An interesting thing one executive said was that there is no shame in work, but there's plenty of shame in waiting for charity.
After the 2008 financial crisis, the liquidity trap induced policymakers to venture in unconventional endeavors. On the fiscal front, much has been discussed regarding the effectiveness of fiscal policy to pull developed countries out of the sluggish recovery.
Its a very good decision by KU Administration to not giving gold medals to the position holders because everyone knows how they got positions in their respective discipline. Karachi University administration said that due to unavailability of sponsors we are unable to give gold medals to position holders.The main cause behind no interest of sponsors in giving sponsorship for gold medal might be they knows about checking system in KU.They have seen that what KU's gold medalist do in market after passing out.
All Pakistan knows better that what is the main motive behind these "SASTI ROTI" and "MERIT LAPTOPS" schemes.Just "1" vote from every individuals.
The home minister said the Government of Sindh is yet to accept the offer made by the US. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan says the United States (US) is ready to help Pakistan improve the law and order situation in Karachi, Express 24/7 reported on Tuesday.
Speaking to the media at his residence after briefing US Consul General William Martin on the overall situation in the city, Wassan said the US had offered equipment and other expertise to overcome the situation in the city.
(Read: Pakistan’s poor dying in Karachi violence)
The home minister said the Government of Sindh is yet to accept the offer made by the US.
He said 15 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) will arrive by the end of August.
The Sindh government is giving the police five billion rupees to buy new vehicles and equipment. It will buy 40 armoured personnel carriers.
The struggling police force is understaffed and underequipped, given the size of Karachi city and the terrifying spread of crime.
Wasan said action was being taken against all anti-state elements operating in Karachi and that 101 people had already been arrested during midnight operations.
The Home Minister said he is upholding the policy of reconciliation while taking steps to improve the situation in Karachi.
Films, one of the best production house in India. MBKD’s starcast includes Katrina Kaif & Imran Khan. It’s a romantic-comedy film, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. This movie is undoubtedly going to be a huge-hit because of its good starcast. John Abraham will also be doing an special appearance in this movie.The track list:
1. Mere Brother Ki Dulhan – KK
2. Dhunki – Neha Bhasin
3. Choomantar – Benny Dayal, Aditi Singh Sharma
4. Isq Risk – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
5. Madhubala – Ali Zafar, Shweta Pandit
6. Do Dhaari Talwar – Shahid Mallya, Shweta Pandit
7. Choomantar (Remix) – Benny Dayal, Aditi Singh Sharma
8. Isq Risk (Risky Remix) – Shreeramchanda, Neha Bhasin, Joshilay
Rahul Gandhi, the crown prince of Indian politics, took a step nearer to power on Thursday when it was announced that his mother Sonia, the leader of the ruling Congress party, had suddenly gone abroad for medical reasons and charged the 41-year-old with running the organisation in her absence.
The country immediately plunged into a frenzy of speculation about the nature of the 64-year-old Sonia Gandhi's condition and whether her departure meant the beginning of the long awaited transfer of power to her son.
Though Gandhi holds no official executive position, she is widely viewed as immensely powerful. Her son is a member of parliament and head of the Congress party's youth wing, which has run India for much of the last seven decades. Along with a senior aide, a party spokesman and the current defence minister, Rahul Gandhi will now be temporarily responsible for the administration of the single most powerful entity in Indian politics.
"Rahul in charge" was the headline running on the local New Delhi television channel.
Janardhan Dwivedi, who will sit with Rahul on the committee, said Sonia Gandhi had been recently diagnosed with a medical condition and, on the advice of her doctors, had travelled abroad for surgery.
"She will be away for two or three weeks. She has constituted a group to look after party affairs in her absence," Diwedi said.
Her son is a controversial figure in India. He never gives interviews and shuns the febrile Indian political media circuit, preferring to build a political career through his work as a party organiser and through spectacular public appearances which opponents dismiss as stunts.
In recent months Rahul Gandhi has been arrested after driving on a motorbike around communities of farmers protesting against land seizures on the outskirts of Delhi and walked 50 miles over four days in the summer heat in a remote part of northern India on a trip to "meet the real people" of India. He slept and ate in modest homes.
On a recent visit to Mumbai, Gandhi outmanoeuvred local rightwing groups who opposed his presence in the city by shunning the large and disruptive motorcade preferred by Indian politicians in favour of the overcrowded public trains to reach the city from the airport.
Such actions have successfully raised Gandhi's profile and appear to have consolidated popular support among rural voters, a key constituency for Congress.
Tikam Singh, a 40-year-old farmer from the village of Gujran Atta, Uttar Pradesh, met Gandhi earlier this summer during the violent land protests. Singh said the politician "understood that the lands are being taken away forcibly".
"He has said that he is with us. He shared roti [bread] and daal [lentil curry] with us. We are with him because at least he is someone who is there for us. Rahul-ji was very understanding," Singh said, using the honorific "ji" after Gandhi's first name.
However, Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Hindu, said that the real importance was not that Rahul Gandhi had been nominated but that Sonia Gandhi might be ailing.
