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Concentration: Ready, get set, focus!
Jan 29th
You have been assigned to read a chapter from your textbook as homework from school. You gather everything you need and sit down to study. However, after a short while you feel yourself losing your concentration due to hunger. So you go and get something to eat. Then you resume studying but find that you [...]
British arrests, US raids over cyber group ‘Anonymous’
Jan 28th
LONDON: British police arrested five people and the FBI launched raids across the US as part of a probe into cyber attacks by online group “Anonymous”, which last year assailed websites hostile to WikiLeaks. In a series of dawn raids in England on Thursday, three teenage males and two adult men were arrested on suspicion [...]
NICL scam: Formal probe launched against FIA chief
Jan 28th
DG FIA goes on 10-day ‘leave’; Moonis Elahi likely to be arrested if he fails to appear before investigators on…
Bad bureaucracy: Hyderabad officials top the corruption list
Jan 28th
Most of the cases were registered against revenue and police departments.
Security forces kill 12 militants in Mohmand: officials
Jan 27th
KHAR: At least 12 militants including two suicide bombers were killed Thursday in separate incidents in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said. In one incident Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships killed 10 rebels in a raid on militant hideouts in Mohmand tribal district. “At least 10 militants were killed in an operation by [...]
NICL land scam: Arrest warrants for Moonis Elahi sought
Jan 27th
Federal investigators say if Moonis did not return on his own, he will be extradited.
Tax inspectors target top Bollywood stars
Jan 26th
MUMBAI: Indian income tax officials said that they had raided the homes and offices of two of Bollywood’s most bankable female stars as part of an investigation into suspected tax evasion. Income tax department director-general D.P. Gaur told AFP that the residences and offices of actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif were “being searched and [...]
Health Commission to be fully independent
Jan 25th
Health Dept officials pledge no retired or serving bureaucrat will be hired by commission.
Failure to help: ‘Bring your own car or pay for fuel’
Jan 24th
Police say fuel rations not enough for operations
