BANGKOK: Eight people died and seven were injured when they accidentally triggered a fire extinguisher system inside the vault of a major Thai bank and released a suffocating cloud of chemicals, officials said on Monday...
SCB blamed the accident on contractors who had been working to upgrade the building’s chemical fire extinguisher system but mistakenly set it off, releasing a chemical retardant designed to starve any fire of...
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...
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
UMERKOT: The district inquiry committee formed by the provincial government to probe corruption in the Umerkot health department released its report on the occasion of the World Anti-Corruption Day on Wednesday, unveiling massive corruption running into billions of rupees, mismanagement and violation of laws and demanding action against the culprits...
ISLAMABAD: After securing a clean chit from the judicial inquiry commission into rigging in the 2013 elections, the government has released details of the losses it claims Pakistan suffered due to the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) demonstrations last year...
The detailed information gathered from various sectors under the guidance of Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar claims that the country was...
HYDERABAD: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) seized assets, including prize bonds, worth millions of rupees and documents of immoveable properties also worth millions of rupees, in a raid on the residence of a grade-16 official of the education department, Bachu Mal, here late on Saturday evening, according to a NAB press release...
Gilgit-Baltistan produces about 120,650 tons of almonds per year and their export can yield billions of rupees for farmers...
Healthy eating of organic and fresh fruits like almonds, and having ideal natural environment are reasons for the highest life expectancy of the GB people in Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) is facing over 3,000 cases of litigation involving hundreds of billions of rupees, including some related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, mainly because of alleged mass-scale irregularities and controversial award of contracts...
It has been observed that the authority is facing such an ample amount of litigations despite it has an army of over 150 consultants who...
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday told the Senate that over a billion rupees were spent on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's international trips during his third term in office...
In a written report presented to the upper house on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's request, the foreign minister stated that Sharif's 64 international tours during his third term as the head of the state set back the exchequer by Rs1...
Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed on Tuesday said the federal cabinet has decided to recover billions of rupees allegedly spent illegally by a former president, prime ministers and chief ministers from the national exchequer...
The minister claimed that Nawaz's trip to London for his medical check-up had cost Rs340 million as the special aircraft had to make two trips to bring him back to Pakistan...
In a statement released to the media, the anti-graft watchdog said a decision to probe reports of “plunder worth billions of rupees” through smuggling, price gouging, alleged subsidies and other aspects of these crises was taken during a meeting of the bureau's executive committee, presided by by NAB Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal...
BAHAWALPUR: A local firm has allegedly defrauded the health department of almost Rs10 million by supplying 18 ‘substandard’ ultrasound machines meant for the rural health centres in the district...
It is learnt that the health authorities advertised for the supply of 18 US made ultrasound machines and a firm supplied the equipment of Chinese company by affixing the tag of a US company