ISLAMABAD: Malik Amjad Zubair Tiwana, a BS-20 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of...

ISLAMABAD: Muzaffar Ali Soomro, a BS-19 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of Commissioner-IR...

HONG KONG: Astronomers have discovered a nest of massive baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away, which are seemingly placed at...

WASHINGTON: The Finance Ministry is poised to cut import duty on up to 1,000 items in a bid to strengthen...

EUROPE: Astronomers have discovered the faintest galaxy ever detected, dating back to the early universe. The ancient structure, which has...

KARACHI: The Central Bank has directed all the banks to facilitate the pensioners, by establishing special counters for them in...

WASHINGTON: New images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offer the clearest, closest view yet of Pluto's stunning surface. The...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Small & Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) has organised a four-day training workshop for textile...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks closed at a two-month low on Tuesday, tracking sluggish global markets, as slumping oil prices...

  SEOUL: South Korean shares dipped 0.75 percent Tuesday as a free-fall in oil prices dampened investors' appetite for risky...

FRANKFURT: Lower prices helped cut Germany's oil import bill by 34.4 percent to 28.0 billion euros ($30.30 billion) in the...

TOKYO: Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo yesterday, seeking 301.99 million yen (US$2.45 million)...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has directed ministries of Water & Power and Petroleum & Natural Resources to keep...

KARACHI: The Sindh government is developing a Marble City Industrial Enclave on 300 acres for the promotion of marble and...

BEIJING: China's foreign trade in November dropped 4.5 percent year on year to 2.16 trillion yuan (US$337 billion), the ninth...

BEIJING: China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, fell by $87.2 billion in November to $3.44 trillion, central bank data...

PESHAWAR: Senior Minister for Irrigation Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao has ordered the authorities concerned to speed up construction work of...

KIEV: Ukraine on December 5 received a batch of coal from South Africa at the price of $57 per tonne...

BEIJING: Iron ore demand is expected to fall further in China next year as the country continues to scale down...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka external trade continued to contract in September with exports falling 5.9 percent to 850 million US dollars...