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  • World Blind activist at Beijing airport amid uncertainty

    Blind activist at Beijing airport amid uncertainty

    Tweet Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said Saturday he was at Beijing’s international airport .   Chen said he believed he would be flying to New York. “I m at the airport. I do not have a passport. I don t know when I will be leaving. I think I m going to New York,” he told AFP by telephone. He said he thought Chinese authorities might hand the passport directly to US officials, who would then insert a US visa before giving it [...]

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  • Technology Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option

    Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option

    Tweet SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data.     Twitter said it will officially support “Do Not Track,” a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser. [...]

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  • Technology Facebook floats as Zuckerberg rings opening bell at Nasdaq

    Facebook floats as Zuckerberg rings opening bell at Nasdaq

    Tweet NEW YORK: Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market from his California office on Friday, to announce the listing of his company. Amid a crowd at the social network’s headquarters, Zuckerberg and hundreds of Facebook employees cheered the market open. Facebook shares were to start trading later in the day in the largest offering for a technology firm. The company’s stock, priced at $38 per share, will begin trading under [...]

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  • Entertainment Jackie Chan goes out fighting

    Jackie Chan goes out fighting

    Tweet CANNES: Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film “Chinese Zodiac” will be his last action movie. Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan, said that people don’t believe him when he says [...]

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  • Business SBP injects Rs 169.55b in money market

    SBP injects Rs 169.55b in money market

    Tweet State Bank of Pakistan has injected Rs 169.55 billion in market through OMO to end liquidity crunch. According to the State Bank of Pakistan, the central bank will pay 11.59 percent markup on Treasury Bills and Pakistan Investment bonds, purchased for seven days during open market operation. During OMO, dealers offered bids for the sale of T-bills worth Rs 235 billion.

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  • World King of Bahrain attends British queen’s jubilee lunch

    King of Bahrain attends British queen’s jubilee lunch

    Tweet LONDON: The king of Bahrain, whose regime has been accused of rights abuses, was among nearly 50 foreign royals at a lunch on Friday to mark the diamond jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. King Mswati III of Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarch, was also on the guest list for an event that has caused several diplomatic headaches for Britain. Bahrain is gripped by civil unrest following a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests, while Swazi activists accuse King Mswati [...]

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  • Middle East Car bomb hits Syria’s Deir Ezzor: state TV

    Car bomb hits Syria’s Deir Ezzor: state TV

    Tweet DAMASCUS: A car bomb exploded on Saturday in Deir Ezzor, the biggest city in eastern Syria, causing an unknown number of casualties, according to state television. “A car bomb exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor,” said the TV report, adding the blast was “a terrorist attack” that caused widespread “material damage.” It did not specify on the number of people hurt. The explosion went off on a road housing a military and air force intelligence headquarters, [...]

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  • World Fire on bus of Muslim pilgrims kills 16 in India

    Fire on bus of Muslim pilgrims kills 16 in India

    Tweet LUCKNOW: An overloaded bus carrying pilgrims to a Muslim shrine rammed into a parked truck and burst into flames overnight, killing 16 and injuring more than two dozen in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. Some of the 78 passengers aboard the 54-seater bus had kerosene and cooking gas cylinders that helped to turn the bus ”into a ball of fire,” Officer Iqbal Mallik said. Some passengers escaped through the back door of the bus [...]

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  • Sports IPL fixing: Bookie bribes Rs 100 mln to Sri Lankan cricketer

    IPL fixing: Bookie bribes Rs 100 mln to Sri Lankan cricketer

    Tweet MUMBAI:  Bookie Sonu Yogendra Jalan alias Malad has made a shocking revelation that he paid Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore) to a Sri Lankan cricket player for fixing a match, according to report published in an Indian newspaper. Devendra Kothari was arrested on Thursday by the crime branch for their alleged involvement in betting racket involving the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) matches. He confessed to the crime branch that he had paid Rs 10 crores to a [...]

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  • Pakistan All must abide by the Constitution, says CJ

    All must abide by the Constitution, says CJ

    Tweet ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday said that not abiding by Constitution was making the country’s institutions suffer. The chief justice was presiding over a meeting of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan in Islamabad. The meeting was attended by Attorney General Irfan Qadir, Federal Shariat Court Chief Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan, Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Sindh High Court Chief Justice Mushir Alam, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, [...]

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  • Pakistan Shahbaz increases women’s job quota to 15 percent

    Shahbaz increases women’s job quota to 15 percent

    Tweet Chief Minister Punjab has increased women’s job quota in government departments to 15 percent. Presiding over the meeting regarding women’s problem the Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has enhanced women’s job quota has been increased in Punjab from 5 percent to 15 percent whereas the age limit for women in all government jobs has also been increased for three years. The presence of a woman member in selection committee of all provincial departments has been made compulsory.

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  • Pakistan Zardari arrives in US for Nato summit

    Zardari arrives in US for Nato summit

    Tweet WASHINGTON: President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Washington on Saturday to attend the Nato summit in Chicago. The president will address the two-day summit which will gather Nato’s 28 member states as well as leaders from more than 30 nations and international organisations. Pakistan was extended the invitation to the summit on Tuesday after Islamabad signaled it was about to end a nearly six-month blockade on supply routes to Afghanistan. However, Pakistani officials claim the invitation for the summit [...]

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  • Entertainment Shahrukh Khan faces Mumbai stadium ban

    Shahrukh Khan faces Mumbai stadium ban

    Tweet The scuffle took place after Khan was stopped from entering the stadium on Wednesday night.   Bollywood actor and Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shahrukh Khan is to be banned by Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) from entering the Wankhede Stadium for life following an altercation he had last night with security and officials of the association. “He (Khan) misbehaved and abused the MCA security personnel as well as MCA officials, including our president Vilasrao Deshmukh, after [...]

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  • Sports Yuvraj eyes comeback after cancer treatment

    Yuvraj eyes comeback after cancer treatment

    Tweet NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh hopes to return to cricket in “three to four months” after recovering from a cancerous tumour, media reports said on Thursday. Yuvraj, asked by reporters in Chandigarh whether he could make a comeback in a year’s time, said: “One year is too late. I am hoping to make an early comeback, maybe by the next three to four months.” The 30-year-old underwent chemotherapy treatment in the United States earlier this year [...]

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  • Business Oil rises above $93 as traders mull Europe turmoil

    Oil rises above $93 as traders mull Europe turmoil

    Tweet Benchmark oil for June delivery was up 26 cents to $93.07 a barrel at late morning Singapore time.   Oil prices hovered near $93 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders mulled whether concern over Europe s debt crisis justifies extending a sharp sell-off during the last two weeks.   Benchmark oil for June delivery was up 26 cents to $93.07 a barrel at late morning Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell [...]

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