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EU takes all Philippine airlines off blacklist after 5 years
BRUSSELS: The European Union has lifted its ban on Philippines-based carriers, allowing them to return to EU skis for the...
RBZ, Norges Bank both reduces benchmark borrowing costs within week
WELLINGTON: A brace of interest-rate cuts delivered 11,000 miles apart this month reveals how central banks are finding a modern...
JETRO plan to increase Japanese exports to Malaysia, Singapore
TOKYO: Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) has identified 11 regions in Japan as part of its regional revitalisation plan to...
Turkey’s exports decrease in 2015 by 19% to $10.8b
ANKARA: Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM), Turkey's exports decreased in May 2015 by 19 percent to $10.8 billion compared to the...
Tevta to impart vocational training to 25,000 prisoners
LAHORE: The Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) has announced to train 25,000 inmates in all the prisons of...
Export can be enhanced to $180b: ICCI urges govt to facilitate fruit, vegetable farmers
ISLAMABAD: The business community of the federal capital has asked the government to facilitate the farmers to boost the fruit...
Sindh govt urged to withdraw 14% service tax on indenters
KARACHI: The business community of the metropolis has urged the provincial government to withdraw 14% service tax on indenters, which...
Meat industry lauds govt’s tax exemption move
LAHORE: The meat industry has lauded the government decision to give income tax exemption to the industry, which will boost...
Election of new board members: KP minister halts decisions of BoK board meeting
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Muzaffar Said has ordered a stop implementation of decisions taken in a recent board meeting...
Ukraine’s largest lender Privatbank asks creditors to extend maturity of Eurobonds worth $350m
KIEV: Ukraine's largest lender, Privatbank, said on Friday it had asked creditors to extend the maturities of two Eurobonds worth...
Future deep space mission: NASA send international crew into Atlantic Ocean ‘s depths
NEW YORK: NASA will send its astronauts for future deep space mission into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean PARIS:...
Over 20 million bees lost in Idaho tractor crash
LONDON: Idaho falls, More than 20 million bees being shipped from Idaho to North Dakota were lost when a tractor-trailer...
Punjab govt allocates Rs1.5b in budget to deal with natural catastrophes
LAHORE: The provincial government has allocated record Rs1.5 billion in budget for fiscal year 2015-16 for coping with the natural...
WTO rules against emergency car import duties imposed by Ukraine in 2012
KIEV: Emergency car import duties imposed by Ukraine in 2012 to safeguard its own auto industry violate global trade rules,...
Pluto & moon Charon seem to be same but visually they are not
LONDON: NASA's New Horizons is transmitting the most remarkable photos of Pluto and its moon Charon even if they are...
Giant elliptical galaxy swallowed an medium-sized galaxy over last billion years
NEW YORK: New observations by astronomers at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutes have revealed that the...
IMF agrees to release last tranche of $506.4m to Pakistan
SLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), under a three-year bailout package, has released the last tranche of $506.4 million to...
NASA simulation shows Planet’s motion drives spiral waves throughout disk
NEW YORK: The supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around Beta Pictoris shows that the planet's motion drives...
900MW Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park to be completed by 2016
LAHORE: A Chinese delegation has called on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and agreed to work on 900MW solar power project...
Low gas pressure brings PSM’s production to zero
KARACHI: Due to low gas pressure, the production of Pakistan Steel Mills has touched zero level. Sources said that, the...
