March 21, 2010
KARACHI: Mobile phones worth $103 million were imported into the country during the first eight months of the current fiscal year, Geo News reported Sunday.
The mobile phones imports are three percent in excess of that of last fiscal year.
According to statistics issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), machinery and products used in telecom sector worth at least $476.3 million were imported during the first eight months of the current fiscal year, which is 7 percent less than that in the corresponding period last year.
Money
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March 20, 2010
ISLAMABAD: US ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here and discussed various issues including Pak-US strategic negotiations, the PM’s upcoming US visit and the bilateral ties, Geo News reported Saturday.
Both the leaders mulled over matters relating the regional situation including anti-terrorism war and the rehabilitation of the IDPs at a meeting held at the PM House.
The leaders agreed on the establishment of long-term and enduring relations between the two countries and boosting the bilateral cooperation in various sectors.
Indo-Pak
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March 20, 2010
NEW DELHI: In yet another blunder by government departments, an advertisement issued by the Indian Railways has placed New Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal.
The Easter Railway issued the advertisement to newspapers during a flag off ceremony of the "Maharaja's Express."
Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was to flag off the Maharaja'a Express trail at Kolkata Station on Saturday.
A box inside the advertisement panel showed the train route from Kolkata to New Delhi via Gaya, Varanasi, Bandhabgarh, Khajuraho, Gwalior and Agra.
Indo-Pak
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March 20, 2010
LONDON: British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.
In an operation Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at London's Great Ormond Street children's hospital implanted the boy with a donor trachea, or windpipe, that had been stripped of its cells and injected with his own.
International
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March 20, 2010
BAGHDAD: The seventh anniversary of the start of the Iraq war dawned today with very little notice in the media--but at the start of the war, many more newspapers opposed it than we now remember.
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March 20, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE: All-night rain made life even tougher on Friday for Haitians living in the many tent camps scattered around the capital Port-au-Prince.
It was the heaviest rainfall since a January 12 earthquake that killed more than 217,000 according to latest figures from Haitian President Preval.
One million lost their homes and are now living in tents or makeshift shelters.
''It rained all night last night and we had to stay up all night. If you look here, you have mud, dirty water, garbage everywhere,'' a woman said.
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March 20, 2010
Actor Ranbir Kapoor, who has replaced superstar Shah Rukh Khan as the brand ambassador of Pepsi and actor Hrithik Roshan in ITC's John Players, feels obliged to get the opportunity to take forward their legacy.
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March 20, 2010
INDIAN WELLS: Second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki downed good friend Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-3 on Friday to book a final showdown with former world number one Jelena Jankovic at the BNP Paribas Open.
By reaching the final, Wozniacki is projected to reach a career-high number two in the world next week, up two spots from her current number four.
"Right now I'm just happy about my result here," the 19-year-old Dane said. "I'm thinking about this tournament, and that's the most important thing for me right now."
Sports
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