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Pak cell phone service affected by Indian bandwidth interference
Newstrack India
| Lahore, Feb 18(ANI): The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has reportedly complained that bandwidth interference from Indian territories is affecting the service of some cellular companies here.   | According to reports, service in parts of Lahore, Sialkot, Kasur, Sahiwal, Bahawalnagar and...
Scale models of helicopters are are on display at the AgustaWestland pavilion at the DefExpo-India 2010 , in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The world's top weapons makers, vying to feed India's voracious appetite for arms, brought their helicopters, night vision goggles and mine-proof vehicles to New Delhi this week in hopes of winning a share of the nation's expanding defense budget.
(photo: AP / Gurinder Osan)
Top defense firms vie to feed Indian arms appetite
The News & Observer
| NEW DELHI -- Top weapons makers, vying to feed India's voracious appetite for arms, brought their helicopters, night vision goggles and mine-proof vehicles to New Delhi this week in hopes of winning a share of one of the world's largest defense budgets. | With its growing economy and emergence as ...
Tethyan still hopeful Reqo Diq will go ahead
Mineweb
ISLAMABAD (Reuters)  -  | The operator of a $3 billion joint venture copper and gold project in Pakistan is hopeful the project will go ahead despite a government threat to scrap it because of misgivings about the share of benefits. | The p...
March 3: Congress passes Missouri Compromise, 'Star-Spangled Banner' adopted as US national anthem
The Examiner
| Maine Fast Fact: During World War II, the Maine National Guard and Army anti-aircraft units were deployed around Portland’s naval facilities to protect the local shipbuilding industry. | Births:1847: Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian s...
Steel consumption falls 40pc due to slump in construction industry
The News International
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 | By our correspondent | KARACHI: The daily consumption of steel has fallen up to 40 per cent from 5,000 tons a day to only 2,000 tons only as a result of the slump in the building and construction industry, Pakistan Steel R...
Uncle Sam's War-Mart
The Times Of India
Come you masters of war | You that build all the guns | You that build the death planes | You that build the big bombs | You that hide behind walls | You that hide behind desks | I just want you to know | I can see through your masks | Some months be...
Green House - a way to gain prosperity  for farmer
WN / Aruna Mirasdar
Australian experts to help conduct agri sector study
The News International
Thursday, January 28, 2010 | By our correspondent | LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with Australian agricultural and livestock experts, will p...
Sugar - Commodity
WN / Yolanda Leyba
More about the sugar than politics in Lahore
Khaleej Times
LAHORE, Pakistan - A porter at Lahore's railway station for three decades, Iftikhar Shah worries about suicide bombers and political instability but his biggest concern is the pric...
GREEK MINISTER - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
US DoD / R. D. Ward
Gates praises India restraint after Mumbai attacks
The Siasat Daily
| New Delhi, January 19: Robert Gates, flying to New Delhi, praised India's restraint and statesmanship following the 2008 Mumbai attacks and remarked at how both India and Pakista...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
Newsvine
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: | Feb. 20 | The Miami Herald, on global warming: | The weather is unsettling this winter. Florida has had a record number of cold days this year after going through one of...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
Houston Chronicle
| - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: | Feb. 20 | The Miami Herald, on global warming: | The weather is unsettling this winter. Florida has had a record number of cold days this year after going through on...
Toyota to repair 90pc of Prius cars in 3 months
The News International
Sunday, February 21, 2010 | By Irfan Siddiqui | TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp is seeking to repair 90 percent of 200,000 Prius hybrid cars recalled over a flawed electronic braking system within three months, company officials said on Wednesday. | Toyota ...
Pak cell phone service affected by Indian bandwidth interference
Newstrack India
| Lahore, Feb 18(ANI): The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has reportedly complained that bandwidth interference from Indian territories is affecting the service of some cellular companies here.   | According to reports, service in parts of...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
The News & Observer
| Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: | Feb. 12 | The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, on the American Civil Liberties Union: | You've probably been somewhat confused in recent years about what the mission of the Am...
Stock Market
White Sugar - Commodity
(photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Bitter, bigger sugar crisis round the corner
The News International
Monday, January 18, 2010 | By Ikram Hoti | ISLAMABAD: The worst sugar crisis is yet to hit the market and the prices are feared to increase beyond Rs 90 per kg from the present Rs 70 per kg, given the shortage in the country. | The mills now producing sugar for the crushing season 2009-10 add to zero stocks, and even the imported sugar will be cost...
Economy
Palestinian schoolgirls and women attend a protest against an Israeli plan to include two deeply contested holy sites in the occupied West Bank in a national heritage renovation plan, in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah on March 9, 2010. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked outrage late February when he said he hoped to include Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in a national heritage restoration plan. (Photo by Ahmed/WN)
(photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Gaza...1000 Days Under Siege
The Siasat Daily
| Pitifully looking at her baby child, Om Yamen is recalling the past 1,000 days of her life under a crippling Israeli siege. | "Life has been a living hell," she told, in a broken voice. | "We can’t stand this anymore. The siege has exhausted us and broken our backs." | The 1.6 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a costal enclave, are markin...



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