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Jail time hardened Lula’s resolve to tackle poverty over profit

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s 580-day stretch behind bars imbued him with a renewed sense of...

Published 02 Jan, 2023 06:08am

President urges nation to work for country’s progress

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has stressed upon the nation to renew its journey of transforming Pakistan into a...

Updated 01 Jan, 2023 10:07am

Pakistan

Pakistan calls for mobilising resources to end poverty, hunger and address climate issues

NEW YORK: Pakistan stressed the international community on Wednesday for evolving an emergency action plan and...

Published 15 Jul, 2022 07:29am

Pakistan

Poverty: PM for joint efforts to take Ummah out of the woods

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Tuesday stressed the need for joint efforts, coupled with unity ...

Published 27 Apr, 2022 05:19am

Pakistan

Social acceptance of corruption deepens poverty: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that acceptability of corruption by the society is the main cause of...

Published 04 Mar, 2022 04:37am

BR Research

Poverty-stricken world

The first goal of United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) is ending poverty in all forms by 2030....

Published 29 Dec, 2021 07:56am

PM links poverty of nations to corruption of their leadership

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, while calling corruption a reason to destroy a country, said the factor behind...

Published 19 Dec, 2021 04:37am

BR Research

SDG report card

Still trying to emerge from the pandemic, countries’ progress on many of the SDGs has halted and backtracked due ...

Published 17 Dec, 2021 08:01am

Pakistan

Shehbaz slams PTI govt over rising inflation

LAHORE: Slamming the PTI government, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday...

Published 15 Dec, 2021 06:34am

Pakistan

South Asia: Speakers pinpoint multiple non-traditional security challenges

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar argue that South Asia grapples with multiple non-traditional security challenges...

Published 15 Dec, 2021 06:34am

World

IMF approves $276mn loan deal for poverty-stricken Niger

DAKAR: The International Monetary Fund has approved a three-year loan deal for Niger worth around $276 million, the...

Published 09 Dec, 2021 05:10pm

Editorials

Blame game

EDITORIAL: Inter-ministerial coordination and cooperation, the hallmark of smooth government functioning, appears to...

Published 06 Oct, 2021 04:17am

World

World needs to spend another $100 trillion on UN fight against global woes: report

LONDON: Global goals tackling poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change face a $100 trillion funding...

Updated 17 Sep, 2021 06:08pm

Markets

Pakistan for early completion of Stream Gas Pipeline Project

ISLAMABAD: In a virtual meeting with Russian Ambassador Danila Ganich, Deputy Chairman Senate Mirza Muhammad Afridi...

Published 16 Sep, 2021 04:02am

Business & Finance

PM urges usage of China's Juncao technology to address food insecurity

Says sustainable ways of achieving economic recovery, growth, and development are critical during the pandemic
Remarks come during virtual forum on 20th anniversary of Juncao Assistance and Sustainable Development Cooperation

Updated 03 Sep, 2021 03:41pm

World

Pandemic threatens Asia-Pacific's progress on global development goals, says ADB

Developing Asia's extreme poverty rate - or the proportion of its people living on less than $1.90 a day - would have fallen to 2.6% in 2020 from 5.2% in 2017 without COVID-19

Published 24 Aug, 2021 12:02pm

Pakistan

Govt allocates Rs200bn for poverty alleviation: Dr Sania

ISLAMABAD: The government has allocated Rs200 billion for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division in the...

Published 13 Jul, 2021 03:22am

Opinion

Tackling poverty

One of the key questions today is what has happened to the incidence of poverty in 2020-21, a year which is new...

Published 29 Jun, 2021 03:24am

Pakistan

Ehsaas Programme different from BISP: Dr Sania

LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar said on Saturday that 95...

Published 27 Jun, 2021 03:56am

Opinion

Economic direction and role of government — II

The overall economic policy, including that of the philosophy of Budget, must take into consideration the fact that...

