NEPRA approves Rs11.10 hike in power tariff
ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) notified an increase in power tariff by Rs 11.10 per unit for K-Electric consumers on account of fuel charges adjustment (FCA) for June 2022 amid worsening power outages in metropolis. F...
PIA decides to provide internet facility during flights
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airline (PIA) has decided to provide internet facility to its passengers during flights. According to details, national carrier will soon provide internet facility to passengers and has started the installation of Wi...
SBP ranks Bank Alfalah as No. 1 Primary Dealer for FY2021-22
KARACHI: Bank Alfalah Limited announced that it has been ranked as no. 1 Primary Dealer for government securities by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for fiscal year 2021-2022. By achieving this huge milestone, Bank has cemented its place in banking indu...
Sri Lanka’s ousted president to seek temporary stay in Thailand
BANGKOK: Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left Singapore, the island-state’s immigration authority said in a statement on Thursday while a local media outlet reported that he is traveling to Thailand by plane. The Stra...
Millie Bobby Brown opens up about struggling with loneliness: ‘Nobody understood me’
Millie Bobby Brown gets candid about her struggle with self-identity and loneliness while growing up while thinking that she did not belong. In an interview with Allure, the Stranger Things star, 18, also dished on growing in spotlight as a child sta...
Russia in talks with US about potential prisoner exchanges, says diplomat
MOSCOW: Competent authorities in Russia and the United States are in talks to discuss potential prisoner swaps, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Spokesman Ivan Nechayev said at a briefing on Thursday. "We have repeatedly commented on this....
Khloe Kardashian to have sole legal and physical custody of newborn baby: Report
Khloe Kardashian reportedly won't be sharing her newborn son's legal custody with her former cheater boyfriend and father of the baby, Tristan Thompson. An insider told Hollywood Life that the reality TV star and the basketball player have “agr...
Biden urged to release Afghan assets
WASHINGTON: More than 70 economists and experts, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, called for Washington and other nations to release Afghanistan's central bank assets in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden on Wednesday. The letter said f...
Taliban fighters swap arms for books as hundreds return to school
KABUL: Gul Agha Jalali used to spend his nights planting bombs -- hoping to target an Afghan government soldier or, better still, a foreign serviceman. These days, the 23-year-old Taliban member is studying English and has enrolled in a computer scie...
Political parties to submit assets statement by 29 Aug: ECP
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan yesterday instructed all registered political parties to submit their assets statement of fiscal year 2021-2022 by Aug 29. As per election act 2017 article-210, all political parties are bound submit their a...
