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OLE HANSEN - A revival among key US crop futures help offset another week of steep losses across energy commodities. Crude oil suffered a third consecutive week of losses. Precious metals reversed some of their recent strong gains as profit-taking has emerged ahead of the June 14 Federal Open Market Committee meeting.Oil returned to near pre-Opec levels as...

ISLAMABAD: The Advisory Committee of Next Generation Mobile Services under Chairmanship of Minister for Finance and Revenues Shaukat Tarin on Thursday approved auction of 27.8MHz available spectrum...

U.S. dollar mixed as investors hold back ahead of Fed meeting Reuters | Apr 27, 2021 10:21 PM EDT A U.S. five dollar note is seen in this illustration photo (Photo : REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo) The dollar was mixed against major peers on Tuesday, gaining against the yen and commodity currencies, with investors biding time ahead of a policy decision by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. The yen, meanwhile, struggled after the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy on hold and proje...

Armoured Personnel Carrier restored ahead of Hastings Anzac parade 25 Apr, 2021 11:41 PM 3 minutes to read Mark Bixley, Todd Ballance, and Shaun Moloney with the restored personnel carrier. Photo / Paul Taylor Hours of work went into restoring an M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier ahead of the Hastings Anzac parade on Sunday. The APC was dedicated to the family of a New Zealand Armoured Corps officer after a chance encounter on social media. When Mark Bixley was browsing a social media group, he ...

26 April 2021 20:20 Share in: ALMATY. KAZINFORM – A photo-exhibition titled Friendship of Peoples – Our Pride has taken place at the library office of No.14 Central Library System in Almaty city ahead of the Peoples Unity Day marked on May 1, Kazinform correspondent reports. Related news According to Gaisha Sakhiyeva, the library’s employee, the photo-exhibition is an annual event. Reminding that the day was established in 1995 in the c...

Karachi April 25, 2021 The Pakistan Peoples Party has announced it will hold a big public meeting on Monday (tomorrow) as part of its election campaign for the by-poll being conducted in National Assembly constituency NA-249 of Karachi. This was decided at a meeting of the PPP Karachi Division held at the Peoples Secretariat on Saturday. PPP leaders who attended the meeting were hopeful that their party would secure a convincing victory in the upcoming by-election. The meeting took into consid...

Te Tuinga Whānau celebrates one year at Tauranga RSA ahead of Anzac Day 23 Apr, 2021 10:00 PM 5 minutes to read Tauranga RSA president Fred Milligan (back left), Te Tuinga Whānau head of security Kelvin Joseph, social worker Sophia Murray and executive director Tommy Wilson (front). Photo / Emma Houpt Tauranga RSA president Fred Milligan (back left), Te Tuinga Whānau head of security Kelvin Joseph, social worker Sophia Murray and executive director Tommy Wilson (front). Photo / Emma Houpt...

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Friday accepted a petition filed by the National Accountability Bureau Rawalpindi for the auction of assets owned by former prime minister Nawaz...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Italys Uffizi discovers lost frescoes during shutdown 24 Apr, 2021 12:35 AM 4 minutes to read A full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de Medici. Photo / AP Other The Uffizi Gallery in Florence used the winter Covid shutdown to push ahead with renovations, discovering lost frescoes that will greet visitors when the leading repository of Italian Renaissance art reopens on May 4. Uffizi director Eike Schmidt said the six months of closure were put to ...

Challenges ahead April 23, 2021 The newly appointed finance minister faces two critical challenges to revive the economy. The first one is the external trade imbalance – at present, export earnings cover just 50 percent of the country’s imports, resulting in the trade deficit. The agriculture sector has been underperforming for quite some time, and the manufacturing sector is facing capacity constraint with low investment. Therefore, the government’s focus should be on compressing the i...