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California to sue US government over Trump tariffs

LOS ANGELES: California is set to sue the federal government on Wednesday over Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again...

Published 17 Apr, 2025 12:10pm

Life & Style

Hundreds rally to bring film and TV production back to Hollywood

LOS ANGELES: Hundreds of Hollywood crew members, producers and actors on Sunday urged California legislators to...

Published 07 Apr, 2025 11:44am

Sports

Iga Swiatek to face Russian teen Andreeva in Indian Wells semi-finals

INDIAN WELLS: Two-time Indian Wells champion Iga Swiatek avenged her shock Paris Olympics loss to Zheng Qinwen with...

Published 14 Mar, 2025 11:38am

World

Firefighters halt advance of latest Los Angeles wildfire

Firefighters stopped the expansion of a new wildfire north of Los Angeles on Thursday after it spread rapidly, as...

Published 24 Jan, 2025 08:43am

World

Massive new Los Angeles-area fire balloons as winds pick up

CASTAIC, CALIFORNIA: Powerful winds and bone-dry conditions could pose a challenge to firefighters battling new...

Published 23 Jan, 2025 09:20pm

Technology

Samsung unveils AI smartphones with Qualcomm chips, teases slimmer Galaxy phones

SEOUL/SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled its newest Galaxy S25 smartphones, powered by...

Published 23 Jan, 2025 08:28am

Opinion

‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night…?’

It was in 1794 that one William Blake, a poet of his time, wrote that famous poem, equating the shining eyes of a...

Updated 18 Jan, 2025 06:37am

World

Biden names two California national monuments after fires thwarted in-person ceremony

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden designated two California sites – a swathe of desert significant to native...

Published 15 Jan, 2025 08:40am

‘$150bn in damage’: photos, videos show destruction in Los Angeles by wildfires

Firefighters raced to contain the frontiers of two Los Angeles wildfires that burned for the sixth straight day,...

Published 13 Jan, 2025 07:47pm

World

San Fernando Valley under threat as Los Angeles fire rages on

LOS ANGELES: Firefighters were slowly making progress in their battle to contain the inferno that has razed swathes...

Published 12 Jan, 2025 08:47pm

World

Trump calls California leaders ‘incompetent’ over fire response

LOS ANGELES: US President-elect Donald Trump accused California officials on Sunday of incompetence over their...

Updated 12 Jan, 2025 11:22pm

World

Los Angeles wildfires in figures

PARIS: Eleven people dead, 10,000 buildings destroyed, 180,000 people evacuated, $150 billion in damage. Here are...

Published 11 Jan, 2025 12:58pm

World

California power outages swell to 400,000 as fires multiply

The number of California homes and businesses without electricity ballooned to more than 400,000 on Wednesday, as...

Published 09 Jan, 2025 11:56am

World

Magnitude 7 earthquake strikes California, USGS says

The magnitude of the earthquake that struck Ferndale, California on Thursday has been revised to 7 from 6.6, the...

Published 06 Dec, 2024 12:21am

World

Trump hands out french fries, Harris visits Georgia churches

ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA: With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited...

Published 21 Oct, 2024 11:33am

World

Worldwide protests held over Indian trainee medic’s rape and murder

Thousands of diaspora Indians protested in more than 130 cities across 25 countries on Sunday, organisers said, to...

Published 09 Sep, 2024 12:03pm

World

Manhunt underway in US after Kentucky highway shooting

WASHINGTON: Five people were shot along a highway in the southern US state of Kentucky, US media reported Saturday,...

Updated 08 Sep, 2024 09:35pm

World

California wildfire now fourth-largest in state history, hot weather offers no relief

More than 6,000 firefighters in California’s Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the US on...

Published 04 Aug, 2024 11:37am

World

Police take back building from protesters at University of California, Irvine

IRVINE: Police on Wednesday appeared to take back control of a lecture hall from pro-Palestinian protesters who for...

Published 16 May, 2024 10:33am

World

93 arrested at LA university pro-Palestinian protest for trespassing

LOS ANGELES: Ninety-three people were arrested Wednesday at the University of Southern California’s Los Angeles...

Published 25 Apr, 2024 01:40pm

Life & Style

Kanye West accused of racism and antisemitism in new lawsuit

LOS ANGELES: Controversial rapper Kanye West repeatedly yelled at Black employees and praised Adolf Hitler as an...

Published 03 Apr, 2024 11:34am

World

Trump, Biden dominate Super Tuesday contests as they march toward rematch

PALM BEACH: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nominating contests...

Published 06 Mar, 2024 10:27am

World

State of emergency in California as storm knocks out power

LOS ANGELES: Swaths of the US state of California were flooded on Monday and hundreds of thousands of people were...

Published 05 Feb, 2024 05:51pm

World

California sues oil giants

LOS ANGELES: The US state of California sued five of the world’s largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the...

