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LAHORE - The schedule for the seven matches of the East Zone Cricket Championship has been announced. Mughalpura Institute Jallo Gym, Lucky Stars, Ghalib Sports and Baghbanpura Eaglets have already qualified for the quarter-finals.
Schedule:
April 11 (Shining Club v Dharampura Sports at Model Town Aligarh ground Umpire M Shafiq and Gulzar Ahmed)
April 12 (Muslimabad Gym v Mughalpura Gym at Wahdat Colony ground Umpires M Hanif and Tasaddaq Jamal)
April 14 (Lucky

TOKYO - Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. A magnitude 6.6 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a wide swathe of eastern Japan on Monday evening, killing one man, knocking out power to 220,000 households and causing a brief halt to water pumping to cool 3 damaged nuclear

TOKYO - Japan said Thursday it is considering expanding the area covered by a compulsory evacuation order, with no immediate end in sight to the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
As emergency workers began pumping nitrogen into the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant to prevent further explosions, the government said it was seeking advice from experts on whether more areas should be evacuated. Residents within a 20-kilometre (12-mile) radius of the nuclear power

TOKYO - Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as officials grappling to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl said they may have discovered why radiation has been leaking into the sea. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it had found a crack in a concrete pit that was leaking water at its No.2 reactor in Fukushima, measuring 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour. "With radiation levels rising in the seawater near

LAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained range bound and closed in green zone, while the volume stayed stagnant on Thursday. The LSE 25-shares added 4.16 points to close at 3,342.56 against its opening at 3,338.40 levels. Out of total 97 active scrips, 24 went up, 37 dwindled and 36 closed without any change in their opening values. Volume of the market remained 2.46 million shares, which was 0.04 million shares more than Wednesday's turnover of 2.02 million shares. Lotte

LAHORE - The quarter-finalists in the South Punjab Zone of the 13th National Seniors' Cricket Cup have been decided and all the four quarter-finals will be played on Sunday (today). Today's Fixtures (quarter-finals) Bahawalpur Sr v DG Khan Seniors Multan Tigers v Multan Heroes Multan Veteran White v Pakpattan Srs Multan Jinnah Srs v Sahiwal Sr

DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates will send 12 planes to take part in operations to enforce the no-fly zone in Libya.
"The UAE air force has committed six F-16 and six Mirage aircraft to participate in the patrols that will enforce the no-fly zone now established over Libya. UAE participation in the patrols will commence in the coming days," said UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan.
The statement said the UAE planes would be an extension of the Gulf Arab

TRIPOLI - Fighting raged between forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi and insurgents in several towns on Tuesday despite a UN-mandated no-fly zone aimed at stopping the violence.
Meanwhile, as a senior US officer said Gaddafi forces were still attacking civilians, doubts persisted over the best way to continue the campaign to stop Gaddafi, and where it was leading. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said future actions of the coalition, which began airstrikes on Saturday

RIKUZENTAKATA - Temporary housing is taking shape next to an evacuation centre in this northern Japanese town, among the first places where rebuilding from the devastating earthquake and tsunami 10 days ago has begun.
Authorities aim to start moving families out of the cramped shelters where they have lived on mats - separated from neighbours by only cardboard - and into the houses by the end of the month.
"They have no privacy. They can't even stretch their legs at night

LAHORE - The East Zone Cricket Association Tournament Committee meeting held its meeting under the Chairmanship of Waqar-ul-Munir on Sunday to finalise the matches schedule.
The tournament Committee has declared that four clubs i.e Mughalpura Institute(Group A), Lucky Star (Group B), Ghalib Sports (Group C), Baghbanpura Eaglets (Group D) will play the quarter finals. Mughalpura Institute will face with Jallo Gym in quarter final.
In the group B Lucky Stars will meet with the

KAMAISHI - Scores of countries have pledged aid to the victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami, but little of it is visible in many towns and villages devastated by the disaster.
In some areas, as victims return to what remains of their homes, an unorganised and often chaotic array of help awaits them -- from boxes of donated clothes to free pet food, almost all donated by fellow Japanese.
Roads are wrecked in many areas, and there are acute shortages of fuel.

LONDON/PARIS - Britain on Thursday hailed a "change in the position" of the United States on Libya and urged immediate action to stop Moamer Gaddafi's forces, piling on pressure for a UN vote on a no-fly zone. "There has been a significant change in the position of the White House," Alistair Burt, a British Foreign Office minister with special responsibility for the Middle East, told BBC radio. "We obviously appreciate that the United States does realise the urgency of the situation."

CAIRO - The Arab League on Saturday said it had called on the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone in Libya, in a decision that will provide the regional support NATO has said is needed for any military action.
Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi have said a no-fly zone to ground Libyan warplanes and to prevent the moving of troops by helicopter is vital if its forces are to succeed.
"The Arab League has officially requested the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly

BRUSSELS - Portugal announced new spending cuts, on Friday, to try and restore confidence in its finances ahead of a euro zone summit that is likely to back a plan to boost competitiveness but defer decisions on a stronger rescue fund. A German government source said there were positive signals that Greece and Ireland, which received EU/IMF bailouts last year, might also announce new moves at the summit, opening the way for EU paymaster Germany to offer them more help.
Chancellor

LAHORE - The sixth Inter-Zonal Sports Competitions under Tevta and Punjab Board of Technical Education concluded here on Friday. The pize distribution ceremony of the event will be held on Saturday at Tevta Secretariat. Chairman Tevta Punjab Ahmed Alvi will be the chief guest of the ceremony. Central Zone boys won the hockey, football, basketball, athletics, cricket, tug of war, badminton and volleyball titles while South Zone were the winners of taekwondo, handball and table tennis.

LAHORE - The 6th Inter-Zonal Sports Competitions under Tevta and Punjab Board of Technical Education are in progress. In girls' volleyball, South Zone defeated North Zone with a huge margin of 25-6. In the athletics competitions, which were held in Punjab University Old Campus ground, North Zone bagged the first position in 100m race. Central Zone won the 800m and 1500m races. The 4x100m relay race, discus and high jump events were also won by the Central Zone. The competitions will

BENGHAZI - Libya's air force carried out new raids on Tuesday on a rebel-held town as the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's regime entered its third week amid mounting calls for a no-fly zone over the country. As the violence escalated, the Arab League said foreign ministers of its member states would meet on Friday for crisis talks on the situation at the headquarters of the league in Cairo.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) also stepped up the pressure for the