Over the years, Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor have been quite vociferous about not wanting to work together after his marriage to Karisma Kapoor was called off. Now things seem to be looking up as Kareena and Abhishek are in the mood to move on and have agreed to star together in a film after [...]
LAHORE: Over 1,500 Indian pilgrims arrived here on Saturday to join the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak. “Some 1,500 yatris (pilgrims) have arrived in the first special train and a couple of hundred others are expected in the second train,” Fraz Abbas, Deputy Director of Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), said. Abbas expressed [...]
ISLAMABAD: World No 7 Pakistan defeated World No 26 Italy 5-0 in their opening match of the first qualifying round for the Hockey World Cup 2010 on Saturday at the Metropole Hockey Club Lille, Italy. According to the reports available here, Pakistan team gave a dominating display right from the beginning to beat their rivals. [...]
NEW DELHI: India will take on Australia in the third match of the one-day series at Firoz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi today. India is in a positive frame of mind after the last win whereas the Aussies are dented by the loss of Bret Lee and James Hope. Geo Super will telecast the match [...]
TBILISI: Georgian forces on Monday launched a joint training exercise with the US military ahead of the deployment of hundreds of Georgian troops next spring in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said. US military cooperation with pro-Western Georgia has strained ties between the United States and Russia, which last year fought a five-day war with Georgia. [...]
KHYBER AGENCY: At least seven security men embraced martyrdom in an explosion of a powerful bomb which went off in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, Geo news reported on Saturday. According to sources, the security forces kicked off rescue efforts shortly after the explosion was reported, meanwhile, some wounded security personnel are being shifted to [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been meeting tribal leaders in north-west Pakistan on the last day of a testing visit to the country. During her three-day trip Mrs Clinton hoped to strengthen ties between the US and Pakistan and tried to address a rising tide of anti-American feeling. In an interview with the [...]
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has praised a UN proposal to regulate Iran’s uranium enrichment programme. Speaking before talks with US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, he called it a “positive first step” in stopping Tehran developing a nuclear weapon. Under the plan, low-enriched fuel would be further processed outside Iran. On Thursday, the UN’s nuclear [...]
The fourth storm to hit the Philippines in a month has lashed the eastern coastal province of Quezon, bringing heavy rain and winds to the region. Forecasters said Typhoon Mirinae was following the same route as September’s storm, Ketsana, which dumped the heaviest rains in 40 years on Manila. So far, rainfall has not been [...]
