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Facebook sets IPO price at $38   Facebook Thursday set the price for its initial public offering (IPO) at $38 per share. The price came one day before Facebook begins to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange... More

Pakistan is a ‘black hole’ for US aid   US lawmakers of both Democratic and Republican parties have slammed the Obama administration's request for $2.4 billion for Pakistan, calling it a "black hole" where the US has "sunk" $24 bi ... More

Sikhs in turbans can now serve Washington police   Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy annou ... More

Not a single dry eye as Chisty meets family   Emotions ran high as virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty, who spent 20 years in India following a 1992 murder, was reunited with his family in Karachi. Chisty, ... More

Four pilots killed as two PAF planes collide   Four pilots were killed Thursday when two Pakistan Air Force (PAF) trainer planes collided in the country's northwest, police said. The accident took place at about 10.20 a.m. when two tr ... More

Nepal crash survivor recalls the horror  

Kathmandu :  The aircraft that crashed in Nepal on Monday was coming in to land but "suddenly flew up and lost control after one of its wings hit the hill", ... More

Summon US envoy over ‘Kali-Ma’ beer, says BJP   New Delhi  : The issue of a beer named "Kali-Ma", after the Hindu goddess Kali, being sold by a company in the US was raised in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday with the Bharatiya J ... More

Zardari sending plane to fly Chisty home   Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari ... More

SC bars former US vessel from anchoring at Gujarat port   The Supreme Court Monday declined permission, for now, to the erstwhile American oil tanker Exxon Valdez, rechristened Oriental Nicety, to anchor at the Gujarat ... More

13 Indians die as plane crashes in Nepal   Kathmandu : Thirteen Indians on a pilgrimage and two crew members were killed when a 20-seater plane slammed into a cliff in western Nepal Monday, authorities said. The six ... More

Clinton, Sonia, Nooyi among ‘world’s powerful moms’   India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Pepsico's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi figure in Forbes' World's 20 Most Powerful Moms list topped by US Secretary ... More

40 dead in China storms   Beijing : The toll due to hailstorms and torrential rains in a mountainous county in northwest China has risen to 40, officials said late Satu ... More