Islamabad: In the backdrop of Nawaz Sharif's positive remarks on ties with India, powerful Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has suggested Pakistan's Prime Minister - designate to take gradual initiatives with utmost caution for improving relations with New Delhi, a media report said on Sunday.
Kayani made the suggestion when he called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, set to become Prime Minister for a record third term following his party's victory in the May 11 polls, at his brother Shahbaz Sharif's home in Lahore on Saturday.
The News daily quoted its sources as saying that Kayani wanted the new government to take gradual initiatives with utmost caution to improve relations with India as this alone "may lead to lasting peace in the region"....
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12:38 PM, May 19, 2013
San Francisco: Google launched a music service on Wednesday that allows users to listen to unlimited songs for $9.99 a month, challenging smaller companies like Pandora and Spotify in the market for streaming music. With its new service, announced at its annual developers' conference in San Francisco, Google has adopted the streaming music business model ahead of rival Apple, which pioneered online music purchases with iTunes. Google's "All Access" service...
02:53 PM, May 16, 2013
Islamabad: There has been a delay in the announcement of results of the general elections in Pakistan due to the "transparent process" and "legal procedures" adopted by the election commission, a top official said on Sunday. Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Ishtiak Ahmad Khan, however, said that there should be no doubt about the poll results, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. Addressing a news conference Khan said the delay in...
04:22 AM, May 13, 2013
California: Intel Corp on Monday unveiled the most extensive overhaul of its Atom mobile processors, with improved performance that the PC chipmaker expects will help it challenge Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets. The new microarchitecture, code-named Silvermont, will be a key building block in upcoming Intel chips for mobile gadgets, microservers and car entertainment systems, Chief Product Officer Dadi Perlmutter told reporters at an event on Monday. "We have not...
10:18 AM, May 07, 2013
Health officials in India have revoked Johnson & Johnson's license to make cosmetics at a plant outside Mumbai after they discovered the company had used an unauthorized process for sterilizing its baby powder. J&J said in a statement on Friday that it is in "ongoing discussions" with Indian regulators. "We understand their concerns and are diligently working with them to resolve the issue," Peggy Ballman, a J&J spokeswoman, said in...
06:11 AM, May 04, 2013
Jammu: Family of Chamel Singh, an Indian prisoner who died in a Pakistani jail three months ago, on Saturday blamed the Centre for the attack on Sarabjit Singh, saying had the government taken a tough stand at that time such an incident would not have recurred. "We want the Indian government to see the conspiracy in attacks on Indian prisoners - we should safeguard the lives of Indian prisoners in...
10:53 PM, Apr 27, 2013
London: WikiLeaks has said it has secured a victory in Iceland's Supreme Court against the financial blockade imposed by Visa and MasterCard on donations for the secret-spilling site. Visa and MasterCard were among half a dozen major US financial firms to pull the plug on WikiLeaks following its decision to begin publishing about 250,000 US State Department cables in late 2010. WikiLeaks has claimed that the financial blockade led to...
06:54 AM, Apr 25, 2013
London: Queen Elizabeth II is set to approve a new succession law that will end the age-old precedence enjoyed by male heirs in line to Britain's throne, ending centuries of religious and gender discrimination. 'The Succession to the Crown Bill', which is set to become law in coming days, means that if Prince William and Kate Middleton were to have a daughter in July, she would be crowned Queen. The...
09:57 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Communications today said it has partnered with Twitter to launch a prepaid plan for GSM subscribers in the country. The promotional offer will be free for 90 days after which a fee will be charged for the plan. "Reliance Twitter Access Pack, is a promotional offer for a period of 90 days during this T20 cricketing season which comes bundled for all new GSM prepaid subscribers with...
04:44 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will hold General Elections on May 5, an electoral official said on Wednesday, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling coalition's 56-year hold on power in the country. The Election Commission (EC) announced that General Elections will be held on May 5 while nomination process will take place on April 20. The EC said all 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats would be decided...
10:00 AM, Apr 11, 2013
North Korea said on Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract US concessions by raising fears of war. ...
06:40 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Princess Diana dressed up as a 'male model' to enjoy an anonymous night out with Queen singer Freddie Mercury and television entertainer Kenny Everett at a well-known gay bar here, a new book has claimed. ...
04:48 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Kolkata: Bengal Inc is set to hear from Narendra Modi about the success story of his state when the flamboyant Gujarat chief minister addresses entrepreneurs in Kolkata in early April 2013. Modi, widely touted as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) likely prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, is scheduled to visit the city April 9, 2013 and speak at a special session of businessmen on how he...
06:20 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Princess Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan fears that her last few very personal messages left on his phone may have been hacked by British journalists as far back as 1996. The Pakistani heart and lung surgeon, who the late Princess of Wales described as "Mr Wonderful", is believed to have had a discreet two-year relationship with the royal which ended just months before her tragic death in a car crash...
07:53 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The Xolo Q800 with a quad-core processor has some features similar to the Micromax Canvas HD which is priced at Rs 13,999. ...
02:27 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The best of political debates in Kerala, and perhaps India, happen not in television studios or our legislature, but in Karunan's barber shop and Kuttan's ...
01:45 PM, Mar 06, 2013
