LAHORE: Customs authorities in the central region of Punjab claim to have seized a huge quantity of imported skimmed milk powder destined for Afghanistan under cargo in transit and sealed a rice mills on Muridke-Narowal Road...
Officials put the value of seized bags containing skimmed milk powder at approximately $584,312 (Rs63...
French baby-milk maker Lactalis and health authorities have ordered a major international product recall because of fears of salmonella contamination following 26 cases of children falling sick in France...
One of the world's biggest producers of dairy products, Lactalis sells its baby milk in packets ranging from 350-950 grams which are marketed globally under a host of brand names...
I would encourage whoever can head to Dubai or Sharjah to be a part of this ‘Made in Pakistan’ product that we can all be proud of and rally behind...
CUPERTINO: Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive Tim Cook called “the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone...
“It’s great to have a product but we’d have liked it sooner rather than later, more like the beginning of October or mid-October,” said Kim Forrest, senior equity research analyst at Fort Pitt...
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ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday defined liquefied natural gas (LNG) as petroleum product, instead of natural gas, just to bypass the legal requirement of public hearing by the regulator for its pricing...
“According to the new arrangement RLNG will be treated as a petroleum product and its pricing can be carried out in line with the prevailing practice for petrol/diesel pricing on monthly basis,” said an official statement on...
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved a new micro-insurance product aimed at providing hospitalisation coverage to low-income clients of a microfinance institution...
The approval of the product — named ‘First Sehat Tahaffuz Plan’ — under the SECP Micro-insurance Rules 2014 was in line with the objectives of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) recently adopted by the federal...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to keep prices of all petroleum products unchanged for June, in order to ensure price stability during Ramazan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said...
“In line with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s policy of providing maximum relief to the people, it has been decided that prices of petroleum products will not be increased on June 1,” Mr Dar said
He said that the federal government had awarded a contract to the Chinese Overseas Ports Holding Company (COPHC) to develop and operate the port, bring in business and establish Pakistan’s first free economic zone...
He said the free economic zone would be spread over 924 hectares (2,281 acres) near an additional 60-acre tract adjacent to the Gwadar Port Terminal where the COPHC would construct a world-class product display centre... ...
As the combined efforts of the fiscal and monetary authorities are focused on documenting the economy, central bankers say diversifying the product base of national savings is the need of the hour...
Whether the CDNS’s plan to experiment with retail Ijarah Sukuk as a product of national savings gets through or not, analysts say the need for restructuring the NSS portfolio cannot be ignored...
KARACHI: Legal wrangling over the fixing of fresh milk’s price appeared to take a final turn on Tuesday when the Sindh High Court directed the city commissioner to notify dairy products’ prices within 10 days as the retailers asked the court to set the price of the daily-use commodity at Rs98 per litre...
On Tuesday, Commissioner Ejaz Ahmed informed the judges that after several meetings held among all stakeholders, including dairy...
KARACHI: A consumer court on Saturday imposed fines on a leading online retailer for providing a faulty product to a customer...
The court also asked the online retailer to replace the product in question with a good and useful one or alternatively return the amount (Rs7,795) paid against the purchase of the produce by the claimant and improve its services with regard to reasonable standards as per expectation of consumers...
Watchdogs in the United States and Europe stipulate that a product must be tested in a regulator-approved lab to prove it can be effective against 99...
ISLAMABAD: After conducting tests on 16 brands of packaged milk given Ultra High Temperature (UHT) and pasteurisation treatment, the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) has found that only six are safe for consumption, the National Assembly was told on Monday...
Dairy companies use UHT treatment to increase the shelf life of packaged milk...
KARACHI: An official crackdown on milk sellers on Monday landed many of them behind bars for arbitrarily enhancing milk prices once again by Rs10 per litre, yet most people may have to purchase the commodity at the new price of Rs90 to Rs95 per litre as the wholesalers and retailers are not ready to bring down the prices on their own...
The wholesalers claimed that dairy farmers had increased the rate of milk from Rs73 to Rs84 per...