Published 26 Jun, 2021 03:24am

World

Debt could trap low-income nations in poverty

PARIS: A lasting divide risks emerging between rich and poor countries if the rising debt burden of low-income and...

Published 24 Jun, 2021 03:36am

Anti-poverty groups criticise rich countries over G7 tax deal

FRANKFURT: Anti-poverty campaigners on Monday criticised a deal reached by seven wealthy countries to impose a...

Published 08 Jun, 2021 04:09am

Pandemic plunges 100 million more workers into poverty: UN

Covid-19 "has not just been a public health crisis, it's also been an employment and human crisis," ILO chief said.

Updated 02 Jun, 2021 05:03pm

Pakistan

Bilawal slams PM over rising inflation, poverty

KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hit hard on Imran Khan’s PTI government for showing insensitivity...

Updated 10 May, 2021 10:21am

Pakistan

Poverty reduction to gauge PTI govt’s success after five years: PM

The representatives of respective banks and the Maritime Affairs Ministry signed the documents to provide loans to the fishermen under the Kamyab Jawan Programme.

Published 22 Apr, 2021 09:46pm

PM expands free meals programme

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday announced to expand the network of meals-on-wheels kitchens under...

Updated 12 Apr, 2021 09:14am

World

India contributed to nearly 60% of the global rise in poverty in 2020: Study

According to a recent study, an estimated 131 million people were thrust into poverty in 2020, as the global economic slump caused by the pandemic has shrunk the world's middle class population.
A large driver of this rising poverty appears to be the South Asian region, which “is estimated to have added nearly double the amount of people to the ranks of the globally poor as sub-Saharan Africa in the pandemic".

Updated 29 Mar, 2021 04:53pm

World

Lebanon protesters block roads over worsening poverty

Lebanon's economic crisis has been aggravated by several lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Published 09 Mar, 2021 05:14pm

Business & Finance

What lessons can the world learn from China's War on Poverty?

Dr. Alessandra Cappelletti an associate professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Liverpool University says there are some reasons why this project is so successful.

Published 02 Mar, 2021 02:21pm

Pakistan

Poverty-hit people looking towards PSP: Kamal

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said that the poverty and inflation-hit people...

Published 24 Feb, 2021 05:24am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 29 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.70 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jan 29 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	377 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jan 29 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jan 29 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 29 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jan 29 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	65 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jan 29 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	348.44 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jan 29 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jan 29 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Jan 29 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	55.56 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 29 786 Investments Limited(786)	4.70 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jan 29 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	377 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jan 29 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jan 29 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 29 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jan 29 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	65 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jan 29 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	348.44 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jan 29 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jan 29 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	6.72 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Jan 29 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	55.56 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Refinery / Jan 29 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	14,225,354 ▼ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jan 29 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	13,167,971 ▼ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 29 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	12,526,831 ▼ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 29 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	9,891,019 ▼ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 29 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	9,686,092 ▼ 0.00
Hub Power Co. / Jan 29 The Hub Power Company Limited(HUBC)	8,819,700 ▼ 0.00
Habib Bank / Jan 29 Habib Bank Limited(HBL)	8,556,359 ▼ 0.00
Engro Polymer / Jan 29 Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited(EPCL)	6,713,796 ▼ 0.00
Maple Leaf Cement / Jan 29 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	5,509,833 ▼ 0.00
Lotte Chemical / Jan 29 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	5,393,473 ▼ 0.00

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 27	265
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 27	263
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 27	129.88
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 27	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 27	1.24
Euro to USD / Jan 27	1.09
UK LIBOR % / Jan 27	4.31

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 27	4070.56
India Sensex / Jan 27	59330.90
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 27	27382.56
Nasdaq / Jan 27	11621.71
Hang Seng / Jan 27	22688.90
FTSE 100 / Jan 27	7765.15
Dow Jones / Jan 27	33978.08
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 27	15150.03
France CAC40 / Jan 27	7097.21

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 27	79.68
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 27	20235
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 27	173610
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 27	1928.04
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 27	86.89

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