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MUMBAI: Jeweller Rajesh Exports Ltd has agreed to buy Swiss company Valcambi, the world's largest gold refiner, for $400 million...

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO) Fahim Zafar has approved the board’s Rs2.72 billion budget for fiscal...

ISLAMABAD: Ex-Pakistan leave granted to Shahzada Tahir Zaman, an Inland Revenue Service officer of BS-20, has further been extended upto...

PARIS: Secret structures hidden within the serrated teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and other theropods helped the fearsome dinosaurs tear apart...

NEW DELHI: The government is expecting to earn over USD 933 million (about Rs 5,989 crore) from exporting 16.5 million...

WASHINGTON: Hoping to capture lawmakers’ imaginations and perhaps loosen their purse strings, NASA officials said Tuesday that the new scientific...

ACCRA: The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) branch of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, exceeded its revenue target...

SINGAPORE: Authorities have seized about S$80,000 worth of drugs from a Malaysia-registered taxi at Woodlands Checkpoint, said the Immigration and...

BRUSSELS: Secret Escapes, the travel website that offers its members deals on luxury travel, has raised $60m (£38.7m) of funding...

COLOMBO: An employee of a private company in Colombo, who tried to import 682 live lobsters without the sanction of...

ABUJA: Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has suspended three commercial banks from collecting customs duties over their noncompliance with the partnership...

KARACHI: The federal governments imported power generation machinery worth $5.80 billion during the last five years. According to the figures...

ISLAMABAD: A four-member delegation from Belarus has visited the research establishments at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) and also...

KARACHI: Meezan Bank’s after-tax profit has increased by 18.8 per cent in the first six months of 2015 to Rs2.6...

MEXICO: As rare as a blue moon? Not this week, when the first blue moon since August 2012 will grace...

CANADA: Our sun blasts out over 50 percent of its energy as "near-infrared" light, but solar cells only harvest visible...

MOSCOW: The 6th Russia-Thailand Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation met in Moscow this month. The meeting was co-chaired by Denis...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has formed three committees to address the issue of 0.3 per cent withholding tax imposed on...

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc plans to scale up its service to offer free basic Internet on mobile phones, an executive said,...

NEW YORK: Global demand for primary and secondary batteries is forecast to rise 7.7 percent per year to $120 billion...