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Dry, hot weather forecast for Bahawalpur

  • BAHAWALPUR, June 12 (APP): The local Met Office has forecast a dry and hot weather for Bahawalpur during next 24 hours. The highest maximum temperature 40 Centigrade and the lowest minimum 31 Centigrade have been recorded ruing last 24 hours. The dry and hot weather has been forecast for adjoin areas.

  • US Fed to raise rates despite sluggish economic data

    WASHINGTON, June 11 (APP/AFP) – For the second time this year, the US central bank appears poised to raise interest rates despite fresh signs the world’s largest economy is not in peak condition. The recent soft numbers on the economy may have weakened the case for an increase in the benchmark lending rate by the […]

  • More than 49,000 youth benefitted from Prime Minister Youth Training Scheme in 2016-17

    ISLAMABAD, Jun 11 (APP): Around 49,505 fresh graduates, degree/diploma holders, have been granted 12-month paid internship of Rs 12000 per month based on their matching demand in reputed public and private sector organizations in Phase-I of Prime Minister Youth Training Scheme during the year 2016-17 to combat unemployment from the country. The initiative had been […]

  • India using NIA as war weapon against leadership: Gilani

    ISLAMABAD, Jun 11 (APP): Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has said that Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) was being used as a war weapon against Hurriyat leadership in the occupied territory. According to KMS, Syed Ali Gilani while chairing a meeting of the APHC executive body at his Hyderpora residence said, […]

  • people booked for holding protest acquitted by Civil Judge

    114 CHITRAL, June 11 (APP): A local court at Booni, some 75 km from District Headuarter Chitral, acquitted scores of social and political activists belonging to Kosht in a case registered against them for holding a protest in October 2015. The Booni Police had registered the FIR under Section 341 of the Pakistan Penal Code […]

  • A Kashmiri martyred in fake encounter, toll rises to 7

    ISLAMABAD, Jun 11 (APP): Indian troops, in their fresh act of state terrorism in Indian occupied Kashmir martyred one more Kashmiri youth in Bandipora district on Sunday raising the number of killed in fake encounters in the territory to seven since yesterday. The troops martyred a youth during a military operation in Gurez area of […]