Tag: Worth

US envoy provides 10 ambulances to motorway police worth $1.6 million

ISLAMABAD: American Ambassador David Hale officially delivered 10 ambulances worth almost 180 million rupees ($1.6 million) to the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP)...

World’s 100 richest people added $241 billion to their net worth...

World’s 100 richest people added $241 Billion to their net worth iThe world’s richest people just got richer. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,...

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...

NAB scrutinises 173 projects worth 1,475b

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday said that it has scrutinised173 projects during last six months carrying a financial impact of Rs 1475...

Bangladesh says finds oil reserves worth $5.5bn

Bangladesh has discovered oil in two old gas fields in the country’s northeastern region with an extractable reserve worth $5.5 billion, the chairman of...

Heroin worth over Rs 750m seized

The Drug Enforcement Cell of the Pakistan Customs' Model Customs Collectorate of Preventive, Karachi Airport has seized 73.5 kg fine quality heroin worth over...

Fruits worth $40 million being smuggled to Iran

Pakistan is losing substantial revenues on the exports of fruits and vegetables to Iran as almost $40 million worth of fruits are being smuggled...

Valuables worth Rs 1m robbed from MPA Saima Aziz’s house

Three armed robbers looted valuables worth Rs 1.0 million from the house of PML-N Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Saima Aziz on Friday. Saima Aziz...

India police guard temple treasure haul worth billions

Armed commandoes cordoned off a medieval Hindu temple in south India on Monday after gold coins and precious stones worth billions of dollars were...

Narcotics worth Rs 280m destroyed

Observing the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, a joint ceremony was held at Hawkesbay on Sunday for destroying narcotics, including drugs...

Sindh police: a white elephant worth Rs 33bn?

A lthough the provincial government spent at least Rs 33 billion on the police force during the outgoing financial year 2010-11, apart from their...

Know your money’s worth

A city businessman went to stay in a small village. During his stay, he learnt that the villagers liked keeping monkeys as pets. He quickly...

NA Secretariat has no record of MNAs’ air tickets worth Rs...

National Assembly Secretariat paid an amount of Rs 252.60 million to an airliner in the last three financial years for air tickets of...

AGP unearths embezzlement worth billions in NHA

The auditor general of Pakistan has identified embezzlements and financial irregularities worth billions in the accounts of the National Highway Authority (NHA), which range...

CDWP approves 64 projects worth Rs 236b despite crunch

ISLAMABAD - Empty coffers that have forced the government to slash down the current fiscal's Public Sector Development Programme by a massive Rs 100 billion did not deter the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) of the Planning Commission from approving 64 projects worth Rs 236 billion for the current fiscal year.
An official statement said Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr Nadeem Ul Haque chaired a meeting of CDWP that considered 64 projects costing Rs 236 billion

Electric cable worth millions of rupees stolen

TOBA TEK SINGH - Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Dullam feeder's cable worth lakhs of rupees was stolen in load shedding hours. Reportedly, thieves took away electric wire and high voltage cable worth millions of rupees in Basti Pathanan Wali on Toba-Waryam Wala Link Road.
The residents said such incidents had been taken place in their area for the last several months, but not even a single thief had been arrested so far. They doubted that FESCO officials were involved

PDWP approves 11 development schemes worth Rs 13bn

KARACHI - In a meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP), 11 development schemes worth Rs 13.226 billion were approved on Thursday. The meeting was presided over by the Planning Secretary of the Planning and Development Department and attended by the administrative heads of various departments.
The department heads briefed the participants of the meeting about their respective schemes - including construction of a Trauma Centre at the Ojha Institute and