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to return to the regular issue please click here. HEC Chairman seeks measures to promote merit based culture: KARACHI, April 4: Government of Pakistan has constituted a scholarship fund worth Rs one billion for deserving students keen to seek admission to prestigious institutions of higher learning, across the country, on basis of merit. Federal Minister and Chairman, Higher Education Commission, Prof. Atta ur Rehman addressing the inaugural session of the first international seminar and intensive course "Foundations of Moral Thought: From the Greeks to Contemporary Bioethics" here on Monday cited the fund an attempt to integrate society. (APP) (Posted @ 2:20 PST) Iran's populist police chief resigns to prepare presidential bid: TEHRAN, April 4: Iran's high-profile and popular national police chief, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has quit his post amid widespread expectations he intends to stand in forthcoming presidential elections, reports said Monday. (AFP) (Posted @ 2:10 PST) Assassinated Israeli premier Rabin's grave desecrated: JERUSALEM, April 3: The graves of the assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and two other historic Jewish figures have been desecrated by vandals who scrawled hate slogans on the tombstones, police said Sunday.One of the slogans written on Rabin's grave in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery read "Murderous Dog", of a man who came to be hated by the extreme right for signing the Oslo autonomy accords with the Palestinians.He was shot dead at a peace rally in Tel Aviv in November 1995. The tomb of his wife Lea Rabin, which lies just next to that of her husband, had also been desecrated with a similar slogan. (AFP) (Posted @ 11:00 PST) Two Lithuanians beat deep freeze record: VILNIUS, April 3: A Lithuanian brother and sister emerged from a 12-tonne ice cube Sunday, claiming a record after 63 hours and 31 minutes in deep freeze. Circus veterans Arvydas and Diana Gaiciunas beat the 61 hours and40 minutes that US magician David Blaine spent in a block of ice in 2000, organizers said. Doctors in the Baltic resort of Palanga said the condition of the siblings was "not bad. (AFP) (Posted @ 10:30 PST) GLOBAL MARKETS-Oil hits record high, pressuring stocks: SINGAPORE, April 4 : Oil prices hit a record high on Monday, lifting oil-related stocks but sapping share markets, while the dollar rallied on expectations the U.S. central bank would take a more forceful approach to raising interest rates. Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 0.4 percent, hit by a 2.6 percent slide in retailer Ito-Yokado, but supported by a 4.2 percent jump in Nippon Oil Corp. TDK Corp., the world's biggest maker of hard disk heads, gained two percent after a U.S. competitor raised earnings targets late last week. (Reuters) (Posted @ 10:15 PST) Prominent Lebanese legislator, wife killed in road accident: BEIRUT, Lebanon April 4: A prominent legislator and his wife were killed late Sunday when their car skidded into the central barrier of a highway in heavy rain, police said Ali Youssef Khalil, who was in his 70s, chaired the parliament's foreign affairs committee and represented Lebanon's southern province. A former Cabinet minister, Khalil supported the government during the current crisis over Syria's troops in Lebanon and the investigation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. Khalil's son and driver survived the crash. (APP/AP) (Posted @ 10:15 PST) Conf. on education in Pakistan at SAIS on April 4: WASHINGTON, April 3: Conference on 'Reforming Education in Pakistan: Constraints and Opportunities' will be held on Monday, April 4, at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Ambassador Jehangir Karamat will give introductory remarks, while the speakers will be Sindh Education Minister Dr. Hamida Khuhro, and noted educationists from the four provinces of Pakistan. (APP) (Posted @ 10:15 PST) Founder: Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Editor: Tahir Mirza The DAWN Group of Newspapers Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan. Phone:+92 (21) 111-444-777   Fax: +92 (21) 568-3188 webmaster@dawn.com Note: Make sure to reload these pages so you're viewing the current version.

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