ISLAMABAD: The Marble Association of Italy has agreed to help Pakistan for the development of marble and granite sectors, in addition to establishing a technical and scientific international trade centre in the country...
The Memorandum of Intent was signed here on Monday between Pakistan Stone Development Company (Pasdec) and the Marble Association of Italy, and has already been approved by the federal cabinet...
India's most prominent Muslim cricketer Mohammad Shami has slammed trolls as neither real fans nor real Indians in his first comments since being subjected to vitriolic online abuse following the defeat to Pakistan at the T20 World Cup...
Cricket clashes between India and Pakistan frequently heighten tensions between the neighbours...
A stone-thrower is a terrorist and only a fitting punishment can serve as a deterrent and just punishment,” Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, of the far-right Jewish Home party, said in a statement...
Also read: Israel responsible for Gaza shelter attacks: UN reportConfrontations between Palestinian youths and Israeli police routinely degenerate into violent clashes, and stone-throwing has been a symbol of Palestinian...
TAXILA: The police on Thursday booked the owner of stone crushing plant and his son after the tragic incident in which two labouers were killed and five others injured by falling debris during blasting at the Margalla Hills in Thatta Khalil area on Wednesday evening...
The FIR registered against Nazar Hussain and his son Kashif Nazar under section 322 and 201 CrPC is the first ever case registered against any stone crushing plant...
The girl with the brightest and biggest eyes in Hollywood, Emma Stone, and her boyfriend, actor Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-man) are in a relationship that’s now as wobbly as the Titanic was after hitting the iceberg!Sources close to the couple say that lately the two have been squabbling a lot and seeing things in different directions...
Oliver Stone’s barely factual retelling of a prosecutor’s effort to prove the CIA killed Kennedy grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, and pushed Congress to order the release of nearly all assassination documents within 25 years, or by Thursday...
In his defence, Stone never claimed the film he directed and co-wrote was truth...
Memorial Stones: Tharparkar by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, published by the Endowment Fund Trust for Preservation of the Heritage of Sindh, provides an extensive survey of a centuries-old tradition within the Tharparkar region — that of stone markers to (usually) commemorate graves...
It is also interesting to know that these markers represent a largely Hindu heritage, and constitute a little-explored cultural and historical aspect of...
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa inaugurated a five-day children training program in ‘Embroidery and Stone Carving with Artisans’ on Tuesday in collaboration with the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) as part of its ongoing ‘Craft is Knowledge’ series...
The program is aimed at promoting traditional skills, encouraging master artisans and raising awareness among the younger generation about the craft heritage of Pakistan...
India must send out the message that its tax code is both rational and carved in stone...
The stone crushing activities on the hills are not only polluting the environment but also causing a serious threat to the ancient Buddhist sites as well as the Taxila Museum, a treasure trove of the Buddhist civilisation...
Cracks have started appearing on the walls of the museum due to the quarrying and stone crushing activities in its vicinity, said an official of the museum...
Realising the limited scope of painting, he dedicated himself only to sculpture, especially stone-carving, which became his lifetime romance...
“On my first day of training with traditional carvers, my ‘ustad’’ gave me a rough stone to carve out a round shape...
”Aurore first came to Pakistan some 15 years ago as a researcher working on Indus Valley civilisation...
This exhibition, held in Paris in 1988 (10 years before I entered university), was the first one devoted to the protohistory of Pakistan in France and in the world,” she said...
QUETTA: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court directed the provincial government on Tuesday to shift stone crushing plants from the municipal limits of Quetta city to safer areas in two months...
It said that no one should be allowed to set up a stone crushing plant in the municipal limits of the city...
MADRID: Lionel Messi is undergoing treatment on kidney stones which floored the Argentina superstar at the Club World Cup in December, Barcelona announced on Monday...
The five-time world Player of the Year “will be submitted to various tests on Monday and Tuesday to assess the development of kidney problems he suffered last December”, the Spanish champions said in a statement
GUJRAT: DCO Liaquat Ali Chatha along with local politicians and businessmen laid the foundation stone of the kidney centre here on Wednesday...