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Canada had prohibited military exports to Pakistan in May, 1998, after the country’s first nuclear weapons test. MacKay said that he and Pakistani defence officials also agreed to resume a co-operation deal, the Military Training Assistance Programme.
Sixteen policemen, including an inspector and a sub-inspector, were on Thursday killed in a Naxal attack at Tawitola in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, police said. The attack took place when a police party was on a routine patrol near Dhanora.
Exploiting loopholes in Britain’s immigration system, three young Pakistani businessmen set up a network of sham colleges in the UK where thousands of Pakistanis enrolled as students and earned millions from the scam, the media reported on Thursday.
Thomas Kailaith, a Pune-born engineer, was last week elected to the Royal Society, the UK’s top independent science body.
Saying that the challenges the United States faces in Pakistan are far greater to that in Afghanistan, Senator John F Kerry, the chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, warned that if Pakistan, “a nuclear-armed nation of 170 million people” becomes a failed state, it would pose ‘an unimaginable peril to itself, its neighbors and [...]
DNA investigates the popularity of hookah bars and BMC’s plan to implement the ban.
It’s still a mixed bag with a rise in viewership but a drop in stickiness.
Aegis Media has been on a growing spree since Ashish Bhasin took over as chairman and chief executive officer last year, joining from Lowe Lintas.
On first impressions, the latest Indian Readership Survey Round 1 (2009) figures indicate that the English news readership base in Bangalore has come down.