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Finmin departs for US to attend IMF, WB annual meetingsPublished on: October 12, 2025 4:48 AM

Pakistan, Oct. 12 -- Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, departed for the United States to attend the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the... Read More


Centre to link highway awards to returns, based on FASTag data

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- The Centre plans to mandate awarding new highway projects under the build-operate-transfer (BoT) model if the traffic data, generated through the electronic toll collection syste... Read More


Wedding tax collection sees huge risePublished on: October 12, 2025 4:40 AM

Pakistan, Oct. 12 -- Despite being a poor country, Pakistanis have big hands on expenditures on marriages as the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has revealed that its cut of withholding tax on expendit... Read More


Regulator Apathy Led to Children Dying from Contaminated Syrup

India, Oct. 12 -- The deaths of at least 20 children after consuming spurious cough syrup have once again exposed the extent to which India's national drug regulator has hollowed out from within. The ... Read More


Current issues under debate at first Party Congress of Government

Hanoi, Oct. 12 -- Many current issues were scrutinised at a plenary discussion held as part of the first Party Congress of the Government, the 2025-2030 tenure, on October 12 afternoon. The plenum, ch... Read More


Reliance Power chief financial officer arrested for rRs.r68 crore 'fraud'

India, Oct. 12 -- The Enforcement Directorate arrested Ashok Kumar Pal, executive director and chief financial officer of Reliance Power Limited, late on Friday in connection with a money-laundering p... Read More


Inside India's quiet new export: human intelligence for artificial minds

Bengaluru, Oct. 12 -- The difference between catching a foetal anomaly in time and missing it can be life-changing for the foetus and the expecting mother. These days, Kochi-based Raji Chandran, a med... Read More


Fashion tech firms struggle for a funding fit despite AI makeover

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Despite early excitement, India's fashion tech sector has yet to deliver meaningful scale or investor returns. Most start-ups remain at seed stage, struggling to move beyond expe... Read More


Uttarakhand CM Dhami inaugurates newly developed pulse varieties produced by Pantnagar University

Pantnagar, Oct. 12 -- Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the 118th All India Farmers Fair and Agricultural Industry Exhibition held at Pantnagar University. On this occasio... Read More


Beijing's Blueprint: Pakistan as the Test Case for Africa

India, Oct. 12 -- China is perfecting a new kind of playbook for the Indian Ocean Region-one that advances its strategic reach without the diplomatic friction that comes with overt basing. Where a Chi... Read More