Wheat harvest in full swing across country
LAHORE: Wheat crop harvesting and threshing processes are running smoothly across the country, with chances of an early close this season, given...
Apple, Google together plan software to slow Covid-19
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact-tracing technology that aims to slow...
China to provide Rs 2 billion for smart university project in Pakistan
BEIJING: China will provide Pakistan with an unrequited assistance of Rs 2.048 billion for completion of a smart university transformation project.
The project...
Govt asked to recover Rs100bn from ‘corrupt’ IPPs
–Probe claims IPPs signed agreements in bad faith to mint billions at govt’s expense, overstated costs
—Experts say that claims made in the...
Govt urged to restore supply chain operations to complete export orders
LAHORE: The textile millers are not happy with the government’s decision to allow only opening of industrial units with confirmed export orders and...
Small industries to be opened gradually: Hammad
Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar has said the government is not only providing financial help to unemployed and needy people...
PSO demands Rs100 billion as defaults looms
ISLAMABAD: The country’s largest oil supplier Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has warned the government of its looming international defaults and has sought...
Russian central bank turns attention to banks hit by slower gold exports
MOSCOW: Russia's central bank is considering how to help the country's commercial banks with gold storage after complications with bullion exports because...
Economists see uneven jobs recovery, high US unemployment through 2021
WASHINGTON: The trillions of dollars in cash and loans unleashed by the Federal Reserve and US political leaders in recent weeks is...
Pak-Afghan trade limited to medicine, food only: Asad Umar
Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar on Friday said the decision to allow cargo movement between Pakistan and Afghanistan was limited to...
PM seeks donations to mitigate economic impact of COVID-19
–Imran says govt alone cannot support 220m people who live below poverty line
-Says govt focussed on flattening curve by restricting movement of...
Tareen questions criteria of govt audit of his sugar mills
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Jahangir Khan Tareen, who is under fire over his alleged involvement in the sugar crisis, has questioned...
Remittances rise 3.8pc to $1.8bn in March
KARACHI: Overseas Pakistani workers remitted $1,894.4 million in March 2020, a rise of 3.8pc or $69.4 million, when compared with $1,825.0 million...
KP’s strawberry growers seek financial package to mitigate losses
PESHAWAR: Amid the coronavirus lockdown across the country and the closure of Pak-Afghan, strawberry growers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing heavy losses...
Cellular companies seek permission to launch 3G/4G in AJK, GB without auction
ISLAMABAD: As the auction process of 3G/4G internet services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) has been in limbo for...