MUMBAI: Weak oil and commodity prices are offsetting concerns at India’s central bank over the impact of a spike in gold imports on the broader economy, officials say, even as the industry forecasts another three months of strong buying...
The health system relies heavily on private clinics and hospitals, which many cannot afford, and charitable services, while state spending on the sector is low...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s import bill rose 18...
8pc, suggesting increased activity in the textile sector which is a healthy sign and is likely to bear fruit in the future...
OSTRAVA: Usain Bolt overcame a slow start to win the 100 metres at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on Wednesday as he gears up for a final World Championships in London this summer...
KARACHI: Overburdened middle and lower-middle classes have been facing a sharp rise in house rent, education, medical and motor fuel expenses...
The latest Inflation Monitor released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reveals that house rent was the top contributor to inflation
ISLAMABAD: Rizwan Ahmed wanted to take his family to Karachi to meet his UAE-based sister-in-law, who is visiting Pakistan...
“We will try to convince my sister-in-law to come up Islamabad, and maybe we can take her to Swat to enjoy the snowfall,” he said...
LOS ANGELES: Spike Lee told an audience of entertainment luminaries that it’s easier for a black person to become president of the United States than head of a Hollywood studio or network...
YANGON: Nearly 100 police guarded a northern Myanmar village on Saturday after a Buddhist mob burned down a mosque, a police officer said, in the second attack of its kind in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells in the south-east Asian nation...
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has struggled to contain bouts of deadly religious bloodshed in recent years, with bristling sectarian tensions posing a core challenge to the new government...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s oil and food import bill rose nearly 26 per cent year-on-year to $11...
SALISBURY: Britain demanded answers from Russia on Thursday after a couple was exposed to the same nerve agent used on a former Russian spy and his daughter in an attempted murder blamed on Moscow...
But Russia quickly hit back, denouncing Britain for playing “dirty political games” and demanding London apologise
The spike came after Saudi Aramco, the kingdom’s oil giant, said it was stopping all oil shipments through the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, raising supply concerns...
Ten endangered Asiatic lions have died in the last two weeks in India, authorities confirmed on Tuesday, four of them from a virus that killed around 1,000 lions in Tanzania in the 1990s...
The new deaths take the toll at the Gir sanctuary in the western Gujarat state, home to India's entire population of around 500 wild Asiatic lions, to 21 since September
ISLAMABAD: The Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board on Thursday expressed serious concern over the growing budget deficit and inflation, increasing government borrowing from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and sluggish revenue performance...
The board was also worried over the poor show by manufacturing sector and called for earliest possible course correction and advised the government to immediately finalise its...
A dangerously intense heatwave across much of Europe is to spike even higher on Thursday after already breaking records in several countries, impacting rail traffic and sending people in search of shade and water...
Although the ministry initially said no harmful chemicals were released into the atmosphere and radiation levels were unchanged, authorities in the nearby city of Severodvinsk reported what they described as a brief spike in radiation...
No official explanation has been given for why such an accident would cause radiation to spike...