LONDON: Portuguese international and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has left his rival Messi and German goal keeper Manual Neuer, to lift the Ballon d’Or world footballer of the year award for the for the second time in his career. This is the second in a row for the star footballer. Messi had won the title consecutively three time in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Wolfsburg and Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler was named women’s player of the year, while Colombia’s James Rodriguez won goal of the year. Germany’s World Cup winner Joachim Low won men’s coach of the year. Wolfsburg boss Ralf Kellermann was named women’s football coach of the year after a successful defence of the Champions League. The thre...
January 13, 2015 at 10:01 am | News Desk
CANBERRA: Asian team will not play final of International Cricket Council (ICC) Word Cup 2015, says Australian star batsman David Warner. According to David Warner, England or South Africa will play final at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) against Australia. He said that pitches which will be used in mega event have pace and bouncy both in Australia and New Zealand where Asian sides face allot of problems playing on the those tracks. Warner said that in Asia, pitches are slow and help that spinners while in Australia the tracks are full of pace and bounce which will benefit bowler like Michael Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. The similar type of tracks are available in the South Africa and England and the players of both count...
January 12, 2015 at 10:56 am | News Desk
SEOUL: Samsung Finally announced its first smartphone of 2015, highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy A7 with high end specs. Let’s have a quick comparison with company’s flagship Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5. The device had made several appearance online before company made it official. The Galaxy A7 (SM-A700) is now the most feature-packed smartphone in the Galaxy A series. Similar to the previous two A series smartphones, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3, the device features a slim 6.3mm metal unibody. In terms of specs, it is the most advance and high-end smartphone of A series, which features, a 5.5 inch Super AMOLED HD display. It is powered by an an octa-core processor (1.8GHz and 1.3GHz quad-core processors), 2Gb of RA...
January 12, 2015 at 10:02 am | News Desk
PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday has reached Army Public School (APS), ISPR reported. According to Director General Inter Services of Public Relations (DG-ISPR) Asim Bajwa, General Raheel Sharif has reached APS where he was received by parents and children of the school. COAS met parents and children and raised their spirits. Following Peshawar attack on December 16 on an Army-run school that killed over 150 people including 134 students, reopening of schools and other educational institutions were delayed after winter vacation. Owing to security concerns, the winter vacations were extended till January 12 so that adequate security arrangements could be taken at schools and educatio...
January 12, 2015 at 10:02 am | News Desk
LORALAI: As many as seven Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed in a terrorists attack on check post, local media reported on Monday. According to levies sources, 40 to 50 terrorists are involved in the attack on check post and killed seven FC personnel and several injured. However the exchange of fire is still going on in the area while more force is being called in order to tackle the terrorists. The killed and injured FC personnel are being shifted by helicopter. Terrorists also attacked the forces came in aid of FC. The News Tribe – UK-based bilingual news website covering politics, technology, sports, health and lifestyle from US, Pakistan, Middle East and around the world Click here for more information The News Tri...
January 12, 2015 at 10:01 am | News Desk
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has observed mourning day across Sindh on Sunday over worker’s killing under police custody in Karachi last Saturday. MQM coordination committee announced to extend one-day mourning, appealed shutter-down strike across Sindh on Monday (tomorrow) to protest against worker under police custody. Senior leader Haider Abbas Rizvi announced to extend mourning across Sindh during 8-hour long protest before Chief Minister House in Karachi. He said that MQM lodged 8-hour long peaceful protest against worker’s killing and announced one more day to observe mourning. He said that the political party’s protest was not unethical. However, Rizvi announced to shift four dead ...
January 11, 2015 at 10:20 am | News Desk
KARACHI: A passenger bus caught fire after head on collision with oil tanker on National Highway link road on Saturday-Sunday night and as many as 35 people burnt alive, Samaa News reported. The report said that the ill-fated passenger bus was going to Shikarpur from Karachi that it was collided with the tanker. The fire in the bus was so much intense that no one could get time to leave the bus. Police said that bus boarded with 55 passengers including women and children. It is feared that most of the passengers of the bus have burnt alive. The bodies have been shifted to the Jinnah Hospital Karachi. Eye witnesses said that only three passengers of the bus succeeded to came out of the bus. People living near the road ...
January 11, 2015 at 10:01 am | News Desk
KARACHI: Businessmen body of Sindh province, Sindh Tajir Ittehad (STI) and All Karachi Transporters Ittehad (AKTI) have announced support to Muttahida Qoumi Movement (MQM) day of mourning in the province on January 11, Sunday (Tomorrow). The STI has announced that all the business will be kept close on the mourning day which will be observed by the MQM. The transporters body AKTI has said that transporters will not bring their transport vehicles on the roads in wake of the MQM mourning day. It is pertinent to mention here that Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Saturday night announced to observe one day mourning throughout the country on Sunday against the murder of its activists in police custody. The MQM’s co-ordination com...
