
Hamza: A car bomb targeting a popular restaurant killed 15 people and wounded dozens more in the southern Iraqi town of Hamza on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said. Elsewhere, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when a bomb attached to a military bus exploded at an army base in Habaniya, around 85 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, army sources said. Bombings and killings occur on...

01:03 AM, Sep 15, 2011

Brasilia: Brazilian scientists have discovered the existence of an underground river some 6,000 km long running beneath the Amazon River. The river has been named after an Indian-origin scientist, a media report said Thursday. Researchers decided to name the underground river the Hamza, in tribute to the scientist of Indian origin Valiya Mannathal Hamza, who has been studying the region for more than four decades. The discovery was made possible...

11:39 AM, Aug 26, 2011

Thimphu: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reach Thimphu early on Wednesday, setting the stage for India and Pakistan to hijack yet another SAARC summit. Singh could meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Bhutan's capital Thimphu on Wednesday and Thursday, but no major breakthrough is expected, given Islamabad's response to India's dossiers on 26/11. Pakistan says the evidence against Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed is sketchy and insufficient, the...

09:30 PM, Apr 27, 2010

Gangster Hamza accused of monitoring transportation of explosives. ...

08:30 PM, Feb 06, 2010

Army jawan, Sohan Singh of 52 Rashtriya Rifles, was also killed. ...

03:01 PM, Jan 28, 2009

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board has started taking damage control steps to revive its relationship with former national one-day team captain Shahid Afridi. The PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt, in a clear move to send out a message that the board had nothing personal against Afridi, made it a point to inquire about the health of his (Afridi's) father, who is admitted in a hospital in ICU after suffering a heart...

09:50 AM, Feb 12, 2008

A movie named Kaptaan, directed by Britain based filmmaker Faisal Khan, will hit the silver screen later this year. ...

01:33 AM, Feb 08, 2008

Sources suggest Hamza, who hails from Hyderabad, has been arrested. ...

02:00 AM, Sep 04, 2007