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News for Monday, 6 Aug 2012

Nothing can dampen the joy of an Eid shopping spree

Despite load shedding, price hikes and inflation, shopping for Eid is in full swing, with buyers high in spirits purchasing clothes, accessories and gifts in various markets and shopping malls...

Fitrana fixed at Rs 80 per person

A religious scholar, Maulana Shoaib said that the minimum amount of Sadaqa-e-Fitr or Fitrana has been fixed at Rs 80 per person this year. Fitrana is paid as money or...

Over 50,000 slaughtered in Burma: Burmese Muslim Scholar

Over 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have been massacred in Burma as tensions flared on June 3 and brutal killings and arrests of Muslims continued, however the international community, human rights organizations...

Education targets remain elusive

Pakistan needs a strong literacy movement to achieve its targets of increasing the literacy rate up to 86 percent by the year 2015, and ensuring that every child had access...

Margazar Zoo echoes silence this Eid too

As another Eid festival approaches, the Margazar Zoo gives an uninhabited and desolate look as cages of lions, leopards, giraffes and snakes have been lying vacant there for the last...

Apple’s Jobs was open to making a smaller iPad: executive

An Apple mini-version of the market-dominating 10-inch iPad could counter increasing inroads made by tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. But the company has never confirmed the...

The Designers presents a special multi-designer showcase for Ramadan

To celebrate the festivities of Ramadan and to help women get their hands on the perfect ‘Eid jora’, The Designers Multi-brand store will be showcasing a special collection of semi-formal...

Rajoy’s moment of embarrassment

After his oh so triumphant moment in June, when after securing a 100-billion-euro recapitalization of the Spanish banks the Spanish premier touted the moment as a “victory”, Mariano Rajoy is...

Positive momentum in the face of headwinds

Despite a ho-hum earnings season and central banks’ disappointing hopes for aggressive economic stimulus this week, U.S. stocks held firm. After four days of losses, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500...

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