LAHORE - Former Punjab Chief Secretary Salman Siddique’s son and newly-elected MPA from Shaikhupura Ali Salman has joined the PML-N, The Nation has learnt. Ali Salman, contesting election as an independent candidate, had defeated PML-N aspirant during recently held general polls. Ali ...

MANAMA (PR): The Bahrain based leading Islamic banking group, Al Baraka Banking Group B.S.C (ABG) has announced that its net income increased by 15% and total operating income by 16% in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period of 2012. Similarly, statement of financial positions ...

TOKYO : The dollar broke through the 102-yen level in Asian trading Monday after Tokyo sidestepped criticism over the unit's steep decline at a weekend Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Britain. Speculation that the US Federal Reserve could be the first among major central banks to roll back its huge ...

ISLAMABAD - Fulfilling a promise, he made a couple of months ago, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Monday announced his party has awarded 80 per cent tickets to those who have never been a part of assemblies in the past.“Over 80 per cent of ticket holders of our party are non-electables. They have ...

ISLAMABAD - Former PPP leader Dr Israr Shah Thursday joined the PTI, citing confrontation with the judiciary, bad governance and unabated corruption as major reasons for ending his 42-year association with the ruling party.“I will remain admirer of my spiritual father ZA Bhutto. Through this ...

AHMAD AHMADANIISLAMABAD - LPG price has been jacked up by Rs16 per kg as state-owned LPG producers the other day increased their price from Rs 93,856 to Rs109, 702 per ton while on the other hand LPG distributors association, terming recent surge as a ‘drone attack’ on the masses by ...

KARACHI  - Gold price jumped by Rs 1,385 to close at Rs 49,628 per 10 grams in the local market Thursday as its international price also increased to $1,716 an ounce, market sources said.According to Karachi Sarafa Association official, tola (11.664 grams) price also surged by Rs 1500 to Rs ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - They thought it had croaked. But missing for a half-century and listed as extinct in 1996, the Hula painted frog has been spotted again in northern Israel, its only known habitat. The species now has another chance to survive, Israels Nature and Parks Authority said on ...

THIS is the incredible moment a daredevil jumps over a Lamborghini travelling at 60MPH. Adrenaline junkie Alassan Issa Gobitaca, 31, calmly faces towards the Italian supercar as it hurtles towards him. He then leaps into the air and the 1.1 metre high Gallardo passes underneath him. It is the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The electricity shortfall in the country on Sunday again soared to 2,796 MW from 1,908 MW as the total power generation was recorded as 13,419 MW against the demand of 16,215 MW during the last 24 hours. The hydel generation stood at 6,664 MW, WAPDA thermal 1,496 MW, IPPs 5,137 MW ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD-The SPI inflation surged to 15.94 per cent in the week ending on August 25 over the same period last year for the combined income group, said the data released by Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), here on Saturday. The weekly-based sensitive price indicator is ...

KARACHI (APP) - Gold jumped by Rs1,885 to touch a new peak of Rs51,942 per 10 grams in the local market Friday, as its international price also soared to $ 1,872 an ounce, market sources said. According to Karachi Sarafa Association, tola (11.664 grams) price also increased by Rs1,900 to Rs 60,600. ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - The gold price rose to a fresh record high on Wednesday, with per tola rate increasing to Rs 60,300 in the Sarafa markets. According to statement of Sarafa Association, the gold prices registered increased in the whole country. During one week, price of one tola gold has increased ...

A FATHER whose payments for his disabled child had been cut by the Romanian government leapt from a balcony in his country's parliament in protest at the decision, daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. Adrian Sobaru, 40, threw himself headfirst over the balcony, which stood about 23ft above the ...

HUNZA (APP) The water discharge from Hunza lake through spillway along with seepages has jumped to around 4,660 cusecs as reported by Frontier Works Organization on Saturday. The discharge through the spillway increased to around 4,310 cusecs, while the seepages are 350 Cusec water. Meanwhile the ...

KARACHI - Marketing companies have increased the price of liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by Rs 5 to 65 per kilogram in Karachi and interior of Sindh after a month of depressed market, effective from May 14, 2010. This was stated by the Chairman of FPCCI Standing Committee on LPG and All Pakistan ...

LONDON (AFP) - The price of oil struck a 15-month high close to 84 dollars Monday in the wake of positive Chinese energy data and as a cold snap raised demand for heating fuel, analysts said. New Yorks main futures contract, light sweet crude for February delivery, struck an intra-day peak of 83.88 ...

Oil prices reached a fresh one-year high near $76 a barrel Thursday in Asia on a weaker U.S. dollar and growing investor optimism about an economic recovery. Benchmark crude for November delivery was up 72 cents to $75.90, the highest since October 2008, by midday Singapore time in electronic ...

A woman jumped a fence onto White House property Tuesday and was immediately taken into custody, the Secret Service said. The White House went into a security lockdown and members of the news media were not permitted to leave the building for more than an hour. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan ...

A race car jumped a barrier and crashed into a crowd of spectators in Thailand, killing nine people in the country's worst racing accident in years, police said on Sunday. Four people were seriously injured in Saturday night's accident at Bangkok Drag Avenue, a race track in the suburb of Pathum ...

KARACHI - Despite ban on the export of sugar imposed by the government at least Rs3 per kg increase had been witnessed in the retail price of the commodity in the City. The retailers are charging up to Rs 35 per kg, Rs 3 more from the previous rate of 32 rupees/kg. According to stakeholders, ...

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surged to a 15-point lead over Republican John McCain in the latest US poll out Friday, by far the biggest margin of any recent survey. A US magazine's poll gave Obama 51 percent to 36 percent for McCain among registered voters nationwide three times ...

KARACHI - A substantial surge has been witnessed in the prices of flour in city once again as government seemed helpless to take any action against profiteers. A brief survey of markets on Sunday showed that 'chaki atta' was being sold at Rs30 to Rs32-kg which was much higher than government's ...

KARACHI - Like other food items, the hoarding of sugar is also on the surge, which is resulting in continuous upward trend in the sugar prices as ex-mill rate of commodity increased to Rs27 per kg from earlier price of Rs 24/kg in the country, The Nation learnt on Monday. The increasing trend of ...