Business Recorder

• Provincially, households from urban Sindh boast the highest percentage of ownership (4pc).

This clinic aims to empower and help mothers across Pakistan ensure their infants’ good health from the day they are born.

• The PM will inaugurate Ravi Development Authority.

As many as 63 ground staff – across Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi – will receive a 50 per cent bonus on their salaries for the month of August.

The 1987 film was a box office smash and featured hit song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life".

• A private security contractor, Jason G said he was offered 750,000 euros by Qatar’s ambassador to Belgium and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to remain quiet on Qatar's role.

• The development comes after last month Pakistan has issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app to clamp down on what it called "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content on the video-sharing platform.

• NDMA said 40 out of 42 chocking points have been cleared

• “We want the entire district of Sialkot to be given the status similar to Gwadar so that the exports of $400 million can be increased to $2 billion in two years,” he said.

• It is the third nation to pass that unwanted milestone, lagging behind only the United States and Brazil.

• The executive orders, which go into effect in 45 days, come after the Trump administration said this week it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from U.S. digital networks and called TikTok and WeChat “significant threats.”

• The company joins other big technology firms that have taken similar steps recently.

• The Australian dollar also fell, hurt by concerns about worsening U.S.-China relations and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s downbeat assessment of the local economy.

• The company said that despite those larger challenges it is sticking to its goal of being profitable on an adjusted basis before the end of 2021 thanks to stringent cost-cutting measures and a strong balance sheet. Uber recorded an adjusted loss in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $837 million in the second quarter.

• The strategy was discussed at a BP executives meeting in July, the sources said, soon after the oil major lowered its long-term oil price forecast to $55 a barrel, meaning that $17.5 billion worth of its assets are no longer economically viable.

• The two ministers discussed the latest developments in oil markets, continued recovery in global demand and progress made towards implementing the OPEC+ agreement.

• For the first seven months of the year, China’s trade surplus with the United States totalled $153.58 billion.

• U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slipped 2 cents to $41.93 a barrel at 0246 GMT, while Brent crude fell 6 cents, or 0.1%, to $45.03, after both contracts had earlier traded higher.

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WASHINGTON: The Manhattan district attorney's office, which has been seeking President Donald Trump's tax records,...

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ISLAMABAD: The Private Schools and Madrassas Alliance (PSMA) has threatened a nationwide protest, if private...

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KARACHI: Veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of Daily Jasarat, Athar Ali Hashmi has passed away peacefully here ...

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LAHORE: After the completion of a rainwater harvesting project at Lawrence Road, the governing body of the Lahore...

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