Tag: January

  ISLAMABAD: Power tariff is likely to be scaled down by Rs2.97 per unit. According to media reports, Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has filed an...

BEIJING: An Iranian oil tanker has sunk after burning for more than a week following a collision on Jan. 6 in the East China...

SANTO DOMINGO: Negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition in the Dominican capital Santo Domingo will resume on January 18, said Dominican President...

ISLAMABAD: In an apparent move to counter anti-government propaganda by some religious parties, the Punjab government has decided to hold ‘Khadim-e-Punjab Shehbaz Sharif Qirat,...

  MONMOUTHSHIRE: The 2017 Welsh Grand National has been postponed until January because of poor conditions at Chepstow Racecourse. The race was scheduled to be run...

False claims, pre-poll rigging, misguiding announcements – young doctors play dirty The elections of Young Doctors Association (YDA) in Mayo Hospital Lahore, scheduled for January...

McLaren are to officially launch their new car ahead of the 2013 Formula One season on January 31. The Woking-based marque are to take...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Kalma Chowk underpass will be opened in the first week of January next year. He stated this...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that care taker government will start functioning at the end of December or...

Not a single fresh polio occurrence case has been reported in Pakistan since January this year which, despite many difficulties, is a significant achievement....

Of the 855 first information reports (FIRs) registered for crimes committed against women in 31 districts across the country in January this year, forced...

The government, which is grappling in the dark for the last few months because of its failure to find a solution to the current...

Officials of the Interior Ministry on Saturday told a high-level meeting that another 107 people had gone missing from various parts of the country...

KARACHI - On February 27, a mentally-challenged boy named Idrees Khan was accused of blasphemy for allegedly torching pages of the Holy Quran. Two similar cases of blasphemy were reported on February 26 from Multan: a man named Shahnawaz, said to be an activist of a banned outfit, sent a blasphemous message using his friend's mobile phone to implicate him in a blasphemy case. Muhammad Javed was also trapped by a friend, who sent a blasphemous message from his mobile phone. A Christian

ISLAMABAD - The Palm oil imports into the country during January 2011 decreased by 12.60 percent as compared to the imports of December 2010. However, as compared to the imports of the January last year, the palm oil imports increased by 64.13 percent during the month under review, Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) reported. The palm oil imports into the country were recorded at $165.282 million in January 2011 against the imports of $189.109 million in December 2010 and $100.703

KARACHI - Gains, bagged by the KSE-100 index in January, have been overshadowed by the recent slump as the local bourse has now dwindled four percent since the start of 2011. The decline is more pronounced in recent times, as KSE has slid nine percent since January 17.
A closer look on individual stocks suggests that majority of the blue chip stocks have actually declined more than the headline index weakness and stocks like thinly traded Nestle (+28% since Jan 17th) have played

KARACHI: Cars sales including Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV's) have exhibited a phenomenal monthly rise of 64 percent and reached 8,889 units. This increase is largely driven by a 209 percent monthly increase in 1300cc vehicles, in addition to a 20 percent monthly rise in 800cc category. According to the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA), the massive rise in January, 2011 is spurred by the 'new year' phenomena as people tend to postpone purchases till the start of