Tag: Millions

Millions recovered in taxes from July to Dec 17: Chawla

  KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation and Narcotics  Control (ET&NC) Mukesh Kumar Chawla said on Monday that the department has collected Rs29222.810 million in...

Ebola survivors sue Sierra Leone govt over missing millions

FREE TOWN: Two Ebola survivors are to sue the government of Sierra Leone in the first international court case intended to throw light on what happened to...

HEC made 781 million through attestation of degrees during 2011-16

> Higher Education Commission introduces online degree attestation, lifetime attestation and attestation through courier to facilitate students Higher Education Commission, the country’s foremost regulator of...

Sher Ali accuses NAB officials of receiving millions in bribe

  Chaudhry Sher Ali, father of state minister Abid Sher Ali, on Saturday accused officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of receiving several millions...

Baldia factory fire: Millions spent on interrogations with no arrests so...

  No arrests have yet been made in the Baldia Town factory fire incident although millions have been spent by the Sindh government on investigations...

Millions of Middle East children out of school, UN warns

Poverty, gender discrimination and violence are keeping more than 12 million children in the Middle East out of school, despite efforts to expand education,...

Factory fire guts goods worth millions

Fire in a garments factory gutted merchandise worth millions of rupees here on Friday. The fire caused due to unknown reasons and engulfed the...

Six sentenced for multi-million UK online school of fraud

Six men have been handed jail sentences in Britain for running a website that earned millions of pounds by selling fake documents and coaching...

8m Pakistanis use drugs

The Youth Council for Anti-Narcotics (YOFCAN) on Wednesday held a seminar at the Punjab Polytechnic Institute where it was revealed that about 8 million...

‘Don’ sequel rakes in millions on day one

Looks like it is going to be a good year for Bollywood. Shah Rukh Khan’s latest offering ‘Don 2’ raked in 150 million Indian...

Vidya Balan hikes her fee to 70 million

After tasting success with Milan Luthria’s ‘The Dirty Picture’, Vidya Balan is acting pricey. Buzz has it that the thinking man’s muse, Vidya, has...

Millions flood Iraq’s Karbala for Ashura

Millions flooded Iraq’s shrine city Karbala on Tuesday for Ashura rituals on Shiite Islam’s most important day, amid tight security after bomb attacks targeting...

‘I was offered millions to fix’

Former English wicketkeeper Paul Nixon has claimed that he was offered 'millions of pounds' to fix a Twenty20 match in England. The 41-year-old, however,...

PML-N floats millions for successful rally

To make the PML-N’s ‘Go-Zardari-Go’ rally successful on 28th October, it is claimed that the party’s leaders and workers are paid millions of rupees...

WFP says millions more Yemenis go hungry

The UN World Food Programme said Wednesday that more Yemenis were going hungry because of rising food prices and severe fuel shortages brought about...

152 dead, millions affected due to flooding in Sindh

Heavy rains and subsequent flooding has almost destroyed 21 districts of Sindh, as 14 more people were killed in rain-related incidents on Wednesday taking...

Millions in Asia escape poverty despite crisis – except in Pakistan

More than 245 million Asians were lifted out of extreme poverty in the last five years despite the global economic crisis, the Asian Development...