ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has announced deep regret over the sad demise of Abdul Ghaffar Sheikh, a Pakistan Customs...

ISLAMABAD: Syed Jaffar Abbas, a Pakistan Customs Service officer of BS-16, has been granted voluntary retirement from the government service...

Pyongyang: North Korean scientists have evaded UN sanctions imposed to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme and are studying courses on...

KARACHI: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has generated Rs100 billion from an Islamic bond for the development of...

SYDNEY: Australia's largest telecoms group Telstra Corp Ltd has taken a bet on the resource industry's appetite for cash-saving technology...

WASHINGTON: Colombia's central bank raised its benchmark lending rate to 7.5 percent on Wednesday, the tenth consecutive monthly increase, in...

DUBAI: Dubai aims to provide 7 per cent of its energy needs from clean energy sources by 2020. This target...

KATHMANDU: China remains the largest supplier of chemical fertilizers to Nepal in the first 10 months of the current fiscal...

KATHMANDU: Visakhapatnam Port has been declared as the second gateway port for Nepal after Kolkata-Haldia. The movement of traffic-in-transit between...

AMMAN: The expansion of Jordan’s renewable energy segment has seen a marked acceleration in recent years, with nearly 1000 MW...

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Oil Ministry released on Tuesday (June 21) its monthly report on exports, announcing $3.748 billion USD in...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand shares dropped as fears the UK will exit the European Union continued to dissipate, prompting some offshore...

DHAKA: The number of Hindus in Muslim- majority Bangladesh has grown by one per cent to 1.70 crore in one...

MUSCAT: The MSM30 Index remained little changed at 5,788.73 points, up 0.01 per cent. The MSM Sharia Index also stayed...

HELSINKI: Total energy consumption in January to March amounted to 387 petajoule (PJ), which was five per cent more than...

VIENNA: Austrian police are noting an increased number of human smuggling attempts in sealed trucks, with two cases involving a...

WARSAW: The Polish government has adopted a bill to cut corporate income tax for small businesses from 19 percent to...

HANOI:  Việt Nam Public Bank’s pre-tax profit is expected to fall by 8 per cent year-on-year to VNĐ65 billion (US$2.9...

TOKYO: Japan’s $1.3 trillion public pension fund said Thursday that it has sued embattled Toshiba Corp. for nearly $10 million...

CALIFORNIA: Two men, hours apart, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly having narcotics inside their vehicles, authorities announced Wednesday. At about...