RIYADH  : Some 180,000 illegal foreign workers have left Saudi Arabia since April 1 under an amnesty that allowed them to try to sort out their papers or leave without paying a penalty, a report said on Sunday. "Between the beginning of April and the start of June, 180,000 foreigners left the ...

ISLAMABAD- Eyeing speedy trial in the wake of prolonged delay in the election tribunals (ETs) appointment, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the ETs to decide election petitions expeditiously within a period of four months and grant adjournments only in exceptional cases. In the ...

CAIRO: An Egyptian opposition youth activist was on Monday sentenced by a Cairo court to six months in prison for insulting President Mohamed Mursi.Ahmed Duma, who was tried for calling Mursi "a criminal and murderer" during a television broadcast, was also ordered to pay a fine of 200 Egyptian ...

islamabadPakistan spent a huge amount of $16 billion on food and oil imports during ten months (July to April) of the current fiscal year (2012-2013).According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country spent $16 billion on importing food items and petroleum products during ...

karachi - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $11,569.82 million in the first ten months (July – April) of the current fiscal year 2012?13 (FY13), showing a growth of 6.37 percent or $692.83 million when compared with $10,876.99 million received during the same period of last ...

islamabad - The government has spent Rs 170.3 billion on Public Development Programme (PSDP) during ten months (July-April) of the ongoing financial year 2012-13, revealed the figures of Planning Commission of Pakistan.According to latest figures, the government has released 73 per cent of the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): - The mobile phone imports into the country increased by 4.38 percent during the first nine months of the current year over the same period of last year. The imports of mobile phone during July-March (2012-13) were recorded at $536.7 million against $514.18 million during ...

islamabad - Large scale manufacturing posted a growth of 4.26 per cent in the first nine months of (July-March) of the year 2012-13 from a year ago.The growth in LSM was mainly driven by increase in production of food products, iron and steel products, petroleum products, paper and board, ...

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer hauled in $36.6 million in pay, bonuses and stock last year after just six months at the helm of the Internet firm, with some of that time spent on maternity leave.Mayer’s base pay of $454,862 was fattened with a $1.12 million performance bonus and ...

ISLAMABAD : The gold imports during first nine months of current fiscal year surged by 33.49pc as against the same period of last year. According to data revealed by PBS, during the period under review, 2,942 kilogram of yellow metal worth of $159.172m was imported as compared to the import of ...

Lahore - MQM chief Altaf Hussain still thinks that the general elections should be delayed for a few months to improve the law and order situation in the country before affording the people an opportunity to use their right to vote.In case the elections are held on May 11, as scheduled, there would ...

LAHORE  - The Punjab government has released funds of around Rs149 b out of revised size of ADP of about Rs210 b for the development projects during the last nine months of current fiscal year of 2012-13. However, total funds of Rs98.2 b have so for been utilized during the period of 1st July, ...

islamabad - The cash-starved government spent a huge amount of $14.429 billion on food and oil imports during nine months (July to March) of the current fiscal year (2012-2013).According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country spent $14.429 billion on importing food ...

SHANGHAI - US public health experts said developing a vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu could take "many months", as China seeks to control an outbreak which had killed 11 people by Friday. Chinese authorities have confirmed 43 human cases of H7N9 avian influenza since announcing nearly two ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s trade deficit contracted by 4.86 per cent to $15.40 billion in first nine months (July to March) of the current financial year on the back of healthy growth in exports and continuous decline in imports. Country’s trade imbalance shrank to $15.40 billion in the ...

KARACHI - Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $10,353.92 million in the first nine months (July–March) of the current fiscal year 2012-13 (FY13), showing a growth of 6.35 percent or $617.95 million when compared with $9,735.97 million received during the same period of last ...

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to put an end to the menace of begging in the federal capital, Islamabad Police during current year arrested a total of 768 beggars and also initiated legal process by registering FIRs against professional alms seekers and their handlers.According a press note issued from ...

RAWALPINDI  – The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Rawalpindi has rescued 3328 emergency victims in 3301 emergency operations during last three months and maintained its average response time of less than seven minutes. Out of total 3301 emergency calls received during previous ...

ISLAMABAD - Tea import in country during first eight months of current financial year registered an increase of 10.73 per cent as compared to imports of corresponding period of last year.During the period from July-February, 2012-13 country consumed about 89,738 metric tons of tea costing US$ ...

ISLAMABAD – The gold imports during first eight months of current fiscal year surged by 48.2 per cent as against the same period of last year. About 2,645 kilogram of gold worth of $143.633 million was imported during the period under review as compared to the import of 1,805 kg valuing ...

ISLAMABAD, : - Production of tractors witnessed increase of 104.94 per cent during the first seven months of the current year against the same period of last year.As many as 30,528 tractors were manufactured during the seven months from July to January (2012-13) against the production of 14,896 in ...

A ROBOT jellyfish more than 5ft wide has been shown off by researchers in America.The lifelike invention could one day conduct military surveillance, clean oil spills and monitor the environment. It is part of a multi-university project for the US Navy that is being led by Virginia Tech professor ...

ISLAMABAD - More than 37,557 people have visited Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) during the last five months, which is a great achievement of Museum to educate people on natural wealth. Scientists of PMNH have explored nearly all regions of country including the barren and rocky area of ...

Former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that caretaker set-up will come into force after two months.PPP will contest the next General elections with full devotion and get success on its performance of last 4 years.Talking to media at airport here in Multan on Sunday‚ he said that ...

GUJRANWALA - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Monday said the rulers had ruined democracy in the country and predicted that the next six months would be quite important politically.Addressing the party activists in Gujranwala, Nawaz said, “We were not allowed to ...

FAISALABAD - Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has started gas loadshedding for four days in the region from Thursday morning (today), resultantly more than 600 industries including textile units would be closed again after working of three days.Commenting over the prevailing situation of ...

LAHORE – The cement exports, which provided some relief to the industry in past few years, have declined rapidly during the first eight months (July 2011 to Feb 2012) of current fiscal year. During this period, the decline in exports was 5.57 per cent, declining to 5.62 million tons from 5.95 ...

LAHORE – SALMAN ABDUHU - The Punjab government has posted a deficit of Rs8.2 billion in first half of current fiscal year compared to surplus of Rs16.6 billion reported last year while Sindh government performance was better, as it managed to post a surplus of Rs4 billion during the period, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Consumer Price Indicator (CPI) based Inflation has recorded at 10.79 per cent during the first eight months (July-February) of the ongoing fiscal year 2011-12 against the same period last year. “The recent increase in petrol prices and power tariff will put impact on the ...

NEW DELHI  - India’s economic growth slowed to 6.1 percent in the three months to December, the weakest annual pace in almost three years, as high interest rates and rising raw material costs constrained investment and manufacturing.The dismal numbers showed the weakness in the economy ...