Business & Economy

ISLAMABAD, Sep 17 (Online): Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has filed application in National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) seeking increase in power tariff by paisas 21 per unit under the head of monthly fuel adjustment. NEPRA will hear this petition on September 29. CPPA […]

YANGON, Sep 16 (XINHUA/APP): Myanmar exported more than 723,043 tons of beans and pulses worth over 564 million U.S. dollars in over five months of the 2022-23 fiscal year, showed the Ministry of Commerce’s figures on Friday. From April 1 to Sept. 9 this year, […]

BEIJING, Sep 16 (XINHUA/APP): China’s benchmark prices for spot interbank gold transactions were lower Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. The benchmark price for gold of 99.95 percent pure or above stood at 386.03 yuan (about 56 U.S. dollars) per gram, down […]

PESHAWAR, Sep 16 (APP): Industrialists here on Friday welcomed the decision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government regarding appointment of former president, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Ghazanfar Bilour as Focal Person of Chief Minister on Ease of Doing Business (EoDB). KP government […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (Online): The government has decided to optimally utilize indigenous sources of energy instead of relying on expensive imported fuel for generation of electricity. This was stated by Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan while addressing a news conference in Islamabad on […]

ISLAMABAD 14 Sep (Online): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the government has beard the result of agreement breached by former government and International Monetary Fund compelled us to nuzzle our nose. Incumbent government saved country from default. He said that there is no doubt […]

Hong Kong, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): Club Med owner Fosun, one of China’s largest private-sector conglomerates, saw billions wiped off its value on Wednesday as jittery investors reacted to a media report that the group was under regulatory scrutiny. There has been growing concern about the […]

Brussels, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): The European Commission on Wednesday set out proposals to bring down the soaring price of gas and electricity in the EU, notably by taxing excess profits of power producers. EU energy ministers are to review the plans in an extraordinary meeting […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (APP): The government on Wednesday was urged to work out result oriented packages of incentives to hard hit flood affected farmers to avert impending hovering food crisis as well as revival of local agriculture sector. Talking to a delegation of flood affected […]

Luxembourg, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): The European Union is on a mission to rein in US tech giants, which have been accused of tax avoidance, stifling competition, raking in billions from news without paying for it and spreading misinformation. In the past few years, the EU […]