PRA wants YouTube, Dailymotion registered
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Thursday served separate notices to two international video-sharing websites — YouTube and Dailymotion — and a local website Mustakbil...
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PakistanFolk song competition held in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: The first singing competition to revive Tapay (Pashto folk song) — titled “Ya Qurban” — has been held in which contestants from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have taken part...
Ali Jan (Janan), a youth from Peshawar, won the first prize of Rs300,000, Nabila Wadood of Malakand division got the second prize of Rs200,000 and Zarnosh from Mardan the third prize of Rs100,000...
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ArchiveNo judicial probe into Army Public School carnage: KP govt
PESHAWAR: One year after the Army Public School and College Peshawar carnage, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has no plan to conduct judicial inquiry into the gory incident...
He said the provincial government had notified Dec 16 as a public holiday, while educational institutions and departments in Peshawar district would remain closed to honour 144 people, who were killed in the APS terrorist attack, pay respect to them and...
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PakistanReview: This Army Public School attack game fails on every front
In an attempt to honour the valour of Pakistan Army soldiers, the Punjab IT Board last month released an Android game themed on the Peshawar Army Public School attack in December 2014...
This first-person shooter (FPS) game titled 'Pakistan Army Retribution' is based on the tragedy, when terrorists massacred 144 pupils in what was the country's most brutal terror attack...
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PakistanParents of Army Public School attack victims feel dejected
PESHAWAR: As the country is set to observe the first anniversary of the Army Public School Peshawar carnage on Dec 16, the government’s failure to meet their major demands, including the start of a judicial inquiry into the terrorist attack, have deepened the grief of the victims’ parents...
Ajnoon said as a protest, the families of the APS attack victims had marched from Peshawar to Islamabad on the Independence Day before staging a...
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BlogsInside Army Public School, once upon a time...
The author is a former student of the Army Public School in Peshawar...
Once you enter the gates of the school, there is a long straight road ahead of you, with a playground to the right of the road and the school wall to the left...
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ArchiveNew Ramazan rules to help Nordic Muslims in midnight sun
STOCKHOLM: Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a sun that never sets ahead of Ramazan, a Swedish Muslim association said on Thursday...
Ramazan begins on June 18 this year — three days before the longest day of the year — when the sun blazes around the clock above the Arctic Circle and only sets for a few hours further south, presenting a problem for Muslims who are meant to fast until sunset... ...
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ArchiveAmerican socialism’s day in the sun
A majority of the US public already says they find Mrs Clinton untrustworthy...
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ArchiveSun, Ledecky suffer shock defeats; joy for Pellegrini
BUDAPEST: Chinese superstar Sun Yang and American sensation Katie Ledecky suffered surprise defeats at the World Swimming Championships on Wednesday while the United States twice broke the mixed medley relay world record...
Italy’s Gabriele Detti was the surprise winner of the men’s 800m freestyle — the event Sun had dominated for the last three world championships — as the 25-year-old Chinese flopped and trailed home in fifth...
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ArchiveNasa probe to fly into sun’s atmosphere
MIAMI: A new Nasa mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said on Wednesday...
After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first to fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona...
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PakistanRain, storm provide some relief from scorching sun
Rain and dust storm in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Malakand, Peshawar, Kohat divisions, Islamabad and Kashmir, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Hazara divisions and Gilgit-Baltistan provided great relief to people, helping them brave repeated power suspensions with relative ease...
Meanwhile, Sindh and Balochistan continued to sizzle under the blazing sun...
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ArchiveRamazan in the Arctic — how do you break a fast at sundown if the sun doesn’t set?
But it is particularly challenging for the thousands who live near the Arctic Circle, where the sun barely sets...
By about 2:00am, the sun is up again...
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ArchiveBlazing sun bakes most parts of country
The blazing sun forced people to stay indoors...
Keeping in view the intense heat and dry weather, the public should take care of heat stroke and dehydration as advised by health authorities, the Met department said...
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WorldRosetta hits 'milestone' in comet's run past Sun
PARIS: The European space probe Rosetta captured a range of scientific data Thursday as it trailed an ancient comet past the Sun which could help scientists better understand the origins of life on Earth...
During its run before the Sun the probe collected particles and gas put off by the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it delivered a solar heat-driven fireworks show of gas jets and shed about a tonne of dust per second...
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ArchiveSpace probe grabs rare images as comet skirts Sun
PARIS: The European space probe Rosetta captured a range of scientific data on Thursday as it trailed an ancient comet past the Sun which could help scientists better understand the origins of life on Earth...
During its run before the Sun the probe collected particles and gas put off by the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it delivered a solar heat-driven fireworks show of gas jets and shed about a tonne of dust per second...
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