Islamabad, Jan.31 : Pakistan is not only wrestling with a problem of law and order, but struggling to get its collapsing economy back on rails. The country’s commercial capital, Karachi, which accounts for nearly 45 percent of Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (180 million dollars per day) and tax related revenue of a billion rupees per day, is facing a host of systemic problems. Poor financial and economic management has been compounded by flood-related devastation.
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New York, Jan 31 : R ‘n’ B singer Chris Brown will not be attending the Grammys and a representative of his has clarified that it is not related to the restraining order he has been given against Rihanna. According to TMZ.com, Brown, 21, had through his attorney appealed for a reduced restraining order, that is, from a “stay away” order to a “do not annoy” order. Speculation started that the move was a way for Brown to attend the Grammys without worrying about violating his probation.
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London, Jan 31 : A Second World War US pilot has revealed that he asked for a bigger plane to transport his 21st Nazi prisoner, Hermann Goering, to army headquarters for interrogation. Capt Mayhew “Bo” Foster said that he had wanted a bigger aircraft than the lightweight Piper L4 to carry his hefty cargo but it was decided that a larger plane would not fit on the runway. It was May 9, 1945, Goering, Foster and a group of officers from the Army’s 36th Infantry Division gathered on a tiny airstrip outside Kitzbühel, Austria, to transport the highly prized war prisoner back to Germany in an unarmed, two-man reconnaissance plane.
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London, Jan 31 : British politician Ed Miliband has revealed that he was too square to ever take drugs and drinks during his years at Oxford University. Miliband, 41, who confessed that he was often beaten up in the school playground, said he never indulged in under-age drinking, and that his only brush with the law was a speeding offence. “I was a bit square.
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Dubai, Jan 31 : A 13-year-old Indian girl fell to death from her 11th floor apartment on Al Falah Street, Abu Dhabi on Saturday afternoon. Asma, an 8th grade pupil, fell down through the window of the apartment while she was trying to fit a curtain on the window, according to Zakaria Ahmad, her paternal uncle. “She had climbed over a stool to reach the curtain rail but slipped from the stool and fell down through the window which was kept opened,” the Gulf News quoted Ahmad as saying.
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Washington, Jan 31 : A federal lawsuit filed by two prisoners has claimed that 29 northwest Georgia inmates were forced to rub cream on their bodies and stand in their cells naked for 12 hours. The lawsuit, filed against the Whitfield County sheriff’s office in U.S. District Court in Rome, seeks 5 million dollars in punitive damages, according to The Daily Citizen in Dalton.
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New York, Jan 31 : Charlie Sheen’s manager has insisted that the TV star is eager to regain his ‘sobriety’. Sheen’s TV show, ‘Two and a Half Men,’ is on a hiatus while he is in a treatment center. His manager, Mark Burg, who is also a producer on “Two and a Half Men,” said “there is no time frame” for the 45-year-old to rejoin the series, which went on hiatus following his decision to seek treatment.
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London, Jan 31 – Amazon has revealed that it has sold more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks in the US during the final three months of 2010. A similar pattern has continued during January 2011 with 115 ebooks being sold for every 100 paperbacks. The figure only relates to the US market and the number of ebooks sold on Amazon’s e-reader device, the Kindle, which now accounts for 41.5 percent of the e-reader market, the Telegraph reports.
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Chennai, Jan 31 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Resourcesat 2, a remote sensing earth observation satellite, by the end of February, officials said Monday. Remote sensing satellites send back pictures and other data for various uses. India is a major player in providing such data in the global market.
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