Tag: Raises

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces raised the country's two-star flag on the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, a monitor said, four years...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday hinted at a massive rally in Islamabad on October 4, saying people have shouted “go Nawaz...

A 12-year-old girl arrived at the hospital wracked with abdominal pain. Doctors diagnosed her with acute pancreatitis, in which pancreatic enzymes begin digesting not...

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued a notification for an increase in power tariff of KESC by Rs 1.60 per unit...

The Punjab Social Security Doctor’s Association (SSDA) on Thursday protested at all the social security hospitals in Punjab for their demands. The doctors protested in...

A walkabout in central Cairo by Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi donning civilian clothes has unleashed a torrent of questions about his...

Japan's Toyota Motor on Tuesday raised its full-year profit target despite seeing first quarter net profit tumble 99 percent as it grappled with the...

Contrary to diplomatic norms, US envoy in Islamabad Cameron Munter on Friday expressed deep concern over the ongoing bloodshed in Karachi and also urged...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said he had expressed “deep concerns” to his Pakistani counterpart about deadly rocket attacks launched across the Taliban-troubled...

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), expressing his views over soaring government budgetary borrowing from domestic sources that has piled up to Rs5.594 trillion,...

Pakistan has raised some queries on the construction of the three power projects on the tributary of river Chenab in Kishtwar district of Jammu. Talking...

Punjab Police Inspector General (IGP) Javed Iqbal on Sunday issued written orders to the chief city police officer (CCPO) Lahore and district police officers...

ISLAMABAD - With the Supreme Court already annoyed with the government for delaying the implementation of its orders and assignment of investigation into mega scams to honest and upright officials, the government has once again transferred a senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official at the final stage of investigation into the haj scam.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that the transfer of FIA Director Hussain Asghar and his posting as Gilgit-Baltistan inspector

TOKYO - Japan put its nuclear calamity on a par with the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, on Tuesday after new data showed that more radiation leaked from its earthquake-crippled power plant in the early days of the crisis than first thought. Japanese officials said it had taken time to measure radiation from the plant after it was smashed by March 11's massive quake and tsunami, and the upgrade in its severity rating to the highest level on a globally recognised scale did

BEIJING - China raised banks' required reserves again in a decision; the latest installment in its monetary tightening cycle that many had thought would be put on hold after Japan's devastating earthquake.
Its persistance with a campaign to rein in prices that has cooled hopes for the scale of world growth showed that the People's Bank of China views inflation, not an economic slowdown resulting from Japan's disaster, as the bigger risk.
China's announcement came just hours

ISLAMABAD - The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has jacked up power tariff by between Rs 0.75 and Rs 2 per kilowatt hours (kWh) for three generation companies (GENCOs) due to the rise in furnace oil prices with effect from March 15.
According to the notifications issued by NEPRA, the tariff for various units of the Northern Power Generation Company Limited (NPGCL), Jamshoro Power Generation Company Limited (JPGCL) and Central Power Generation Company Limited

ISLAMABAD - Taking a huge delegation of her favourite members from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and ignoring 22, President Asma Jehangir will participate in Hindu festival of "Holi"in India. "Bring a pair of rough clothes to wear for the "holi" day which falls on the weekend. The colour could spoil your regular clothes", Asma Jehangir instructed the huge delegation of 138 members of SCBA before leaving for India on Wednesday to participate in a seminar at Jaipur (India),