Tag: Tough

Australia flags tougher national terror laws

Sydney: Australia unveiled plans Wednesday to hold terror suspects for 14 days without charge and beef up its national database to include biometric data...

Tough competitions on cards today

Tough and interesting competitions are expected on the last day of the District Level of the Punjab Youth Festival 2012 as majority of the...

Arab observers face tough mission in Syria: China

China’s envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike on Thursday said Arab League observers were facing “difficulties” in Syria, urging the government and other...

PML-N’s inaction helps govt survive another tough year

The government’s maneuvering tactics and the confused politics of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) gave a lease of life to the former for another...

B’desh face tough task

Bangladesh face a tough battle to save the series-deciding second and final Test against the West Indies despite opener Tamim Iqbal’s bold 82 not...

Military top brass talks tough to United States

Amid rising tensions with the United States, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani convened a special meeting of corps commanders on Sunday,...

Tough task for Denmark’s first woman PM

Denmark's first woman prime minister began talks to form a new government Friday a day after her centre-left bloc won elections that returned it...

British courts under fire for tough justice after riots

Campaigners criticised Britain’s courts Wednesday for imposing overly harsh sentences for last week’s unrest after two men were jailed for four years for using...

Tough times in the pit

At the bourses this part of the year is normally a happy hour: the volumes are good, the share prices are spiked up as...

US talks tough to Pakistan

United States President Barack Obama ordered on Wednesday all 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by next summer and declared the beginning of...

Kumar learns tough lesson about Test cricket

Praveen Kumar has learnt quickly how unforgiving Test cricket can be. The India fast-medium bowler was bowling beautifully, getting the ball to swing prodigiously...

NAB tough on govt servants, soft on ex-armymen

Contrary to the general impression that politicians were prime targets of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in former president Pervez Musharraf’s regime, the special...

Murray survives tough test to make winning start

Andy Murray made a winning start to his grass-court campaign as the world number four defeated Belgium’s Xavier Malisse 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in the...

Tough choice for jury as Cannes curtain comes down

The Cannes film festival jury led by Robert De Niro faces a tough choice on Sunday as it picks the winner of the Palme...

Punjab Games – Lahore dominate despite tough challenge

LAHORE - Lahore's domination was severely challenged by Faisalabad and Sargodha on the second day of the 71st Samsung Punjab Games, being held at various venues of the city, but the hosts remained on top in majority of the disciplines on Friday.
Lahore were leading the medals tally after excelling exceptionally in different sporting events, but the challenge posed by Faisalabad and Sargodha in some disciplines might prevent them from taking the main trophy as the Games enter

Faulty PMTs coupled with load shedding spells tough summer for Karachiites

KARACHI - At least 70 percent of pole-mounted transformers (PMTs) in the city are either outdated or overloaded, as the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has not been able to fulfill its commitment to the develop the power supply infrastructure during the last three years, sources told Pakistan Today.
Therefore, the 18 million residents of the city would not only have to put up with the scheduled nine hours of load shedding, but their sufferings would be exacerbated this

Romanian film festival tackles tough rights issues

BUCHAREST - The One World human rights film festival kicked off in Bucharest Thursday offering 37 documentaries promising to tackle sometimes prickly issues under the theme "What a wonderful world?!". Alongside the showings at the six-day festival in the Romanian capital will be debates on its main themes with surprise 2010 Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, the ecologist ex-mayor of Bogota, a star guest.
The event is sorted into the categories "What would you do