North Korea test-fires most powerful missile since 2017
- 30-Jan-2022
North Korea on Sunday tested its most powerful missile since 2017, ramping up the firepower for its record-breaking seventh launch this month as Seoul warned nuclear and long-range tests could be next. Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before and last week threatened to abandon a nearly five-year-long self-imposed moratorium […]
Authority to implement Benami law to function from tomorrow
- 30-Jun-2019
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has set up administrative structure to implement Benami Act, 2017 and the adjudicating authority has been constituted to take action against Benami holders of bank accounts or properties with effect from July 1, 2019 (tomorrow).
Canada saw a spike in hate crimes in 2017
- 30-Nov-2018
OTTAWA: The number of hate crimes reported to police in Canada jumped by 47 percent in 2017 from the previous year, targeting mostly Muslim, Jewish or black people, the government statistical agency said Thursday. “For the year, police reported 2,073 hate crimes, 664 more than in 2016,” with most of the uptick in graffiti and vandalism, incitement of hatred, assaults, […]
Syria recorded 68,000 deaths in 2017: report
- 10-Aug-2018
BEIRUT: Syria’s civil registries recorded 68,000 deaths in the war-torn country in 2017, pro-regime daily Al-Watan reported its head said. “Last year, we confirmed 68,000 without specifying the nature of their death and 32,000 this year,” civil registries chief Ahmad Rahal said. Human rights defenders say tens of thousands of Syrians are held in government […]
PSP chief challenges census results in SC
- 25-Apr-2018
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the provisional results of census 2017. Kamal filed a petition at the apex court’s Karachi registry, pleading with the Chief Justice Pakistan to take notice of the findings of the census. In his petition, he argued that the population of […]
1.75 million tourists visited Pakistan in 2017: report
- 25-Apr-2018
KARACHI: Following a significant improvement in the security situation, tourism in Pakistan has increased by 300 per cent over the past few years, a report said here. According to the report published by the APP, 1.75 million tourists visited Pakistan in 2017 alone. Statistics from the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) show that 30 per […]
Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2017
- 22-Mar-2018
LONDON: Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a historic high of 32.5 gigatonnes last year, after three years of being flat, due to higher energy demand and the slowing of energy efficiency improvements, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Global energy demand rose by 2.1 percent last year to 14,050 million tonnes of oil equivalent, […]
Global dividends hit record of $1.25 trillion in 2017, more to come
- 19-Feb-2018
MILAN: Global dividends rose 7.7 percent to an all-time high of $1.25 trillion (£891 billion) last year boosted by a buoyant world economy and rising corporate confidence, Janus Henderson said on Monday, predicting another record year ahead. The surge – the strongest since 2014 – was driven by increases in every region and almost every […]
Costliest year in history: Natural disaster damage cost America $306 billion in 2017
- 09-Jan-2018
NEW YORK: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a barrage of fires, freezes, floods and hurricanes that cost $306 billion, according to a US government report Monday. In 2017, a total of 16 disasters cost $1 billion or more, and led to at least 362 deaths, said the […]
US police shot and killed 987 people in 2017: WPost
- 08-Jan-2018
WASHINGTON: Police officers shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in the United States in 2017, slightly more than the previous year, according to a tally published on Monday by The Washington Post. A total of 987 people were fatally shot by US police last year, up from 963 in 2016 and down from 995 in […]