Pakistan

Dr Shami urges to donate plasma for COVID-19 patients By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: Calling it a black day for the nation, Vice-Chancellor of University of Health Sciences (UHS) Prof Javed Akram said that people were left with no other…

By Our Staff Correspondent ISLAMABAD: The federal government has reduced the price of petrol by Rs7.06 per liter for the month of June in line with the dip in global crude oil prices due to virus-fuelled lockdowns. Following the…

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KARACHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft, flying from Lahore to Karachi, crashed near the port city’s airport in the densely populated area of Model Colony on Friday. The number of casualties has not been…

By K A Mian LAHORE: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has imposed a ban on the booklet series titled ‘Infant Mathematics’ (Pakistan Edition) which was published without getting prior approval of PCTB Lahore by M/S Sunrise…

By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: The Ministry of Interior Government of Pakistan has officially announced the six public holidays on the occasion of the holy festival of Eid-ul-Fitr 2020 here on Saturday. According to the notification…

 By K A Mian LAHORE: The Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mehmood has announced that the students of class ninth and 11th would be promoted into the next class without exams. He made this announcement while addressing a press…

By K A Mian LAHORE: The Punjab University has announced to conduct ‘All Pakistan online poetry and essay writing Competition-2020’ for providing healthy and creative activities and to engage all the communities members who are staying…

By Our Staff Correspondent ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shibli Faraz has been appointed as Federal Information Minister, while China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Chairman and former Director General ISPR…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is going to get $1.4 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next week to boost its foreign exchange reserves and get some budgetary support in the wake of the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus…

Experts urge authorities to be ultra vigilant amid cash disbursement among the needy families By K A Mian LAHORE: Around 12million poorest families hailing from all over the country are likely to be exposed to COVID-19 as the people…

By Our Staff Correspondent ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the government will distribute the relief money from today (Thursday) among the needy families. Speaking to the media representatives in Islamabad, he…

From Our Staff Correspondent ISLAMABAD: With the aim to work as a relief force for needy fractions of the society affected by corona virus pandemic, almost 600,000 youth including 19,178 females from across the country has registered…

LAHORE: Pakistani authorities have reported 40 deaths from novel coronavirus while the total number of cases has surged to 2708. According to details, 1072 patients have been tested positive for the epidemic in Punjab, 839 in Sindh, 343 in…

The Business Report LAHORE: An investigative report compiled by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the country’s wheat crisis has come out; revealing that former federal minister for food security Sahabzada Mehboob Sultan was…

By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: Pakistani authorities on Friday have reported 35 deaths from novel coronavirus while the total number of cases has surged to 2,458. According to details, 928 patients have been tested positive for the…

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to keep domestic flights suspended till April 11 to curb the spread of coronavirus infections. However, flights between the Islamabad airport and Gilgit and Skardu will carry on as usual. Civil…

By K A Mian LAHORE: The Punjab Government has launched mobile Apps (application) ‘Insaf Imdad’ for distribution of financial aid worth Rs10 billion among 2.5million needy families through a foolproof mechanism, The Business has learnt here…

ISLAMABAD / KARACHI / PESHAWAR / QUETTA / LAHORE: The novel coronavirus emerged in the central China city of Wuhan towards the end of last year and proliferated to almost the whole world within a couple of months. It’s not the virulence or…

PAKISTAN: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday approved another $2 million grant to support the government’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan. The new grant supplements an initial $500,000 approved by the bank…

The threat of coronavirus is growing globally even as the numbers continue to decline in China, where the virus was originally reported. In Pakistan, the federal government and the respective provincial governments have announced a…

WASHINGTON: The United States has placed Pakistan among the high-priority countries that will receive US assistance for curbing the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, a senior American official said. Briefing journalists in Washington…

KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The Sindh and Punjab governments on Friday took further stringent measures to contain the spread of coronavirus cases, reducing the shopping hours in order to stem the local transmission of the disease, as the…

By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: All educational institutions across Pakistan would remain closed till May 31, as this closure would be treated as summer vacation, read the notification issued by Ministry of Federal Education and…

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board decided on Friday to allow all member countries with per capita income below the World Bank’s operational threshold for concessional support to qualify for debt service relief…

By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), postponed its departmental promotion examinations of Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), Power Information Technology Company (PITC), DISCOs, and…

By K A Mian LAHORE: The Qazi Group of School (QGS) grade seven's student secured first position in the national Maarif Inter-Schools Math Olympiad (MISMO) contest 2019-2020,   Daily The Business has learnt here on Thursday. The main…

By K A Mian LAHORE: The Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP) has added yet another feature to its cap after the establishment of the centralized 'Data Center' in order to maintain the security of data and improve effective connectivity…

By Our Staff Reporter                                       LAHORE: The Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecom (ITT) Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddique laid the foundation stone of the ‘Genomics and Proteomics’ centre of the…

By K A Mian LAHORE: As many as 2,543 officers of the governments and supposes some of them have been removed from the list of the beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) by the BISP Headquarters, Daily The Business …