Tag: Stops

LAHORE: The motorcade of Supreme Court (SC) judges on Saturday was stopped by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJ) Mian Saqib Nasir outside the SC registry...

ISLAMABAD: The capital’s citizens on Monday expressed their concern over the miserable condition of passenger vans stops and demanded their urgent overhauling from Capital Development Authority...

The NYPD has shut down for now a Brooklyn precinct’s Twitter feed that warned residents when local felons had been released from prison, reports...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.: Ah, Christmas in Rhode Island. Exquisitely decorated mansions in Newport. A red nose on the giant termite that sits atop a Providence...

Pakistan Railways on Thursday suspended the operation of 105 more trains owing to financial constraints, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to sources, PR is bearing...

In a unique case of flouting the chief minister’s orders, former health additional secretary (technical) Dr Mushtaq Ahmad Sulheria is continuing to perform official...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday restrained the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) from making further appointments for the post of legal assistant directors...

It was known that when developing babies are growth restricted in the womb, they are typically born with heads that are large relative to...

Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to...

President Asif Ali Zardari has stopped PPP leaders from giving counter statements against MQM. PPP sources said that MQM following its separation from the ruling...

The Sindh government has stopped direct funding to the Pakistan Rangers Sindh from the forthcoming financial year, provincial Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah...

TEHRAN - Iran has stopped refuelling "western passenger planes" since Europe-bound Iranian commercial planes were refused fuelling there, the first vice-president was quoted as saying in the governmental Iran newspaper on Wednesday. "Recently fuel supply for Iranian passenger planes flying to Europe was stopped," Mohammed Reza Rahimi said.
"Iran decided immediately to strike back and banned supply of fuel to Western passenger planes landing in Iran," Rahimi added without

TOKYO - An accidental leak of highly radioactive water into the ocean from a Japanese nuclear plant was stopped Wednesday, boosting efforts to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
The leak was thought to be a source of spiking radiation levels in the sea, which prompted Japan to announce its first seafood radiation safety standards following the discovery of fish with elevated contamination. To stop the long-running leak from the Fukushima plant on the

JAKARTA - The Indonesian finance ministry would not extend permit, which expired on Thursday, to import rice and the State Logistic Agency (Bulog) should rely more on domestic production for meeting its rice stockpile target, a minister said here on Thursday. The decision was made as the country had great rice harvests since February and the agriculture ministry had allowed the agency to purchase rice of any quality. "After today, Bulog must meet national rice stockpile from domestic

ISLAMABAD - LNG Floating Terminal, at Port Qasim, could start functioning if the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources assures uninterrupted supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the Senate's Standing Committee on Ports and Shipping was told on Saturday. "We are ready and it is up to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to assure supply of LNG," Port Qasim Authority (PQA) Chairman Vice Admiral Muhammad Shafi told the committee.
Ministry of Ports and Shipping

LAHORE - Airport officials foiled a young boy's attempt to flee in the landing gear of a Boeing 777 aircraft parked at the Allama Iqbal International Airport late on Thursday. PIA authorities caught Muhammad Rizwan, 18, and handed him over to the Airport Security Force (ASF) for further action.
Rizwan was wearing a black shawl to mask him in the dark but was tracked down by the authorities. Sources have also revealed that during the initial inquiry, he said he tried to stowaway

ISLAMABAD - Delay in the oath-taking ceremony of Islamabad High Court's (IHC) newly-appointed chief justice and other seven judges is irking litigants as well as lawyers, as the IHC has stopped admitting cases and petitions for the time being.
On the other hand, the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court has also declined to admit cases of the residents of the federal capital, which fall within the jurisdiction of the IHC. And lawyers and litigants in the federal capital have