor Day’ on June 14 with events to raise awareness of the need for safe blood...

In wake of possible terror threats, Peshawar city, cantt and towns have been declared red zone areas while suburbs are not included in red...

LAHORE - Red Bull Tum Tum Pa, a worldwide freestyle university drumming competition, locally in collaboration with Ufone's Uth Records and City FM 89, its official radio partner, saw its third and final day on Saturday in Lahore at the UCP.
Farhad Humayun, the judge, was seen allotting points to each participating group, based on rhythm. Students packed the hall and contestants did their best to impress the judges. In the end, a group, 'Chaar Payee', succeeded in collecting the

British author Warren Ellis, whose comic series 'Red' was adapted into a hit film last year, is writing two new novels, the first of which will be released next year, publisher Little, Brown and Company said on Monday. The 43-year-old author is writing a new thriller, called 'Gun Machine,' described in a news release as about "a beleaguered New York City detective who stumbles upon a cache of hundreds of guns that each trace back to a wide array of seemingly unrelated unsolved

ISLAMABAD - Even after being provided a massive financial bailout package worth Rs 21.5 billion during the last two fiscal years, the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is still incurring losses of Rs 9 billion per annum.
A source at the Ministry of Industries said the government had already provided Rs 6 billion in cash to the PSM while giving a sovereign guarantee of Rs 15.5 billion to commercial banks. However, he said, the state-owned entity was still in the red, as it was causing a

GENEVA - At least 800 people were killed in intercommunal violence in the western Ivorian town of Duekoue this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday.
"We have information that at least 800 persons were killed on March 29 (Tuesday) in Duekoue in intercommunal violence," ICRC spokeswoman Dorothea Krimitsas told Reuters.
ICRC officials visited the Carrefour area of Duekoue on Thursday and Friday to assess needs and gather testimony, a

NEW YORK - 'Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke brings something borrowed; something new but certainly nothing blue to her girl-centric retelling of the old fairytale 'Little Red Riding Hood.'
The new film, 'Red Riding Hood,' is a weird hybrid that means to tap the adolescent yearnings of Stephanie Meyer fans, but which will more likely suffer the same sorry fate as Amanda Seyfried's last supernatural schlocker, 'Jennifer's Body.'
Seyfried's saucer-eyed Riding Hood does

Lahore - The Punjab chapter of the Red Crescent Society organized a youth training camp at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), which continued for three days. On the first day of the camp, the students were informed about the humanitarian work of the Red Crescent Society. On the second day, first aid training, emergency response and antidote to snake venom was imparted, while on the third day disaster management and training of the youth was ensured. A youth club was

BANGKOK - Thousands of Thai "Red Shirts" gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to mark nine months since a bloody crackdown on their anti-government rally and to press for the release of detained leaders. Police estimated around 25,000 protesters massed in the city as part of a rally that crossed from Bangkok's retail heart to the Democracy Monument, both sites of bloodshed during demonstration in April and May of the last year.
Dressed in their trademark colour and waving banners,

LAHORE - The Pakistan Red Crescent Society Punjab chapter organised a five-day first aid training workshop at the Lady Emerson Hall of the Red Crescent Society on Tuesday. Punjab University Pharmacy Department students participated in the workshop, which imparted emergency response training, first aid to heart attack and burn patients and ways of shifting patients to hospitals.
At the workshop's conclusion, Punjab Red Crescent Society Secretary Brigadier (r) Muhammad Saleem

LAHORE - Pakistan Red Crescent Society Punjab Branch held a youth awareness programme in the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore on Thursday. The session covered various aspects of youth awareness including role of youth in the society, introduction of Red Crescent and its importance.
Youth Club was also formed in UET, from where 12 students were elected. Two students of Blood Donors' Society Rehan and Usman arranged the aforesaid programme.

LAHORE - The vibrant Faiz festival kicked off starting Monday from the inauguration of Faiz's photo exhibition at Al Hamra Exhibition Hall. Photos of Faiz, from suspended moments in his life with friends, colleagues, family, and sometimes even alone will be displayed in the hall till 13th of February.
Different events are organized by Faiz Ghar in this lieu. The next event will be a book launch planned for February 11 at Al-Hamra Hall 3. Entry is free for all. Books written by

LAHORE - The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society imparted emergency response training to students at Government College for Women, Samanabad on Tuesday.The training continued for five days in which students were trained in emergency response, first aid training, natural disaster management, youth activities and were introduced to the Red Crescent.
Providing bandage, giving first aid in case of a heart attack, helping burn victims, shifting injured to hospital and