A new report by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (NAS) has found that “directed” microwave radiation is the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in Cuba and China...
Hot-cross buns, hot-cross buns, One a penny, two a penny, hot-cross buns, If you have no daughters then give them to your sons; But if you should have none of these pretty little elves You cannot do much better if you eat them all yourselves!I could keep on singing this old nursery rhyme and I wouldn’t be able to stop myself until I stuffed my mouth with a hot-cross bun...
The bun, a delicacy of Easter weekend, is not alone
KARACHI: Arçelik AS, a global leader in the home appliances industry, on Friday announced the $258 million acquisition of Dawlance, Pakistan’s market-leading home appliance brand, as part of its global expansion into fast-growth opportunity markets...
Pakistan’s economy is forecast to grow around five per cent annually for the next three years...
, which announced earlier this year that it was buying Pakistan’s home appliances brand Dawlance, said on Tuesday it has obtained all regulatory approvals needed for the $243-million acquisition and the transaction is now complete...
Addressing a media briefing, Arçelik CEO Hakan Bulgurlu said the company plans to invest $42m to $50m in its Pakistan’s operations “in the immediate future”...
KARACHI: An additional capital of 16 million euros is expected to be injected in Dawlance this year while new equipment and machinery are being deployed to further expand the company’s product range, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Arcelik Mr Ozuzhan Ozturk said...
A press release issued following the CTO’s visit to Pakistan said that since acquiring Dawlance in 2016, Arçelik — Turkey’s largest enterprise — has invested more than 36...
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that Pakistan’s economy has failed to achieve its growth potential in spite of benefiting from lower prices of oil which accounts for almost a third of its imports...
The ADB approved $1 billion for projects in Pakistan to improve transport and trade...
But even if Diamer-Bhasha reaches its funding goal, then what?The court summoned yesterday the CEOs of all bottled water companies to present data on the price of extracted water and the revenue they have made selling it...
We can question whether major bottlers are cartelised, and whether quality audits are functioning well, but let’s think here instead about what the price of water should be...
LONDON: Every World Cup failure for Pakistan sparks a wave of reviews and sackings and the promise of a fresh approach — until the team wins again and all is forgotten...
Pakistan won four straight matches to finish level on 11 points with New Zealand, but they bowed out of the tournament due to an inferior net run-rate...
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government is under no obligation to fix the price of sugar cane for every crushing season under the Sugar Factories Control Act, 1950, the Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench was told by the counsel for litigant sugar millers on Tuesday...
“In fact, it is not incumbent upon the government to determine price of sugar cane on recommendations of the board,” suggested the affidavit citing the words ‘or...
ATHENS: Nasima, 32, has just finished wrangling with her two daughters and one son, when a foreign journalist comes asking Afghan refugees what they plan to do after reports that the border of Macedonia is closed to all non-Syrians...
“What did he say?” she asks in panic
LONDON: It was January 2016 and oil prices had crashed to their lowest in more than a decade...
Saudi Arabia's health minister, Khalid al-Falih, a favourite to take over the oil ministry from his mentor Ali al-Naimi, was not panicking
KARACHI: Condemning the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government at the Centre for failing to pass on the benefit of record low oil prices in the international market to the people, the Sindh Assembly on Monday unanimously demanded that the federal government fix price of per litre petrol at Rs40...
On Jan 31, the federal government had slashed the per litre price of petrol by Rs5 for the month of February...
TWO significant events have unfolded in Pakistan over the past few days...
The parliament declared its neutrality in the Yemen war, and a UAE minister issued a warning to Pakistan for doing so...
ISLAMABAD: Backed by the petroleum ministry, the three government-owned energy companies have sought a cumulative 28 per cent increase in the price of imported regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) approved by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) early this month...
The Pakistan State Oil (PSO), the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) have written to the regulator that the RLNG price...
19 per litre in the price of high speed diesel (HSD) and Rs2...
99 per litre increase in the price of kerosene and Rs12...