BEIJING: China’s consumer prices grew at their fastest rate in almost eight years in October driven by a spike in pork prices caused by an outbreak of African swine fever, according to official figures released on Saturday...
The consumer price index (CPI) — a key gauge of retail inflation — hit 3...
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday forecast Pakistan’s economic growth rate at four per cent, and higher than estimated inflation and current account deficit during the ongoing fiscal year...
2pc average rate of inflation for the current year against 8...
Showing his grave concern, the IG stated that later the rate for the daily allowance was twice revised in 2012 and 2017 for the civil servants, but not for police employees...
“Freezing the fixed daily allowance at 2005 rate has placed the Punjab police at a disadvantage in comparison with the other departments who claim TA/DA at revised rates”, the IG stated in the letter...
The mortality rate from the mosquito-borne disease is only 0...
The authorities attribute the low mortality rate due to dengue to better care at hospitals and awareness on the part of the people regarding its prevention...
The Pakistan Army said on Thursday that it had recovered "safe and sound" a family of foreign hostages from the custody of a terrorist outfit after it received and acted on intelligence shared by the United States (US)...
""They were captured by terrorists from Afghanistan in 2012 and kept as hostages there," the ISPR handout read...
Kaneria, who was given a life ban by English cricket chiefs that effectively applied worldwide, said in an interview for an Al Jazeera television documentary quoted by the Mail: "My name is Danish Kaneria and I admit that I was guilty of the two charges brought against me by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2012...
I say sorry to Pakistan...
Lahore: Pakistan authorities returned an Indian prisoner to authorities of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) at the Wagah border crossing on Monday...
According to an official, Ghulam Qadir had crossed the Line of Control in Kashmir and entered the Pakistan territory illegally in 2012...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's annual inflation rate fell to 2...
49 per cent in March, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's annual consumer inflation rate rose to 3...
19pc in December, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate slowed to 8...
2 per cent year-on-year in May, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Monday...
• Task Force member says citizens visit hospitals after developing complications • Poor health, diagnostic facilities another reason for high number of deathsISLAMABAD: Though health experts have been claiming that Covid-19 has proved less lethal among Asians, global data shows that Pakistan’s mortality rate is far higher than many regions...
A document of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), available with Dawn, said...
The FIR contains charges under Sections 109 (punishment for abetment), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 286 (negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance), 287 (negligent conduct with respect to machinery), 302 (qatl-i-amd), and 417 (cheating) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)...
The complainant Abid Rehman, who is a Karachi native, told Dawn that the heirs of the victims of the Bhoja Air crash had submitted a petition before the...
KARACHI: As many as 209 children died of measles in the province in 2012, according to one of the written replies tabled in the Sindh Assembly on Monday...
The question asked by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) legislator Nusrat Sehar Abbasi was probably submitted to the assembly in 2013 and had been taken up during the question hour after a couple of years as it asked for the district-wise number of deaths during “last...
Tariq Fazal Chaudhry says issue of PM’s permission was raised after civic agency approved building planSenator Hamdullah had moved a calling attention notice following the recent report by the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP), which had pointed out that construction work was started on the US embassy building without the prime minister’s approval, and that the civic agency failed to stop it...
The audit report also cited a letter...