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Karachi, Sep 29 : The Sindh High Court has allowed Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her sisters-in-law to import bulletproof vehicles.

London, Sept.29 (ANI): A Cambridge University astronomer has been successful in reworking the distances to over 100,000 stars.

Dr Floor van Leeuwen, who has spent the past 10 years checking and
recalculating data gathered by the Hipparcos satellite,has now
corrected the star distances.

The reworked catalogue (Hipparcos - The New Reduction of the Raw
Data), according to the BBC, will allow astronomers to probe more
deeply into the properties of stars and galaxies.

Washington, September 29 : Scientists researching male contraceptives have devised various new techniques that may provide men with an alternative to vasectomy in about half a decade.

The researchers presented their findings from experiments on mice and men at the second ‘Future of Male Contraception’ conference, held from 27 to 28 September in Seattle, Washington.

Kabul, Sep 29 : At least 27 people were killed and several others were injured when a suicide bomber boarded a crowded army bus here and detonated a huge bomb, officials said.

A high-ranking Afghan army medical official said 27 bodies had been taken to two hospitals.

Witnesses said that the bus was destroyed by the blast and several dead bodies can be seen around the wreckage.

The bus was completely destroyed by the blast and shop windows were shattered all around.

London, Sept.29 : A much decorated officer of the British Army has accused former Prime Minister Tony Blair of letting troops deployed in Iraq down through the implementation of half-baked plans.

After opening at 17,152.31 in the early trades, the BSE benchmark index, Sensex continued to trade strong in the afternoon trades. Afterward the index shed the majority of its points in the after hours. Lastly, it regained strength amidst instability and touched a peak of 17,361.47, to close the day on a firm note. Selected stocks from banking, auto, pharma, metal, realty gained ground, whereas IT stock dangled.