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Updated: May 20, 2021 18:03 IST Significant medical spends have eroded the purchasing power of individuals and families, ICRA Vice President says. Share Article AAA Representational Image | The two-wheeler segment is expected to be impacted the most with the target consumer segment’s affordability and demand sentiment sharply hit by the second wave.   Significant medical spends have eroded the purchasing power of individuals and families, ICRA Vice President says. Ratings agency ICRA on Thu...

LONDON: UK workers on payrolls surged for the fifth month in a row in April as Britain’s economy began to spring back to life thanks to easing lockdown restrictions, official figures have...

Coronavirus positivity rate drops in Mansehra National May 16, 2021 MANSEHRA: The coronavirus positivity rate has plunged drastically because of the effective enforcement of the weeklong lockdown across the district. “The positivity rate could have gone up had effective measures not taken to ensure the enforcement of the Covid-19 lockdown before and after the Eid. And now it is under control,” Dr Qasim Ali Khan, the deputy commissioner, told reporters here on Saturday. He said that the po...

Expat population in Oman drops to 38.8% By Vinod Nair Lockdown 2 SHARE The Omanis constituted 61.2 per cent of the national population compared to 38.8 expatriates as of May 15, 2021. The expatriates constituted 38.9 per cent at the end of March this year. The total population of the Sultanate is 4,507,468, including 2,757,983 Omanis and 1,749,485 expatriates. It may be noted that Oman’s population saw a drop of 2.97 per cent at the end of March this ye...

MOSCOW. KAZINFORM The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection worldwide has increased over the past seven days by 5.1 mln, according to TASS’ calculations. It is almost 20% less than the week before, when the world registered a record high number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

Thousands flock in for Rotorua Marathon, local claims second win in a row 9 May, 2021 05:00 AM 5 minutes to read Rotorua Marathon winner Michael Voss with his coach Kim Stevenson. Photo / Andrew Warner Rain drops and sweat dripped down his face as the crowd roared for the young local builder running towards his second consecutive victory in the Rotorua Marathon. Rotoruas Michael Voss, 24, crossed the line of the 57th Rotorua Marathon five minutes ahead of his nearest rival. Vo...

Besides a meet and greet at the Omni, most of the convention was supposed to be held at Gilleys. The Omni is mostly just being used as a place for attendees to stay while in Dallas. The FBI has called QAnon a domestic terrorist threat. The conspiracy theory revolves around the idea that the so-called “deep state” is controlled by pedophile Hollywood elites and powerful Democratic politicians, all of whom are supposedly acting against the former president. Promotional material for the event...

ABBOTTABAD: The oxygen supply to corona patients dropped suddenly at the Ayub Teaching Hospital early Friday morning causing serious problems to as many as 16 of them on ventilators.However, no...

Cotton trade drops amid higher price demand by ginners Business April 18, 2021 KARACHI: As expected, ginners are demanding higher prices from buyers due to shortage cotton bales in the market with their stocks down to 70,000 bales, traders said on Saturday. With cotton production having declined around 40 percent, ginners are demanding higher prices, as very little stock of around 70,000 bales is left with them, traders said. Spinners were less interested in the purchase of lint from the loca...

Top Story April 17, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has disclosed that Pakistan’s project performance dropped to 58pc in 2018-2020 from 70pc in 2017-2019 due to poor performance in the Public Sector Management (PSM) and water sectors. This poor performance shows that Islamabad had to pay multimillion dollars on account of commitment charges under the PTI-led regime. The ineffective implementation has witnessed a surge in the penalty a...