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Guidelines to prevent hacking of WhatsApp accounts issued

ISLAMABAD: An international cybersecurity firm Wednesday issued detailed guidelines to prevent WhatsApp accounts of...

Published 20 Mar, 2025 07:31am

Pakistan

WhatsApp group admin shot dead for allegedly removing member

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting the administrator of a community...

Published 08 Mar, 2025 05:19pm

World

WhatsApp faces EU tech rules after reaching very large platform status

BRUSSELS: WhatsApp has hit a user criterion set out in landmark EU tech rules, the unit owned by Meta Platforms...

Published 19 Feb, 2025 08:49pm

Business & Finance

PTCL partners with PayFast to launch bill payment solution via WhatsApp

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the country’s largest ICT services provider, has...

Published 30 Jan, 2025 06:47am

Markets

Meta, WhatsApp win relief as India tribunal suspends data sharing ban

NEW DELHI: An Indian tribunal temporarily suspended a five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and owner Meta...

Published 23 Jan, 2025 04:54pm

Technology

‘Real-world harm’ if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns

WASHINGTON: There will be “real-world harm” if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and...

Published 10 Jan, 2025 05:36pm

Business & Finance

TRG Pakistan warns stakeholders against ‘fake documents’ circulating on social media

TRG Pakistan Limited (TRG) issued a public notice on Monday voicing concerns regarding the circulation of fabricated...

Updated 30 Dec, 2024 11:28pm

World

Iran lifts ban on WhatsApp and Google Play: state media

DUBAI: Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a...

Published 24 Dec, 2024 08:07pm

Technology

Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows

WhatsApp, Meta's messaging application, also down for users in many countries

Updated 12 Dec, 2024 03:51am

Business & Finance

‘Bribe notes’ with per megawatt rates: filings detail Sagar Adani’s role in Indian scandal

A U.S. indictment of top executives of India’s Adani Group has put a spotlight on Sagar Adani, a millennial scion of...

Published 22 Nov, 2024 12:07pm

Technology

Meta to appeal Indian order that curbs data-sharing between WhatsApp, other apps

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it plans to appeal an order by India’s competition watchdog that restricts the US...

Published 19 Nov, 2024 02:58pm

Technology

Foxconn tells India recruiters: Nix marital status in iPhone job ads

SRIPERUMBUDUR: Apple supplier Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in...

Published 18 Nov, 2024 11:18am

Pakistan

Internet loadshedding?: netizens report disruption in various services on mobile broadband in Pakistan

Users across Pakistan were unable to access various internet services and social media while connected to mobile...

Updated 04 Oct, 2024 07:49pm

World

Israel bombs heart of Beirut, killing six

BEIRUT/OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel bombed central Beirut early on Thursday, killing at least six people, after its...

Updated 03 Oct, 2024 02:12pm

Pakistan

Users in Karachi face disruption in WhatsApp services

WhatsApp users across Karachi faced issues on Saturday in sending media files through the app while connected to...

Updated 28 Sep, 2024 04:10pm

Pakistan

WhatsApp, Instagram users in Pakistan report disruptions: Downdetector

WhatsApp and Instagram users in Pakistan faced some service disruptions on Saturday, according to outage tracking...

Updated 21 Sep, 2024 11:00pm

Technology

Meta and Spotify blast EU decisions on AI

PARIS: A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union Thursday for its “fragmented and...

Published 19 Sep, 2024 11:52am

World

Meta bans Russian state media for ‘foreign interference’

NEW YORK: Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media...

Published 17 Sep, 2024 09:04pm

Opinion

Mental cost of social media

When joke becomes a reality—a cartoon on a person sitting in an addiction treatment clinic. The doctor is asking him...

Published 28 Aug, 2024 07:06am

World

Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France, French media say

PARIS: Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at...

Published 25 Aug, 2024 11:04am

World

Russia blames cyberattack over Telegram, WhatsApp outage

MOSCOW: Messaging services Telegram and WhatsApp briefly suffered a major outage in Russia on Wednesday, said the...

Published 21 Aug, 2024 07:07pm

World

Venezuela opposition candidate asks Maduro to ‘step aside’

CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has claimed he defeated Nicolas...

Published 20 Aug, 2024 12:44pm

Editorials

Online activities under threat

EDITORIAL: Over the past several months, internet disruptions and restrictions on social media platforms have...

Published 19 Aug, 2024 03:20am

Pakistan

Businesses, rights defenders decry Pakistan internet slowdown

Since July, internet networks have been up to 40 percent slower than normal, according to one IT association, while documents, images and voice notes have been disrupted on WhatsApp, used by tens of millions of people

Updated 18 Aug, 2024 08:36pm

Pakistan

NA body told govt officers still using WhatsApp for official communication

ISLAMABAD: The government officials are not only using WhatsApp for official communication but also do not use...

