Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the international community, particularly the US, to prepare a plan for his country’s economic development and stability that has been badly hit by terrorism.
Zardari said this during a meeting Thursday with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Islamabad, Xinhua quoted a presidential spokesman as saying.
Pakistani authorities have told a court that the ban on YouTube cannot be lifted until a mechanism is put in place to permanently block blasphemous contents on the popular video-sharing website.
The federal Information Technology Ministry conveyed its position to a division bench of the Peshawar High Court yesterday. The court was hearing a petition filed by lawyer Mina Muhibbulah Kakakhel, who challenged the nearly year-old ban on YouTube.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that America has made significant headway in its drone campaign and hoped the strikes in Pakistan, a major irritant in bilateral ties, could end “very soon”.
“I believe that we’re on a good track,” Kerry said in an interview on Pakistani television. “I think the program will end as we have eliminated most of the threat and continue to eliminate it”.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court Friday described as “insufficient” responses submitted by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan to a contempt notice and directed him to file another reply by August 28.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry heard the case against the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief.
The apex court had issued a notice to Khan, asking him to explain why action should not be taken against him for contempt of court for making derogatory remarks about judges during a recent interaction with the media.
Reliance Communications Thursday reported a 33.33 percent drop in its net profit at Rs 108 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013.
The company had reported a net profit of Rs 162 crore in the corresponding period last financial year.
Total income rose marginally to Rs 5,315 crore for the reported quarter as compared to Rs 5,264 crore for the same period last year.
The company said revenue per minute (RPM) increased to 45.7 paisa, up 4 percent quarter-on-quarter.
To ensure availability of loans at affordable rates for farmers, the government has approved a scheme for providing short-term crop loans at concessional rate of 7 percent, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said here on Friday.
“This scheme has already been extended to crop loans borrowed from private sector scheduled commercial banks in respect of loans given within the service area of the branch concerned,” Tewari said in a briefing on Cabinet decisions taken yesterday.
IGNOU Friday organised an awareness programme on financial schemes for educational and vocational development of students with disability, said an official statement.
The loan schemes have been initiated by the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and implemented by the National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
A man today shot dead a 21-year-old woman before killing himself in Sikar district of Rajasthan, police said today.
25-year old Dharmpal, who was married and a private school teacher, shot Anita (21) dead when she was returning home in Pala Jodi after her B.Ed classes, SHO Balara Lal Singh said.
Dharmpal then shot himself, he said.
“Prima facie, it appears to be a case of one-sided love. Dharmpal was married and both the families were staying in the same locality,” he added.
Both the bodies were sent for postmortem, he said.
–PTI
The government is exploring the possibility of expediting the formation of the Rail Tariff Authority (RTA) through the executive route after the proposed regulatory body received an in-principle nod from the Cabinet.
“RTA has got in-principle approval from the Cabinet. But since setting it up through an Act of Parliament will take some time, the Law Ministry and Railways will examine whether it will be set up through an executive order,” Law Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters here on Friday.
The Indian cricket board Friday said it would be appealing to the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order that had termed illegal its two-member probe panel in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing and betting scandal.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) senior vice-president Arun Jaitley, a former union law minister, read out the High Court’s order during the IPL Governing Council meeting here and it was decided that the board will file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court.
Team Anna reportedly wanted to see “Satyagraha” before its release as they fear that the political thriller shows social activist Anna Hazare in an unflattering light, but Prakash Jha is in no mood to accede to their request.
Speculation that Jha’s “Satyagraha” is based on Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement and that Big B plays Anna Hazare while Ajay Devgn plays Arvind Kejrilwal is gathering momentum.
The latest on this front is that Team Anna has asked Prakash to show them the film.
In the wake of suspension of some trading contracts at the NSEL, commodity markets regulator FMC on Friday said the government will take all measures to protect investors and that it is too early to reach a conclusion on the potential default risk of the bourse.
