Archive for the December 29, 2018
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The Karachi Port handled 174,808 tonnes of cargo comprising 107,720 tonnes of import cargo and 67,088 tonnes of export cargo including 10,215 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours
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Not a single deal was reported on the cotton market on Friday as both buyers and seller did not take interest in fresh deals, dealers said. The official spot rate was unchanged at Rs 8,700,
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The first days of 2019 will be marked by below-normal rainfall in Brazil's main soyabean producing areas, with farmers bracing for losses as December's dry conditions and high temperatures continue to ruin fields. According to
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Friday the world's biggest social network has "fundamentally" changed to focus on securing its systems against manipulation and misinformation. Capping a tumultuous year marked by data protection scandals and government
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The murder rate in Venezuela, one of the world's highest-crime countries, dipped in 2018 as some criminals apparently joined millions of law-abiding compatriots in leaving the crisis-stricken country, a local crime monitoring group said in
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US national security advisor John Bolton said Friday he would visit Turkey and Israel to coordinate on Syria, after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw all US forces. Bolton said he would head in January
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India's new curbs on e-commerce companies may not be enough to win over small store owners and traders in next year's general election, with the key voting bloc still seething over what it sees as
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For Kamal Hossain - the Oxford-educated architect of Bangladesh's constitution - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is an autocrat who has betrayed the legacy of her independence hero father. The 82-year-old former friend of Bangladesh's first
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The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has expressed grave concern over sealing of industrial units utilizing furnace oil without prior intimation, notice and called of immediate restoration of their operations. The LCCI Acting
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Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amjad Javed Saleemi on Friday directed all field officers to register first information reports (FIRs) under Section 182 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against the complaints seeking registration
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