Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade turned lower on Friday after a short-lived short-covering bounce, pressured by outlooks for mostly warm Midwest crop weather through early next week, traders said. A dive in

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Chicago Board of Trade soyabean futures fell on Friday on weak cash soyabean prices and improved Midwest crop weather, floor brokers said. Soyabeans were down 4-1/2 cents to 8-3/4 cents per bushel, with September down

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COMEX copper futures rose but closed off from a fresh one-week peak on Friday, buoyed by supply concerns amid falling warehouse stocks and a strike threat for August 31 at two copper mines in South

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Gold futures orbited the break-even mark early Friday, as financial markets shrugged off economic data and waited for the head of the Federal Reserve to give his spin on the economy in a mid-morning speech.

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) division bench on Friday admitted for hearing appeal filed against conviction in drug case and issued notice to the state. According to prosecution case, the appellant among others was planning

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Pakistani woman, Neha Khan has been appointed Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) of Human Rights in the United Nations. Earlier, she had been a member of Unicef, BBC radio reported. Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2004

Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) was given three days time by a division bench of Sindh High Court (SHC) to furnish the names of concerned officials who contemptuously ignored the orders of High Court for

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The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) staged a demonstration on Friday to condemn US attack on the shrine of Hazrat Ali (RA), killing innocent Iraqi people and raids and arrests of religious leaders in Pakistan. The demonstration

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) would launch the pilot project of Musalihat Anjumans in eight districts to strengthen the community-based dispute resolution and gender justice at the grass roots level. This was announced in a

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In order to improve the working of Motor Vehicle Tax (MVT) Wing of Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department and to overcome complaints of corruption, the department has been considering two proposals, either to bifurcate the

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