KARACHI: Utter neglect towards marine pollution costs Pakistan billions of rupees every year that includes the huge expenditures the country incurs on account of vessel repair and maintenance, as constant flow of untreated toxic effluent towards the sea has doubled (metal) corrosion rate...
According to him, the Pakistan Navy alone incurs a loss of Rs1bn annually on vessel repair and maintenance as (metal) corrosion rate owing to...
After a week of negativity at the bourse, the bulls returned to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday to take the benchmark KSE-100 Index up 945 points, or 2...
"According to news reports, a delegation of PSX officials, stock brokers and representatives from the mutual fund industry had met with the prime minister over the weekend and recommended an injection of Rs20bn worth of funds into the PSX to reignite the market,"...
IN the last two weeks of January, the State Bank of Pakistan pumped a cumulative Rs2...
The injection was made for a 10-day contract at 6...
MINGORA: A woman died in the Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital here after she was allegedly given a wrong injection by a nurse late on Monday evening...
Saleem Khan, the victim’s husband, said the nurse administered a wrong injection to his wife without conducting any test or diagnosing the disease, which claimed her life...
ATHENS: Greece is set to receive the first instalment of its third multi-billion-euro bailout Thursday, just as a key repayment to the European Central Bank falls due...
A source close to the matter said Greece would receive 23 billion euros ($25
KASUR: An ailing infant died soon after administration of an injection allegedly by a quack at Chunian’s Allahabad area on Sunday...
Arshad administered an injection that proved fatal for the infant...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked the federal government and the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on Tuesday to reply to allegations levelled by a scientist that contaminated injections used to diagnose cancer had been administered to thousands of patients...
In the petition, Mr Pasha explains that he was involved with the quality control of the manufacturing and production of molybdenum-99 through...
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) injected Rs880 billion into the banking system on Friday, indicating that banks are still short of cash despite an increase of Rs1 trillion in deposits since the beginning of this year...
“Net interest income (NII) of the sector declined by 4pc to Rs108bn in third quarter of 2016 as a major chunk of high-yielding, long-term [Pakistan Investment Bonds] PIBs (30pc of total outstanding PIBs or...
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Mian Mohammad Ateeq Shaikh on Friday stunned the lawmakers that a frequently used injection with the actual wholesale price of Rs27 was being sold in the market for Rs750...
During a meeting of the committee at Parliament House, Mr Shaikh criticised the health ministry and the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) for...
KARACHI: Stock investors welcomed on Friday the injection of liquidity by the central bank into the money market — a move that is expected to restore stability in short-term interest rates...
Initial volatility on the Pakistan Stock Exchange turned into a bullish run in cement and steel sectors as soon as investors learned about the central bank’s open market operation to stabilise the money market, according to Arif Habib Ltd...
KARACHI: Shareholders of Summit Bank Ltd passed a special resolution in an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday to authorise the equity injection of Rs10 billion from a UAE-based investor...
The injection of fresh liquidity is meant to fix the bank’s capital adequacy issues...
We are quick to haggle with the daily-wage owner and the man who sells fruits at the corner shop, not truly understanding that the small profit he makes is essential to his survival...
Think for a moment about the man whose salary 10 years ago was Rs9,000 and today is Rs12,500
KARACHI: Some three armed robbers stormed a private microfinance bank in the old city’s Kharadar area on Tuesday, held security guards and staff at gunpoint and took away more than half a million rupees as the bank management allegedly had not followed the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to prevent such robberies, police said...
Only on July 20, armed robbers took away three million rupees from the Gulshan-i-Iqbal branch of a...
KANDAHAR: A senior Afghan police official regarded as one of the country's most powerful men has banned the use of Pakistani Rupees (PKR) in the key southern province of Kandahar...
The rupee has been widely used in Afghanistan's eastern and southern provinces bordering Pakistan...
Centaurus Mall is one of Islamabad's hottest attractions...
Yet the mall's management caused a roar on social media when it announced on Thursday that the mall would enforce an entry fee of Rs