"The timing of this announcement means she is telling us whose hands she wants the party to be in should she be no longer in a position to run things," he said.
Some analysts have even raised the possibility that Sonia Gandhi might not return to politics, though Congress party officials said there was "totally, absolutely no question" of any immediate retirement.
Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, who led India after independence, the grandson of Indira Gandhi, who ruled India from 1966 to 1977, and the son of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed by a suicide bomber in 1991. His parents met at Cambridge University.
Politics in India remains deeply dynastic and many within Congress view Rahul Gandhi as the only figure capable of leading the party to a third successive electoral victory in 2014. The current administration, under the ageing Manmohan Singh, has been overwhelmed by corruption scandals and increasing economic problems.
For years, the Nishat Group has been a leading business entity in South Asia. Highly diversified, the group has made inroads into the fields of textiles, cement and financial services, showcasing its varied expertise and acumen in every facet of its operations. Stemming from such a strong sense of business, Nishat Mills was founded in 1951 and has grown to be a leading conglomerate in Pakistan, specialising in the high-quality production of yarn, greige fabrics, apparel fabrics and retail packed home textiles. Nishat Mills is now the largest, most modern, vertically-integrated textile mill in Pakistan, comparable to the superlative multinational facilities operating in the country when it comes to management and product quality.
Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, Myspace and Twitter did in their early days, technology experts said Tuesday.
While Google+ may be the fastest-growing social network ever, it remains to be seen, however, whether it can pose a serious threat to the social networking titan Facebook, which has more than 750 million members.
Andrew Lipsman, vice president for industry analysis at tracking firm comScore, said Google+, which was launched by the Internet search and advertising giant on June 28, had 25 million unique visitors as of July 24.
During a panel discussion on Google+ hosted by Wedbush Securities, Lipsman said it took other social networks much longer to reach 25 million users: 22 months for Myspace, 33 months for Twitter and 37 months for Facebook.
"Obviously, this is a very strong growth trajectory," Lipsman said.
He cautioned, however, that Google "has a really large user base it can build off of" with its one billion users worldwide.
And it still has a "really long way to go to be competitive with Facebook," Lipsman said.
"Google+ is the fastest by a long shot but it's important to realize that fastest may not always be best," he said. "Sometimes, that slow build can lead to a strong network effect that pays long-term dividends."
Most Google+ users -- 6.4 million -- are in the United States, followed by India with 3.6 million, Canada with 1.1 million, Britain with 1.1 million and Germany with over 920,000, according to comScore.
Lipsman said many Google+ users appear to also be users of Google's email program Gmail and display a "very strong early adopter profile."
He said the ratio of men to women is about two to one and that 60 percent of Google+ users are between the ages of 18 and 34.
In the United States, the highest numbers of Google+ users are in the tech-savvy cities of San Francisco and Austin, Texas, he said.
Steve Rubel, executive vice president for global strategy and insights at public relations firm Edelman, said Facebook is not "vulnerable immediately" to Google.
"I don't see (Google+) taking significant share from Facebook in the next 18 months," Rubel said.
At the same time, "what we have seen is that over the years there's never been a social network or community that has had significant staying power," he said. "There's always a shuffling every two or three years, a changing of the guard.
"We saw it with Myspace," he said of the one-time social networking leader that has been eclipsed by Facebook and hemorrhaging users ever since.
Rubel said Google was compelled to try its hand at social networking because Facebook is restricting the access of its search engine to Facebook content.
"What's happening is more content is being created behind Facebook's walls than ever before and a lot of that content is invisible to Google," he said.
"Conceptually, at least, they're building kind of an alternate Web... There's also an entire Web that is app-based on mobile phones. That is also invisible to them."
Rubel said it was conceivable that more content would be invisible to them in five or 10 years than what the search engine can see today when created on Facebook or inside apps.
"So they had to make a play to get more people to create content on their site," he continued. "It's to get more people to spend time on Google."
In unveiling Google+, Google stressed the ability it gives users to separate online friends and family into different "Circles," or networks, and to share information only with members of a particular circle.
One of the criticisms of Facebook is that updates are shared with all of one's friends unless a user has gone through a relatively complicated process to create separate Facebook Groups.
The net & TV have been flooded with Vidya Balan's supposed wedding news for the past two days. As expected, the rumour spread like wildfire. Vidya's currently honeymooning with Siddharth too was reported!
Vidya Balan's alleged love interest and UTV Motion Pictures' head honcho Siddharth Roy Kapur rubbished the news. When asked if the two have indeed tied the knot, Siddharth told TOI, 'No that's not true.'
Our source close to Vidya reacted, 'What! That's impossible. She is in Mumbai currently and this is definitely a rumour. She will start the remaining shoot of Milan Luthria's 'Dirty Picture' in two weeks from now.'
Vidya Balan's manager K Sanjay reacted, 'Nonsense, its rubbish.'
Well, yet another marriage rumour bites the dust!
Pakistani Former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, as she was leaving Liaquat Bagh in a motorcade after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, the twin city of Islamabad.
