State Bank introduces safer, easier cheque clearance options amid virus fears

KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan has allowed banks to use several new facilities to make cheque clearance safe and easy amid the coronavirus outbreak. In...

Three more COVID-19 deaths took toll 15 with Sindh reaches three and KP, Punjab...

KARACHI: Three new COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the toll of fatalities due to virus reaches 15. The Sindh Health Department confirmed...

Poultry sales, prices decline by 50% amid coronavirus lockdown

KARACHI: Poultry industry has lost millions of rupees amid coronavirus lockdown across the country, denting sales and nearly halving the prices, people affiliated with...

Pulwama youth tests positive of COVID-19; same travel history, one tests positive another negative

PULWAMA (Jammu Kashmir): Pulwama, a south Kashmir district where a youth tested positive for Coronavirus outbreak infection has contacted 87 people and all them...

Coronavirus disease takes death toll over 30,000 world-wide with Italy at worst

ROME: Coronavirus disease took the global death toll over 30,000 as US President Donald Trump pulled back on putting the hard-hit New York region...

Death toll reaches 12, infections jump to 1,528; doctors, para-medics are at high risk

ISLAMABAD: Death toll due to COVID-19, as Health authorities have confirmed, jumped to 12 round the country and number of confirmed infections of the...

Dr Zafar Mirza says 25 people have recovered from coronavirus so far

ISLAMABAD: Dr Zafar Mirza, Special Assistant to PM on Health has said on Saturday that in Pakistan so far 25 people have recovered from...

Man arrested for raping, murdering eight-year-old girl

MARDAN: Man was arrested for raping and then murdering an eight-year-old girl in Mardan’s Sheikh Maltoon Town on Saturday, the police said. The man worked...

Shahid Khaqan approaches Islamabad High Court for protective bail

ISLAMABAD: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former prime minister and senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has filed a petition in the Islamabad High...

Islamabad starts distributing ration among daily wagers

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad administration has started distributing rations among daily wage workers affected by the lockdown in the federal capital. Lower income groups and daily wagers...