islamabad - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to vacate its April 2 stay order regarding the disbursement of funds to advertising agents/media houses.A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, has suggested to the All Pakistan Newspaper Housing Society (APNS) to ...

BEIJING - Industrial output in China rose 9.3 percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday, accelerating from March but below market expectations, underscoring sluggish growth momentum.The April figure was an improvement on an increase of 8.9 percent in March but was still ...

lahore - After punching in a solid 49 per cent return in 2012, Pakistan equities sailed through high tides while sustaining new peaks till April 2013, experts said. According to AHL analysts, in April 2013 alone, KSE100 yielded a cracking 5.2 per cent return while mustering up a massive 12.3 per ...

lahore - The total industry car sales went down by 21 per cent to 11,737 units in April 2013 as against 14,792 units in April 2012. The absence of Punjab Taxi scheme and the discontinuation of Cuore are the prime culprits behind the dip in volumes.The new data reveals that decline in ...

WASHINGTON : The United States’s yawning annual budget deficit narrowed in April as government coffers brimmed with the largest monthly surplus in five years, official data released Friday showed. The federal budget had a surplus of $112.9 billion for the month of April, as payments surged ...

Lahore - The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) on Friday released production data of April, saying the domestic consumption of cement posted healthy rise of over 6 percent in first ten months of this fiscal. According to the latest statistics, the cement sector dispatched 27.664 ...

shanghai - China's auto sales surged 13.4 percent year-on-year in April, an industry group said Thursday, despite weakness in the world's second largest economy.A total of 1.84 million vehicles were sold last month in China, the largest auto market in the world, the China Association of Automobile ...

DHAKA :-Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a fifth straight month in April to a record high of $14.83b, the central bank said on Sunday.Strong remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, rising exports and slower imports helped build the reserves, a senior central bank ...

washington - The US economy added a solid 165,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to 7.5 percent, its lowest level since Dec 2008, the Labor Department said Friday. The better-than-expected monthly jobs data also showed much stronger hiring in February and March -- ...

NEW YORK - Gold fell more than 2 percent on Wednesday, the biggest daily drop since its historic decline in mid-April, as investors sold off a range of commodities, and caution prevailed ahead of a policy statement by the Federal Reserve. Silver dropped 4 percent and platinum group metals fell 2 ...

The Islamabad High Court has adjourned hearing of Musharraf's escape case till 29th of this month.The Interior Ministry could not submit report against the Inspector General Police Islamabad Bani Amin.The Ministry informed the court that it has not yet prepared the reply as it is still waiting for ...

During Saturday’s proceedings of the Benazir Bhutto murder case, the Rawalpindi Anti Terrorism Court judge summoned all accused, including former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, for its upcoming hearing.The case was heard by ATC judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman.Although, Musharraf has already ...

PESHAWAR - After showing lack of interest for seat adjustment in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl gave the final deadline of April 15 to the leadership of the PML-N for holding talks regarding seat adjustment, warning that the door of dialogues would be close after the ...

SWABI – About 50 multinational and national companies would participate in the two-day ‘Industrial Open House and Career Fair’ of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology starting from April 11.This was stated Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Pro-Rector ...

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital territory Administration (ICTA) here on Saturday declared April as Month of Iqbal (Maah-e-Iqbal) to pay tribute the great philosopher poet, in the capital territory. This was decided at a meeting chaired by the Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Tariq Mahmood ...

PARIS - YouTube is shutting down, Twitter users have to pay for the use of vowels, and the new Google Nose search engine will bring a whiff of wet dog or daisies right to your computer or smartphone.Smells fishy? These Internet giants went all-out to try and bamboozle their users with April Fool's ...

The Punjab Text Book Board authorities on Tuesday claimed that the books of primary and secondary classes would be available in the market before the new academic year which is going to start from April.  The PTBB spokesman told TheNation that more than 60 percent books of revised curriculum ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) Author JK Rowling’s new Pottermore website that will allow fans to navigate the world of British boy wizard Harry Potter and shop for merchandise including e-books of the Potter adventures will open in April. A posting on the website said the Pottermore Shop would soon ...

MULTAN - The Food Department will commence wheat procurement in Multan from April 15 and the department is targeted to purchase 1.99 lac ton wheat from the farmers.Chairing a meeting to review arrangements for wheat procurement operation, the district coordination officer Multan Mudassar Riaz Malik ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday visited the under-construction Labour Complex at Defense Road and reviewed the pace of work of the project. Provincial Minister Ch Abdul Ghafoor, Secretary Labour and other officials accompanied him. Shahbaz said that flats would be allotted to the ...

KARACHI (APP): Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan Khalil has said that 13 ongoing projects in Sindh costing Rs 62 billion which are being executed by the National Highway Authority (NHA), would be completed by April 2012. He expressed these views while talking to media ...

oUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered 338 companies in April, whereas 342 companies were incorporated last month and 322 in the corresponding month of last year. The private companies have a major share in new incorporation ...

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) once again failed to meet the monthly tax collection target of Rs 151 billion in April, as they only collected Rs 126 billion, despite taking several revenue generation measures for the last quarter (April-June) of the ongoing fiscal year which ...

Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton are to be married on April 29th at London's Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony that will be watched live on television by millions around the world. The elder son of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana proposed to ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - April Fools Day is today when people especially youngsters lie and mock by calling it as entertainment and often create shocking situation for the others. April Fools Day is always celebrated on April 1, following the custom of playing practical jokes on friends or sending them on ...

SADIQABAD - The All Pakistan Sona Cup Hockey Tournament will be held here at the Ghazi Sports Complex hockey ground from April 1. The tournament organizer Abdul Sattar Sindu while briefing the mediamen disclosed that 20 teams will participate in the event including the favourite National Bank, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Harveting of wheat will start from the first week of next month (April) all across the Punjab province, whereas it has already started in lower parts of Sindh. Deputy Agriculture Development Commissioner (DADC) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MinFA), Imtiaz Ali told that ...

RESEARCHERS claim they have 'officially discovered the most boring day of the 20th century... April 11 1954. A team of Cambridge scientists say the day was devoid of any major news events or even the birth or death of any famous people. They made the discovery after developing a new search engine ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistans consumer price index (CPI), the key indicator of inflation, likely rose by 12.6 percent year-on-year in April because of a rise in petroleum prices, according to a Reuters poll. April consumer prices were seen rising 12.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the ...

Pakistan Army would observe April 30 as Youm-e-Shuhada (Day of Martyrs) in recognition to those soldiers who laid their lives for the cause of the motherland. A number of functions to observe the day are being organized at General Headquarters and Corps Headquarters levels at the respective station ...