GENEVA: The world’s most powerful proton smasher is preparing for its biggest run yet, which scientists hope will uncover new particles of matter that could dramatically change our understanding of the universe...
In 2012 it was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson — the long-sought maker of mass — by crashing high-energy proton beams at velocities near the speed of light...
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed...
A Proton-M rocket carrying an Inmarsat-5 F3 communications satellite launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1144 GMT as scheduled, Russia’s space agency said...
A happy ending to the De Gea transfer saga will be seen as the icing on cake for the club's success in summer transfer window of 2015...
Here she meets the members of the other Shaikh family: the handicapped Safia, unmarried and a teacher; her sister Parveen who has married and migrated to Pakistan; and their brothers Binky and Vicky, one a smooth-talking Westernised aristocrat, the latter an unworldly idealist seen by his family as a madman...
But as film junkies, the media and showbiz bigwigs swarmed the red carpet space (which happened in the blink of an eye and it became pretty crowded), it all turned into a One Day International, say, between Pakistan and India...
”On the issue of the emphasis being on rom-coms, she remarked, “Pakistan has a very diverse range of subjects...
ISLAMABAD: In a fresh twist to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) saga, the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has refused to provide gas to Universal Development Gas Company (UGDC), an umbrella company of CNG stations, and has asked individual gas stations to import the commodity through Pakistan State Oil (PSO)...
Interestingly, the SNGPL has asked the CNG sector to make advance payments, open letters of credit (LCs) for LNG...
There are many other such questions that have resurfaced due to the Mirza saga...
The Zulfiqar Mirza saga has escalated the freefall of the PPP...
LOS REYES: A topsy-turvy international child custody saga ended on Friday when a Mexican judge allowed a teenager to travel to Texas with her mother, a month after sending the wrong girl to the United States...
With much being said about the ongoing trial in the spot-fixing scandal that surfaced in the second season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), we decided to talk to the man at the helm of things...
Abdul Ghaffar (AG): People believe that the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) lack of evidence is delaying the spot-fixing scandal investigation, how do you respond to that?Najam Sethi (NS): The PCB is following a procedure set by the...
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is shoring up its legal defence, while its arch-rival, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has vowed to either “celebrate” or “chase the PM all the way to Adiala Jail”...
Ruling out any rifts or cracks in the ruling party, and said the entire party backed Nawaz Sharif and his family in the Panamagate saga...
For those who keep an eye on the forex market and regularly interact with bank treasuries, it was not a secret that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) had left the rupee to find its market-based value on that particular day...
“Pakistan Army believes in democracy like all other Pakistanis and will continue to work to strengthen democracy in the country while remaining [within the ambit of] the Constitution,” he said...
The PM’s Office had also recommended referring Dawn to the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) for “necessary disciplinary action”, but did not say what the charges against the Dawn Editor or Cyril Almeida — who wrote the story — would...
Pakistan itself thought long and hard before agreeing – albeit reluctantly...
Under the then Chairman Zaka Ashraf, Pakistan had refused to become a party to Big Three but their refusal mattered little since the proposal was already set for implementation with as many as nine votes in its favour and PCB on the verge of isolation...
Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles saga — an expansive political drama set primarily in Britain in the 1970s — continues with the latest instalment, Cometh the Hour...
While it isn’t strictly necessary to read the previous Clifton Chronicles books in order to appreciate the general overarching plot of Archer’s saga, they make for satisfying summer reading if one has the time, leisure, and inclination to do so...
He added that the board has the interests of Pakistan's cinema revival in mind, and Swaarangi's inadequate production may deter future investment in Pakistani cinema...