SYDNEY: Australia has foiled an Islamist-inspired terrorist plot to bring down an aircraft with an improvised explosive device, authorities said on Sunday, after four people were arrested in raids across Sydney...
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the plot appeared to be “elaborate” rather than planned by a lone wolf, as security was strengthened at major domestic and international airports across the nation
THE solar-powered aeroplane on a globe-circling voyage that began more than a year ago in the UAE reached a milestone on Saturday, completing a trip across the US with a Statue of Liberty fly-by before landing in New York...
As Test cricket returns to Pakistan after over a decade, Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat against Pakistan in the first Test at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Wednesday...
Ahead of the start of the series, Pakistan's skipper Azhar Ali on Tuesday thanked Sri Lanka for returning to Pakistan for the first Test tour in the country in a decade, after a fatal militant attack on their team in 2009 drove international cricket away... ...
CANBERRA: A group of scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) have teamed up with the country’s Test wicket-keeper Brad Haddin to unlock the secrets behind a good cricket bat...
They are studying what makes English willow the best bat-making material in the world, compared to other materials, such as Kashmir willow...
At the 2012 World Twenty20, Umar Gul turned an unlikely hero with the bat as Pakistan survived a middle-order collapse to beat South Africa by two wickets in the Super Eights...
Gul, who is currently out-of-favour with the Pakistan selectors, had had a forgetful day with the ball when South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo...
“This kid has God gifted talent, he is born to bat” is a frequently echoed sentiment for some...
Like most young Pakistanis, I also played a lot of cricket...
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked who was responsible for allowing cement factories around the historic Katas Raj Temple to increase production, which has resulted in catastrophic destruction of the historic site...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar, who is heading a three-judge bench overseeing a suo motu case which followed media reports that the Katas pond was drying out fast as nearby cement factories sucked up...
Standing in a cul-de-sac where most factories were closed on a recent weekday visit, he says officials ignored his pleas for more time to comply with regulations at his 20-year-old plastic mould business...
Piles of used tires were stacked as high as two stories in many idled workshops, and some factories were locked up, on a Thursday afternoon last month...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday regretted the government's inability to safeguard one of the Hindu community's most well-known places of worship, Chakwal's Katas Raj temple, and ordered that a committee be set up to probe the issue...
The CJP made the remarks during the hearing of a suo motu case taken up by the Supreme Court (SC) on the basis of media reports that the Katas Raj temple complex pond was...
Punjab's Environment Protection Department (EPD) has sprung into action, sealing 113 factories and fining 250 vehicles after Lahore was engulfed by hazardous smog ahead of the winter season for the second year in a row...
"The sealed factories and the fined vehicles were harming the environment and were a cause of air pollution," EPD Director Anjum Riaz said...
DHAKA: Two garment factories in Bangladesh on Thursday became the first to be declared safe under a scheme set up to prevent a repeat of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters...
But unions in Bangladesh say it is taking too long to make the country’s thousands of garment factories safe for workers...
THESSALONIKI: After seven years of one of the deepest recessions seen in modern times, Greek factories are beginning to hum again, as falling wages cut production costs and a recovery in the eurozone makes one of its weakest members competitive again —internationally, at least...
“Some equipment is coming by aeroplane from abroad to double the capacity of the production line,” Khalaf said...
TOBA TEK SINGH: A health department team unearthed on Thursday four fake medicine factories at Awami Basti, Husaini Chowk, Mohallah Arafat and Faiz Colony...
The DCO told reporters that there were complaints that an inter-district gang had set up factories where even sand, stone powder and poisonous material were being mixed in the medicines...
After the recent collapse of a four-storey factory building at the Sundar Industrial Estate that killed 46 workers, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has released a list of 459 small factories and industrial units that have been operating illegally in congested residential areas of Lahore...
The LDA survey exposes 459 small factories in the provincial capital that have been built illegally and are not following the required...