Indian blind team to visit Pakistan

Published: May 14, 2011

November tour includes ODIs, Twenty20s. PHOTO: FILE

LAHORE: 

The Indian blind cricket team is set to tour Pakistan in November for a series of three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and as many Twenty20s.

Cannes begins in style

YesterdayThe 64th Cannes’ film festival is taking place at the Festivals’ palace facade in
 Cannes, southeastern France. The event headed at the jury by US actor Robert De Niro takes
 place from May 12 till 22.

Workers set up a banner of the official poster. (The poster features US actress Faye

 Dunaway in the 1970 film “Portrait of a puzzled child” directed by Jerry Schatzberg). - Photo by AFP

Govt releases Rs131bn development funds in first 10 months

Friday, May 13, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The government released Rs131 billion development funds in the first ten months (July-April) of the current fiscal year against the revised allocation of Rs150 billion.

The Planning Commission hopes that the entire released amount will be utilised by the end of June.

A working paper for Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC), which is going to meet on Friday for recommending Rs365 billion as federal share of Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the next budget, states that since the allocation of ministries/divisions was reduced in certain cases by 70 percent, it was expected that the entire released amount would be utilised by them