Published 18 Sep, 2023 06:32am

World

Rains from dying typhoon batter China for seventh day

BEIJING: Heavy rains from a typhoon kept southern China drenched for the seventh day as slow-moving storm clouds...

Published 11 Sep, 2023 11:02am

Technology

From wow to new normal: driverless cars cruise the streets of San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO: This California summer, passersby on the streets of San Francisco can be divided into two camps:...

Published 27 Aug, 2023 12:23pm

World

Four dead including gunman in California bar shooting

Four people including a gunman were killed in a shooting at a bikers’ bar in California’s Orange County, the local...

Published 24 Aug, 2023 10:36am

World

Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flash floods in California

RANCHO MIRAGE: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashed furious flash floods east and west of Los Angeles on Sunday as the...

Published 21 Aug, 2023 10:05am

World

Kuwait’s scorching summers a warning for heating planet

KUWAIT CITY: As the blazing summer sun beats down on Kuwait, shoppers stroll down a promenade lined with palm trees...

Published 03 Aug, 2023 03:45pm

World

Los Angeles hotel workers strike over wages, housing

LOS ANGELES: Thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles, California, went on strike on Sunday morning as they pushed...

Published 03 Jul, 2023 06:04am

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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 8	281.55
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 8	281.35
USD to Japanese Yen / May 8	145.55
USD to Swiss Franc / May 8	0.83
Pound Sterling to USD / May 8	1.32
Euro to USD / May 8	1.12
UK LIBOR % / May 8	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 8	5,663.94
India Sensex / May 8	80,334.81
Tokyo Nikkei / May 8	37,403.90
Nasdaq / May 8	17,928.14
Hang Seng / May 8	22,745.70
FTSE 100 / May 8	8,531.61
Dow Jones / May 8	41,368.45
Germany DAX 30 / May 8	23,352.69
France CAC40 / May 8	7,694.44

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 8	60.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 8	16,985
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 8	302,383
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 8	3,308.32
Cotton US¢/pound / May 8	66.51
Petrol/Litre / May 9	252.63
Diesel/Litre / May 9	256.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Premier Insurance / May 9 Premier Insurance Limited(PINL)	5.20 ▲ 0.77 (17.38%)
Abdullah Shah / May 9 Abdullah Shah Ghazi Sugar Mills Limited(AGSML)	5.50 ▲ 0.71 (14.82%)
Parmount Sp. / May 9 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	3.22 ▲ 0.41 (14.59%)
Askari Life Assur. / May 9 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	4.60 ▲ 0.5 (12.2%)
UDL International / May 9 UDL International Limited(UDLI)	7 ▲ 0.75 (12%)
Olympia Mills / May 9 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	46.15 ▲ 4.2 (10.01%)
Khyber Textile / May 9 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	734.88 ▲ 66.81 (10%)
Nimir Ind.Chem. / May 9 Nimir Industrial Chemicals Limited(NICL)	148.78 ▲ 13.53 (10%)
PIA Holding Co.B / May 9 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	7,735.23 ▲ 703.2 (10%)
Ittehad Chem. / May 9 Ittehad Chemicals Limted(ICL)	71.50 ▲ 6.49 (9.98%)

Stock	Price
Cyan Limited / May 9 Cyan Limited(CYAN)	25.75 ▼ -6.33 (-19.73%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / May 9 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	7.11 ▼ -1 (-12.33%)
Universal Ins. / May 9 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	8.25 ▼ -1 (-10.81%)
First Punjab Modaraba / May 9 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	2.33 ▼ -0.27 (-10.38%)
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / May 9 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	12.22 ▼ -1.36 (-10.01%)
Masood Textile / May 9 Masood Textile Mills Limited(MSOT)	49.29 ▼ -5.48 (-10.01%)
At-Tahur Ltd. / May 9 At-Tahur Limited(PREMA)	42.57 ▼ -4.73 (-10%)
AKD Hospitality / May 9 AKD Hospitality Limited(AKDHL)	119.73 ▼ -13.3 (-10%)
Punjab Oil / May 9 Punjab Oil Mills Limited(POML)	176.40 ▼ -19.6 (-10%)
Dewan Motors / May 9 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	25.64 ▼ -2.85 (-10%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / May 9 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	26,396,229 ▲ 0.02
Sui South Gas / May 9 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	9,455,895 ▼ -2.02
B.O.Punjab / May 9 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	7,886,415 ▲ 0.04
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / May 9 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	6,888,269 ▼ -1.36
Kohinoor Spining / May 9 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	5,925,808 ▼ -0.19
Sui North Gas / May 9 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited(SNGP)	4,569,171 ▲ 4.11
Cnergyico PK / May 9 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	4,450,592 ▲ 0.01
Hascol Petrol / May 9 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	4,216,484 ▼ -0.07
Pak Refinery / May 9 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	4,034,869 ▼ -1.56
Lotte Chemical / May 9 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	3,311,495 ▼ -1.31

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