KARACHI - Small and medium sized investors will greatly benefit from synergy of the biggest financial groups companies as they will have a range of products offering good return on their investments. This was stated by Mohsin Ali Shah, Head of Investment Services MCB in a press release issued here ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - At a time when the PML-N leaders are branding the PPP-led setup corrupt and are indicating that they would not tolerate it in power any more, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed on Sunday alleged that during his recent visit to Britain, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) Provincial Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmed Ali Olak has said that Punjab government is making all out efforts for the development of agriculture sector and soon Rawalpindi division will have eight more small dams. He said upper areas of Punjab could not make considerable ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) Provincial Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmed Ali Olak has said that Punjab government is making all out efforts for the development of agriculture sector and soon Rawalpindi division will have eight more small dams. He said upper areas of Punjab could not make considerable ...

ISLAMABAD - Small arms are the reason for 60 to 90 per cent deaths due to direct conflicts that occur each year. Approximately 90,000 people were killed every year while 1.5 million people were injured every year. Ismat Ullah Khan, Project Officer of SPADO, an NGO, supporting implementation of UN ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Punjab government should announce small-scale hydle power projects in the province to make the budget document meaningful and business friendly as the acute shortage of electricity is causing undue damage to the entire economy. In a joint statement issued here Thursday, PIAF Chairman ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has revised/ improved the Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) for Small and Rural Enterprises. The scheme has been revised in the light of the recommendations of the Technical Committee on Credit Guarantee represented by Sate Bank of Pakistan, UKs Department for ...

ERUM ZAIDI KARACHI - Small investors have been denied a chance to earn profit through premium rates which should have been offered to them against acquisition of United Bank Limited (UBL) shares but the big players made a settlement between themselves not allowing the small investors to cash the ...

LAHORE - Large local refineries are likely to take over small OMCs like Admore, Hascombe and OOTCL amidst oil price de-regulation growing circular debt scenario in energy sector in the country, it was learnt. The BYCO presently is hungry to find new avenues to market its bulk supplies and is eager ...

The airlines have already taken away the free meals and the pillows. They have been charging for checked bags and extra legroom and raising fares whenever they can get away with it. They have cut back capacity so steeply that planes are nearly always filled to the brim. Judy Dugan, the research ...

LAHORE - The economic impact of the floods has yet to be fully quantified though it is evident that agriculture sector has been hit hardest. As regards SMEs, SMEDA estimates that around 310,000 small businesses are affected by this tragedy, the majority of which are subsistence enterprises with ...

Chairman parliamentary committee on Kashmir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged the government to construct small dams in line with Indus Water Treaty rather than wasting time in holding talks with India on water issue. Maulana Fazlur Rehman said this while talking to media men here Monday after ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The National Agriculture Research Council (NARC) made paradigm shift in its research policies, increasing focus on small farmers to utilize low input implements for enhancing crop production, Director General of the council Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed said. The direction of research has ...

FAISALABAD - The power generating from Tarbela Dam costs only 49 paisa (Re 0.49) per unit while the electricity being added from the Independent Power Plants (IPPs) costs Rs 8 and the power prices would touch the limit of Rs 15 per unit because of rental power plants. It was stated by former Wapda ...

The tsunami from an earthquake in Chile hit Japans main islands on Sunday, but the initial waves washed ashore without causing any damage after sparing most of the Pacific islands that were in its path. Japans Meteorological Agency said the biggest wave in the initial tsunami following the ...

Few offensives have been as well advertised as the battle for Marjah, which US forces have heralded for weeks as the biggest operation of the eight-year war. Military strategists were puzzled that the enemy was being given so much detail. But the battle launched yesterday is as much for headlines ...

LAHORE (APP) - WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani Saturday said that in addition to executing mega projects, Wapda has also planned to construct small and medium dams in all the four provinces and FATA. He said this during his visit to Winder, Darawat and Nai Gaj sites where he interacted with the local ...

A small plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a pasture in northern Nevada, killing all five people aboard, sheriff's deputies said. Douglas County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Halsey said the twin-engine Beechcraft BE95 went down at 4:10 p.m. near the town of Gardnerville, about 10 minutes after taking off ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has announced simplification of license procedures and a major cut in the license fee for small scale renewable energy projects. According to official sources, private investors intending to set up renewable energy projects with ...

LAHORE - Business resumed on Thursday in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) at a snail's pace and remained limited and flat throughout the day while volume of traded shares registered to an upward trend compared to Wednesday trading. The benchmark KSE 100-index witnessed officially no change closed at ...

TOXINS in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled. This second line of defense in the gut ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Traders Alliance (NTA) on Monday said government should bailout small traders from economic problems. Traders would on the mercy of banks and police as they are unable to pay interest up to 35 and 45 per cent, said Malik Sohail Hussain, VP, National Traders Alliance ...

LAHORE (APP) - Federal Minister for Food Agriculture and Livestock Nazar Muhammad Gondal has said that uplift of small farmers is must to boost agriculture sector on which economy of the country is heavily dependent. He was addressing a meeting of Agri-Support Fund (ASF) here on Monday. The ...

TEMPTING treats are being offered in small package sizes these days, presumably to help consumers reduce portion sizes. Yet new research found that people actually consume more high-calorie snacks when they are in small packages than large ones. And smaller packages make people more likely to give ...

LAHORE  - The Punjab Chief Minister Punjab has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Senior Minister, Raja Riaz Ahmad to review the "Punjab Power Generation Policy, 2006" so as to provide appropriate framework for speedy development of small hydro power projects and strategic ...

Hundreds of small investors demonstrated at main stock exchanges Thursday, breaking windows and burning tyres, after another day of heavy losses in trading, officials and witnesses said. Police and the military were called in to restore order at the Karachi bourse where the 100-index has been on a ...

LAHORE- The Provincial Irrigation and Power Department is spending a cumulative sum of Rs 2,155 million on the construction of small dams in Pothohar districts including Jhelum, Chakwal, Rawalpindi and Attock. These schemes, besides providing water for the irrigation purposes, will also supply ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The small traders have criticised the recent federal budget, saying the raise in sales tax, levy of withholding tax on electricity bills, telephone, cooking oil etc would further increase the price hike. The meeting of All Pakistan Organisation of Small Traders and Cottage ...

LAHORE - The cement scrips in the local share markets are being traded at highly irrational levels as the market players are luring the small investors by calculating cement production based on just growth in dispatches, ignoring the high input cost, which demands an early intervention of the ...

KARACHI - Small brokers and investors staged protest at Karachi Stock Exchange over the sharp declining trend that stock market witnessed since the beginning of trading session in the current month on May 2, to May 29, resulting in benchmark KSE-100 index went down by 18.2 per cent to 2,721 ...