Monsoon rains in the country's series of ongoing

Kaslslh monsoon rains in the country and continues even today Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Kashmir is a possibility of rain in some areas. Might rain in the coastal areas of Sindh. According to the Meteorological Department, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Multan, CD DG Khan, Bahawalpur Division, Peshawar, Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kohat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan Division, Zhob, Sibi Division and the possibility of rain in Kashmir. yesterday and southern parts of Punjab, upper, Malakand, Hazara, Dera Ismail Khan, Peshawar , Kashmir and Gilgit in the rain. Mandi Bahauddin highest rainfall recorded in a hundred and one mm. Mianwali in the seventy, two were in Kotli had mytrbars. monsoon in the recent series three hundred nineteen Muzaffarabad, Islamabad two hundred better living airport, dusupcys in Murree, Balakot, a suartalys mm rainfall has been recorded.

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James Bond’s next superbug

RESEARCHERS have shown off a ‘cyborg’ cockroach they can control remotely. The team have been able to accurately steer it to follow complex shapes on the ground. Now they hope to fit it with video cameras and other sensors, so it can crawl into buildings undetected, and even search earthquakes for survivors. The new technique developed by Bozkurt’s team works by embedding a low-cost, light-weight, commercially-available chip with a wireless receiver and transmitter onto each Madagascar hissing cockroach. Weighing 0.7 grams, the cockroach backpack also contains a microcontroller that monitors the interface between the implanted electrodes and the tissue to avoid potential neural damage. The microcontroller is wired to the roach’s antennae and cerci.

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One Day wins three MTV VMAs

LOS ANGELES - British boy band One Direction scooped three top prizes Thursday at the MTV Video Music Awards, confirming their stellar rise on the US music scene, while Rihanna won Video of the Year. Rihanna’s ex Chris Brown and edgy British singer M.I.A. were runners-up with two gongs apiece at the Los Angeles awards show. Barbados-born Rihanna, who went into the evening with the most nominations at five along with rapper Drake, opened the show with a high-energy performance of her latest single “We Found Love” and a remix of “Cockiness.”“We Found Love” won her Video of the Year, defeating fellow nominees Katy Perry for “Wide Awake,” Gotye with “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Drake featuring Rihanna with “Take Care” and M.I.A’s “Bad Girls.”But One Direction, who came together after entering as solo contestants on British talent show “The X Factor,” confirmed their pop firmament ascendancy only half a year after arriving in the United States.Their video for “What Makes You Beautiful” won them both Best New Artist - beating Fun., Carly Rae Jepsen, Frank Ocean and The Wanted - and Best Pop Video, besting rivals including Canadian teen sensation Justin Bieber.

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Djokovic in US Open semis

NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic survived a brutal test from former champion Juan Martin del Potro to storm into the semi-finals of the US Open on Thursday and stay on course to defend his title. The Serbian was at his brilliant best, producing 43 breathtaking winners and scrambling around the Arthur Ashe Stadium center court like a golden retriever, fetching everything the towering Del Potro threw at him. Djokovic eventually won 6-2, 7-6, 6-4 to go into the last four as the only man yet to drop a set in the tournament but the scoreline did not reflect the intensity of a match where he was pushed to the limit. "Even though it was a straight-sets win it was much closer than the score indicated," Djokovic said in a courtside interview. "I'm just happy to get through." Djokovic's next opponent is the Spanish baseliner David Ferrer, who won a four and a half hour slugfest with Djokovic's countryman Janko Tipsarevic. With both players close to exhaustion after running each other to a standstill in the mid-afternoon sun, Ferrer clawed his way back from 4-1 down in the final set to win the deciding tiebreaker and triumph 6-3, 6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6. "It was an emotional match," said Ferrer, who has made four grand slam semis in his career but never a final. "My opponent, he deserved also to win this match. In one tiebreak it's a lottery and I was lucky in important moments." Battered and bruised by the battle, Tipsarevic tumbled heavily to the court in the fifth set and twice called on his trainer to have his foot and thigh taped.

