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CNEWS MUMBAI: India’’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to grow by 7.2 per cent in 2009-10 as compared to the growth rate of 6.7 per cent achieved in 2008-09, despite a slight decline in the growth of the agriculture sector, data released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) said. In its Advance Estimates of [...]
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CNEWS KABUL: Avalanches in a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 15 people, injured more than 50 and left hundreds stranded on blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday. The avalanches took place Monday following heavy snows in the Salang Pass that links the Afghan capital with the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and [...]
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CNEWS LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC), called the federal government to account for the restrictions on Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan regarding his meeting the relatives and receiving medical facilities, CNews News reported Tuesday. The court, during the hearing of a petition filed by the nuclear scientist, ordered that he should be immediately given [...]
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CNEWS JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli minister called on Tuesday for the international community to adopt tough sanctions against arch-foe Iran over its controversial nuclear programme. “The coming month is decisive,” Silvan Shalom, vice premier, told public radio. “It is time the international community imposes tough sanctions against Iran, even if Russia and China do not [...]
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CNEWS SINGAPORE: Oil recovered early losses to rise above $72 a barrel on Tuesday, buoyed by a weaker U.S. dollar and hopes that European Union leaders could soon cobble together a rescue package for ailing euro zone countries. Sentiment turned after the euro rose against the dollar, clambering off last week’’s 8-½-month low on speculation [...]
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CNEWS TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday began enriching uranium to 20 percent purity level at its Natanz plant in defiance of world powers but under the supervision of inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog, state media said. A source from Iran’’s atomic body as telling the state-owned channel that “Iran has started enriching uranium to 20 [...]
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CNEWS PESHAWAR: At least nine people were killed in incidents spawned by downpours and landslidings in the upper areas of the NWFP, CNews News reported Tuesday. In Alpuri tehsil of Shangla district, at least four people including children and women lost their lives as their house roof collapsed on them. MNA from Shangla Fazlullah told [...]
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CNEWS ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Supreme Court against delay in judges’ appointments in higher judiciary. Akram Sheikh advocate filed a petition on behalf of Nadeem Ahmed advocate. A petition has asked judiciary to interpret article 6 of constitution and also define in which circumstances it will be applicable. A petition also stated [...]
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CNEWS ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Supreme Court against delay in judges’ appointments in higher judiciary. Akram Sheikh advocate filed a petition on behalf of Nadeem Ahmed advocate. A petition has asked judiciary to interpret article 6 of constitution and also define in which circumstances it will be applicable. A petition also stated [...]
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CNEWS LAHORE: Cricket Council of US has sent a legal notice to chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for humiliating US cricket council and terming it as unauthorized association. According to notice, PCB Chairman in his February 7 statement blamed former cricketer Javed Miandad that he wants to take illegal US team to China. US cricket [...]
