http://www.thenews.com.pkLatest News Via RSS Feedsen-usCopyright 2010 TheNewshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/rss3/19/2010http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews.jpghttp://www.thenews.com.pkKARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday launched two separate schemes for increasing the flow of credit to small and rural enterprises withttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299463/20/2010ISLAMABAD: Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim On Friday said renewal of Pak-Afghan Trade Agreement was under process and hoped it will be finalhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299473/20/2010ISLAMABAD: The Army Welfare Trust and the Ministry of Privatisation have reached an understanding to resolve their issues pending for more than two dehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299483/20/2010ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy Crisis (CCEC) was held here Friday under the chairmanship of Minister for Water and Power Rajahttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299493/20/2010ISLAMABAD: Pakistani textiles exports increased by 4.3 per cent to $6.731 billion during the first eight month of the current fiscal on the back of anhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299503/20/2010LONDON : A three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew will go ahead from Saturday after talks with management collapsed, Britain’s Unite union saihttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299513/20/2010LONDON: Oil prices plunged on Friday as the strengthening US currency dented investor enthusiasm for dollar-priced crude, analysts said. New Yhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299523/20/2010LONDON: Gold dropped 1.8 per cent on Friday as fresh gains in the dollar and news of an interest rate hike in India pushed the metal through support ahttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299533/20/2010LAHORE: The Lahore stock market lost 5 points on last working day of the week in the lackluster trading as its benchmark LSE 25-index closed at 3,147 http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299543/20/2010HELSINKI: A port strike that shut down most of Finland’s foreign trade has ended, National Conciliator Esa Lonka said on Friday. “It’s over,” Lhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299553/20/2010KARACHI: The stocks market slipped slightly on Friday in range-bound activity, but extended buying in blue-chip Oil Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299563/20/2010ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General Punjab has pointed out financial irregularities worth a whopping Rs3.8 billion in the Punjab Education Department durinhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299573/20/2010KARACHI: The Trade Organisations Ordinance 2007 would end the registration of bogus trade bodies and chambers, Businessmen Group chairman Siraj Kassamhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299583/20/2010ISLAMABAD: The government is going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) next month with Monsanto, an American leading biotechnology company aimhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299593/20/2010LAHORE: A special advance team from Turkey called on Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab on Economic Affairs and Vice Chairman/ CEO Punjab Board of Inveshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299603/20/2010PEHAWAR: The federal trade ministry has hinted approving 33 kanals and Rs498 million for Gems and Gemological Institute of Pakistan to boost the valuehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299613/20/2010BRAY, Ireland: The police released Sean FitzPatrick, former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, without charge, after questioning him for more than a day, ahttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299623/20/2010LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) urged the SNGPL authorities to put an end to gas load shedding as it not only curtailed indhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299633/20/2010KARACHI: Pakistan and Oman discussed possibilities to build partnership in the agriculture commodities and halal food market. A 16-member trahttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299643/20/2010ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Friday transparent and timely disbursement of funds of the Benazir Income Support Programme (http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299653/20/2010BEIJING: China urged the United States on Friday not to politicise a row over the value of its currency as it announced a top official would travel tohttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299663/20/2010LONDON/NEW YORK: World oil demand will grow faster than new supplies outside OPEC’s control in 2010, but stocks are likely to rise as the group is curhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299673/20/2010NEW DELHI: The number of super rich people in India have doubled last year owing to its robust economy. The nation that is also home to milliohttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299683/20/2010BRUSSELS: The prospect of Greece appealing to the IMF for a debt rescue gathered momentum on Friday despite the risk of casting a shadow over the eurohttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299693/20/2010SHANGHAI: China’s product-quality watchdog said US computer maker Hewlett-Packard violated Chinese consumer rights rules, after an investigation into http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299703/20/2010SHANGHAI: US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media rehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299713/20/2010BEIJING: Rocketing house prices in China’s booming south are forcing low-earners to turn to cheap homes made out of shipping containers, state press shttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299723/20/2010LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the G20 must mature into an organisation that can promote global economic growth and warned there couhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299733/20/2010Two KSE cards sold for Rs52.5m each By our correspondent KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) sold off its two membership cards, ehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=2299743/20/2010