KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced schedule for Compressed Nature Gas (CNG) closure across Sindh on Sunday. SSGC media manager Inayatullah said that CNG filling stations will be closed on August 12 (Monday) from 8 am till next 24 hours while the fuel supply will be resumed from August 13 (Tuesday) after 8 am till 12 midnight. According to SSGC schedule, second and third shutdowns are scheduled on August 14 (Wednesday) and August 16 (Friday) respectively for 24 hours. This step is being taken by the gas utility according to ‘Gas Load Management’ program, the spokes person of SSGC disclosed. The News Tribe – UK-based bilingual news website covering politics, technology, sports, health and lifestyle f...
August 12, 2013 at 3:55 am | News Desk
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia: The United States is to reopen all of the embassies it shut this week except the one in Yemen, after re-assessing the Al-Qaeda threat. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would also keep its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore closed, after pulling out staff on Thursday. The United States had closed some two dozen embassies and consulates since August 4 after reported intelligence intercepts from Al-Qaeda suggested an attack was imminent. The closures affected virtually all of the Arab world and were eventually extended to include parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Psaki said that 18 of the 19 embassies and consulates subject to the week-long closure would reopen on Sunday, a working da...
August 11, 2013 at 3:18 am | News Desk
MOSCOW: Briton Mo Farah was pushed all the way in an ultimately well-executed victory in the men’s 10,000m at the world championships on Saturday to carry on where he left off at last year’s London Olympics. The Somali-born 30-year-old clocked 27min 21.72sec in his first outing since his victory in the British capital over the 25-lap race, the longest around the track in athletics’ biennial showpiece. Ibrahim Jeilan of Ethiopia, who outsprinted Farah for the title in Daegu, won silver in 27:22.23, with early pace-setting Kenyan Paul Tanui taking bronze (27:22.61). “I had the experience of a couple of years ago. This time I saw Jeilan coming,” said Farah. “I almost went down a few times but I covered eve...
August 11, 2013 at 1:37 am | News Desk
HANOI: Vietnamese authorities are trying to reintegrate a father and son to their home village after they allegedly fled war four decades ago to live deep in the forest, an official said Saturday. Ho Van Thanh, 82, and his son, Ho Van Lang, 42, emerged bedraggled from the remote mountainous region on Wednesday in an emaciated condition, wearing loincloths made from tree bark. The former communist soldier Thanh ran away with his then two-year-old son Lang in 1972 from a communist village in central Quang Ngai province. He was grief-stricken following the death of his mother and two of his other children in an American bombing, local official Hoang Anh Ngoc told AFP. “The son is afraid of the crowds. He will not talk to strangers&hell...
August 11, 2013 at 1:37 am | News Desk
BEIJING: Beijing city health and corruption officials have launched an investigation into allegations staff at French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi bribed more than 500 Chinese doctors a total of about $280,000, state media reported Saturday. The joint investigation will probe claims in China’s 21st Century Business Herald newspaper purporting to show that company staff paid 503 doctors in 79 hospitals bribes totalling 1.69 million yuan in a bid to increase sales. The paper, citing documents provided by an anonymous whistleblower, said Thursday that in 2007 Sanofi paid doctors 80 yuan ($13) every time a patient bought its products, with the largest payment being 11,200 yuan. Most of the payments were made to medical staff in hospitals...
August 11, 2013 at 1:37 am | News Desk
NEW DELHI, Delhi province: The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has said it plans to sell some of its Indian assets, including its credit card and mortgage business, to a domestic bank as it disposes of more of its once sprawling empire. RBS, now more than 80 percent owned by the British government following the 2008 global financial crisis, plans to sell its business banking, credit card business and mortgage loan portfolio to India’s Ratnakar Bank, the two banks said. Ratnakar Bank is one of India’s smallest commercial banks but has fared well in recent years by selling stock to private equity funds. The banks gave no value for the deal, which is subject to approval by India’s competition regulator, in a joint statement la...
August 11, 2013 at 1:37 am | News Desk
HYDERABAD: Deputy Superintendent of Police Agha Naim Ghauri has been killed in a assassination attack in Hyderbad on Saturday. Miscreants ‘easily’ gunned down the top police official of Nara Jail Hyderabad in Tando Agha area when he moving towards his home in his car. The attackers have successful escaped from the location safely. After a serious of terrorists’ attacks in Pakistan, terrorists have proved their ‘governance’ instead of the country’s government as they are continuously targetting civilians and security officials. However, rescue teams have shifted the dead body of the deceased Police official to nearby hospital. Heavy contingents of security forces has been deployed in the area to initia...
