DERA ISMAIL KHAN (PAKISTAN): Pakistani intelligence officials say dozens of French Muslims have been training with the Taliban in northwest Pakistan. The officials said on Saturday they were investigating whether Mohamed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent suspected of killing seven people in southern France, had been part of this group. Merah traveled to Pakistan in 2011 and said he trained with al-Qaida in Waziristan. He was killed in a gunfight with police Thursday in the French ...
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Islamabad, March 9, 2012 The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to write to the Swiss authorities asking them to reopen money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The Premier has been asked to submit a compliance report by March 21. This direct order to the Prime Minister was given by the Court during the hearing of the contempt case against him for not implementing repeated orders of the apex court to write to the Swiss ...
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New Delhi, February 25, 2012 The CBI on Saturday registered a fresh case in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding BSNL’s WiMax franchise to a private firm, considered close to ex-Telecom Minister A. Raja, and carried out searches across four cities. Nine teams of CBI officials searched the residences of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) officials and the officials of Starnet, the alleged beneficiary, which got the franchise, in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and ...
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ISLAMABAD, January 14, 2012 (Tehelkanews) Pakistan’s top military and civilian leaders were set to meet on Saturday in a closed-door session to discuss new rules on coordinating with the United States and NATO, officials said. Islamabad’s uneasy alliance with the U.S. was brought to the brink of collapse by November air-strikes which killed Pakistani soldiers. The meeting could also provide an opportunity for reconciliation between the military and the civilian government ...
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LUDHIANA, JUNE 1:----- Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has a strong research programmes on development of hybrids. It has developed and released hybrids in ten different crops including vegetables. The PAU Director of Research, Dr. S.S.Gosal said that the University is one of the leading centers of the country which is credited with the development of several single cross hybrids (SCHs) of maize adding that during the recent past many SCHs have been released at the ...
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LUDHIANA, MAY 30:----- A delegation of Beer Swaraj Conference today met the registrar of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Dr R. K. Mahey and the directors and heads of various departments of the university. Various issues concerning soil health, Bt cotton, genetically modified (GM) crops, pesticides and herbicides and hybrid varieties were discussed in the meet. Dr Mahey, Dr S.S. Gosal and Dr M.S. Gill, Directors of Research and Extension Education, PAU, speaking on ...
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LUDHIANA, MAY 20: The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Directorate of Extension Education, in collaboration with Department of Clothing and Textiles, is organizing a three day training programme (May 25-27), for the home science staff working at its Krishi Vigyan Kendras ( KVKs) on preparation of home made cleaners and polishes. Sharing details, the Director of Extension Education, Dr M.S.Gill said that the participants will be explained about the chemistry of soaps and ...
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New Delhi, March 3, 2011 The Centre has put the onus on State governments and the officer concerned for “correctness of information” in official records in the wake of allegations of misrepresentation of facts before a high-level panel that selected P.J. Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), in an RTI reply, has said that the Executive Record (ER) sheet maintained by it is prepared on the basis of the information provided by ...
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Feb 28, 2011,MANAMA: Hundreds of anti-government protesters have blocked access to Bahrain's parliament and forced officials to cancel a meeting of the ruler's hand-picked envoys. The demonstration appears part of a strategy to hold rallies at sensitive locations in the capital Manama. The idea is to boost pressure on the monarchy following two weeks of marches and clashes that have left seven dead. The parliament became a target Monday to coincide with a meeting called by the ...
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ISLAMABAD, February 23, 2011 Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was all praise for the Government of India on Wednesday despite being caught on the wrong side of Indian law for trying to leave the country with $1,24,000 in currency notes earlier this month. Briefing the media in Lahore soon after his return to the country following the 10-day ordeal in New Delhi, the singer – heir to the legacy of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – conceded that the authorities could have complicated ...
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Ranchi, February 24, 2011 A day after the arrest of two of his close aides, sacked Commonwealth Games OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi today accused the investigating agencies of “targeting” only the Organising Committee when government officials were also part of the entire decision-making process. He expressed shock and displeasure over the way the entire matter has been handled by the investigating agencies when all the documents pertaining to the conduct of the Games were with ...
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Reporting from Washington — The two bombs concealed in U.S.-bound packages found on cargo planes in Britain and the United Arab Emirates were wired to explode, at least one via a cellphone detonator, and were powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, U.S. and British officials said Saturday. A Yemeni official in Washington said a woman was arrested in Yemen in connection with sending the packages and that a relative, whom the official identified as either her mother or sister, was ...
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MOHALI: After finding that the suvidha centre situated here lacks certain facilities, principal secretary (information technology) Sarvesh Kaushal on Tuesday directed the officials to find a spacious location for it so that residents could be provided with better services. Kaushal during his visit to the suvidha centre found that it was being run from a cramped space in the district administrative complex. While the government has provided 36 types of services in the suvidha centres, ...
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Bhubaneswar, July 8: Maoists set furniture and other stuff inside a police building on fire in Orissa's Keonjhar district and abducted a police officer, officials said today, the second day of the shutdown called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in six states. About 30-40 armed rebels, including several women cadres, attacked the building late Wednesday at the mining town of Daitari, about 150 km from here. The rebels ransacked the building and damaged the furniture ...
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Abdul Majeed Babai, a Kandahar Province official, in February, shortly before he was killed in a drive-by shooting. Government assassinations are nothing new as a Taliban tactic, but now the Taliban are taking aim at officials who are much more low-level, who often do not have the sort of bodyguards or other protection that top leaders do. Some of the victims have only the slimmest connections to the authorities. The most egregious example came Wednesday in Helmand Province, where according ...
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A bomb has exploded close to a volleyball game in the troubled north-west of Pakistan, with as many as 20 people feared dead, officials say. At least one home near the sports field collapsed, and people were said to be trapped under rubble. The attack took place in Lakki Marwat, close to the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan. Police officials said a suicide bomber had carried out the attack, although details remained unclear. One police official told Reuters that a ...
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