400 Killed in Flooding in Pakistan, Officials Say The New York Times | PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than 400 people have died and thousands of others were made homeless as some of the worst floods in Pakistan’s history hit this northwestern region, provincial officials said. Saood Rehman/European Pressphoto Agency | An aerial view of flooded hit areas after ...
Search Resumes After Pakistan Plane Crash The New York Times | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the first time since Wednesday’s airplane crash that killed 152 people, rescue workers continued the search for body parts and the aircraft’s black box under clear skies on Friday here in Pakistan’s capital. Related | No Survivors Reported in Pakis...
Investors lap up Engineers India issue The Times Of India MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Global funds such as Morgan Stanley, UBS, Temasek and several large local funds and banks have emerged as the leading bidders in the Rs 977-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) of state-owned company Engineers India (EIL). | These ent...
Floods kill at least 267 as rains trigger landslides NZ Herald 8:01 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | PESHAWAR - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 yesterday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. |...
Militants step up attacks in Punjab Gulf News | Lahore: Islamist groups are stepping up sectarian attacks in Punjab, Pakistan's largest and wealthiest province, to try and further destabilise the US ally already battling Al Qaida and the Taliban, analysts say. | Over the past two months, Su...
Zardari's London visit on schedule Gulf News | Islamabad: While the Pakistani government, civil society and media were incensed by the British Prime Minister David Cameron's remarks in India recently, President Asif Ali Zardari has not called off his private trip to London after an official vis...
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Protesters shot dead in Kashmir Irish Times | Indian police today fired at thousands of people protesting against Indian rule in Kashmir, killing two demonstrators, officials said, in the latest flare-up of violence in the d...
Soldiers fire on protesters in Kashmir, 3 killed Newsvine | SRINAGAR — Paramilitary soldiers fired on thousands of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing three men and wounding at least 80 others as protests against Indi...
Protesters killed in Kashmir clash Al Jazeera | Two protesters have been shot dead after security forces fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian-administered Kashmir. | The clash, which also left 12 people wounded, took p...
India's growth challenge Khaleej Times Nowadays, economists are assailed by irresolute thoughts: what, for example, is the right term to apply to current global economic conditions? Is it Depression, Recession, or, finally, Recovery? What of the euro? Will it flounder or regain its health...
Bangladesh lifts its rag trade pay 80pc NZ Herald 7:50 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | DHAKA: Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 per cent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a Government minister said yesterda...
Cameron, in India, sends right signals Deccan Chronicle Cameron, in India, sends right signals | Share ARTICLEURL | The empire has faded. In the decades since Indian independence and decolonisation, Britain has leaned across the Atlantic toward the United States in search of economic and political consoli...
'Mobile phone sales to rise 19% in India' Indian Express | The Indian telecom story still has a lot of zing left in it. Sale of mobile handsets in India, the world's fastest growing wireless market, should rise by 18.5 percent this year on increasing telecoms penetration in Asia's third-largest economy, research firm Gartner said on Thursday. | Mobile handset sales will rise to 138.6 million units in 201...
India all out for whopping 707 Orange News | Sri Lanka paceman Dilhara Fernando delivered the final blow to India's first innings, snapping up the last wicket as the visitors were bowled out for 707 inside the morning session on the final day of the second Test at Colombo. | Chasing Sri Lanka's 642-run first inning total, India's regular batsmen had given the tourists plenty to cheer about ...
