Tag: Inflation

Pakistan and its neighboring countries, Iran and Afghanistan, along with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries, jubilantly observed the celebration of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org This festive holiday, which occurs the day after seeing the new moon of ...

By snatching the mandate, they have dashed the nation's hopes," Khan alleged, the report said. Published Date - 13 March 2024, 09:16 PM Imran Khan 2 Rawalpindi: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned of a looming financial crisis and ...

Many are also struggling to buy food as inflation remains high in many countries and has worsened in some.Israel-Gaza war divides Southeast Asia as trade, religion determine responsesStill, even Muslims who are struggling economically or otherwise look forward to what are widely seen as the true blessings of the ...

KARACHI: Pakistan's consumer price index for February was up 23.1% from the same month last year, marking the slowest rate of annual inflation since June 2022, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. The country has been struggling with soaring inflation, which last May hit an ...

New Delhi: Retail inflation is stable and well within the central bank's tolerance band of 2-6% as a result of the Centre's efforts to rein in prices, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday as she rejected the Opposition's criticism over the price situation.Responding to the ...

At the top of a winding road in the hills of Islamabad, deep in the backyard of a private home, dozens of people gather and wait for a political rally to start, waving a few red and green flags.Days before a national election, this is how the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ...

US Senate releases $118 billion border security and wartime aid deal; Biden urges House support WASHINGTON: Senators on Sunday released a highly anticipated $118 billion package that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other US allies, setting off a long-shot effort to push the ...

Sharif was sacked as prime minister in 2017 by Pakistan’s supreme court in equally controversial circumstances and banned for life from holding public office for “dishonest practices”.Distrustful of the establishment’s intentions, the PML-N did not start to announce its official candidates until Wednesday night, two days after the supreme ...

New Delhi:Retail inflation inched up marginally to a 4-month high of 5.69 per cent in December 2023, mainly on account of higher food prices, according to official data released on Friday. The inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) was at 5.55 per cent in November 2023 and 5.72 ...

Learning lessons from history, Modi has avoided a repeat of this strategy, instead promoting inclusive development. Flagship schemes such as distributing 80 million free gas connections to poor households, rural electrification and more than 21 million houses completed in rural areas resonate more than previous elite-centric campaigns.He champions a ...