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LAHORE - As many as 26 shops at the lower ground floor, besides the space for a restaurant at the first floor of the Park and Ride Plaza on Gulberg`s Main Boulevard will be sold through an open auction on March 31. Some 13 ground floor shops of the plaza had already been sold for Rs 211.45 million against the reserve price of Rs185.3 million in an open auction on Jan 26, said a spokesman on Sunday.
People interested in taking part in the auction will have to deposit reserve

LAHORE - The Muttahia Qaumi Movement (MQM), after reaching an understanding with the Punjab government, on Saturday finalised Gaddafi Stadium as the venue for its upcoming Punjab chapter public meeting in Lahore on April 10. According to MQM sources, party leaders led by Dr Farooq Sattar were convinced by the Punjab government that owing to security risks, permission to hold the public gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan was not granted, as hundreds of party workers are likely to attend the

LAHORE - The task force against sexual harassment at universities under the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is planning to question Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran for not taking action against two faculty members allegedly involved in sexually harassing two female students and other corrupt activities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to HEC sources, the VC's repute has been damaged after academic corruption and sexual harassment at the

OTTAWA - Canada's governor general dissolved parliament on Saturday after a vote of no-confidence in Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, setting up a May 2 election -- the fourth in seven years. From the steps of the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II's representative in Canada, Harper announced the official launch of the campaign, contrasting his Conservatives' economic recovery plan with the prospects of opposition parties forming a leftist coalition. "I have met

MANAMA - Thousands of Bahrainis turned out for a sermon of a major Shia cleric on Friday ahead of "Day of Rage" protests planned across the Gulf Arab country despite a ban imposed under martial law.
Troops and police fanned out across the small islan state with a restive Shia Muslim majority after the Sunni Al Khalifa ruling family, confronted with popular demands for a constitutional monarchy, declared security is now the priority.
A pair of fighter jets was flying over

OTTAWA - Angry opposition parties are set to vote Canada's ruling Conservatives out of office on Friday and trigger an election in a risky gamble that they can claw back a widening gap in opinion polls. But the Conservatives, in power since 2006 with two successive minority governments, are riding high. Polls show Prime Minister Stephen Harper holding onto power in an early May election and most likely strengthening his position.
"The Prime Minister and his Conservatives are in

LOS ANGELES - 'Rush Hour' star Jackie Chan is spearheading a charity concert to benefit Japan's earthquake and tsunami victims. The event, dubbed the "Love Without Borders 3/11 Candelight Gala," takes place April 1 at Hong Kong's Victoria Park and participants include singers such as Alan Tam, Shirley Kwan and Chinese-American rapper Jin. The group has recorded the song "Succumb Not to Sorrow" which is based on a Japanese poem and serves as the theme for the concert.

KARACHI - Seven out of the total 11 anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) in Sindh will be without judges by the end of this month, as contracts of two more ATC judges will expire on March 28.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the contracts of Badin ATC judge Saleem Patoli and Khairpur Mir's Sajjad Hussain Kolachi will finish before the end of this month, leaving the province - with its capital witnessing a spike in terror incidents - with only four functional courts to handle

KARACHI - Following the four musically diverse episodes and a repeat telecast of Yasir and Jawad's episode based on exceptionally popular demand, Ufone's music platform Uth Records returns this week with their fifth and second to last episode featuring Karachi-based singer Ather Sani.
Through Ufone's Uth Records' televised platform and as illustrated by its artists Jumbo Jutt, Yasir and Jawad, Usman Riaz and Natasha Ejaz, the team has endeavoured to show how talented young

KARACHI - The prices of petroleum products are likely to see a major upward revision in the month of April as the government is likely to pass on the impact of rising crude oil prices to consumers.
Assuming that the government does not tinker with the petroleum levy amount, price of HSD and MS should be increased by Rs 7.59 per liter and Rs 4.73 per liter, respectively.While the levy on HSD is currently negligible at just Rs 0.44 per liter, any increase in it to accommodate a

MULTAN - Agriculture Development Commissioner (ADC) Inayatullah Khan has stated that domestic cotton consumption of Pakistan stood at an average of 16 million bales per annum and government is working to meet a target of 15 million bales this year, despite the damage sustained in floods. Khan was speaking at the convening of a meeting of the research sub committee of Pakistan Central Cotton Committee (PCCC) at Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI).
Agriculture scientists from

KARACHI - After the imposition of the 15 percent flood surcharge by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Pakistan now ranks amongst the higher corporate tax regimes of the world. Japan tops the list with 39.5 percent tax rate followed by the US (39.2 percent) and France (34.4 percent). While, amongst the prominent lowest corporate tax charging countries are Singapore (17 percent), Saudi Arabia (20 percent) and Iran (25 percent). It is worth mentioning that FBR has finalised the

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on a constitutional petition regarding alleged political appointments in the Karachi police department until March 29.
The SHC division bench comprising Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa heard the petition moved by Ali Safdar Depar and Javed Kalwar through senior lawyer Abdul Salam Memon, seeking to restrain authorities concerned for further recruitments on political basis.
The

AHMEDABAD - Matches between India and Australia have sparked brilliance and controversy down the years and Thursday's World Cup quarter-final could well feature more of the same.
Administrators, who will hope the match passes off without incident, can console themselves with the thought there is an unlikely to be a repeat of the events during the third Test at Melbourne in 1981. Sunil Gavaskar, then India's captain, was so incensed at being given out lbw to Australia fast bowling

NEW DELHI - West Indies paceman Ravi Rampaul proved in his World Cup debut that the Indian top order batsmen are just like a minor in a nightclub - wary of bouncers.
Rampaul began with a wayward bumper which soared over the wicketkeeper's head and raced to the boundary in Sunday's final Group B match in Chennai. The 26-year-old from Trinidad kept banging the ball in short of a length to generate awkward bounce which helped remove both openers Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir

MUSCAT - About 100 Omani demonstrators set up tents on Tuesday in a district of the capital housing the main government ministries, demanding political reform. Protests against autocratic rulers sweeping the region have not spared conservative and usually tranquil Oman at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula whose Gulf Arab dynasty has long been backed by Washington. In power for 40 years, Sultan Qaboos this month began moves to cede some legislative powers to the partially

KARACHI - Health Asia 2011, an international exhibition and conference, is set to kick off today at the Karachi Expo Centre.