“The government will take all possible action to protect the interests of investors. We are awaiting information from NSEL on the rationale behind deferring the settlement of contracts,” Forward Markets Commission (FMC) Chairman Ramesh Abhishek told the agency.
A month and a half after coming to the iPhone, Microsoft has now launched an app version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite on the Android platform Google Play.
And, although it is listed as being free and offering users the ability to view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, in order to get the most out of the app, downloaders will also need to sign up to Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 subscription program.
Chinese Taipei snatched their second consecutive win with a 90-67 victory over Saudi Arabia here Friday at the 27th Asian Men’s Basketball Championship.
With Lin Chi-Chieh only playing limited minutes, Chinese Taipei used a more balanced attack to win their second Group A match, reports Xinhua.
Lu Cheng-Ju led Chinese Taipei with 25 points. Quincy Davis contributed with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Chinese Taipei led from start to finish and got a 30-3 advantage in assists.
First full-chromosome sequencing effort has found that most recent male and female common ancestors lived around the same time.
A study led by the Stanford University School of Medicine indicates the two roughly overlapped during evolutionary time – from between 120,000 to 156,000 years ago for the man, and between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago for the woman.
“Previous research has indicated that the male MRCA lived much more recently than the female MRCA,” Carlos Bustamante, PhD, senior author and a professor of genetics at Stanford, said.
New research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found that, contrary to previous theories, gargantuan galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and less off neighbouring galaxies.
“We’ve found that these massive galaxies may have started a diet in the last 5 billion years, and therefore have not gained much weight lately,” Yen-Ting Lin of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, lead author of the study, said.
India is among countries that will be most seriously hit by climate change and technological innovation was needed to cut carbon emissions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of two Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) projects here, Manmohan Singh said: “Today, climate change has become an urgent concern across the globe.
“India is among the countries that would be the most seriously impacted by the consequences of climate change. We need to develop ways and means to reduce our carbon footprint through technological innovation,” he said.
Rise in temperatures and precipitation is likely to result in more personal violence and social upheaval, a new study has revealed.
According to the study conducted by researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley, Earth that is expected to warm by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, more human conflict is a likely outcome of increased climate change.
After doing item number `Aila re aila` and movie `Grand Masti`, model-actress Kainaat Arora is set to scorch the screen with another pulsating song in `Hate Story 2`.
The actress will shoot for the song by the end of the month. It has been sung by Mamta Sharma of `Munni badnaam hui` fame and Ganesh Acharya will choreograph it.
“I worked with Ganesh for `Grand Masti` title song and the experience was very good. This would be my second song with him. This one is an item song. It is a T-series film and it is a very big track,” she told reporters.
US President Barack Obama met a bipartisan group of lawmakers to discuss the leaked spying programmes, hours after Russia granted whistle-blower Edward Snowden a one-year asylum.
According to a statement released Thursday by the White House, the meeting was “constructive” and Obama vowed to continue to work closely with the Congress on these matters in the weeks and months ahead, Xinhua reported.
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The government Friday strongly defended the cabinet decision to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act in order to keep political parties out of its ambit, saying no political party could function if the CIC order was implemented.
The issue has been in the news after a June 3 Central Information Commission (CIC) order stated that six national political parties would be brought under the RTI Act as they were public authorities, receiving significant funding from the government.
Blocking dietary sugar and its activity in tumor cells may reduce cancer risk and progression in obese and diabetic people , a new study has found.
The study, by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine, conducted in fruit flies, provides insight as to why metabolism-related diseases such as diabetes or obesity are associated with certain types of cancer, including pancreatic, breast, liver, and colon cancers.
Five workers were killed and five others injured in two separate accidents at a construction site in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, authorities said Friday.
Three people were buried when an earth-retaining wall at a road construction site collapsed around 8.30 a.m. Thursday at the Yanzishan wind farm in the city of Guilin, reported Xinhua citing a statement.
Another seven were buried when another collapse occurred while the rescuers were trying to save the three, said the statement.