An attempt to smuggle a total of 216 bottles of alcohol out of the UAE was foiled at the Al Ghuwaifat border.
Customs inspectors arrested the driver of the truck carrying the bottles, hidden inside the vehicle’s tool box.
While passing through the specified path for empty and unloaded trucks, customs inspectors told the vehicle to go through a radiation detection device that showed the existence of smuggled goods.
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After Ameesha Patel walked out of “Singh Saheb The Great”, director Anil Sharma says the team is on the lookout for a replacement. She was to feature opposite Sunny Deol.
“We have not finalised the leading lady yet. Right now we are shooting only Sunny’s major part in Bhopal. Once we are done with his shoot, we will hunt for the leading lady,” Sharma told IANS.
In mid-December 2012, Ameesha announced she is stepping out of the project due to “ever-changing schedules”.
The hunting of endangered houbara bustards by members of Arab royal families in Pakistan has led to friction along the Indo-Pak frontier, with the BSF complaining about the firing, a media report said on Wednesday.
The hunting in border regions has “caused friction with neighbouring India”, The Express Tribune reported.
Any firing near the border is a violation of norms and India’s Border Security (BSF) has lodged protests with the Pakistan Rangers.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has described the menace of terrorism as the biggest challenge for the country in the year 2013.
Khan called upon the government, political parties and all other stakeholders to sit down and chalk out a comprehensive strategy to flush out terrorists from Pakistan.
The former cricketer pointed out that terrorism was the main cause for the prevailing economic crisis, and added that the government should take immediate steps to provide protection to the people, which was its constitutional obligation, the Express Tribune reports.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a 15-member women’s cricket squad for the upcoming World Cup 2013 to be held in India later this month.
The PCB retained Sana Mir as captain of the team while senior player Bisma Maeroof was appointed as her deputy, reports Xinhua.
The Women’s World Cup will be held from Jan 31 to Feb 17 in Mumbai. Pakistan will leave Jan 25 for the event.
Pakistan are in Group B. They play their warm-up matches against England and the West Indies Jan 28 and Jan 29.
Despite being the most successful actor in Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan wants to be remembered as just another name.
Apart from a successful acting career, Bachchan had also won the People’s Choice Award for the most popular TV host for Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
But Bachchan told Gulf News that he wouldn’t survive beyond the second or third question if put on the participant seat.
When it comes to having himself being remembered, Bachchan feels he’s no better than the guy next door.
In a horrifying incident, a woman in Sweden ended up with part of a dentist’s drill in her right lung after she swallowed it during surgery.
The unnamed woman, said to be in her 60s, was having dental implants when the drill head came loose from the surgeon’s grip and fell into her mouth.
She was pulled into a sitting position, but it was too late to stop the part heading south, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.
The woman was a patient at Vastmanland County Hospital in Vasteras, in central Sweden.
Deploying its maritime vessels for patrolling in the disputed South China Sea, China has asked Vietnam not to implement its new maritime law, affirming sovereignty over the contested islands and cautioned Hanoi that the move would escalate bilateral tensions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunyang in a statement here urged Vietnam to refrain from taking any actions that complicate and escalate issues between the two countries, as the Vietnamese maritime law came into effective from yesterday.
A powerful bomb went off at a busy intersection in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi Tuesday, injuring over 50 people and kilig 4, witnesses and police officials said.
The blast occurred at Ayesha Manzil intersection, located a short distance from Jinnah Ground where the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had organised a rally this afternoon.
People leaving the rally were hit by the blast at about 7.15 pm, witnesses said. Officials at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital said they had received more than 30 injured people and three of them were in a serious condition.
An Afghan warlord has launched a scathing attack on Prince Harry describing him as a ”jackal” who wants to kill ‘innocent Afghans while he is drunk’.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States, heaped insults on the British Royal.
During an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, he also vowed to kill as many troops as possible before the UK’s withdrawal in 2014.
Hekmatyar said that Prince Harry comes to Afghanistan to kill innocent Afghans while he is drunk.
Internet search giant Google directed people to the page for Apple”s stock as users typed in ‘sell’ in the search bar on Google Finance.
Google, for its part, said the result was due to its algorithm rather than any concerted effort to undermine Apple”s stock.
The company told Search Engine Land in a statement that this was ‘no deliberate move’.
According to Mashable, Google said its ‘algorithms seem to be keying off of the words ”sell” and “sells” in the description of this very popular stock symbol.’
A staggering 2,317 children went missing from Pakistan’s port city of Karachi in 2012, according to a civil society group working to uphold the rights of women and children.
Data collected by the Roshni Helpline states it recorded about these children – both boys and girls – missing from the jurisdiction of 106 police stations in Karachi, Daily Times reported Wednesday.
On an average, two children from each police station were reported missing every month over the last 10 months.
Pakistan’s upcoming general election may be held under the supervision of the army.
The country’s Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin Ibrahim today recommended that the election should be conducted completely under the supervision of the army in order to maintain law and order.
