KOLKATA: “Please come along and let us take you to mini-Pakistan in Kolkata,” says Bobby Firhad Hakim, MLA candidate of the incumbent party in West Bengal, All India Trinamool Congress, which is on its last leg of its canvassing and voters decide the party’s fate in the phase-wise West Bengal assembly elections scheduled to be held on April 30 and May 5...
Firhad is right … This does feel like mini-Pakistan...
HYDERABAD: Sindh United Party (SUP) president Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah has said that with all national resources having been diverted to Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and other such cities to develop them, Punjab is now going to become the ‘mini-Pakistan’, a symbolic title currently for Karachi...
Pakistan is facing challenges of extremism, terrorism and corruption and both the federal and provincial governments are not able to curb...
PESHAWAR: About 250 mini and micro hydropower projects (MHPs) will become fully operational and functional to provide electricity to around 245,000 people in hilly areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through community-based local institutional mechanisms by the end of 2016...
LONDON: Roman emperor Julius Caesar may have suffered a series of mini-strokes, explaining his dark mood in later life, according to doctors at London’s Imperial College...
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It's the fifth flight for one of these crewless mini shuttles, known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle...
This is the first time SpaceX has provided a lift for the experimental mini-shuttle...
PESHAWAR: At least 35 people were killed and over 150 injured when a severe storm described by a weather expert as a ‘mini-cyclone’ ripped through Peshawar and two other districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday...
Agencies add: Fallen trees, rubble from buildings and mobile phone towers had blocked several main roads...
WASHINGTON: A protester who landed his mini helicopter on the US Capitol lawn appeared in court on Thursday to face charges of flying an illegal aircraft and violating national defence airspace...
Hughes, who is reported to work as a mailman in Tampa Bay, Florida, landed his mini copter on the grounds of the US Capitol — the monumental seat of Congress in the heart of Washington — on Wednesday...
PESHAWAR: Amid slow and uncoordinated relief and recovery work, the death toll from mini-cyclone that hit Peshawar Valley on Sunday reached 45 on Monday...
Briefing media, Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said the provincial government had received an advisory from the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) about weather forecast on April 17, but it did not contain any information...
LAHORE: The law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) claimed on Thursday that the mini truck that exploded on Outfall Road was registered in the names of two transport operators...
Two men were killed and 48 other people were injured in an explosion in a mini truck at a parking lot on Outfall Road on Monday evening...
Banks have been hit by a spate of defaults, especially from traders of foodstuffs and oil, as a result of weakness in prices of commodities, as well as a gradual easing of bank liquidity...
“What we have put on the table is a mini insolvency law,” said Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair chairman of the UAE Banks Federation, the industry body representing 49 banks...
BANGALORE: India has successfully launched its first mini space shuttle on Monday as New Delhi's famously frugal space agency joined the global race to make rockets as reusable as airplanes...
PESHAWAR: The Penguin Young Readers Group has recently brought out an interesting series of mini-biographies...
Neil Armstrong loved to make his own model planes,” the mini-biography says...
SHANGLA: Flash floods triggered by heavy rain destroyed at least 140 mini power stations and 20 houses in Shangla district late on Thursday night...
Police said that at least 140 mini power stations were washed away by the floods, disrupting electricity supply and communication system in Kana tehsil...
It was working in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries, he added...
The power crisis could be ended in Pakistan by proper utilisation of those resources, he added...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year...
In 2009 he dove down around 1,400 metres to the bottom of the world’s deepest lake Baikal in another mini-submarine...