Tag: Street

Protests born on Wall Street spreading across US

Anti-Wall Street protests that took shape in New York weeks ago, prompting hundreds of arrests, have spread across the United States with one organizer...

More than 700 occupy Wall Street; protestors arrested

More than 700 anti-Wall Street activists were arrested Saturday in New York amid chaotic scenes on Brooklyn Bridge after the protest movement’s march against...

Wall Street extends slide as Fed stokes economic fears

Stocks skidded 3 percent on Thursday, extending losses for a fourth day as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve and weak data from...

Street photographers not clicking any more

The revolution in the field of information technology has not only sent ripples across the globe but also uprooted a few stereotype businesses, which...

Woman gunned down in street robbery

Some unidentified muggers gunned down a woman on Wednesday when she offered resistance during a street robbery in the Sabzazar Police precincts. Police said...

PU teachers take to the street against IJT hooliganism

The suspected pro-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and pro-Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT) teachers allegedly involved in supporting extremist elements who attacked Punjab University (PU) Professor Dr Shaukat...

Apple smashes street views, shares soar

Blockbuster sales of the iPhone and strong Asian business again helped Apple Inc crush Wall Street's expectations, driving its shares up more than 7...

151 street criminals arrested during 2011

The city police on Sunday claimed that they have arrested 151 street criminals during the ongoing year. A spokesman for Islamabad police said that police...

Special squad to curb street crimes: CCPO

A special squad is being formulated to combat street crimes, under which policemen on motorcycles will patrol various small streets of the city on...

Street protests follow speech, opp says ‘revolt’ must go on

Protesters took to the streets across Syria on Monday to denounce a speech by President Bashar al-Assad they said did not meet popular demands...

Street in Brampton to be named after Raj Kapoor

In an honourable gesture towards legendary showman Raj Kapoor, a street will be named after him in the city of Brampton in Canada, hosting...

LHC reprimands Shalimar TMO on food street plans

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Thursday reprimanding the Shalimar town municipal officer (TMO) on giving ambiguous statements on the plan...

Of street children

Aslam* is a 12-year-old boy, who is found often on a street’s corner on main Garden Town road. He is dressed in dirty, stained...

TMO summoned for planning food street on Shadbagh green belt

Justice Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Friday summoned Shalamar Town municipal officer (TMO) on a petition challenging a project for establishing...

Nigeria adapts Sesame Street

A yam-loving muppet and another who's HIV positive romp about a set filled with an old drum of oil, a raffia basket and a...

Sesame Street beams American dream to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The United States has turned to oversized puppets in its newest attempt to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, funding a $20 million remake of popular children's TV programme Sesame Street.
The US show that popularised characters like Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and the Cookie Monster is being remade for a Pakistani audience, to promote "shared values and ideas" said USAID's education chief in Islamabad, Larry Dolan. Girl power and tolerance are among the messages to be

Students display street power again to protest HEC devolution

KARACHI - University students continued their protest on Monday against the devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the transfer of the Education Ministry to provinces. Hundreds of students of the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCE&T) gathered outside the DCE&T campus near People's Secretariat Roundabout and later marched towards the Numaish Chowrangi, where they staged a sit-in, suspending vehicular traffic for two hours. They chanted slogans against the