Chairing a meeting of senior officials of the federal and provincial governments to assess the law and order situation ahead of the polls, Ibrahim suggested that armed soldiers should be deployed at all polling stations.
Johnson ‘N’ Johnson has won approval from The Food and Drug Administration for a tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades.
According to ABC News, the agency approved the company’s pill, Sirturo, for use with older drugs to fight a hard-to-treat strain of tuberculosis that has not responded to other medications.
But the agency cautioned that the drug carries risks of potentially deadly heart problems and should be prescribed carefully by
doctors, the report added.
Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan today heaped praise on Junaid Khan, saying the young left-arm pacer has the traits of becoming someone like legendary seamer Wasim Akram.
The 23-year-old pacer had left India in tatters reducing them to 29 for five to set up Pakistan`s six-wicket win in Ahmedabad and take a 1-0 lead in the three-ODI series.
“Good to see him the way he`s performing consistently, it`s a good sign for him and the team. If he keeps on doing that then we will find another great left arm fast-bowler of Wasim Akram type,” he said.
The six accused in the Delhi gangrape case had allegedly tried to mow the girl down under the bus after dumping her in south-west Delhi but her male friend saved her from being crushed. As the Delhi Police is set to submit its chargesheet before the trial court on Thursday, more details of the horrific crime that has shaken the nation’s conscience are tumbling out.
A woman and her two-year-old daughter were run over and killed by a passenger train in Adityapur in adjoining Seraikela-Kharswan district on Wednesday.
The identity of the victims was not yet established but the bodies were recovered and sent for post-mortem, Government Railway Police (GRP) sources said.
The incident occurred when the 30-year-old woman alongwith her child was crossing the track, sources said.
In another incident, a motorcyclist was crushed to death under the wheels of a dumper near Gadabasa in the Steel city of Jamshedpur in the morning.
The Internet, a revolutionary and cheap communications system that has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 today.
The computer network officially began its technological revolution when it fully substituted previous networking systems on January 1 1983.
Known as “flag day”, it was the first time the US Department of Defence (DoD)-commissioned Arpanet network fully switched to use of the Internet protocol suite (IPS) communications system.
A new electronic cigarette has been launched that has none of the nicotine found in many of its counterparts.
According to the manufacturers 5 Colors, the device meets a growing demand for a more socially-acceptable way for enjoying a cigarette.
Produced in a range of colours and fruit flavours – including apple, blueberry, grape, peach and strawberry – the e-cigarettes contain no smoke, nicotine, tobacco or tar, the Daily Express reported.
Two men were arrested here after a 17-year-old complained on New Year’s eve that she was raped allegedly by them earlier, police said today.
One of the arrested is an engineer working with an IT firm and another an executive with an human resources company.
The girl alleged that she was raped by one of them in 2011 and another in early 2012 and approached the Sarojini Nagar Police Station on December 31, police sources said.
The victim is a Class XI student of a south Delhi school.
The accused were produced before court and sent to judicial custody.
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Astronomers have captured one of the flattest galaxies known in the universe, sitting like a silver needle in the haystack of space.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope produced a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy IC 2233, one of the flattest galaxies known, the US space agency said.
Lying in the constellation of Lynx, IC 2233 is located about 40 million light-years away from Earth. This galaxy was earlier discovered by British astronomer Isaac Roberts in 1894.
Amid a dispute over Tiger count in Sundarbans, a fresh survey has found that the largest habitat of the Royal Bengal Tiger has a population between 64 and 90.
The 2004 census had claimed that the tiger population in Indian Sundarban was around 274 and the figure dropped to an estimated 70 in the 2010 census, prompting experts to cast doubts on its accuracy as they claimed that scientific methods were not used for the head count.
The police investigating the murder of a 23-year-old Osmania University student was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the residence of her friend in Hyderabad city, was pregnant.
The autopsy report of the girl has revealed that she was four months pregnant, the police said.
The police say that her pregnancy could be a significant motive behind her killing.
Kumar, who is a Ph.D student at the Osmania University, is absconding.
The onscreen chemistry between Priyanka Chopra and Ram Charan in the ‘Zanjeer’ remake is surprisingly refreshing, says filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia.
“The chemistry of Priyanka and Ram Charan Teja is looking 2,000 times better than what I had expected. They both are looking surprisingly refreshing onscreen,” Lakhia told reporters.
The movie is the remake of the 1973 film of the same name.
Priyanka joined the cast and crew for the film`s second schedule in Hyderabad.
Comedy movie ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’, featuring Saqib Saleem, will release March 15.
The first trailer of the movie, which will see Ram Kapoor in the role of Saqib`s strict father, was released with late Yash Chopra`s ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ on Nov 13.
Directed by debutante Ashima Chibber, the movie is set in the backdrop of Chandigarh and a loud Punjabi family where a boy loses his father`s car.
Saqib was last seen in the 2011 release ‘Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge’, which was released under the Y-Films banner.
IANS