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Praful Bidwai
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  • December 28, 2017

    Naya Nazimabad win 9th Super Veterans match

    KARACHI: Naya Nazimabad Super Veterans won the 9th Super Veterans Match against Omar Veterans Super Veterans by nine wickets at the Lawai Stadium...

  • December 10, 2017

    Gwadar Central, Habib Rafique Ltd sign MoU for uplift

    LAHORE: Gwadar Central and Habib Rafique Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding for infrastructure development of Gwadar Central, Flagship...

  • December 10, 2017

    Orientm McCann wins Asia-Pacific ‘Agency of the Year’ award

    KARACHI: In this year’s highly competitive Campaign Asia-Pacific ‘Agency of the Year’ awards, Orientm McCann took first place in the...

  • December 01, 2017

    FWBL launches PayPak Debit Card on its 28th anniversary

    KARACHI: First Women Bank Ltd. on its 28th     Anniversary launches  its  first debit card “FWBL PayPak Debit Card’’. The key features...

  • December 01, 2017

    PAS elects its new executive council, office-bearers

    KARACHI: Pakistan Advertisers Society held its 20th Annual General Body Meeting on Friday, November, 24, 2017 in Karachi.The AGM was attended by...

  • November 30, 2017

    RIS holds Sports Day

    Islamabad: Roots International Schools held its annual inter-house sports event in the nationwide campuses under the umbrella of RIS Sports and...

  • November 30, 2017

    Murad lauds performance of Shiraz Asif

    KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has highly appreciated the performance of Shiraz Asif, captain of Pakistan Junior Baseball team.Murad...

  • November 29, 2017

    AIOU to hold national conference on media

    Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University will hold a first-ever two-day National Conference on Media on December 22-23 to develop press-academia...

  • November 29, 2017

    Vivo brings a new selfie-shooter V7 to consumers in Pakistan

    Lahore: Vivo has unveiled the V7, a new member of the selfie-shooter V series in Pakistan. An exclusive media and bloggers meetup was held today in...

  • November 27, 2017

    Maulana Zafar Ali’s death anniversary today

    The 61st death anniversary of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan is being observed today . He is known as Baba-e-Sahafat. The late Pakistan Movement leader was...

  • November 26, 2017

    APNS, CPNE, PFUJ, RIUJ express concern over closure of TV channels

    KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has expressed its grave concern on the sudden closure of TV channels and their transmissions on the...

  • November 21, 2017

    Baig to attend Gusi peace prize

    KARACHI: Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Director World Federation of Consuls, President Hon. Consular Corps Sindh Karachi and Hon. Consul General of Yemen...

  • November 20, 2017

    Textbooks to have security labels

    Effective measures are being adopted to make the system of sale and purchase of textbooks transparent and no negligence will be tolerated in this...

  • November 20, 2017

    NICVD Established Chest Pain Unit Under Nagan Chowrangi Flyover, Karachi

    KARACHI: National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases – in collaboration with the Government of Sindh and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, has...

  • November 20, 2017

    PITB chief urges ICTD researchers to collaborate

    LAHORE: Punjab Information Technology Board Chairman and Information Technology University Vice Chancellor Dr Umar Saif said that international...

  • November 18, 2017

    RMMUN’17: Diplomats attend general assembly session

    Islamabad :Roots Metropolitan Model United Nations 2017 began its second day with committee sessions followed by the Diplomatic Moot that allowed...

  • November 17, 2017

    Diamond Supreme Foam takes on a mission for making Pakistan Supreme

    Karachi: Diamond Supreme Foam has launched the #SupremeCityInitiative, a campaign aimed to clean and beautify various parts of different cities in...

  • November 17, 2017

    UMT’s annual convocation confers degrees upon 1,466 students

    LAHORE: University of Management and Technology Lahore hold its 14th annual convocation at its Johar Town campus. As many as 1466 degrees were...

  • June 19, 2015

    Perils of covert operations

    The debate over the June 9 raids by the Indian Army’s Special Forces against two northeastern insurgent groups on Myanmarese territory has...

  • June 13, 2015

    Laloo’s ‘poison’ sweetens Bihar elections

    Has a secular anti-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance finally been sealed in Bihar, following Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Laloo Prasad’s declaration...

  • May 29, 2015

    Saying no to ghettoes

    Meet Rahul, a journalist with extensive experience of working for Indian and foreign media. During his many years in Delhi’s market for rented...

  • May 23, 2015

    Modi’s disastrous first year

    When Narendra Modi arrived in New Delhi to be sworn in as India’s prime minister, he flew in a private aircraft belonging to the Adani Group,...

  • May 16, 2015

    Media jingoism boomerangs

    Barely two weeks after a major earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, Nepal suffered an aftershock, killing more than 70 people. Over 3.5...

  • May 01, 2015

    Earthquakes: Prepare and survive

    It is impossible not to be moved by the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Nepal and adjoining regions as a result of the April 25 earthquake of...

  • April 26, 2015

    Transition in the Indian left

    Sitaram Yechury’s election as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India is noteworthy not least because the CPM, with one million...

  • April 19, 2015

    Shifting the terrain rightwards

    When it comes to sheer hypocrisy, it’s hard to beat India’s Sangh Parivar. It strenuously claimed the legacy of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a...

  • April 11, 2015

    Iran: a game-changing deal?

    After 18 months of gruelling negotiations, Iran and the P-5+1 reached a landmark agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme at Lausanne in...

  • April 04, 2015

    The AAP’s democratic deficit

    Less than two months after its spectacular Delhi victory which stopped the Modi juggernaut, the Aam Aadmi Party got drawn into an ugly, bruising...

  • March 22, 2015

    Neoliberal-Hindutva cocktail?

    Has India’s mainstream media decided to pay mere lip service to secularism and liberalism while ignoring daily attacks on them by the extremist...

  • March 15, 2015

    Rape and other ‘anti-India conspiracies’

    If the Indian government wanted to become the laughing stock of the world, it couldn’t have done so more effectively than by banning the BBC...

  • March 08, 2015

    The Aam Aadmi’s self-inflicted crisis

    It may appear to be an unfortunate coincidence that serious dissent should break out in India’s political wunderkind, the Aam Aadmi Party, within...

  • February 20, 2015

    An existential crisis for Congress

    It’s a telling comment on the state of the Indian National Congress that a four-member committee it appointed in October to devise a strategy to...

  • February 15, 2015

    The AAP’s moment

    It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big...

  • January 31, 2015

    Modi’s costly embrace

    In its euphoria, the Indian media highlighted the ‘breakthrough’ solution reached on the thorny issue of India’s nuclear liability law as the...

  • January 25, 2015

    Lessons from the Paris attack

    The initial shock from the Charlie Hebdo killings, which produced the knee-jerk ‘I am Charlie’ response in the west, has evolved into a less...

  • January 17, 2015

    A new start in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka’s people have made the cause of democracy proud by handing a humiliating, well-deserved defeat to President Mahinda Rajapaksa after 10...

  • January 10, 2015

    The Parivar’s intrusion

    If there’s one thing the 102nd Indian Science Congress, just held in Mumbai, will be remembered for, it’s the outrageous claims made about the...

  • January 02, 2015

    Hindutva trumps ‘development’

    Some Indian commentators have deplored the conferment of the country’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, on Hindu Mahasabha founder Madan...