KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee Monday gained value against the US dollar in open market and remained unchanged in interbank. As...

ISLAMABAD: Salim Raza Asif, a BS-21 officer of Inland Revenue Service, Monday assumed the charge of the post of Chief...

BUDAPEST: State secretary of Hungary’s foreign ministry Levente Magyar signed an agreement on the opening of a new trade office...

ISLAMABAD: Sohail Ahmad, an Inland Revenue Service officer of BS-18, has been suspended. The competent authority, exercising the powers conferred...

ATHENS: The cost of managing the migrant crisis in Greece will exceed a previous estimate of 600 million euros ($670...

LAHORE: Agriculture share in GDP has dropped to 21 per cent from 53 per cent in 1950 and 31 per...

WELLINGTON: Baby carriers and boxes of neckties were found to be concealing about 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine when they arrived...

LONDON: Chennai Port Trust on Friday commenced supplying bunker fuel to ships at anchorage, an official said. Till recently, international...

WASHINGTON: American steel mills shipped 7 million net tons of steel in January, a 7.2 percent increase over December. However,...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ports and shipping minister Arjuna Ranatunga has ordered a probe into revenue losses caused by non use...

LISBON: Portuguese exports rose by 0.7% against a 0.3% increase in imports in the three-month period through to January of...

KUWAIT: Customs officers at the Saad Al-Abdullah Airport arrested an Arab man with possession of six plastic bags of diamonds...

DOHA: Qatar’s Insurance premium reached $2bn in 2015, registering 11 percent compound annual growth rate since 2007. Qatar’s insurance sector,...

KATHMANDU: Birat Petroleum has slashed the price of its petrol to Rs99 per litre from Rs130, in line with the...

JAKARTA: A French company specializing in sports apparel is planning to invest US$500 million in Indonesia, underlining growing interest from...

DHAKA: State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation plans to import 2,200 mt of 0.03% sulfur gasoil from India's Numaligarh refinery owned by...

TAIPEI: Intel Corp, one of the world’s largest makers of computer components, is planning to sell part of its venture...

WARSAW: The Polish central bank’s Monetary Policy Council (RPP) said on Friday it has left the country’s benchmark interest rates...

HANOI: Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Văn Ninh has agreed with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s plan to issue more...

AMMAN: Jordan seeks to attract more religious tourists and students from Indonesia, while Jakarta wants to benefit from Jordan’s strategic...