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India has offered to sell locomotives to Pakistan at a competitive price. The offer was made during the seventh round of commerce secretary-level talks...

Youth representatives from various groups and non-governmental organisations have demanded that youngsters be allotted a viable space in the society to play an effective...

Senior professors of the Punjab University (PU) Institute of Education and Research (IER) have submitted an application to PU vice chancellor and Punjab governor...

At least seven protesting employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), who have been put in the power utility’s surplus pool, were injured...

Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday that he does not want to return to power, after his sister Yingluck won a landslide...

Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) and Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SAARC CCI) has demanded that the government overturn...

The University of Karachi (KU) is resisting attempts of the Federal government to merge four institutes of excellence run by the Ministry of Education...

The general discussion on budget 2011-12 in the Sindh Assembly continued on Monday with lawmakers belonging to different parties calling for increasing their departmental...

The Pakistan-Iran Joint Commission on Road Transportation on Tuesday recommended the two countries open two additional international crossing points at Pishin-Mand and Gabd-Reemdan for...

Vice-chancellors (VC) and deans of various medical universities from across the country are deliberating to establish a National Board for Medical Education to apply...

Attorneys for Lance Armstrong have demanded an on-air apology from ‘60 Minutes’ after the head of Switzerland's anti-doping laboratory denied allegations the seven-time Tour...

The Republicans in the US House of Representatives unveiled a nearly $650 billion defence package that would fully back President Barack Obama’s war funding...

While the leadership of the ruling PPP is keeping mum over the parliamentary demand to form an independent commission to probe into the Abbottabad...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor want to show footage of the "King of Pop" rehearsing shortly before his death in order to show he had no intention of ending his life.
With less than three weeks to go before the opening of the trial of Conrad Murray, the physician accused of manslaughter in Jackson's 2009 death, the defense is fighting against the presentation of the footage.
On Tuesday the prosecution requested permission to exhibit video

KARACHI - A midst all the confusion surrounding the census process (are they counting houses now or people? Who's counting what? Where?), the only constant over the past few weeks has been the fact that Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) cadres have been going to houses in the city, pretending to be Census officials. They have now added another demand to their pitch: they want copies of people's Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC). "Please give us copies of the CNIC of everyone in

PARIS - A majority of French people want to get rid of nuclear power, a poll on Wednesday showed, underscoring the impact of the Fukushima disaster on public opinion around the world. The poll conducted by OpinionWay found that 57 percent of respondents were generally in favour of dropping nuclear energy, with 20 percent strongly in favour of the idea.
Only 27 percent were prepared to accept a corresponding rise in electricity tariffs, however, compared to 72 percent against,

LOS ANGELES - Gruesome photos of Michael Jackson's autopsy should not be shown to the jury in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the pop singer's doctor, defense attorneys argued in court papers released on Thursday.
Showing the pictures of the "Thriller" singer's autopsy risk jeopardizing the trial in May of Dr. Conrad Murray, they said. Murray is charged with inadvertently causing Jackson's June 2009 death by giving him the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, as