SC directs early arrest of absconding cops
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Thursday termed the statement of Advocate General Punjab Khawaja Haris unsatisfactory and directed police to ensure the early arrest of absconder police officials involved in an incident of two brothers’ killing in Sialkot.
The two brothers Hafiz Mughees and Muneeb were brutally beaten to…
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Changes in gene may cause hearing loss: Study
Subtle changes in a particular gene may cause hearing loss in the elderly people, reveals a new study. Age-related hearing loss is a complex condition, which scientists believe has both environmental and genetic causes. The most common environmental factor is noise exposure, reported online edition of BBC News.
Hearing…
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Russia asks India to move site for nuclear plant: paper
Russia has asked India to shift the site of a nuclear power plant at Haripur in eastern India, for which Russia has constructed two reactors, the Times of India paper reported on Monday. Russia is concerned that protests over the construction of the plant are becoming political, the paper said.…
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Karzai calls for US contractors’ removal
Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged to phase out private security contractors by year’s end, saying they’re corrupt and hamper the fight against the Taliban and their associates.
Karzai, speaking Sunday on ABC’S “This Week,” took direct aim at tens of thousands of security contractors who work for private security…
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Iranian reactor use ‘totally unacceptable’: Israel
Israel denounced Iran’s fueling up of its first nuclear power plant as “totally unacceptable” and called for more international pressure to force Tehran to cease any uranium enrichment.
Israel, widely assumed to be the only Middle East country to have nuclear weapons, has said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a…
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Eight women electrocuted to death in Kashmore
Eight women were electrocuted to death and 13 other injured when an 11000-voltage high-tension electricity wire fell over a tractor trolley in Goth Faiz Mohammad area of Kashmore, report said. The dead and injured have been shifted to the Civil Hospital Kashmore. Electricity supply is suspended to Goth Faiz Mohammad.
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5 persons electrocuted, 25 injured due to falling electricity lines in Kashmor
At least five persons including three women, one man and a child was electrocuted and 25 others injured due to falling of a high tension electricity line of 11,000 voltage at a tractor trolley in Goth Faiz Muhammad near Kashmor here on Saturday. According to details, a family was moving…
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Unhealthy teens more prone to headaches: Study
Teenagers who are overweight, get little exercise and smoke are 3.4 times more likely to have frequent headaches than those with no “negative lifestyle factors”, a Norwegian study says.
Of those with all three negative lifestyle factors, more than half – 55 percent – had frequent headaches compared to…
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Mushrooms can prevent obesity: Study
Preliminary research suggests that increasing intake of low-energy foods like mushrooms can treat or prevent obesity.
This is good news for the more than one-third of US adults aged 20 and older who are obese, according to the Centre for Disease Control. Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular…
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Potato virus may be key to Alzhemier’s: Study
A virus infecting potatoes bears striking similarity with a key protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers are hopeful of developing antibodies with its help to slow or prevent this condition.
Studies in mice have demonstrated that vaccinations with the amyloid beta protein (a key factor in Alzhemier’s) to produce A…
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Kayani a powerful political factor in Pak: US
WASHINGTON (Online) – Pakistan’s Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is a powerful political factor in his country, Obama administration’s point man for Afghanistan and Pakistan has said.
“He (Kayani) is an enormously powerful political factor in the country. And we have extensive discussions with him,” Special US Representative…
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Kayani is a powerful political factor in Pak: US
Pakistan’s Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is a powerful political factor in his country, Obama Administration’s point man for Afghanistan and Pakistan has said. “He (Kayani) is an enormously powerful political factor in the country. And we have extensive discussions with him,” Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan,…
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Iran to fire up first nuclear power plant next week
Iran is to launch its first nuclear power reactor next week, the Islamic republic and Russia which helped build the plant said on Friday after years of delays to the highly sensitive project. “We are preparing to transfer the fuel inside the plant next week… Then we will need seven…
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18 Indian immigrants arrested in Britain
At least 18 Indians have been arrested in Britain for immigration-related offences and would be deported soon. The illegal workers were arrested by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) from two catering firms in west London, a clothing factory in Leicester and a restaurant in Aberdeen.
The arrests were made…
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18 Indian immigrants arrested in Britain
At least 18 Indians have been arrested in Britain for immigration-related offences and would be deported soon. The illegal workers were arrested by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) from two catering firms in west London, a clothing factory in Leicester and a restaurant in Aberdeen.
The arrests were made…
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Relatives blast slow pace of info
KARACHI – A number of families including a newly-married couple of Karachi became the victim of the ill-fated plane that crashed at Margalla Hills, Islamabad. Relatives of the passengers were unable to get any satisfactory answer at the Karachi Airport as soon as they got information about the mayhem.
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Iran to build world’s first nuclear fusion reactor: report
A top Iranian official said on Saturday that Tehran was conducting studies into building an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, which if successful would be the first such plant in the world. “Studies and examining the feasibility of a national plan titled ‘Designing and building experimental nuclear fusion reactor and plant’…
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