GENEVA: A Chinese vase valued between 500 and 800 Swiss francs has sold for a record five million Swiss francs, a Geneva auction house said...
According to the catalogue, the vase, which is 60 centimetres (23 inches) tall and depicts three blue dragons on a yellow background, is from the 20th century but it bears an unverified mark from the 18th century Qianlong era
Japan's defence minister on Tuesday said North Korea's latest nuclear test was more powerful than initially estimated, with a yield that was around eight times the size of the bomb detonated over Hiroshima...
Japan's defence ministry had earlier said the bomb had a 70-kiloton yield, based on an estimated magnitude by the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)...
ISLAMABAD: The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) on Thursday estimated cotton production at 12...
Meanwhile, Cotton Commissioner Dr Khalid Abdullah informed the meeting that in Punjab cotton crop production was estimated at 8...
LONDON: Torrential rain and gale force winds battered northern Britain on Wednesday, cutting power to thousands of homes and forcing some to evacuate flooded streets in the third major storm in a month...
The Environment Agency said Britain had faced an extraordinary period of severe weather and flooding in December, with consultants PwC warning that the latest deluge from Storm Frank could take total losses above 3 billion pounds ($4
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif termed the information circulating about the exceeding costs of Nandipur power project as incorrect and refuted the claims about the shutting down of power plant, Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday...
The auditor general in a report has certified that Nandipur Power Project is within its the estimated cost of Rs58...
UNITED NATIONS: At least 200 million girls and women in 30 countries are estimated to have undergone female circumcision ? half of them in Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the United Nations (UN) children's agency said in a report released Thursday night...
Explore: FGM in Egypt: "A day of hell"The Unicef statistical report said the global figure includes nearly 70m more girls and women than it estimated in 2014...
The 40-page document, “National vulture conservation strategy and action plan” says in Pakistan the population of white-rumped vulture (WRV) declined by over 95pc since the mid-1990s...
In the last 10 years, WRV has disappeared so drastically that it has skipped all intermediary stages of being declared as vulnerable, threatened and endangered, and gone straight from least concerned to critically endangered species not just in...
ISLAMABAD: The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) on Friday estimated the output for 2016-17 will remain 11...
The Plant Protection Department, Trading Cooperation of Pakistan, Pest Warning Department, Central Cotton Committee, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and cotton growers from Punjab attended the meeting...
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has barred the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) from charging estimated accumulated bills to its consumers in Sindh and Balochistan for defective metering unless proven by laboratory tests...
Informed sources said there were complaints that SSGCL had been issuing estimated bills to consumers on the basis of past one-year to three-year average consumption on a case to case...
The irrigation water availability position for the Rabi season is estimated to be 30...
The largest recipients of mango consignments from Pakistan were Iran, Japan, South Korea and Australia in addition to several European Union and Middle Eastern countries...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is expected to produce 10...
Representatives of provincial governments of Sindh and Punjab, cotton growers, the Trading Corporation of Pakistan, the Karachi Cotton Association and the Pakistan Central Cotton Committee also attended...
Organisers have managed to cut still more from the estimated cost by moving some events outside of Tokyo and using existing and temporary facilities...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday estimated the size of Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) at about Rs675 billion for the next fiscal year — unchanged at the slashed allocation for the current year — and the economic growth rate at 4...
Therefore, the agricultural output was estimated at 3...
ISLAMABAD: The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) on Friday estimated local crop output season at 9...
Crop output of Balochistan was estimated at 0...
An estimated 29 million babies will be born in South Asia in the nine months after the Covid-19 outbreak was classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), while five million births will be reported in Pakistan, according to a report released by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef)...
The report — released on May 6 — has predicted that an estimated 116 million babies will be born across the world in the...