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[ KARACHI: Investors resorted to robust buying of attractive shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday as the benchmark KSE-100 index soared around 1,350 points and closed just a few points short of the 150,000 mark. The market exhibited a sustained momentum throughout the session, during which the index climbed to the intra-day … Read more
Asim Azhar might only be twenty eight years old but he has proved himself in the music industry. The singer posted a childhood picture of himself on Sunday and asked his fans, “Can u imagine this boy will be completing 12 years in the industry tomorrow?” in the caption. The post also featured snippets from … Read more
The European Union (EU) has announced Rs350 million (€1.05 million) emergency assistance to support victims of devastating floods in Pakistan that have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands displaced and many missing. “Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the victims and all those affected by this disaster,” the EU said in … Read more
Saudi Aramco and Iraq’s state oil company SOMO have stopped selling crude oil to India’s Nayara Energy in the aftermath of sanctions imposed in July by the European Union on the Russian-backed refiner, three sources familiar with the matter said. The halting of supply from the two Gulf exporters means Nayara, majority-owned by Russian entities … Read more
[ TOKYO/ BENGALURU: Euro zone factory activity expanded for the first time since mid-2022 as domestic demand offset the impact from US tariffs, while the Asian manufacturing sector saw shrinkage, private surveys showed on Monday. There were mixed signals over the Chinese economy, however, as one such survey unexpectedly indicated modest expansion, contradicting an official … Read more
Villages remain cut off in the remote, mountainous areas in the east that have been hardest hit by the disaster, which has killed at least 1,400 people.
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World leaders take part in a fake fashion show dressed in bizarre – yet clever – outfits LONDON: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, never one to shy away from spectacle, shared an AI-generated video on Monday that was as bizarre as it was entertaining. The video, that Musk captioned “High time for an AI fashion show,” … Read more
NEW YORK: Alex de Minaur said he will pull out all the stops in a bid to end his Grand Slam quarter-final jinx after motoring into the last eight of the US Open on Monday. The Australian eighth seed is eyeing the sixth Grand Slam singles quarter-final of his career after swatting Swiss qualifier Leandro … Read more
For the first time in more than two decades, Pakistan has produced a national economic census. It counted over 7.1 million establishments and geo-tagged nearly 40 million structures, making it the largest digitisation exercise in South Asia. Government officials have presented it as a landmark step toward building a reliable statistical frame of the economy. … Read more
