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World youth unemployment rate lowest for 15 years, but picture not same across regions: UN

GENEVA: Global youth unemployment is at its lowest level for 15 years, the United Nations said Monday, though not...

Published 12 Aug, 2024 11:54am

Business & Finance

Global unemployment to slightly fall in 2024, UN labour body says

The global unemployment rate is expected to fall slightly to 4.9% this year from 5.0% in 2023, even as inequalities...

Published 29 May, 2024 06:35pm

World

Hundreds of thousands lost their jobs in Turkey-Syria quake: UN

GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the...

Published 30 Mar, 2023 06:35am

World

Global jobs growth will halve in challenging 2023: ILO

LONDON: Global employment growth is expected to slow down sharply to 1% this year compared to 2% in 2022, hit by the...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 01:16pm

Opinion

Contradictions in economic policy stance and a way forward

In its policy prescription, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been pushing Pakistan for adopting procyclical...

Updated 09 Dec, 2022 06:32am

World

Global jobs growth will ‘deteriorate significantly’ this quarter: ILO

GENEVA: Global employment growth will “deteriorate significantly” this quarter, hit by the economic turmoil caused...

Published 31 Oct, 2022 05:00pm

Pakistan

ILO official hails formation of business task force

KARACHI: Senior specialist, Employers Activities of International Labour Organization (ILO), Ravi Peiris has said...

Published 16 Sep, 2022 06:04am

World

50 million people stuck in ‘modern slavery’: UN

GENEVA: Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said Monday,...

Published 13 Sep, 2022 06:12am

World

50 million people stuck in 'modern slavery': UN

GENEVA: Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said Monday,...

Updated 12 Sep, 2022 02:33pm

World

UN labour agency: where workers’ rights are set in concrete

GENEVA: The International Labour Organization, which chooses its next leader on Friday, is a UN agency born in the...

Published 25 Mar, 2022 10:53am

World

UN’s labour agency suspends cooperation with Russia

GENEVA: The UN’s International Labour Organization said Wednesday it was halting all technical cooperation with...

Published 24 Mar, 2022 05:36am

World

Half of global population without any social protections: UN

UN's International Labour Organization said that 4.1 billion people were living without any social safety net of any kind

Published 01 Sep, 2021 06:19pm

Opinion

The wages of wage

In the International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) architecture, the three social partners—workers, employers...

Published 26 Aug, 2021 04:52am

Pakistan

Governing body of ILO: Pakistan elected regular member

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was elected, on Monday, as a regular member of the governing body of the International Labour...

Published 15 Jun, 2021 03:30am

World

Child labour swells for first time in two decades: UN

But statistic modelling shows that number could potentially be more than five times higher, according to UNICEF statistics specialist Claudia Cappa, who co-authored the report.

Published 10 Jun, 2021 10:47am

Pandemic plunges 100m more workers into poverty: UN

GENEVA: The pandemic has pushed over 100 million more workers into poverty, the UN said Wednesday, after working...

Published 03 Jun, 2021 04:13am

Pandemic plunges 100 million more workers into poverty: UN

Covid-19 "has not just been a public health crisis, it's also been an employment and human crisis," ILO chief said.

Updated 02 Jun, 2021 05:03pm

Working 55-hour week increases risk of death: UN

GENEVA: Working more than 55 hours a week increases the risk of death from heart disease and strokes, according to a...

Published 18 May, 2021 05:05am

World

Turkey joblessness up; underutilisation eases from record

The non-agricultural unemployment rate rose to 15.3% from 14.6% a month earlier and youth unemployment rose 0.4 points to 26.9%.

Published 12 Apr, 2021 01:46pm

World

Second night of Netherlands violence as Biden touts herd immunity

"Rich countries are rolling out vaccines, while the world's least-developed countries watch and wait," lamented WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Published 26 Jan, 2021 12:54pm

World

Unemployment in Latin America to hit highest level in more than a decade

The ILO said in a report that Latin America and the Caribbean would end this year with an estimated 30.1 million people unemployed.

Published 17 Dec, 2020 08:47pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 26	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 26	278.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 26	157.65
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 26	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 26	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 26	1.04

Stock	Volume
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,136.99
France CAC40 / Dec 24	7,282.69
S&P 500 / Dec 26	6,037.59
India Sensex / Dec 26	78,472.48
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 26	40,225.56
Nasdaq / Dec 26	20,020.36
Hang Seng / Dec 26	20,121.80

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 26	69.68
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 26	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 26	234,911.70
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 26	2,633.37
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 26	68.80
Petrol/Litre / Dec 27	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Premier Insurance / Dec 27 Premier Insurance Limited(PINL)	6.39 ▲ 0.88 (15.97%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 27 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	7.99 ▲ 1.00 (14.31%)
Askari Life Assur. / Dec 27 Askari Life Assurance Company Limited(ALAC)	6.24 ▲ 0.60 (10.64%)
Liven Pharma / Dec 27 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	124.41 ▲ 11.31 (10.00%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 27 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	108.97 ▲ 9.91 (10.00%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 27 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	17.39 ▲ 1.58 (9.99%)
Shams Textile / Dec 27 Shams Textile Mills Limited(STML)	28.68 ▲ 2.57 (9.84%)
Punjab Oil / Dec 27 Punjab Oil Mills Limited(POML)	168.95 ▲ 14.93 (9.69%)
B.R.R. Guardian / Dec 27 B.R.R. Guardian Limited(BRRG)	24.90 ▲ 2.13 (9.35%)

Stock	Price
First AL-Noor Mod. / Dec 27 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	3 ▼ -0.49 (-14.04%)
Al-Khair Gadoon / Dec 27 Al-Khair Gadoon Limited(AKGL)	41.71 ▼ -4.63 (-9.99%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Dec 27 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	26.21 ▼ -2.91 (-9.99%)
Sardar Chemical / Dec 27 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	33.04 ▼ -3.63 (-9.90%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 27 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	21.51 ▼ -2.27 (-9.55%)
Kohat Textile / Dec 27 Kohat Textile Mills Limited(KOHTM)	30.04 ▼ -3.11 (-9.38%)
Faran Sugar (R) / Dec 27 Faran Sugar Mills Limited (R)(FRSMR)	7.30 ▼ -0.75 (-9.32%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 27 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	590 ▼ -59.79 (-9.20%)
Faisal Sp. / Dec 27 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	266.15 ▼ -22.46 (-7.78%)

Stock	Volume
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 27 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	93,341,113 ▲ 0.31
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	49,879,145 ▲ 0.02
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 27 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	46,907,628 ▲ 2.79
B.O.Punjab / Dec 27 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	30,318,392 ▲ 0.08
Hascol Petrol / Dec 27 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	22,947,833 ▲ 0.25
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 27 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	22,753,854 ▼ -0.03
Silk Bank Ltd / Dec 27 Silkbank Limited(SILK)	16,349,091 ▼ -0.04
Fauji Cement / Dec 27 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	16,189,868 ▼ -0.27
Cnergyico PK / Dec 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	14,738,115 ▲ 0.01

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