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Now, camels in wrestling
Islamabad: Thousands of people turned up in Pakistan's Rahim Yar Khan city to watch a unique sport - camel wrestling.
The event took place on Wednesday at Ehsanpur where tickets for the event were pr
US now focused on LeT threat
Washington: The United States has 'focused' its attention on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terror outfit behind the Mumbai terror attacks, as it 'could pose a threat' to the US and Europe,
Rs.70 bn compensation to states on reduced sales tax
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved Rs.7,029 crore (over Rs.70 billion) as compensation to states for losses incurred on reducing central sales tax (CST) during the current fiscal.
"The ca
Rain: ICC shifts warm-ups from Pallekele
Bengaluru: Heavy rains at Pallekele in Sri Lanka, have forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to shift two warm-up matches to a different venue.
The decision was taken by local and ICC offici
Apex court gives one-year jail to former Kerala minister
The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former Congress minister from Kerala R. Balakrishna Pillai and two others to one-year imprisonment for abusing their position in the award of contract for the Edamalayar hydroelectric power project.
Supreme Court reserves verdict on CVC's appointment
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition which has challenged P.J. Thomas' appointment as central vigilance commissioner on the grounds that he was facing a chargesheet in a palm oil imports case and was not an outstanding civil servant of impeccable integrity.
Food inflation falls to 13.1 per cent
New Delhi: India's annual food inflation dropped by nearly four percentage points to 13.07 percent for the week ended January 29 - the lowest level in nearly one-and-a-half months - on decline in the
PM forms team to probe ISRO deal
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has formed a high-level commission to look into allegations of revenue losses in the allocation of space spectrum using S-band - high value and scarce radio wa
Bhutto was promised PM post: Report
Islamabad, Feb. 9: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader, Benazir Bhutto, was promised that she would be the prime minister after the 2007 general elections, revealed a forensic report that was com
ICC releases findings on Pak cricketers spot-fixing probe
Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) released its findings of the investigation into corruption involving three Pakistan players, but these were not made available in Britain.
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