Islamabad, Jan.31 : The Pakistani and British agencies are a divided lot over the investigations concerning the 100 Pakistani passports which were purportedly lost by the ritish High Commission in Islamabad. However, a spokesman of the High Commission denied any such differences and said that they are working closely with the FIA and investigations into the case are still underway. Sources privy to the issue said that a four-member Federal Investigations Agency (FIA) team had been investigating the matter along with United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA), but they have ended the probe after differences between the two agencies.
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Colombo, Jan.31 : Factory workers in Sri Lanka are struggling to survive on basic wages as low as 25 pence an hour to produce clothes for leading British retailers, who say they abide by an ethical trading initiative intended to protect employees’ rights. Thousands of women work six days a week to take home a basic wage of less than 50 pounds a month, reports The Sunday Times. Some factory owners and retailers admit that the basic wages are insufficient to live on, but add they are dictated by fierce international competition.
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London, Jan. 31 : The United Nations’ climate watchdog was warned by leading scientists not to publish its bogus claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, but it ignored them. Austrian glaciologist Georg Kaser, who was a lead author on another section of the report, had warned the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006- a year before the Nobel-prize winning report was published.
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Srinagar, Jan 31 : Fresh snowfall has brought smiles on the faces of farmers in Jammu and Kashmir. Around two inches of snow fell in Srinagar, while the upper reaches were buried in nearly one foot of snow. For the farmers here, a winter without snow means they will face extremely dry conditions in spring.
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Hyderabad, Jan 31 : Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Sunday faced the angry protests of farmers in Hyderabad over a move to produce the genetically modified Bt brinjal. Protesters are demanding that the government reverse its decision. Ramesh said this was the first time he was facing such an unbecoming and unwarranted protes.
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London, Jan 31: Dannii Minogue, who is expecting a baby with model boyfriend Kris Smith, says she’s “sharing” her “pregnancy with sister Kylie”. “My brother is thrilled and my sister . . .
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Karachi, Jan.31 : Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan has said President Asif Ali Zardari enjoys amnesty only in criminal cases and not in civil matters. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a programme here, Ahsan said the final authority to interpret any article of the constitution rests only with the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Earlier, the Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had said there is no threat to Zardari in view of the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring the controversial amnesty law as ‘Unconstitutional’.
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London, Jan 31 : Simon Cowell could be soon be knighted because top politicians think he should be rewarded for his “generosity and goodwill”. The 50-year-old Cowell has not only produced entertaining shows like The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent but has also given and raised millions for charity. His track for the Haiti earthquake victims, Everybody Hurts, is ready to break records and become the biggest- selling single of all time.
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London, Jan 31 : Mariah Carey says she used the experience of her emotionally abusive relationship with ex-hubby Tommy Mottola to play the critically acclaimed role of a social worker in ‘Precious’. “It was an abusive relationship emotionally and in several different ways,” the News of the World quoted Carey, as saying. She continued: “At first, music was my escape.
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