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News for Saturday, 30 Jul 2011

LDA to approve deficit budget 2011-12

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is set to approve an Rs 2.275 billion deficit budget for 2011-12 on Monday. The Urban Development Wing, Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) and Traffic and...

No chance of judicial martial law: Fauzia

There is no chance of a judicial martial law in the country and the forces spreading rumours of a government-judiciary confrontation are trying to derail the democratic system, President Asif...

Lahore all set to welcome Ramadan

Lahore has started giving a Ramadan look two days in the advance of the auspicious month. The month of fasting is expected to begin from Tuesday or Wednesday and preparations...

Police clear ‘indignants’ from Athens central square

Police and city employees Saturday cleared anti-government protestors known as "indignants" from the central Athens square they had occupied for more than two months, an AFP reporter witnessed. "Various objects...

Rights group says 20 protesters killed across Syria

Syrian forces shot dead at least 20 civilians in attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations across the country on Friday, the Syrian human rights organisation Sawasiah said. Syrians in their thousands...

UK police add computer probe to phone-hack inquiry

London police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World tabloid are broadening their investigation to allegations of computer hacking, they said on Saturday. A new investigative team...

Africa reemerging as heroin trafficking hub: UN

Drug traffickers faced with restrictions to transit routes through Asia and the Middle East are turning to eastern Africa, driving up instability and increasing substance abuse, a United Nations report...

Scandal-tainted Indian chief minister to quit

The chief minister of a southern Indian state who is accused of being at the centre of a $3.6-billion mining fraud will resign on Sunday, he said Saturday. B.S. Yeddyurappa,...

More than 40 dead in south Yemen violence

At least 42 people have died in violence near Yemen's southern city of Zinjibar, most of which has fallen under the control of suspected Al-Qaeda militants, military and local sources...

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