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2024-12-14-03-14

Thousands attend second day of 19th KIBF

KARACHI: The second day of the five-day Karachi International Book Fair (KIBF) at the city’s Expo Center drew ...

Updated 14 Dec, 2024 07:41am

Literature

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker joins Booker Prize 2025 jury

LONDON: Hollywood actress Sarah Jessica Parker, known for her lead role in ‘Sex and the City’, will be a judge on...

Published 11 Dec, 2024 05:36pm

2024-12-11-01-51

Karachi Int’l Book Fair to begin tomorrow

KARACHI: The 19th Karachi International Book Fair (KIBF) is all set to commence at the Karachi Expo Center Thursday...

Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:49am

2024-12-07-02-26

Urdu Conference discusses religious poetry and literature

KARACHI: The ongoing 17th Aalmi Urdu Conference, Jashan-e-Karachi, entered its second day with a thought-provoking...

Published 07 Dec, 2024 06:51am

2024-11-26-03-01

Indian author Ghosh wins top Dutch prize

AMSTERDAM: Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings on climate...

Updated 26 Nov, 2024 06:29am

2024-11-25-01-24

Parveen Shakir remembered on her birth anniversary

ISLAMABAD: Legendary poetess Parveen Shakir was remembered on her 72nd birth anniversary being observed across the...

Published 25 Nov, 2024 06:52am

Literature

British writer Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

LONDON: Britain’s Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel ‘Orbital’, a story about a single day...

Published 13 Nov, 2024 02:48pm

Literature

Margaret Atwood, unworried by AI, continues prolific writing career

COPENHAGEN: Renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who is currently writing her memoir, said in an interview that...

Published 29 Oct, 2024 02:10pm

Literature

Original ‘Little Prince’ typescript to go under hammer in UAE

LONDON: A specialist London bookstore is selling an original typescript of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s children’s...

Published 24 Oct, 2024 02:29pm

Literature

Han Kang of South Korea wins Nobel literature prize 2024

STOCKHOLM: South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that...

Published 10 Oct, 2024 05:01pm

Literature

Melania Trump tight-lipped as ever in new memoir

NEW YORK: As first lady, Melania Trump was a cipher to Americans. Now, with her husband weeks from possibly securing...

Published 09 Oct, 2024 07:07pm

Arts

Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri declines award over New York museum’s keffiyeh ban

WASHINGTON: Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri declined to accept an award from New York City’s Noguchi...

Published 26 Sep, 2024 02:23pm

Literature

Designer duo Sana Safinaz, writer Muneeza Shamsie conferred with Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Pakistani designers Sana Hashwani and Safinaz Muneer as well as writer Muneeza Shamsie were conferred the...

Published 15 Aug, 2024 04:08pm

Arts

US Library of Congress spotlights its American ‘treasures’

WASHINGTON: The US Library of Congress houses more than just books, with a new exhibit opening this week...

Published 12 Jun, 2024 04:26pm

Literature

Harry Potter offers magical boost to UK tourism

EDINBURGH: Sam Thorne guides Harry Potter fans through the gothic streets of Edinburgh, where controversial author...

Updated 06 Jun, 2024 06:18pm

Arts

Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dead at 92

OTTAWA: Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and...

Published 15 May, 2024 02:27pm

Literature

Daniel Radcliffe ‘really sad’ over Rowling’s transgender stance

LOS ANGELES: Daniel Radcliffe has said he is saddened by author J.K. Rowling’s stance on transgender rights, telling...

Published 02 May, 2024 03:04pm

Arts

Palestinian prisoner in Israel wins top fiction prize

ABU DHABI: Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic...

Published 29 Apr, 2024 07:30pm

Literature

Salman Rushdie releases memoir ‘Knife’, recalls stabbing incident

NEW YORK: British-American author Salman Rushdie recounted the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that...

Published 16 Apr, 2024 04:23pm

Literature

One of the oldest books in existence expected to fetch over $2.6mn at auction

NEW YORK: A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 02:06pm

Literature

Back to Life: model Kloss bringing back beloved US magazine

NEW YORK: The legendary American magazine Life, a 20th-century mainstay famous for its photography, will be revived...

Published 30 Mar, 2024 12:59pm

Literature

Harvard library removes human skin from book binding

NEW YORK: Prestigious Harvard University said that it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for...

Published 29 Mar, 2024 05:32pm

Arts

Photographer Annie Leibovitz: ‘AI doesn’t worry me at all’

PARIS: Photographer to the stars Annie Leibovitz, inducted into the French Academy of Fine Arts on Wednesday, told...

Published 20 Mar, 2024 07:54pm

Arts

Fatima Bhutto announces birth of son Mir Murtaza Byra

Author and activist names son after her late father, Murtaza Bhutto

Updated 17 Mar, 2024 07:59pm

Arts

‘Luckiest’ Oppenheimer biographer rooting for Oscar wins

LOS ANGELES: Kai Bird has just returned from the Jaipur literature festival, where he signed countless copies of his...

Published 06 Mar, 2024 04:08pm

Literature

New Garcia Marquez novel launched 10 years after his death

MADRID: Gabriel Garcia Marquez died a decade ago, but a previously unpublished book by the author who popularised...

Published 06 Mar, 2024 02:00pm

Literature

Philippine ‘library home’ stacked with books to inspire reading

MANILA: ‘A good book is easy to find’ reads the sign on Hernando Guanlao’s two-storey home located on the outskirts...

Published 04 Mar, 2024 04:23pm

Arts

Changing power and perspectives: 15th KLF concludes on contemplative note

KARACHI: The final day of the 15th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) ended on a contemplative note on Sunday with...

Updated 19 Feb, 2024 01:40pm

Arts

‘Tribalization of human beings’: Mohsin Hamid explores race, fractured societies at KLF

British-Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid was in attendance at the 15th iteration of the Karachi Literature Festival...

Published 18 Feb, 2024 11:30am

Literature

People captivated by KLF extravaganza

KARACHI: The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) continued its journey into the realms of sustainability and the...

Published 18 Feb, 2024 03:01am

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

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S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

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Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

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LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

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WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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