Updated 25 Jul, 2024 06:53am

Pakistan

Disruptions in internet: NA panel summons PTA chairman

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on IT and Telecom while taking notice of recent disruptions...

Published 24 Jul, 2024 07:00am

Technology

Nigeria fines Meta $220mn for ‘violations’

LAGOS: Nigeria has issued a $220 million fine against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, for...

Published 20 Jul, 2024 05:30pm

Pakistan

ATC rejects IK’s plea for WhatsApp call with sons

RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran...

Published 09 Jul, 2024 06:07am

Opinion

Protests, politics and the ‘un’-social media

The best way to control is to make people mindless. The best way to keep them mindless is to keep them illiterate...

Updated 15 May, 2024 06:34am

Technology

Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order

Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being...

Published 19 Apr, 2024 10:31am

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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 25	280.52
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 25	280.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 25	150.44
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 25	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 25	1.29
Euro to USD / Mar 25	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 25	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 25	5,776.65
India Sensex / Mar 25	78,876.83
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 25	37,938.34
Nasdaq / Mar 25	18,271.86
Hang Seng / Mar 25	23,409.08
FTSE 100 / Mar 25	8,663.80
Dow Jones / Mar 25	42,587.50
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 25	23,109.79
France CAC40 / Mar 25	8,108.59

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 25	69.19
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 25	17,085
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 25	272,462
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 25	3,017.63
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 25	65.24
Petrol/Litre / Mar 26	255.63
Diesel/Litre / Mar 26	258.64

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Mughal Iron & Steel (R) / Mar 26 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited (R)(MUGHALR2)	3.01 ▲ 1 (49.75%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Mar 26 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	9.99 ▲ 1 (11.12%)
Zephyr Textile / Mar 26 Zephyr Textiles Limited(ZTL)	11.40 ▲ 1.04 (10.04%)
Philip Morris Pak. / Mar 26 Philip Morris (Pakistan) Limited(PMPK)	737.77 ▲ 67.07 (10%)
Leiner Pak Gelat / Mar 26 Leiner Pak Gelatine Limited(LPGL)	110.80 ▲ 10.07 (10%)
East West Ins. / Mar 26 East West Insurance Company Limited(EWIC)	63 ▲ 5.71 (9.97%)
Crescent Fib. / Mar 26 Crescent Fibres Limited(CFL)	45.70 ▲ 4.14 (9.96%)
Hussain Industries / Mar 26 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	27.29 ▲ 2.42 (9.73%)
Universal Ins. / Mar 26 The Universal Insurance Company Limited(UVIC)	10.34 ▲ 0.91 (9.65%)
Hala Enterprise / Mar 26 Hala Enterprises Limited(HAEL)	12.50 ▲ 1.01 (8.79%)

Stock	Price
Atlas Ins. Ltd / Mar 26 Atlas Insurance Limited(ATIL)	57.70 ▼ -6.28 (-9.82%)
Bela Auto / Mar 26 Bela Automotives Limited(BELA)	165.36 ▼ -16.58 (-9.11%)
Pak Gen.Ins. / Mar 26 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	8.34 ▼ -0.79 (-8.65%)
Noon Sugar / Mar 26 Noon Sugar Mills Limited(NONS)	73.51 ▼ -6.06 (-7.62%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Mar 26 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	900.13 ▼ -71.99 (-7.41%)
Nazir Cotton Mills / Mar 26 Nazir Cotton Mills Limited(NCML)	10.50 ▼ -0.82 (-7.24%)
Ruby Textile / Mar 26 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	6.60 ▼ -0.41 (-5.85%)
Packages Ltd. / Mar 26 Packages Limited(PKGS)	549.99 ▼ -33.93 (-5.81%)
S.G.Power / Mar 26 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	8.01 ▼ -0.49 (-5.76%)
Unicap Modaraba / Mar 26 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	3.03 ▼ -0.18 (-5.61%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Elektron / Mar 26 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	23,534,658 ▲ 1.7
TRG Pak Ltd / Mar 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	22,825,615 ▼ -1.14
Cnergyico PK / Mar 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	14,454,846 ▲ 0.07
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	12,412,844 ▲ 0.01
Engro Fert. / Mar 26 Engro Fertilizers Limited(EFERT)	12,171,822 ▲ 1.11
B.O.Punjab / Mar 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	10,207,107 ▲ 0.08
P.S.O. / Mar 26 Pakistan State Oil Company Limited(PSO)	8,838,908 ▼ -1.87
Sui South Gas / Mar 26 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	7,601,850 ▲ 0
Pak Refinery / Mar 26 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	7,461,474 ▲ 0.34
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 26 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	7,039,319 ▲ 0.1

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