MOSCOW: Bolivia's government-owned oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and the Russian natural gas company Gazprom signed a framework...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said on Friday that the local fisheries industry is to be modernized with lifting of a ban...

WASHINGTON: NASA’s basketball court-sized Juno spacecraft will finally arrive at Jupiter, completing its 13.8 million-kilometre (8.6 million-mile) trip through the...

LONDON: One by one, the observatories sounded the alarm in the past few years—from the peak of Mauna Loa in...

BERLIN: Germany-based building materials supplier Schuco yesterday opened its first exhibition center in China as it expands into the Chinese...

BEIJING: South China’s Guangdong Province has stepped up anti-drug measures following the seizure of a ship carrying two tons of...

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT: Insisting that the importation was irregular, a steel industry group petitioned the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to...

JAKARTA: The Jambi Customs and Excise Office destroyed as many as 3,080 bottles of illegal local and imported alcohol, more...

KILKENNY: A man has been arrested after gardaí seized cannabis and cocaine worth an estimated €300,000 in Kilkenny. The drugs...

LONDON/FRANKFURT: European stocks climbed, paring a third weekly decline, as concern abated that Britain will exit the European Union and...

TORONTO: Canada's main stock index edged higher on Friday as commodities rallied and global worries about Britain voting to leave...

NEW YORK: U.S. stocks fell, capping a rocky week when traders focused on the consequences of the coming U.K. vote...

ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) Friday approved Rs 91 billion worth of 13 development projects including Rs 88...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to decide Friday on whether to approve a new national stock...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has allocated Rs 587.476 million in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP 2016-17) for the four...

ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation, measured through Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), for the week ended on June 16, for the combined...

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians from both sides of aisle in the National Assembly, Friday endorsed different proposals, forwarded by the Senate to...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Friday unanimously passed the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Bill-2016 aimed at stipulating mechanism and procedures for...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has decided to increase number of special Eid trains in order to ensure maximum facilities to passengers...

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain Friday congratulated Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on the country’s upgradation to Emerging Markets status. In a...