Between April and August, it issued request seeking LoC against 147 individuals to prevent them from leaving the country, the bank said in response to a Right to Information query filed by Pune-based activist Vihar Durve.
Fifteen out of the 17 bogies of the Lahore-bound Karachi Express came off the rails and fell into a water body near the railway tracks at Nawabshah in Karachi, they said. Reports said that several passengers were still trapped in the wreckage. Rescue teams have reached the accident site and efforts were on to retrieve the trapped passengers from the wreckage. The rescuers were battling severe cold weather and darkness was reportedly hampering rescue operations.
They allegedly entered Pakistani territorial waters illegally.
The chief minister, who spoke from a written text, said he had set a precedent that should be followed by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose grandfather was also granted knighthood.
Seven terror convicts were hanged on Tuesday in jails across Pakistan, including a junior technician at Pakistan Air Force who was involved in the attack on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com brings you some fascinating facts and photographs from India's first international rail exhibition.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has assured help to a Pakistani teenaged girl.
While the Indian delegation would represented by DIG BSF, Jaisalmer, K R Patel, the Pakistani side will be led by Khushnood Mahmood, Director General of Sindh Rangers.
A human rights reports rubbished President Pervez Musharraf's assertion that the rampaging women armed with sticks are being tolerated for the time being to avoid large-scale violence in the event of a crackdown on the Islamists.
'Whatever the legal position, it is my understanding that in practice, the Indian authorities have always treated Hindu refugees from Pakistan and Bangladesh far more sympathetically than Muslims,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Hafiz Saeed-backed Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT) had fielded 265 candidates -- including 13 women -- countrywide.
With the maulana fully committed and PML (N) cadres prepared to court arrest, this would be the first time where both Punjabis and Pakhtuns would be standing up against the Pakistan army, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
The Railways Minister said gas stoves carried by some passengers blew up when they were preparing breakfast on the speeding train in violation of rules.
India's Deputy Election Commissioner Rengaraju Balakrishnan will form part of the 11-member Commonwealth Observer Group monitoring elections in Tanzania on October 30.
The restriction on Khan's entry, originally ordered after the May 12 violence in the city, has been regularly reimposed over the past few months.
Indian and foreign crew are treated differently on the sets of A Mighty Heart.
'The army has been open about its determination to keep the PML-Nawaz out of power at all costs.' 'Both the military and the higher judiciary have indicated a preference for Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik e Insaaf,' says Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan Desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Danesh formally donned the Pakistan army colours at a parade in Islamabad on Saturday along with fellow recruits.
Two bombs exploded in Kalat. A device was planted in the building of Nadra that went off, destroying its offices. A hand grenade was hurled into a telephone exchange.
Delhi entered the National Hockey final after a gap of 58 years with an impressive 2-1 victory over Namdhari XI.
Wrestler Bajrang Punia pledged to donate his sixth months' salary towards Haryana's COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Modi said Jethmalani was 'witty, courageous and never shied away from boldly expressing himself on any subject'.
The resumption of proposed rail link had missed two deadlines - October 2 last year and January one this year - as the two countries failed to iron out their differences, especially on travel documents.
India and Pakistan propose to start the rail link between Khokhrapar and Munnabao connecting Sindh and Rajasthan from October 2, 2005, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh announced on Thursday.
The court adjourned the case indefinitely after the public prosecutor said the appeal needed to be heard by a full Bench instead of the existing two-man bench of the high court.
During the talks, the Pakistani side complained that it has not benefitted from the Most Favoured Nation status granted to it by New Delhi, as the Indian tariff and non-tariff barriers are not helping in enhancing trade links.
According to the area-wise break up of figures, 17,638 were declared dead in PoK and 40,772 were inured midway through the relief operations.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone. But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta.
'All these people want is a secure home where they can live and earn in peace.'
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chief of Pakistan People's Party, on Monday said that the vexed issue of Kashmir was the root cause of hostility between India and Pakistan.
'When one has a lot of power, one can shut one's ears to the other side. This is what is common between the BJP of 2019 and the Congress of 1947,' says Aakar Patel.
Pakistan and India also decided to increase the frequency of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus services, official sources said.
The ex-army chief left for Dubai for medical treatment in March 2016 and has not returned since, citing security and health reasons.
Three Pakistani men, alleged to be 'spies' of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing, have been acquitted by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi citing lack of evidence in five cases relating to carrying explosives and illegal weapons, media reported on Sunday.
The husband of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has filed a petition in the Sindh High Court seeking government protection and issuance of a passport to enable him to go abroad for medical treatment and meet his family.
