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News for Monday, 23 Jan 2012

Ravi breached

Streaming water in the River Ravi ripped through a manmade barrier around 5:00 am near Gulshan Ravi on Sunday, flooding the construction site and vehicles. The water streamed its way...

Searching for eunuchs

Due to the non-availability of data on the number of eunuchs in Punjab, the Social Welfare Department and the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will start a joint venture...

Iraq and Kuwait mull reparations ‘fund’: UN

Iraq and Kuwait are considering a plan to pay the war reparations which Baghdad still owes its neighbour into a fund for Iraqi investments, the UN’s envoy told AFP on...

Israel seeks compromise on illegal outpost

Israel on Sunday proposed a compromise deal allowing residents of an illegal West Bank outpost that the high court has ordered evacuated to stay in their homes while new ones...

UN envoy urges Iraqi bloc to ‘fight in parliament’

Iraq’s main Sunni-backed bloc should help resolve the country’s political crisis within parliament rather than stage a boycott, the UN’s envoy to Baghdad told AFP on Sunday. His remarks came...

Prince William’s in-laws offer ‘adult’ outfits online

The parents of Prince William’s wife Catherine have launched a range of outfits for “adult occasions” on their party goods website, a British tabloid said Saturday. The Party Pieces firm,...

French presidential shapes into four-horse race

With three months to go, France’s presidential election has been shaken up by gains of far-right and centrist candidates at the expense of main rivals Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois...

Update curricula to improve educational standards

Education is becoming one of the defining enterprises of the 21st century with the emergence of globalisation and increasing global competition. Aslam describes that in the fast changing and competitive...

Bird flu claims second victim in China

A man in southwest China who contracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, health authorities said, the second human death from the virulent disease in the country in just...

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