Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua summoned the British High Commissioner in Pakistan Thomas Drew on Friday over slogans being displayed on London cabs "that directly attack Pakistan's territorial integrity and sovereignty...
Some 2,000 fresh permits have been issued to taxi cabs during the past few months at a time when the existing roads have become insufficient for the huge traffic...
The source said that most of the yellow cabs used to be ply in the rural areas or on the roads of Hayatabad Township to avoid heavy penalties by traffic police, but after getting the permits these vehicles all of a sudden came on the roads in cantonment and city areas,...
Careem Managing Director Junaid Iqbal told Dawn since the service was a totally new concept, there were no provisions for such a service in the existing laws...
ISLAMABAD: As a result of the unprecedented increase in fuel prices and back-breaking inflation, people in Islamabad and Rawalpindi have started to rely on bike services, such as Bykea and Indrive, for their daily commute instead of cars and taxicabs...
Regulation need of the hour amid rise in‘unregistered’ ridersNighat Bibi, who hailed a bike in G-9 Markaz, said she came to Markaz from G-12 to buy clothes for her school-going...
NEW DELHI: The organisers of an Indian film festival said on Friday the government had pressured them to drop a documentary on the beef industry, amid a heated debate about beef eating in the majority-Hindu country...
“They told us verbally to drop it as it’s a controversial issue...
Major indexes suffered their largest one-day drop since 2007, shattering three weeks of relative calm in China’s volatile stock markets since Beijing unleashed a barrage of support measures to arrest a slump that started in mid-June...
Exports rose for the 11th consecutive month on robust shipments of automobile and electronic parts including organic chemicals and semi-conductors...
Imports grew for a 10th monthly rise, boosted mainly by higher bills for crude oil, petroleum products and coal...
The Oval match takes place just hours after England are due to unveil their squad for the Ashes tour of Australia at the south London ground earlier on Wednesday...
“Ben Stokes and Alex Hales will not be available for tomorrow's one-day International match against West Indies at The Oval,” ECB director of England cricket Andrew Strauss said while reading out a board statement to reporters at The Oval on Tuesday...
Hard hit by a drop in oil income, energy-rich Gulf states will next year introduce value-added tax to a region long known for being tax-free...
Some have hailed introducing VAT as the start of “exciting, dramatic” change in the region, but the measure is also expected to push prices up for all residents including citizens and low-income workers...
A 19 per cent jump in the area planted for cotton prompted industry officials to estimate record production of 40 million bales in the 2017-18 season starting on Oct 1...
Waghmare, director of Central Institute for Cotton Research...
He says the government had allocated billions of rupees for research centres to develop pest-resistant varieties of cotton but scientists could not [allegedly] develop better seed varieties as a result farmers are suffering economically...
He says it is high time that farmers followed integrated pest management programmes to avoid drop in average yield and quality of cotton...
Incidents of terrorism and target killing in Karachi have registered a 98 per cent and 97pc drop under the National Action Plan (NAP), according to an Interior Ministry document on NAP implementation dated Aug 31, 2017 acquired by DawnNews...
Acting against proscribed groups: 8,333 people on fourth schedule, 5,023 accounts frozen, Rs150 million frozen, embargo on passports, freezing of bank accounts, ban on financial support and...
CHINIOT: A dilapidated road is causing major problems for commuters of several villages and even forcing students to drop out from schools...
This road not only connects hundreds of villages with tehsil headquarters of Bhowana, but also serves as a path for thousands of students going to schools situated on this road...
The Arsenal boss said his team can sustain a Europa League challenge but a top-four finish in the Premier League would be the best way to reach next season’s Champions League...
“I think the best way to do it is through the Premier League,” Wenger told a news conference on Wednesday...
“It's definitely a wake-up call, but by no means is it a crisis, and it does not come anywhere close to the precipitous decline and plummeting of numbers that the entire sector had been predicting,” said Rajika Bhandari, head of research, policy and practice for the nonprofit group based in New York...
“We don't know what the trends are going to look like for next year, but for sure there are concerns,” Bhandari said...