Pakistan gold reserves: 28 lakh tolas of gold, valued at 80,000 crore PKR discovered in cash-strapped countryPakistan's unemployment rate rose significantly over the last decade amid the discovery of 2.8 million tolas of gold in Attock, valued at 8...
13 Jan, 2025, 02.47 PM IST
India among five countries with largest number of people living in poverty: UN reportIndia is among the top five countries with the largest populations in poverty, as reported by the UN. The report indicates that 1.1 billion...
18 Oct, 2024, 08.37 PM IST
Pakistan: Short-term inflation surges to 29.88% after rise in price of kitchen productsShort-term inflation in Pakistan has surged 29.88 per cent year on year in the week ending on November 2 due to the increasing prices of ki...
05 Nov, 2023, 11.52 AM IST
Pakistan: Weekly inflation jumps to 31 per centPakistan yet again witnessed a year-on-year increase in short-term inflation which now stood at 30.82 per cent for the week ending on Augus...
12 Aug, 2023, 05.58 PM IST
In inflation-hit Pakistan, a 35% salary hike for state govt employeesThe caretaker government in Punjab has cleared 30 per cent to 35 per cent hike for government employees, based on the current basic salary....
23 Jul, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Pakistan: Sugar, flour prices soar once again in BalochistanMany districts of poverty-struck Balochistan are witnessing a rise in the prices of sugar and flour once against.
30 May, 2023, 06.36 AM IST
View: The flawed Global Hunger Index methodology shows India must reform its statistical systemAs per estimates by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), around 140 million people were pulled out of poverty in India between ...
19 Oct, 2022, 10.55 PM IST
World Bank pegs India’s growth for FY20 at 5%The World Bank on Wednesday cut India’s growth for financial year 2020 to 5% from 6% estimated earlier.
09 Jan, 2020, 04.36 PM IST
View: To call inequality India's main problem is to miss the whole pictureThe point most intellectuals and columnists miss is that poverty and inequality are two very different things which often do not coincide.
17 Feb, 2019, 02.36 PM IST
Pakistani journalist suggests PM Imran Khan to follow Bangladesh’s development modelZaigham Khan advised the newly elected Prime Minister and the ruling party of Pakistan to follow the Bangladesh model of development instea...
24 Sep, 2018, 10.36 PM IST
At 47 million, India has the most adolescent school dropoutsGlobally , about 263 million children and adolescents are out of school, which is equivalent to about a quarter of the population of Europe.
15 Jul, 2016, 12.08 PM IST
India ranks low at 118th, way behind Pakistan, on UN's world happiness indexThe report said that India was among the group of 10 countries witnessing the largest happiness declines along with Venezuela, Saudi Arabia...
17 Mar, 2016, 01.02 PM IST
India ranks low at 118th on UN's world happiness indexIndia did not make any improvement in its happiness quotient, ranking 118th out of 156 countries in a global list of the happiest nations.
16 Mar, 2016, 08.43 PM IST
Is Pakistan's economy heading for another downturn?The economy is in a bad shape largely because the country is poorly governed. The sharp increase in urban poverty has added to the turbulen...
30 Jan, 2012, 10.11 AM IST
- India's neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka in "most failed states" list: Report
Pakistan is at number 12, Myanmar is at 18, Bangladesh (25); Nepal (27), Sri Lanka (29) and Bhutan is at 50 in a list of 60 countries.
21 Jun, 2011, 01.28 PM IST
- Pak cannot be friendly, says former diplomat
"The absence of any underlying ideology of what Pakistan stood for and institutional poverty paved the way for the military's dominance in ...
19 Dec, 2010, 09.14 PM IST
- India at bottom in UNESCO's ranking on literacy
There are grim statistics for India in the UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report released on Friday.
30 Nov, 2007, 04.15 PM IST