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WASHINGTON: Americans by the droves plunked down their cash on Saturday for a chance at fulfilling a feverish dream: winning an estimated $600 million Powerball lottery jackpot.The winning numbers 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and a Powerball of 11 were drawn just before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 GMT Sunday) but contest organizers did not immediately declare if there had been a winner.If there is no winner, the jackpot could rise to close to $1 billion by the next scheduled draw on Wednesday.The $2 tickets are sold at supermarkets, corner stores and gas stations. The jackpot is "the largest in the 21-year history of the game," the Iowa state lottery agency said in a statement."Strong sales across the country are the reason the prize is taking big jumps now," the organizers said before the draw particularly after the May 15 draw, when the jackpot stood at $363.9 million, and there ...
KATHMANDU: Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the kingdom where women's sports are restricted, tourism officials said on Sunday.The 25-year-old reached the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit early Saturday morning with a party of foreign mountaineers and Nepalese guides. "She reached the peak with 12 other members of the expedition," Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with Nepal's tourism ministry, told AFP from Everest Base Camp."We ...
ISLAMABAD: Central Senior Vice President Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), Asad Umer has said that his party is fully committed to resolve all internal and external challenges in the Khyber PakhtunKhwah(KPK) and the problems faced by the people in province according to its manifesto.He said that after coming into the power, PTI government would implement the first 90 days agenda in KPK to tackle the corruption, terrorism, law and order situation.Asad Umer said that his ...
MULTAN: PTI leader Makhdoom Javed Hasmi Saturday said his party considered new provinces vital for the solidarity of the country and vowed to chalk out a strategy with other political powers. Addressing lawyers at the district bar, he proposed establishing dozens of new provinces according to the need of the country. He said the PTI would hold local government elections in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa within 90 days after ...
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Secretary General, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday said that the cabinet size of newly elected government would be short."It will help the new government to minimize precious national wealth besides help masses in efficient manner," Ahsan Iqbal told APP.He said that meeting of the parliamentary party would convene on May 20 in Lahore under the chair of party chief Mian Nawaz Sharif which would discuss formation of the government in ...
RAWALPINDI: Three dead bodies of Shaheed soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen on Saturday bringing the total number of bodies recovered so far to 128. According to an ISPR Spokesman here, on 7 April 2012, 140 soldiers and civilians of 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion came under a huge snow slide at Gayari and embraced shahadat. He said that 121 bodies of Shuhada were recovered before suspension of Operation Gayari due to ...More Articles...
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