THE ongoing hike in tomato prices is a chilling reminder of the structural problems facing the marketing of perishable food items in Pakistan...
Tomato and onion prices peaked before and during Eidul Azha, which also coincided with heavy rains in Sindh this year...
LAHORE: Joint efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to ensure availability of affordable, quality drugs in the country had improved access of patients to several critical drugs, including thyroxine and anti-TB drugs, the Pharma Bureau and the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufa-cturers Association (PPMA) said on Wednesday...
In a statement, the two organisations refuted recent media...
LONDON: An influx of 500,000 tonnes of Pakistani sugar exports will intensify competition with Indian mills and Middle Eastern refineries, adding downward pressure to world prices, trade sources said on Wednesday...
Pakistan will export 500,000 tonnes of sugar with a subsidy of Rs13,000 per tonne, a Finance Ministry official confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday announced ticket prices for the upcoming ODI and T20 series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, starting on Sept 27 in Karachi with the first One-day International...
The ticket prices for the ODIs being held in Karachi on Sept 27, 29 and Oct 2 are from Rs500 to Rs3,000...
KARACHI: Cotton prices rose for the fourth consecutive session on Saturday as spinners kept chasing quality lint to meet their export orders...
RIYADH: If oil-related sanctions against Iran are lifted, world oil prices next year could be $5 to $15 a barrel lower than the current forecasts, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) is projecting...
“A lifting of sanctions against Iran, should a comprehensive nuclear agreement be concluded, could significantly change the forecast for oil supply, demand, and prices,” good, old friend Adam Sieminski, the EIA Administrator, said in a...
He’d paid almost double the prices for tickets to a few of the World Cup matches for his sons and few of their friends but he was yet to get them...
Problem was that he hadn’t paid FIFA or its ticketing associate MATCH services that was handling tickets for the World Cup in Brazil; instead he’d paid the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) for the tickets...
KARACHI: An official crackdown on milk sellers on Monday landed many of them behind bars for arbitrarily enhancing milk prices once again by Rs10 per litre, yet most people may have to purchase the commodity at the new price of Rs90 to Rs95 per litre as the wholesalers and retailers are not ready to bring down the prices on their own...
The wholesalers claimed that dairy farmers had increased the rate of milk from Rs73 to Rs84 per...
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained steady amid slow trading as ginners were mostly reluctant to sell their limited stocks on Tuesday...
DOHA: Qatar’s Energy Minister Mohammed al-Sada said on Thursday that a proposal by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to hold a summit for oil producers to support sagging prices is under consideration...
Venezuela, an Opec member that relies heavily on oil revenues, has been trying hard to persuade oil producers to cut production to boost oil prices which plunged about 60 per cent since June last year...
LONDON: Oil prices dipped Monday as the rally sparked by prospects of a cut to the global supply glut faded...
Prices hit three-week highs earlier Monday, building on last week’s strong gains driven by dollar weakness and after Russia said it could meet the Opec producers’ group for talks on possible output cuts...
5 billion (Rs13 a kg) export subsidy to millers in December 2015, when prices were Rs55...
However, some companies and traders capitalised on the falling global prices by importing more quantities...
CUPERTINO: Apple went small — cutting prices as well as screen sizes — unveiling a new iPhone and iPad aimed at reaching more customers and boosting replacements, at a low-key product unveiling on Monday...
KARACHI: Relentless buying from spinners pushed cotton prices on Friday to a seasonal high on growing concern over short crop and expected surge in cotton yarn demand after the imposition of 10 per cent regulatory duty on imports from next month...
Floor brokers said that phutti (seed cotton) prices also soared as supply is fairly slow and growers are demanding higher rates...
LAHORE: Yarn manufacturers are acting like a cartel, the value-added apparel sector claims, as they have raised prices by 50 per cent to Rs1,200 per 100-pound bag from Rs800 since the imposition of 10 per cent imports duty...
Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (Prgmea) Chief Coordinator Ijaz Khokhar, in a press statement issued on Friday, said cotton prices climbed soon after the government...