August 11, 2013 at 1:37 am | News Desk
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LAHORE, Pakistan: The United States has evacuated all non-emergency staff from its consulate in Pakistan’s second-biggest city Lahore, citing “specific threats” amid a worldwide alert over Al-Qaeda intercepts. The US State Department also reiterated a longstanding warning to US citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Pakistan, in a statement issued late Thursday Washington time. The move came as two fresh attacks, one on the edge of the heavily guarded capital Islamabad, marred the start of the Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr and highlighted the parlous security situation in nuclear-armed Pakistan. The restive southwestern city of Quetta, focus of a surge in sectarian bloodshed, suffered its second deadly attack in...
August 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | News Desk
CHESTER-LE-STREET, United Kingdom: Australia’s Nathan Lyon took four wickets as England collapsed to 238 for nine at stumps on the first day of the fourth Ashes Test at Chester-le-Street on Friday. Off-spinner Lyon, controversially left out of the first two Ashes Tests in favour of teenager Ashton Agar, despite taking nine wickets in Delhi in the final Test of Australia’s 4-0 series loss in March, had figures of four wickets for 42 runs in 20 overs at the close. England captain Alastair Cook, who won the toss, was the only batsman to make a fifty on Friday as the hosts, who had been in a solid position at 107 for one, played a succession of poor shots in the face of accurate Australian bowling. Tim Bresnan was 12 not out and l...
August 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | News Desk
ZURICH: A Swiss luxury boutique denied any wrongdoing Friday after US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey claimed she had been the subject of racism when a shop assistant allegedly refused to show her an expensive handbag. Oprah’s widely publicised claim comes amid a row over racism in Switzerland, where a move to ban asylum seekers from some public facilities including swimming pools and gyms has sparked a storm of protest. Winfrey, one of the richest women in the world, said she had been in Zurich for US singer Tina Turner’s wedding in July and had spotted a swanky crocodile handbag while out shopping. “I’m in a store, a name-brand store. I’m by myself, absolutely nobody else with me. And I say to the woman, &lsq...
August 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | News Desk
HARARE: Lawyers for Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s party filed a legal challenge Friday against the outcome of a crunch election which gave veteran President Robert Mugabe another five-year term. Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change charge in a court appeal that the July 31 vote was a “farce” that was riddled with fraud and should be declared invalid. “The prayer that we seek is that this election be declared null and void and also that a fresh election be held within 60 days,” MDC spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told journalists outside the constitutional court where the party’s petition was lodged. The election ended a shaky power-sharing government formed four years ago by Mug...
August 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | News Desk
Washington: As Samsung and Nokia enjoying the market share, American technological giant Apple plans to introduce Apple iPhone 5S this year. Apple haven’t get same response from the people at the launch of iPhone 5, as they usually get on the launch of previous versions of iPhones. But keeping in mind of the viewers Apple known for wow factor, that’s why everyone has set his eyes for the launch of its first device of the year. Lets we have a brief look at the feature of Apple’s upcoming device iPhone 5S. Display is a key factor for the success of any smartphone gadget, so that’s why Apple has changed the size of the screen in the iPhone 5. As rumors suggested that, iPhone 5S would come with 4.8 inch Super HD scree...
August 10, 2013 at 1:40 am | News Desk
“OUR primary goal is for our users to see us as a gym, where they can work out and keep mentally fit,” says Michael Scanlon, the co-founder and chief scientist of Lumos Labs. For $14.95 a month, subscribers to the firm’s Lumosity website get to play a selection of online games designed to improve their cognitive performance. There are around 40 exercises available, including “speed match”, in which players click if an image matches a previous one; “memory matrix”, which requires remembering which squares on a matrix were shaded; and “raindrops”, which involves solving arithmetic problems before the raindrops containing them hit the ground. The puzzles are varied, according to how well ...
August 9, 2013 at 3:04 am | News Desk
A JAR of crude oil, not much bigger than one of baby food, has pride of place in the office of Carlos Morales, the veteran oilman in charge of exploration and production at Pemex, Mexico’s state oil monolith. He handles it reverentially because it comes from Maximino, a deep-water field in the Gulf of Mexico, close to his country’s maritime border with the United States. Deep water is a territory that Pemex has only just started to explore.Although privately owned oil majors such as Chevron have been drilling successfully in non-Mexican waters near Maximino for several years, Pemex has been left behind. After 23 failed attempts and billions of dollars of investment, it finally struck deep-water oil last year. But the amounts r...
August 9, 2013 at 3:04 am | News Desk
“IF SOMEONE is shooting at you, the last thing you should focus on is the calibre of the bullet,” says George Kurtz, the boss of CrowdStrike, a young tech company. Seated at a coffee table at Black Hat, a conference for the cyber-security industry held in Las Vegas recently, Mr Kurtz is expounding on the fundamental flaw he sees in the way many firms deal with cyber-intrusions. Most, he says, spend too much time trying to work out what hit them and far too little trying to understand the motivations of their attackers and how to counter future assaults.CrowdStrike is a vocal advocate of “active defence” technologies that are generating much buzz in the cyber-security world. Their proponents argue that those who th...
August 9, 2013 at 3:04 am | News Desk
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