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Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin tables 'mini-budget' in Senate ami
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 5 (ANI): Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin tabled the Finance (Supplementary) Bill 2021 also called as 'mini-budget' in the Senate on Tuesday amid protest from opposition members.
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As imports continue to surge, Pakistan's trade deficit doubles
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 3 (ANI): As imports continue to rise in Pakistan, the country's trade deficit has surged to USD 24.79 billion during the first half of the current fiscal year, mainly on the back of a 63 per cent year-on-year increase in imports, a media report said.
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Amid rising external debt of Pakistan, Imran Khan launches Pak-China Busin
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 3 (ANI): As the opposition parties intensified criticism against Pakistan's ruling party over widespread inflation and rising debts, Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched Pakistan-China Business Investment Forum aimed at facilitating investment between the t
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Navjot Sidhu hits out at Centre over 'skyrocketing' fuel prices
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Phagwara (Punjab) [India], January 3 (ANI): Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sidhu has hit out at the Centre over "skyrocketing prices" of fuel prices and said that the inflation has been unjustified and unfair to its people causing distress to the people.
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BJP govt gives 'inflation' as new year gift to people of country, says Con
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], January 3 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party has given 'inflation' as a new year gift to the people of the country, Congress leader Charanjit Singh Sapra said on Sunday.
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Pakistan likely to increase power tariffs amid rising inflation
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 2 (ANI): Amid the rising inflation in Pakistan, the prices of power tariffs are again likely to increase in the country, local media reported on Sunday.
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Pakistan's inflation rate increased in December by 12.3 pc, highest in 21
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 2 (ANI): Prices of consumer goods continues to rise in December as inflation edged up to 12.3 per cent from 11.5 per cent, the highest in 21 months, local media reported citing the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data released on Saturday.
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Opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif demands resignation of Pak PM Imran Khan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 2 (ANI): Pakistan's leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif has demanded the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan over the recent hikes in fuel prices amid rising inflation, reported local media.
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Centre deferred GST hike on textiles fearing defeat in upcoming polls: Con
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], January 1 (ANI): Reacting to the Centre's announcement to defer the earlier decision to increase GST on textiles from 5 per cent to 12 per cent, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Spokesperson Mohan Prakash on Saturday said that BJP took this decision out of f
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Centre's New Year gift to nation is 'new inflation': Congress
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh on Saturday said the central government has given the "new inflation" as the New Year gift to the country.
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Sri Lanka food prices hit record highs, inflation rises to 12.1 pc in Dece
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], January 1 (ANI): Sri Lanka's food prices hit record highs as inflation increased to 12.1 per cent in December last year, up 2.2 per cent from November in the same year.
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Pakistan's 'mini budget' fails to solve economic woos under PM Imran Khan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 1 (ANI): Pakistan's 'mini budget' or the Finance Supplementary Bill, 2021 was introduced on Thursday in the National Assembly but fails to solve the increasing problems of the people due to high inflation under Imran Khan's regime.
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