Tag: Sale

Sale of substandard cosmetics is on the rise in various markets of the city whereas the authorities concerned do not seem to be bothered....

In a bid to prevent miscreants from entering tribal regions in Kohat, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Shahid Ullah Khan on Saturday banned sale, purchase...

The head of a Shakespeare troupe in Berlin said Thursday he has been forced to auction off on eBay a life-sized replica of the...

Prosecutors in Munich have charged a former senior executive at a German bank for allegedly taking bribes from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone in...

An unusual museum has put the Prince of Wales’ leftover crumbs, and other bizarre celebrity items, on sale. The public are being offered a...

France said on Friday it had put on hold the sale of heavy military equipment to Pakistan and was waiting for an explanation about...

Pakistan sold some 25,000 tonnes of wheat to Malaysia and Indonesia this week on competitive prices, while Indonesia reduced its corn imports from India...

DASKA - Stall holders are selling unhygienic food which is causing abdominal diseases among the residents of Daska, Sambriali, Pasrur and Sialkot while food inspectors have turned a blind eye towards the situation. With the advent of summer season, the stalls of golas, ice creams and other eatables have been set up on roadsides and outside the schools. These stall holders sell substandard and unhygienic food items which cause diseases among the residents while the food inspectors take

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce Tuesday asked the government to review its policy of sale of diesel to Afghanistan at cheaper rates and recommended that imported products should only be further exported to any third country at a cost equal or above the price being charged from consumers in Pakistan. The recommendation was made in a report laid in the national assembly by Chairman of the Standing Committee on Commerce Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan on a

LAHORE - CNG sales in Punjab will be closed from Monday for an indefinite period as the All Pakistan CNG Association has announced to shut all CNG stations against the discriminatory policies of the Punjab government.
The All Pakistan Petroleum Retailers Association (APPRA) has also announced to join the strike and shut down all petrol filling stations, demanding the Punjab government immediately evolve a policy regarding lease of petrol filling stations in the province.

LAHORE - Before the start of Matriculation's practical exams, the sale of readymade practical notebooks have been increased, whereas students' parents and teachers have also started using the references to get maximum marks in the practical exams.
Students are required to show their notebooks during their practical exam. Over the years, the prices of these notebooks have risen. The price of a practical notebook ranges from Rs 250 to Rs 500, whereas readymade notebooks' price may

Elizabeth Taylor's teenage love letters to her first fiance are to be sold at auction in May. The Hollywood legend passed away last week after losing her long battle with congestive heart disease.
Now bosses at an auction house in New Hampshire are set to cash in on the star's colourful love life - they're putting more than 60 of the screen beauty's unpublished notes under the hammer. Chiefs at RR Auction bought the personal letters two years ago from William Pawley, who was

KARACHI - The draft of the law to ban sale of uniodised salt and for making salt iodisation compulsory has been finalised and is set to be presented before the Sindh Assembly, Special Health Secretary Dr Suresh Kumar said on Monday. Addressing a public awareness seminar, which was organised by the provincial chapter of the MicroNutrient Initiative (MI) in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund, Kumar said that compulsory salt iodisation is one of the prerequisites to

ISLAMABAD - Terming the sale of Bahawalpur lands solely a provincial matter, the Punjab government has rejected the concern expressed by the functional committee of the Senate on the problems of less developed areas vis-a-vis the sale of Bahawalpur lands at 'throw-away prices'. "Under the existing federal scheme envisaged by the constitution, the provincial government and its various departments are not accountable to the Senate or its committees.
As a necessary corollary, the

ISLAMABAD - The Senate's functional committee on less-developed areas on Wednesday expressed concern over the "dubious" sale of 39 public properties in Bahawalpur at throwaway prices by the Punjab government and vowed to conduct a thorough inquiry into the matter. The meeting, which was held with chairman Dr Abdul Malik in the chair, out rightly rejected the notion of the Punjab government over the auction of lands worth above Rs 40 billion for only Rs 851 million and resolved to

DASKA - Butchers are selling unhygienic meat in almost all the congested areas of Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur while people are suffering from several fatal diseases, especially blood pressure and hepatitis. People in the area said that most of the butchers slaughtered unhealthy animals and sold wet mutton and beef to increase the weight of the meat.
Medical experts said the unabated sale and use of the wet meat was spreading hepatitis and other fatal diseases among the people. The

DASKA - The people of Pasrur have announced to set up a camp at Pasrur Kutchery in protest against the alleged illegal sale of more than 200 acres of land of the Pasrur Sugar Mills at throwaway price against its actual price.
Pasrur Market Committee Administrator Rana Muhammad Afzal advocate said the Pasrur Sugar Mills was the property of Punjab Industrial Development Board but the officials concerned of the provincial revenue department had allegedly sold out 200 acres of land