Tag: Rates
Melon growers suffer due to low rates
BADIN: Farmers of Badin have been sustaining acute water shortage for long which has caused them huge economic losses and their fertile soils have...
Stations to supply CNG at current rates: Ghayas Paracha
Chairman CNG Association Ghayas Paracha has said that gas supply on current prices would continue till the next orders of the Supreme Court (SC).
Talking...
Power rates jacked up by 5 paisas
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Wednesday raised the power tariff by five paisas per unit.
A hearing was held in this...
Pak offers best returns to companies: Sherry
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman said that Pakistan offered best rates of return to the business companies and that the American...
Oh the horror! (Part II)
Banks haunting interest rate corridor by holding over Rs70bn excess cash
The central bank’s concern for ensuring a smooth functioning of the country’s interest rate...
Greece pays slightly less at three-month debt auction
Greece raised 1.625 billion euros ($2.0 billion) in an auction of three-month debt on Tuesday, the public debt management agency said, at slightly reduced...
China plays hard ball over Iranian oil rates
As the world collectively contemplates over the ramifications of Washington’s sanctions on Iran, China has made its line of action pretty clear. US sanctions...
Markup rates must be reduced to a single digit: ICCI
The government’s intention regarding power tariff hike by four per cent would prove a serious blow to the efforts of State Bank of Pakistan...
Chicken prices rise, vegetable rates fall
The prices of most of vegetables items in the city’s Sunday bazaars remained stable as compared to previous week’s rates. However, this Sunday, prices...
Labs ordered to follow prescribed dengue test rates
The Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered private laboratories of Punjab to charge only Rs 90 from dengue patients for CBE tests and to...
Low interest rates: catalyst for expansion
Pakistan's economy is currently facing three broad challenges in the shape of persistent inflation, eclipsed private investment leading to low growth and continuously rocketing...
CDGL fixed mutton, beef rates
City District Government Lahore has fixed subsidized retail prices of mutton and beef at Rs 400 per kg and Rs 190 per kg respectively...
‘Global interest rates need to be raised’
Global interest rates must rise to avoid high inflation becoming entrenched, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has said. It also warned that delaying...
Divorce rates climb
Marriage is a funny institution. It begins with much fanfare, be it a product of love or arranged by family. Some consider early marital...
Interest rates to rise as debt surges
The federal government is expected to post a deficit of Rs850 billion or four percent of GDP, most of it to be financed through...
Russia raises rates to battle inflation
The Russian central bank raised its main interest rate by 0.25 basis points to 8.25 percent with effect from Tuesday to combat strong inflationary...
FBR revises duty drawback rates
KARACHI - The government has revised the duty drawback rates for the towel sector allowing enhancement with effect from March 31, 2011, Towel Manufacturers Association (TMA) spokesman Muzammil Husain has said. It has permitted duty drawback rates on cotton or polyester blended towels bleached and towels partly or fully dyed or printed. As per the SRO, the FBR has allowed 0.71 per cent drawback on cotton towels (bleached) fully white instead of 0.44 per cent, 1.88 per cent on cotton
