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Australian stocks lower at end of trade, S&P 200 down 52.4pts
PERTH: The Australian sharemarket has closed lower for a third straight day, taking the total decline this week to 3.4...
Russian wheat export decline last week
MOSCOW: Russian wheat export prices declined last week tracking weaker European wheat futures and shrugging off a new wheat export...
Customs arrests 3 Sri Lankan in ganja smuggling case
COLOMBO: The Q Branch police have arrested three Sri Lankan Tamils, including two refugees, when they attempted to smuggle 11...
India to save Rs1,500cr on printing note: Finance Ministry
NEW DELHI: The government is expected to save foreign exchange worth Rs 1,500 crore by commissioning two new bank paper...
Japan stocks weaker at close, Nikkei 225 plunges 0.34pc
TOKYO: Japan stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Construction, Real Estate and Rubber sectors...
China stocks mixed at end of move, Shanghai Composite falls 0.01%
BEIJING: China stocks were mixed after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Gas, Water & Multiutilities, Media and...
Origin of life on Earth, revealed new experiences
NEW YORK: New research shows that the close linkage between the physical properties of amino acids, the genetic code, and...
S Ashraf Ahmad Ali made Member (Training)
ISLAMABAD: S Ashraf Ahmad Ali, an Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officer of BS-20, presently posted as Commissioner-IR (Appeals-II), Lahore, has...
Italy, Iran ink trade insurance deal
TEHRAN: Iran and Italy on Sunday signed a bilateral trade insurance agreement which is expected to help facilitate commercial transactions...
Norway’s $890b sovereign wealth fund ordered to limit holdings of companies
OSLO: Norway’s $890 billion sovereign wealth fund, built on more than four decades of extracting crude from the North Sea,...
Tokyo stocks close 0.34% weaker, Nikkei 225 dips 69.68pts
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks have closed 0.34 per cent lower as exporters reacted to a firmer yen and losses on Wall...
Hamid Hussain promoted as Director (MIS)
ISLAMABAD: Hamid Hussain, an IT-Cadre officer of BS-19 of Inland Revenue, has been promoted to BS-20 as Director (MIS), Federal...
India’s economic growth likely to accelerate 7.7% in 2015
MUMBAI: The country's economic growth is likely to accelerate to 7.7 percent in the current fiscal on account of improvement...
3 held for trying to smuggle ganja in Kandhamal district
BERHAMPUR: Involvement of a policeman in ganja smuggling came to the fore on Monday with the arrest of three persons,...
Customs arrests Mashpee man in heroin smuggling case
MASHPEE: A Mashpee man was arrested Friday, May 29, for his role in allegedly attempting to smuggle 200 grams of...
Cochin Airport customs to install surveillance cameras to strengthen security
NEW DELHI: More surveillance cameras will be installed at the terminal and its premises as part of the efforts to...
Kochi customs arrests man for smuggling 4kg gold
KOCHI: Two sub-inspectors have been detained and were slapped with the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities...
24 Commissioners-IR assume charge after promotion
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued notifications regarding charge assumption/relinquishment by 25 Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officers as...
Giant plasma tubes confirmed to exist in Earth’s atmosphere
EUROPE: The huge energies in the ionosphere get shifted around in plasma “tubes”, observed for the first time by a...
NASA’s inflatable LDSD Mars ‘flying saucer’ ready for test
WASHINGTON: Flying saucers from other planets might not be real, but that doesn't mean they can't inspire modern space-flight designs....