"I think it was a high intense match with not too many ups and downs," he said. "Both of us are baseline players, both of us are big fighters on court, so something like this was only expected." Olympic champions Bob and Mike Bryan booked their place in Friday's doubles final against Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek while French Open champions Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy advanced to Sunday's women's final against Czech pair Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka. The Bryans, winners of 80 doubles titles including 11 grand slam crowns, beat the ninth-seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in their semi-final on Thursday at the National Tennis Center. A 12th grand slam triumph for the brothers would tie them with Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche as the most successful doubles combination in the grand slams. Errani is also due to play Serena Williams in the singles semi-finals on Friday, with the winner to meet Victoria Azarenka or Maria Sharapova in Saturday's final. The men's singles resume on Saturday, with Olympic champion Andy Murray squaring off against Czech Tomas Berdych in the other semi-final. Despite losing his number one ranking to Roger Federer this year, Djokovic has been the most consistent player in the majors over the past two seasons, reaching the semi-finals in the last 10 grand slams. Only Federer, who made 23 consecutive semis during his peak, has made more but Djokovic is in exalted company, joining Rod Laver and Ivan Lendl in second place with 10.  The defining moment in his win over Del Potro came late in the second set, which went 84 minutes. The Argentine served for the set at 5-4 but Djokovic broke back and eventually won it in a tiebreaker after the 12th game lasted 17 minutes. "He is a quality player," Djokovic said of his opponent. "I was lucky in the second set. We had some amazing rallies and he hit some great groundstrokes."

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Imran stunned by Ajmal's omission from ICC awards

Cricketing legend Imran Khan led a protest of former Pakistan captains over off-spinner Saeed Ajmal's omission from a list of annual awards, terming it a great injustice.

The wily spinner was not included in a shortlist of four players for the best Test player of the year category in the International Cricket Council (ICC) annual awards to be held in Colombo on September 15. A 32-man independent jury comprising former players, officials and journalists provoked anger in Pakistan after omitting Ajmal from the shortlist, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, Australian Michael Clarke and South Africans Vernon Philander and Hashim Amla.

Ajmal, 34, took 72 wickets in 12 Tests from August 2011 to July this year, including 24 wickets in a 3-0 rout of then world ranked number one England in January-February. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) earlier this week lodged a protest with the ICC demanding a review of the shortlist but the game's governing body rejected it. The PCB said it was considering boycotting the ceremony. Khan said Ajmal's omission was unjust. "It is a great injustice to a player who is a match winner in all formats of the game and his omission was surprising," Khan told reporters during the second Twenty20 match between Pakistan and Australia here on Friday. Another former captain Ramiz Raja said Ajmal was hard done by the jury. "I feel that Ajmal was hard done by the jury and it is a serious case for review because if performers are not picked then the credibility (of awards) is missing," Raja told AFP. Raja said an award is an honour for the player.

"It's a great honour for the player to win an award and it hurts not only Pakistan but the whole community," said Raja, now a renowned commentator. Former captain and coach Waqar Younis said he didn't understand the system.

"I don't know how this system is working," said Waqar of the process. "Maybe the system needs to be reviewed because 32 people are too much. "On the basis of performance you can't overlook Ajmal and it comes as a great surprise to me."

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Pakistan, India ink accord on liberal visa regime

Pakistan and India signed an agreement to relax visa regime for its citizens under which traders from the two countries will be allowed to visit ten cities while tourists will be given visa for five cities. Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna signed the agreement here on Saturday. Under the new regime, ordinary tourists from the two sides will be given visas for five cities. The citizens above 65 years will be issued arrival visas for 45 days. Visas on arrivals can also be issued on Wagah and Attari borders. Both the countries also agreed to issue multiple visas to each other’s traders for one year to visit ten cities. The two countries will also issue triple-entry visa to artists from both the countries under the new liberalized regime. Both the countries have also agreed to enhance air and sea travel routes besides restoring Mumbai-Karachi sea link. Earlier, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her Indian counterpart held talks on wide-ranging issues including the new liberalized visa regime. Both the leaders are scheduled to address a joint press conference later in the evening. Krishna’s visit is part of ongoing composite dialogues between the nuclear-armed nations. His visit may lead to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Pakistan later this year. The formal Pak-India dialogue commenced today with one-on-one meeting between Khar and Krishna here at the Foreign Office. Later on, the two ministers were joined by their respective officials.

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The first T20 Pak Australia will be played in Dubai Today

T. cock first match against Australia will be played in Dubai today. Defeat in the ODI captain of the national team are determined to kill Mohammad Hafeez field. Opening match series in Dubai will begin at nine o'clock at night. Captain of the national teamI hoped for the best performance. aggressive style series opener Imran Nazir and all-rounder Abdul Razzaq is likely to represent. injured hand injury is suspected participation of Shahid Afridi, Shahid Afridi, however, said the series final are hopeful to play., the Australian captain George T. Twenty Ballet will. stars all-round Shane Watson will show her essence. between Pakistan and Australia played at Twenty Seven T. teams won four national and three The success of competitors.

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