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January 24, 2025

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The industry is calling for 5%interest rates.

Listen to the article KARATSI: Business leaders appealed to the government and the Pakistani state bank (SBP) to reduce the interest rate by 5% to a single -digit 8% from today’s high interest rate of 13% immediately as inflation fell while pushing economic growth in the country. By reinforcing their arguments, they said that the country’s central bank should reduce the interest rate without ‘if’ and ‘but’ if inflation has indeed recede. The low rate will help develop economic activities, they said. Karachi’s president of the Association of Industry (SAI), Ahmed Azeem Alvi, has called for a single -digit policy

January 14, 2025

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TikTok denies reports of a possible sale to Musk, calling them pure fiction.

Listen to the article TikTok has dismissed as “pure fiction” reports suggesting the Chinese government is considering allowing the sale of the platform to Elon Musk to ensure its continued operation in the United States. Reports from Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday said Chinese officials have discussed the possibility of selling TikTok to Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, to avoid a ban that will take effect on Sunday unless the ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell its US business Reports also suggest that Chinese officials are discussing “contingency plans,” although Beijing has

January 10, 2025

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Calling all curly girls

SLOUGH, ENGLAND: Hajra Yamin, Sania Saeed, Angeline Malik and Abida Parveen. What do all these ladies have in common, apart from making a name for themselves in the entertainment industry? They are the proud, undistinguished owners of some of the most beautiful curls in showbiz, flaunting their tightly coiled mass of hair for all the world to admire. Curly and spotted Is there anything more beautiful than a beautifully maintained mane of corkscrew curls? To boldly shake the hair like black milk coming out of the pan? YouTube ads, catering to the global obsession with dead-straight, friction-free hair, may do

January 5, 2025

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Indian media organizations are calling for an investigation into the journalist’s death

Listen to the article India’s media watchdog and journalism organizations have called for a thorough investigation after the body of freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was found stuffed in a septic tank in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on January 3. Chandrakar, 28, was known for his reporting on corruption and the Maoist insurgency in the mineral-rich state through his YouTube channel. Bastar Junction. Police have arrested at least three people, including two of his cousins, in connection with his murder. The Press Council of India expressed “deep concern” over the killing, urging the authorities to provide a detailed report on the case.

September 12, 2024

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Protesters in London are calling for an end to arms sales to Israel

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied outside the prime minister’s office in London’s Downing Street, calling on the British government to end arms sales to Israel in response to its ongoing military operations in Gaza. Wednesday night’s protest was sparked by an Israeli air strike on a “humanitarian safe zone” in southern Gaza that killed at least 40 civilians earlier this week. Waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as “stop the genocide” and “long live Gaza”, the protesters condemned the UK’s continued arms exports to Israel. The rally drew attention to the devastating effects of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Israeli

September 5, 2024

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Businessmen are calling for a 500 basis point cut in interest rates

KARACHI: Businessmen Group President Zubair Motiwala and Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Iftikhar Ahmed Sheikh requested the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to announce a significant rate cut of at least 500 basis points to reduce the interest rate on 14.5% in the upcoming monetary policy statement. They cited the continued decline in inflation to 9.6% in August, while Moody’s recently upgraded Pakistan’s local and foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to Caa2 from Caa3. In a joint statement on Wednesday, business leaders said that with inflation falling to its lowest level in three years,

Bangladeshi students are calling for a new interim government under Nobel laureate Yunus

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus is pictured as he sits for an interview with Reuters in his office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 4, 2024. — Reuters The army chief plans to meet protest coordinators today. The protesters are calling for a new government with Yunus as its chief adviser. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country. Coordinators of student protests in Bangladesh have called for the formation of a new interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, according to a video the coordinators posted on Facebook early Tuesday. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi army chief

Calling Trump and Vance ‘weird’

In a stunning shift in rhetoric, Democratic leaders from Kamala Harris to Hillary Clinton have begun calling Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance “weird,” according to the New York Post. This new line of attack has been echoed by prominent figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Chuck Schumer, intensifying political jokes. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was one of the first to adopt this strategy. During an interview with MSNBC, Walz remarked, “These things are weird, they come across weird.” He reinforced his statement on social media, posting: “Say it with me: Weird.” His persistence continued with

July 29, 2024

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The IMF is calling for a long-term debt rollover of $12 billion

Islamabad: Pakistan was in talks with China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to restructure $12 billion of debt for up to five years, aiming to meet the final condition for approval of the $7 billion International Monetary Fund program, he said. on Sunday Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb. In his first press conference after returning from Beijing where he had gone for talks on renewing the energy debt, the finance minister, however, did not announce any major breakthrough. However, he said China “recognized the issue and the discussions were ‘very constructive’.” “We are asking to extend the maturity of

The internet is calling Kamala Harris a “brat” and her campaign is loving it

Kamala Harris isn’t the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee yet, but her online position is already clear: she’s a meme. In the latest evidence of her viral presence among Gen Z, British pop sensation Charli XCX name-checked her in a tweet over the weekend that called the vice president an “idiot.” And Harris’ campaign is leaning into it. Shortly after the artist tweeted “kamala IS brat” on Sunday night – giving Harris the name of her latest album – the US vice president adopted the album’s green aesthetic for her “Kamala HQ” account. Charli XCX was acknowledging something that had already

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