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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 / Nov 22	277.85
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 22	277.65
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 23	154.78
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 23	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 23	1.25
Euro to USD / Nov 23	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 22	5,969.34
India Sensex / Nov 22	79,117.11
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 22	38,283.85
Nasdaq / Nov 22	18,003.65
Hang Seng / Nov 22	19,229.97
FTSE 100 / Nov 22	8,262.08
Dow Jones / Nov 22	44,296.51
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 22	19,322.59

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 22	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 22	240,483
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 23	71.24
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 23	2,716.19
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 23	70.77
Petrol/Litre / Nov 24	248.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 24 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 24 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 24 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 24 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 24 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 24 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 24 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 24 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 24 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 24 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 24 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 24 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 24 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 24 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 24 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 24 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 24 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 24 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 24 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,135,830 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 24 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	124,131,268 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 24 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	105,013,176 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 24 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	77,697,371 ▲ 0.00
Treet Battery / Nov 24 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	43,783,366 ▲ 0.00
B.O.Punjab / Nov 24 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	36,573,763 ▲ 0.00
Sui South Gas / Nov 24 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	32,719,678 ▲ 0.00
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Nov 24 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	27,969,689 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 24 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	25,874,820 ▲ 0.00

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