The country is facing eight-hour-long power outages amid the merciless ongoing heatwave as the electricity shortfall has reached 5,000 megawatt.According to power division sources on Wednesday, the electricity shortfall was touching 5,000MW following an ongoing heatwave in the country as the mercury level is touching 44 Celsius in Lahore. The sources said that 4,000MW was […]
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British Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson has appreciated Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan for starting the 10 Billion Tsumani Trees programme to deal with climate change. In his message on World Environment Day Boris Johnson said that climate change is driven once again by our actions and the way we treat the natural world. He […]
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U.S. tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries’ agreement to create a global minimum 15% corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.The deal, reached Saturday, was designed to reduce companies’ incentives to shift profits to low-tax offshore […]
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GENEVA: The WHO on Monday called for Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to give Covax first refusal on new doses, or commit half of their volumes to the global jab equity scheme. World Health Organisation Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said manufacturers should turn their attention to the Covax facility, which has struggled to get donation-funded doses […]
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Pakistan stock market (PSX) 100-index at the closing time of the first day of the trading week gained 90 points as share prices rose to new highs 48,302 which is highest in the last four years and two months. The total trading business at the closing time of the PSX was Rs930 million shares worth […]
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The death toll in Monday’s fatal trains collision incident rose to 63 as eight more bodies were retrieved from the wreckage during the rescue operation. According to Dr Zahid, chief medical officer Railways, 58 bodies of the deceased were handed over to their families after their identification. He said the identification of only five bodies […]
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Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has directed Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) to send mandatory confirmation messages to their customers to enable Value Added Services (VAS) so that their consent for the services To be obtained.The PTA statement further directed the operators to submit a report within three weeks of the issuance of the order.The statement said […]
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The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has released on Sunday a clarification on the media debate over GDP growth estimations being cited by the National Accounts Committee (NAC) noting underway strong economic recovery already highlighted in its quarterly reports.In a set of tweets published by the central bank via its official handle say that the […]
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Federal education minister Shafqat Mahmood said on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, adding that he was experiencing “mild symptoms”.In a tweet, the minister said: “I have tested positive for coronavirus. I feel fine with mild symptoms. InshAllah will get well soon.” A day earlier, Mahmood had chaired an online meeting of […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) will meet today with Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood in the chair to finalise the exam schedule for schools and discuss other important matters.All education ministers, including the Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan ministers, are members of the IPEMC, which is responsible for formulating policies related to the […]
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