Salman Khan, who returned from The US recently, went straight to actor Sanjay Dutt’s Pali Hills residence in Mumbai to give moral support to the former, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts, that claimed 257 lives. Salman visited the US for a medical review on his nerve disorder – trigeminal neuralgia. Khan himself is in deep trouble following the 1998 black ...

By Caitlin Dewey The team at bit.ly, a popular link-tracking service, has come out with an interesting new analysis on how people use social media around the world. To make the report, bit.ly tracked clicks on its links from 220 countries over the course of 12 months. (To give you an idea of how many clicks that is, the site has logged more than 100 billion since January 2011.) Bit.ly then analyzed which so ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The two were cycling from Orchha, a heritage tourism spot, to Agra when they decided to camp in a jungle near Jhadia village. Around 9pm, the criminals, mostly in their 20s, broke into their camp, handcuffed the husband and raped the woman. They then fled with their mobile phones, a laptop and Rs. 10,000. Battered and bruised, the couple took a lift from a passerby and reached the police ...

By Salman Shaikh The humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Syria is probably the most serious crisis facing the world today. And yet, the international community is struggling to find a way forward. With more than four million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance and three million internally displaced – a conservative UN estimate based on surveys of 6 out of 14 governorates in Syria – the humanitarian res ...

By Rida Zaheer Tweet Losing the test series 3-0 and the one-day series 3-2, the Pakistan cricket team would undergo a post-mortem when they got home, said captain Misbah-ul-Huq in Benoni on Sunday. “We started poorly, especially in test matches, and although we improved in the second test, we have made mistakes in our batting throughout the tour,” Misbah said. “We go back and reflect on the performances and ...

By AFP March 23, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"AFP" - The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said the new CIA effort reflected a change in the administration's approach that aims ...

By Rida Zaheer Islamabad: The former Pakistani President and Ex-military chief of the country Pervez Musharraf 69, who ruled the country from 1999 to 2008 landed on Karachi airport on sunday. The  former head of the state and President All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Pervez Musharraf will address a large gathering on the airport . Reportedly, a slight change in his programme for addressing the large publi ...

By Rida Zaheer ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan named Mir Hazar Khan Khoso as the caretaker Prime Minister on Sunday. Earlier, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had proposed the names of Dr Ishrat Husain and Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso for the slot, while Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) nominees were Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid and Rasool Bux Paliejo.   Ishrat Husain and Na ...