Abdul Rasheed Ahmed is detained in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi along with four other accused - Aitzaz Shah, Sher Zaman, Rafaqat Hussain and Hassnain Gul.
Ahmed obtained 848 marks out of 1,050 in the results announced Monday.
'The jail administration provided teachers and other facilities to the accused after he expressed his willingness to complete his studies,' said Adiala Jail Superintendent Mohisn Raffique.
He said the jail administration would award Ahmed for his achievement, according to a Pakistani newspaper.
(Routers) - Samsung Electronics has delayed the Australian launch of its latest Galaxy tablet due to a patent dispute with Apple Inc, a setback for the South Korean firm's attempt to close the gap with Apple in the booming tablet market.
Samsung and Apple have been locked in an acrimonious battle over smartphones and tablets patents since April, but this marks the first time the legal tussle has delayed the launch of a product by Samsung.
Apple alleged Samsung's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets "slavishly" copied the iPhone and iPad and had launched lawsuits in the United States, Australia and elsewhere. Samsung has countersued Apple.
On Tuesday, Samsung said it had agreed with Apple not to sell a variant of the tablet in Australia yet.
"A Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 for the Australian market will be released in the near future. This undertaking does not affect any other Samsung smartphone or tablet available in the Australian market or other countries," the Korean company said in a statement.
Apple is one participant in a web of litigation among phone makers and software firms over who owns the patents used in smartphones, as rivals aggressively rush into the smartphone and tablet market which the U.S. company jumpstarted with the iPhone and iPad.
"... The fact that Samsung didn't just stand up to defend the U.S. version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 serves as an indication that Apple's allegations probably have some merit," Florian Mueller, a technology specialist and blogger on patent battles, said on his blog FOSS Patents.
The Australian case against Samsung is being heard in a Federal Court in Sydney.
BIGGEST CHALLENGE
The Galaxy gadgets are seen as among the biggest challengers to Apple's mobile devices, but Samsung has so far been unable to approach the Silicon Valley company's roaring sales growth. Galaxy products use Google's Android operating system.
Last month, Samsung launched a thinner and lighter version of its Galaxy tablet in its lucrative home market, trying to eat into blockbuster sales of Apple's iPad.
"The point is, if this is contained in just Australia, then it's not going to move the needle too much," said Bryan Ma, an analyst with industry research firm IDC in Singapore. "If it's just Australia, that's just a small part of the global market."
IDC said media tablet shipments to Australia were only 2.4 percent out of global shipments of 7.2 million units in the first quarter.
The intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple had triggered expectations some of the pair's $5 billion-plus relationship may be up for grabs. Samsung counts Apple as its biggest customer and makes parts central to Apple's mobile devices.
LEGAL WRANGLING
According to Federal Court documents, an application from Apple sought to prevent Samsung from being allowed to "import, promote... offer for sale or sell in Australia the Galaxy Tab 10.1," unless it has the agreement of Apple or the court.
Apple had also requested that all samples of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 be delivered to Apple so it could destroy them, the court papers showed.
"It is not that we will not sell the Galaxy Tab until the legal case ends. We will sell it when certain conditions are met as we continue talks with Apple," said a spokesman from Samsung.
A spokeswoman for Samsung in Australia said the original launch date in the country was August 11 but the Seoul-based spokesman said this had not been finalized and the company was only delaying the launch event.
The next Federal Court hearing is set for August 29.
The case is Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. NSD1243/2011. Federal Court of Australia (Sydney).
By Bilal Ansari (ku)
ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan plans to issue its first licences for third-generation (3G) mobile telecom services in October, hoping to generate nearly $1 billion through an open auction, government officials said on Thursday.
The fifth-largest cellular market in Asia -- behind China, India, Indonesia and Japan -- had more than 107 million mobile users in April, almost 65 percent of all Pakistanis.
"A committee of the cabinet has agreed in principle to launch 3G services as soon as possible without any conditions," a senior official of the Ministry of Information Technology, which is handling the project, told Reuters.
The Economic Coordination Committee is expected to green-light the auction in the first week of August. The auctions are expected to be held in mid to late October, another official said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as they are not authorised to speak to the media, said the number of licences to be issued would depend on the availability of 3G spectrum.
"For instance, if we have 30 Mhz, it could be three licences of 10 Mhz each. If we have 20 Mhz, then it will be two licences," one official said.
The official telecommunication authority, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), will advise the ministry of the available spectrum in August.
Pakistan's existing operators include Mobilink, a unit of Egypt-based Orascom Telecom , Norway's Telenor and Warid Telecom, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Group and SingTel Group, according to the PTA website.
Mobilink leads the market by 32.96 million subscribers, followed by Telenor at 26.06 million, according to PTA data. Other operators include Zong of China Mobile Communication Corporation and Ufone, owned by the Emirates Telecommunication Corporation Group, Etisalat .
The officials did not say if the licences would be offered to the existing telecoms operators, or include others. A PTA official said it would probably be only for those already operating in Pakistan. (Editing by Chris Allbritton and Will Waterman)
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