Archive for the December 31, 2016
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Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) and National Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFSAT) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) have declared Nestlé MILKPAK free from any adulterants and therefore safe and
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The Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Information, Moula Bux Chandio while talking to media persons at Bilawal House said that the opponents are in tension since Asif Ali Zardari announced to join parliament after
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Oil prices settled slightly lower on Friday, the year's last trading day, but attained their biggest annual gain since 2009, after Opec and partners agreed to cut output to reduce a supply overhang that has
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US wheat futures firmed on Friday on better-than-expected export data and short-covering at year's end, analysts said, but the market was poised for an annual decline of about 13 percent. Corn was set to finish
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Gold prices eased on Friday as gains from a weak dollar was offset by profit-taking at the end of a year in which bullion gained about more than 8 percent, snapping three years of declines.
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This is apropos a news item, "Ill-planned SAPT operations led to container pileup: KCAA" carried by Business Recorder on December 28. The news item features a misplaced claim by the Karachi Customs Agents Association (KCAA)
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One of Europe's worst offenders on food waste, Britain is beginning to get its act together thanks to a surge in volunteer initiatives that help the poor as well as creating a bit of seasonal
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Social media firm Snap Inc may be the highest profile tech IPO planned for 2017, with the potential to raise billions. But more than a dozen expected stock offerings of relatively obscure software firms targeting
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The PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has been making efforts towards bringing around a change in the economic, social, cultural and political affairs of this volatile province of Pakistan. It strives for good governance in
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No doubt, the world is not the same as it was in the 1940s. Those very battlefields of the World War II are now venues of joint military exercises of the erstwhile rivals, who have
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