January 11, 2015 at 10:00 am | News Desk
KARACHI: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has condemned killings of two doctors in Karachi and it will announce protest plan in government hospitals over doctors target killing on Monday, January 12. The PMA spokesman in a statement issued to media said that in just 10 days as many as three doctors have been killed in target killing incidents. The spokesman said that the doctor’s body will announce its protest strategy in the government hospitals on January 12. It is pertinent to mention here that Saturday (today) night Dr Ali Akbar, Doctor Yawar Hussain were targeted in there clinics at Paposh Nagar and Khilafat Chowlk in jurisdiction of Paposh Nagar Police Station. Both the Doctors were killed in gap of 1o minu...
January 11, 2015 at 10:00 am | News Desk
KARACHI: Banned Pakistan’s star off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has said that he will go for unofficial test at the end of this month but not in India. Saeed Ajmal talking to media said that he will go to England instead of India for his unofficial action test. Ajmal hoped that this time he will clear the test. Saeed said that in his last unofficial test, his action has major improvement but still felt short to clear the test. The banned bowler said, following the results of the test he worked hard even more in order to correct his action and now he believe that would clear the test. Saeed said that he has practiced a few new deliveries for his new action and all the bowls are wicket taking deliveries. He said that he will equ...
January 10, 2015 at 10:50 am | News Desk
SYDNEY: Australian skipper Steven Smith is in the form of his life as he manage to break Sir Donald Bradman’s 67-year-old record. Steven Smith smashed 71 in 2nd innings of 4th and last Test match breaking the record of Bradman of most runs in four-match series. In 1947-48 Bradman scored 715 runs in four-match series, batting only in six innings while Smith has made 769 runs batting in all 8 inning of the series. Smith made four centuries and two half centuries at an average of 96.125 runs. Former Australian skipper Rickey Ponting scored 706 runs in four-matche series 11 year ago. The News Tribe – UK-based bilingual news website covering politics, technology, sports, health and lifestyle from US, Pakistan, Middle East a...
January 10, 2015 at 10:01 am | News Desk
MIRPUR KHAS: As many as five police personnel lost their lives including two Station House Officers (SHOs) while five others injured in exchange of fire with dacoits in Mirpur Khas on Saturday. According to SSP Irfan Baloch, three famous dacoits were also killed in the shootout in Mehmoodabad areas. He said police force from 12 police stations of Hyderabad, Mirpukhas, Tando Allayar and Matiari was taking part in the encounter. Killed dacoits were involved in 50 to 60 heinous cases, including kidnapping for ransom, said DIG Operations Hyderabad Sanaullah Abbasi. Abbasi said those dacoits killed in the encounter included Chhotoo Narejo and Qurban Narejo, carrying Rs 1 million head money each. The News Tribe – UK-based bilingu...
January 10, 2015 at 10:01 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD:Chairperson National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Marvi Memon has proposed creation of a consultative body of Government and Media representatives to help promote better cooperation in the fight against terrorism. In an interview with official media, she said media has an important and effective role to complement efforts of the Government and the law enforcing agencies to combat terror. Marvi Memon explained in detail the background, rationale and spirit of the Special Report of the Standing Committee on strengthening media’s role in combating terrorism and said it contains nothing that could be construed as curbs on freedom of media. The Chairperson of the Committee sai...
January 10, 2015 at 10:00 am | News Desk
LAHORE: Emerging all-rounder Haris Sohail has got married as his nikkah ceremony was held at local Mosque in Sialkot. Harris Sohail who was named in World Cup squad for Pakistan now tied knots with his cosine. In his nikkah ceremony Haris’ family member and a few close friends were present. All-rounder’s Valima ceremony will be held on Saturday, according to his family sources. The cricketer said that Momina is the daughter of his uncle and that it is a love marriage. He said he is starting the new innings of the life with marriage. Harris made his debut last year against New Zealand in which he performed excellently with the bat as well as with the bowl. The News Tribe – UK-based bilingual news website cove...
January 9, 2015 at 10:16 am | News Desk
JAKARTA: Indonesian official has said on Friday that Crashed AirAsia flight QZ-8501’s black box pings detected in Java sea. As many as 41 dead bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of AirAsia plane till now which was crashed in to Java sea. Weather causing interruption in the rescue works at the sea where the plane was crashed. The wreckage was discovered after two days when a few parts of the plane were located near Kalimantan coast on 30th December. After identifying the part the search radius was increased near the floating parts and soon teams manage to find the wreckage of the flight. The plane was crashed in the radius of 10 kilometers where plan lost contact from the control tower. This is not clear that how many surv...
January 9, 2015 at 10:08 am | News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Cour of Pakistan, while conducting hearing of the cases regarding non-holding of the local bodies’ elections in the three provinces, has ordered the governments of Sindh and Punjab that all the steps should be completed in a month for the local bodies elections and the law regarding giving the right of conducting local bodies elections in the cantonment boards should be issued in a week. Three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk and comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Musheer Alam conducted hearing of the case here on Thursday. The court said that the action will be initiated against the authorized authority if the law was not issued in a week. The court directed the el...
January 9, 2015 at 10:07 am | News Desk
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