KARACHI: City Mayor Wasim Akhtar said on Friday that over Rs5 billion was needed to improve the fire-fighting facilities and for procurement of modern equipment for the fire brigade of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation...
He lamented that despite significance of Karachi in the national economy a negligible amount was being invested — that also without taking the local government representatives into confidence or getting their...
• Seven killed over resistance in Ramazan • Official figures show decline in crime rateKARACHI: While there was no decline in the number of people killed in the metropolis by armed muggers upon resistance during this year’s Ramazan from the previous year’s Ramazan, Karachi police claimed a decrease in other crimes — snatching / theft of cell phones, cars, motorbikes, etc — during the same period...
The overall crime figures remained...
The report paints a frightening picture of rapid spread of the outbreak...
LAHORE: Diamond Paints and Adisseo made their ways to Nabi Yousuf Memorial Polo Cup final after finishing on top in their respective pools...
In the highly-charged second match, Diamond Paints overwhelmed Royal Palm/Master Paints 9-6...
MOSCOW: In the West former Soviet supremo Leonid Brezhnev was reviled as the embodiment of a corrupt totalitarian system who sent troops into Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan and crushed dissent at home...
But a new exhibition in Moscow largely glosses over the dark side of Brezhnev’s 18-year rule — emphasising instead the stability and global clout many Russians associate with his time in power, as the same spin is being put on the...
BUNOL: Thousands of half-naked revellers pelted each other with tomatoes on Wednesday in the town of Bunol in eastern Spain, bathing the streets with red goo in the 70th annual “Tomatina” battle...
A string of trucks laden with 150 tonnes of tomatoes rolled through the town’s narrow streets, as teams on board distributed the load to surrounding crowds for people to throw at each other during the hour-long morning festivities
Sajid says he paints on the spot, and is a great believer of capturing actual moments in his paintings...
With emerging economies continuing to struggle with low commodity prices and many businesses on a spending lockdown, the outlook for the global economy is becoming increasingly gloomy...
Once the go-to destination for local foodies, Melody Food Park has lost its charm over the years...
Set up in 2002 in the G-6 Markaz, the park was a popular spot for years after it was established, with thousands of twin cities’ residents visiting daily
The sea level along Karachi coast has risen by about 10 centimetres in the last century...
The sea level is expected to rise by a further 60cm by the end of the century and will most likely effect low-lying coastal areas south of Karachi toward Keti Bander and the Indus River delta...
The optimistic nature of the balance of payment projections is underscored by, first, low growth rate of imports of five per cent in 2018-19 despite the peaking of CPEC machinery imports and the prospect of higher oil prices...
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has imposed a penalty of Rs5 million on Reliance Paints Pakistan for fixing a minimum resale price of its products and making its dealers adhere to a price fixing agreement that is a violation of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2010...
The CCP’s inquiry found that Reliance Paints was in an agreement with its dealers to maintain the resale price through a price control list... ...
The man in the saffron robe sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, back to the wall of a cave framed by the Himalayas...
This was India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest production, traveling to a remote mountain temple with a preferred TV news crew to show the world India’s leader meditating days before the end of the country’s marathon general elections
PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department first monitoring report regarding education in the merged districts has painted a bleak picture of student attendance in government schools...
The report says that about 40 per cent students remain absent from the schools
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was getting along well with Western allies at a G7 summit in France, dismissing reports of rifts among leaders and declaring that they "respect" the trade war between Washington and Beijing...
The G7 gathering is taking place against a backdrop of worries about a global economic downturn and coincides with an era of international disunity across an array of issues