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The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has decided to reduce the petrol and diesel quota of its officers, a decision that is likely...

It is high time that the nation should prepare for the upcoming natural gas crisis and take precautionary measures to overcome CNG shortage and...

If Sri Lanka manage a series-equalling victory in the third and final Test against England at the Rose Bowl, it will be one of...

Around 1.2 million of the total 3.2 million bags of blood collected every year in Pakistan are being used to save mothers’ life during...

The dress worn by Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan looked good enough to eat. It was made of lettuce leaves, part of an effort by...

Inter Milan beat Palermo 3-1 at the Stadio Olimpico here on Sunday to lift the Italian Cup and rescue an otherwise disappointing season. It was...

An action committee has been formed to ‘save social security hospitals’, comprising of the representatives of PMA, SSDA, Patient Welfare Society, Doctor Council and...

The Rohtas Fort has been noted down as not being in the very best of conditions. There are several reasons for this: seepage, thanks...

KARACHI - The absence of a bone marrow donation culture in the country has diminished the survival chances of thousands of patients suffering from different blood disorders, said haematologists and bone marrow recipients at a ceremony organised to observe the International Bone Marrow Transplant Day.
They that said despite the 90 percent survival rate among bone marrow recipients in the country, many lives are lost due to the absence of donors. "Around 3,000 patients suffering

CAIRO - Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday, issuing calls to "save the revolution" that ousted president Hosni Mubarak and to rid of the country of the old regime.
The Youth Coalition Movement, an umbrella grouping those who launched the uprising against Mubarak, called this week for a new demonstration to demand judgement of the corrupt and those who fired live rounds on protesters. The young pro-democracy activists also want the country's

MUMBAI - New Zealand spinner Nathan McCullum would rather be miserly in giving away runs than be greedy for wickets during the World Cup. The off-spinner, elder brother of Brendon, will be happy to give away 40-45 runs off his 10 overs and take any wickets that come by as a bonus.
"My role for this team is to work hard and try and go for 40-45 runs off my 10 overs and if I pick up one or two wickets then I do ... Especially with having a role with the bat as well," he told

KARACHI - Kidney diseases increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases for people with diabetes, hypertension and other heart diseases, healthcare experts revealed in a message on World Kidney Day that was observed on Thursday around the world.
They said that chronic kidney disease (CKD) could lead the patients to suffer cardiovascular diseases and in order to save the heart from diseases, one has to protect the kidneys.
Currently in Pakistan, one-third of patients on

KARACHI - Power plants of 3,000MW are running on furnace oil in Pakistan, and if measures are taken to convert them to coal, the country would be in a position to save approximately $1 billion a year, said Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Strategic Planning and Business Development Manager Muhammad Ammar Ali Talaat on Saturday. He was speaking at an Energy Awareness Conference, with the KESC as the lead sponsor, at the NED University.
The conference was aimed at creating

KASUR - Complete civil, criminal and revenue record, including the power of attorney of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed's murder case is likely to get destroyed because it has been kept in the basement of Kasur DCO office where there is no proper arrangement of any light and ventilation.
Previously, the district govts have been using different methods to save the record from decay but at the moment the safety of the record is at risk. If the same apathy

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday said that an All Parties Committee should be constituted to formulate a unanimous national agenda for bringing economic stability in the country.
He floated the proposal in his meeting with a delegation of Pakistan Business Forum which called on him at his residence. Shujaat said that people from all strata of life should play their role to bring economic stability in the country. He

ISLAMABAD: US Senator John Kerry and the US House of Representatives' Speaker John Boehner have stepped in to secure the release of American national Raymond Davis, currently detained in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis, as the diplomatic row between Islamabad and Washington intensified on Friday after the Lahore Police declared the incident a "cold-blooded murder", not an act of self-defence.
The US authorities increased pressure on the Pakistani government to provide

HAFIZABAD - The four young sons of a poor villager of village Vinni died due to a mysterious TB-like disease while the fifth one is in critical condition. According to details, Abdul Hakeem's four sons, Sajid, 27, Imran, 24, Wajid, 20 and Sajjad, 7, suffered from a mysterious TB-like disease four years back.
He sold his land, jewellery of his wife and his savings for their treatment, but in vain. He went to various hospitals, but no doctor could diagnose the disease and,