lahore -  salman abduhu -  The recent surge in transportation cost for both cement and coal would notably increase freight costs for the local manufacturers and analysts are expecting an increase of 50 rupees in the price of 50kg cement bag.Though cement industry will pass on this rise to ...

LAHORE - Engro Fertilizers Limited has announced a reduction in Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) prices by Rs310 per bag from Rs4, 060 to Rs3,750 per bag, following reduction in international prices, effective immediately.International prices have reduced from approximately $700 to $610 per ton. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The wholesale price of sugar on Tuesday increased by Rs155 per 50kg bag to reach Rs3580 in the provincial capital. Consequently, the retail rate of the sweetener jumped to Rs75 per kg from Rs72, though the shopkeepers were already selling it for Rs75 per kg at retail ...

I have never taken the British Broadcasting Corporation non-seriously. If and when Lyse Doucet conducts a high profile interview, I listen to her questions and answers very seriously. No matter even I have to develop little domestic tiffs. Monday evening Lyse Doucet held a prime time interview with ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A handbag belonging to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold for 25,000 pounds at a charity auction late on Monday, Christies said. Top price on the night was paid for the chief timekeepers stop watch that recorded Roger Bannisters first four-minute mile in 1954. Donated ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government has proposed allocation of Rs 220 million for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs for the fiscal year 2011-12 by increasing 2.33 percent than the last year. The original allocation for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs was Rs 215 million last year which was not ...

LAHORE (PPI) - The price of cement bag packing paper has touched the record height as cement manufactures are paying Rs 24 for each one. According to industry sources, the cement manufactures were using 180 gram 2-ply quality paper for packing the 50 kg cement bag. As the paper was being imported, ...

LAHORE (PPI) - The cement manufactures have increased the carriage rates and they were charging Rs 46 to Rs. 100 for each bag in whole sale market. According to details the cement factories have increased Rs 4 each bag as carriage rate during the last one month. In February cement manufactures ...

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared Turkey with Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution, saying Israel will "not be Turkey's punching bag". Writing in Thursday's Jerusalem Post, Mr Lieberman blamed the crisis in bilateral ties between Jerusalem and Ankara on internal ...

APPLES iPad has trumped Amazon and Sky to be crowned top Gadget of the Year, it was announced today. The iPad beat the Amazon Kindle and Sky 3D to win both Gad-get of the Year and Readers Gadget of the Year in the 2010 Stuff Gadget Awards. Readers also voted in their droves for Microsofts ...

Flour dealers association has refused to sale 20Kg flour bag for Rs575 stating that they would sale the bag for Rs 580. Flour dealers' association president Muhammad Zahoor Bhatti stated that flour mills used to provide flour bags of 20Kg to them for Rs 570 and they would not sale it to whole sale ...

The wheat flour mills owners have stopped supply of wheat flour while one bag of wheat flour is being sold at Rs 580. The owners of wheat flourmills did not bother to comply with the orders of government of Punjab and stopped supply of wheat flour since 26th Ramadan. Chief Minister of Punjab had ...

LAHORE (APP) - Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) Punjab has decided to bring down flour price by Rs 27 for 20 kg wheat-flour bag. New ex-mill rate of 20Kg bag will be Rs 530 which will be immediately applicable, Chairman of the PFMA Liaquat Ali Khan announced here on Saturday. He said that Rs ...

ISLAMABAD - Fertilizer manufacturers and traders mafia is looting farmers by charging Rs 850 or more for one bag of urea against the government announced price of Rs 750 per bag. While these money seekers are looting innocent farmers, the federal government is just sleeping and taking no action ...

The price of cement raised to Rs.40 per bag in Frontier and Punjab during last two days. According to sources of cement industry, price of a cement bag had rose to Rs.30 in Punjab and Frontier on August 31 followed by ex factory price Rs.250 per bag. However, now ex factory price of a cement bag is ...

LAHORE - The price of 20-kg flour bag would swell to Rs 580 from Rs 510 in the local market in November this year, as the Punjab government has decided to fix the new issue price of wheat at Rs 1030 per 40-kg in order to maintain the wheat prices in open market, sources disclosed here on Sunday. ...

LAHORE-The price of 20-kg flour bag has swelled to Rs 460 from Rs 420 in the Punjab as the govt has increased the issue price of wheat for the flour mills from Rs 730 to Rs 810 per 40kg, official sources said on Thursday. The govt has increased the issue price of wheat for the flour mills ahead of ...

LAHORE - The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) handed over the lost bag carrying expensive laptop, mobile phones, cheque books, important documents and cash to the owner on motorway near service area Chakri. According to a press release issued on Sunday, the Motorway Police Chakri ...

LAHORE - The flourmillers in Punjab have agreed to sell 20 kg flour bag at Rs 290 as ex-miller price fixed by the government of the Punjab. The Punjab Flour Mills Association called off its strike call threat and decided to sell 20 kg flour bag on the official price during their meeting whith ...

KARACHI - Taking advantage of the shortage of various kinds of fertilizers especially Urea, the dealers have increased the prices of commodity to Rs825 per bag in various parts of the country. According to information gathered from stakeholders, the less production of urea by fertilizer ...

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LAHORE- Provincial Food Minister Malik Nadeem Kamran has said that provision of flour to the masses at the fixed price is the top priority of the government and no compromise would be made in this regard. He said that the government has fixed the ex-mill price of 20-Kg flour bag at 365 and Rs 375 ...

Pakistan Flour Mills Association Punjab Zone raised with immediate effect the rates of 20 kg bag of Atta by Rs 25, citing increased prices of wheat, electricity and diesel. The decision was announced after a meeting of Pakistan Flour Mills Association Punjab Zone by its chairman Habib Leghari on ...