Sheikh Rashid admitted to hospital due to chest painBy: Web Desk on November 18, 2019RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Railways, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has been admitted to Karachi’s Holy Family hospital as he suffers chest pain here on Monday. The minister was rushed to the Holy Family Hospital after he complained of chest pain following an address at a ceremony in Rawalpindi. The doctors said Sheikh Rashid is suffering from high […]
PML-N demands fresh elections in next yearBy: Web Desk on November 18, 2019LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) General Secretary Ahsan Iqbal on Monday announced that his party wants fresh elections in 2020 as “it is the only way forward in face of the stagnating economy”. Talking to reporters after a meeting of the party’s parliamentary committee in Lahore, the PML-N leader suggested that national dialogue be held for […]
Police round up students in India’s capital as fee protests growBy: AFP on November 18, 2019NEW DELHI: Indian police said they briefly detained around 50 students in New Delhi on Monday as protests against proposed fee hikes at a prestigious public university entered a second week and degenerated into clashes. Police erected barricades around the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as hundreds of students marched down the campus seeking the rollback of […]
Asad Umar appointed as Minister for Planning and Special Initiatives in fresh cabinet shake-upBy: Web Desk on November 18, 2019ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) led the federal government has decided to get back Asad Umar in the cabinet as Minister for Planning and Special Initiatives on Monday. Firdous said as part of an expansion in the cabinet, Khusro Bakhtiar, who was until now serving as the minister for planning and development, will be made the […]
Cant be blackmailed to withdraw corruption cases; do whatever you can: PMBy: APP on November 18, 2019HAVELIAN: Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday reiterated that the government would not withdraw corruption cases against the opposition leaders and challenged them to do whatever they could do. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of 39.3 kilometer Havelian-Mansehra section of the118-km-long Havelian-Thakot motorway project, the prime minister said the hue and cry by the opposition parties would […]
Pakistan to renegotiate gas price with TAPI CoBy: APP on November 18, 2019ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is in the process of renegotiating gas price with Tapi Project Company Limited (TPCL), following which construction work will begin on Pakistan’s section of the multibillion-dollar transnational gas pipeline in Chaman. “We are keen to have a new compatible gas price under the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) project. Accordingly, renegotiations for the gas price will take […]
PSX continues bullish trend, gains 827 pointsBy: APP on November 18, 2019ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Monday continued with bullish trend as KSE-100 index closed at 38,411 points with positive change of 827 points (2.15%) compared 6 to the closing at 37,583 the previous day. A total of 268,794,550 shares were traded compared to the trade of 369,038,836 shares during the previous day, whereas the […]
Circus took place in name of Azadi March: PMBy: Web Desk on November 18, 2019HAVELIAN: Calling himself a ‘dharna expert’, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that a ‘circus’ took place in Islamabad in the name of Azadi March protest. The prime minister had been addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Havelian-Mansehra section of the Hazara motorway. After dispensing with niceties and speaking about the potential benefits of […]
Shooting at a backyard party kills four, wounds six in Fresno, CaliforniaBy: Web Desk on November 18, 2019Four people were killed and six more wounded when unknown suspects sneaked into a backyard filled with people at a party in central California and fired into the crowd, police said. Fresno Police Lt. Bill Dooley told reporters near the scene that officers arrived to find “several individuals” dead on the back lawn. Unknown suspects […]
China is likely to take over Kenya’s main portBy: Mubashir Ali Sangal on November 18, 2019If the Kenyan government failed to repay the debts of $ 3.21 billion to China taken up for an ongoing major railway project, China would possibly take the port of Mombasa as an alternative. SGR (Standard Gauge Railway) a 472-kilometer line from Mombasa Nairobi, where work started in 2013, and become operational in 2017, […]