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Costliest, cheapest cities: What factors determine rankings?
7-Eleven convenience store at an MTR station in Hong Kong, China. Taken on October 2017.
2019-03-21, Gulf News
Dubai: Currency fluctuations continued to be a major factor behind what makes cities around the world more or less expensive. Whether due to currency volatility, as a...
Top Pakistani Cleric Survives Assassination Bid2019-03-22
Voa News: A prominent Islamic scholar in Pakistan survived an assassination attempt Friday that killed his two security guards and critically injured two other people, police said. Mufti Muhammad Taqi...
Pakistani Cleric Survives Attack, Two Guards Killed2019-03-22
Radio Free Europe: A prominent Pakistani religious scholar has survived an assassination attempt that killed two guards and critically injured another cleric in the southern...
Javed Akhtar says he hasn't written any songs for Vivek Oberoi's PM Narendra Modi...2019-03-22
Hindustan Times: Javed Akhtar has said that he hasn’t written any songs for the upcoming PM Narendra Modi biopic, and that he is ‘shocked’ to see his name in the film’s trailer. bollywood Updated: Mar 22, 2019 22:06 IST HT Correspondent Hindustan Times Lyricist Javed Akhtar on...
No Bole Choodiyan, but Bole Kangana: How to Be a Nationalist2019-03-22
Yahoo Daily News: If there’s one thing that makes Kangana go weak in the knees, or Kangan-awe, it’s nationalism. And this nationalism – Kangana prem katha goes back many years. Well... five to be precise. In fact, Kangana’s fiery brand of nationalism is the perfect kunji for...
No complacency on World Cup security, says cricket chief Richardson2019-03-22
Independent online (SA): KARACHI – The deadly New Zealand shootings which Bangladesh cricketers narrowly avoided means security will remain an "absolute priority" going into the World Cup, the head of cricket's governing body said Sunday. Fifty people died in attacks on two mosques in...
Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction2019-03-22
Boing Boing: South Asia is a hotbed of brilliant science fiction writing, as well as writings in all the related genres capture by the Bengali word "kalpabigyan (encompassing literature that is "science-dependent," "science-based," "science mystery" and "science"), and...
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, March 222019-03-22
China.dot.org: TOKYO -- Japan's Tokyo Medical University was sued on Friday for rigging female candidates' entrance exam scores to get more male students, local media reported. In total, 33 women with an average age of 24 who had taken entrance examinations between 2006 and...
Pakistan police say gunmen targeted cleric, killed 2 guards2019-03-22
Lincoln Journal Star: KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a convoy carrying a prominent religious...
Two Hindu girls abducted on Holi eve in Pakistan's Sindh2019-03-22
The Times of India: AMRITSAR: In a jolt to Imran Khan’s vision of a ‘Naya Pakistan’, two teenaged Hindu girls Raveena, 13, and Reena,15, were allegedly kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam on the eve of Holi. After the incident, the Hindu community of Dharki town of Sindh’s...
What it’s like aboard the unlikely India-Pakistan ‘friendship bus’2019-03-22
New York Post: NEW DELHI – One Friday morning before dawn, a half-empty Volvo coach slipped out of New Delhi’s Ambedkar bus terminal under armed guard, the sirens of a police convoy wailing. Carrying a mixture of Indian and Pakistani tourists, the bus, emblazoned with...
Pak Cleric Survives Assassination Attempt, Two Guards Killed2019-03-22
News18: Karachi: A prominent Islamic scholar in Pakistan survived an...
Pakistani religious scholar attacked in Karachi2019-03-22
Xinhua: ISLAMABAD, March 22 (Xinhua) -- SeniorPakistani religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani was attacked in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday. The scholar escaped unhurt, while at least...
Weather forecast for world cities -- March 222019-03-22
China.dot.org: BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Weather forecast for 11 world cities (20:00 March 22 -- 20:00 March 23, Beijing...
Matric exams postponed in Sindh2019-03-22
The News International: KARACHI: Sindh government has delayed annual matriculation exams, scheduled from March 25, in entire province including Karachi. This was announced by Sindh Education MinisterSardar...