AGL 34.48 Decreased By ▼ -0.72 (-2.05%)
AIRLINK 132.50 Increased By ▲ 9.27 (7.52%)
BOP 5.16 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (2.38%)
CNERGY 3.83 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-2.05%)
DCL 8.10 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-0.61%)
DFML 45.30 Increased By ▲ 1.08 (2.44%)
DGKC 75.90 Increased By ▲ 1.55 (2.08%)
FCCL 24.85 Increased By ▲ 0.38 (1.55%)
FFBL 44.18 Decreased By ▼ -4.02 (-8.34%)
FFL 8.80 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.23%)
HUBC 144.00 Decreased By ▼ -1.85 (-1.27%)
HUMNL 10.52 Decreased By ▼ -0.33 (-3.04%)
KEL 4.00 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
KOSM 7.74 Decreased By ▼ -0.26 (-3.25%)
MLCF 33.25 Increased By ▲ 0.45 (1.37%)
NBP 56.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.65 (-1.14%)
OGDC 141.00 Decreased By ▼ -4.35 (-2.99%)
PAEL 25.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-0.19%)
PIBTL 5.74 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.35%)
PPL 112.74 Decreased By ▼ -4.06 (-3.48%)
PRL 24.08 Increased By ▲ 0.08 (0.33%)
PTC 11.19 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (1.27%)
SEARL 58.50 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.15%)
TELE 7.42 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-0.93%)
TOMCL 41.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-0.24%)
TPLP 8.23 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-0.96%)
TREET 15.14 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.39%)
TRG 56.10 Increased By ▲ 0.90 (1.63%)
UNITY 27.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-0.54%)
WTL 1.31 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-2.24%)
BR100 8,615 Increased By 43.5 (0.51%)
BR30 26,900 Decreased By -375.9 (-1.38%)
KSE100 82,074 Increased By 615.2 (0.76%)
KSE30 26,034 Increased By 234.5 (0.91%)
World - 2020-12-18
Trudeau commits Canada to sharing any extra vaccine doses
USA

Trudeau commits Canada to sharing any extra vaccine doses

  • As Canada gets vaccinated, if we have more vaccines than necessary, absolutely we will be sharing with the world.
  • Canada has reserved more vaccine doses per capita than any other country. In the unlikely event that all the experimental vaccines perform well in trials.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 10:54pm
Mysterious N.Korea site may be building nuclear components, report says

Mysterious N.Korea site may be building nuclear components, report says

  • The nondescript cluster of buildings called Kangson on the southwest outskirts of Pyongyang was first publicly identified in 2018 by a team of open-source analysts as the possible location of a facility for secretly enriching uranium, a fuel for nuclear bombs.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 07:37pm
Trump jumps gun on FDA, says Moderna vaccine 'approved'

Trump jumps gun on FDA, says Moderna vaccine 'approved'

  • The Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue formal approval Friday. This would make Moderna's vaccine the second to be approved in a Western country following the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 06:47pm
Mysterious N.Korea site may be building nuclear components, report says
Asia

Mysterious N.Korea site may be building nuclear components, report says

  • “The characteristics of the site are more consistent with a plant that could manufacture components for centrifuges,” says IAEA official.
  • The imagery suggests the site lacks the infrastructure needed for enrichment, writes Heinonen, a distinguished fellow with the Stimson Center, the Washington think-tank that runs the project.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 06:42pm
Covid-19 vaccine delivery to poor countries to start in early 2021: WHO

Covid-19 vaccine delivery to poor countries to start in early 2021: WHO

  • Announcing the agency had secured nearly two billion doses of vaccine candidates, the WHO said in a statement that this would "enable all participating economies to have access to doses in the first half of 2021, with first deliveries anticipated to begin in the first quarter of 2021."
Updated 18 Dec, 2020 06:46pm
Blast in Ghazni kills 15, mostly children, at Quran reading ceremony
South Asia

Blast in Ghazni kills 15, mostly children, at Quran reading ceremony

  • A suspected rickshaw bomb killed at least 15 civilians, including 11 children, on Friday at a Koran recitation ceremony in central Afghanistan.
  • Killings by small, magnetic bombs placed under vehicles have unnerving Afghan officials, activists and journalists, who blame the Taliban for the attacks.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 05:12pm
Swiss coronavirus cases surpass 400,000, deaths top 6,000

Swiss coronavirus cases surpass 400,000, deaths top 6,000

  • The total number of confirmed cases in Switzerland and neighbouring principality Liechtenstein increased to 403,989, the death toll rose by 120 to 6,003, and 184 new hospitalisations kept pressure on the health care system.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 05:09pm
Burundi ex-president Buyoya dies from Covid-19

Burundi ex-president Buyoya dies from Covid-19

  • Buyoya, who was credited with helping push democracy in the small African country but was accused of involvement in his successor's assassination, was hospitalised in Mali's capital Bamako on Wednesday, a family member told AFP.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 04:57pm
Biden backs son Hunter after US tax probe revealed

Biden backs son Hunter after US tax probe revealed

  • During his unsuccessful re-election campaign, President Donald Trump launched repeated accusations against Hunter and said the Bidens were a "corrupt" family and a "criminal enterprise."
Published 18 Dec, 2020 04:56pm
Brexit trade talks enter desperate 'final hours'

Brexit trade talks enter desperate 'final hours'

  • The European Parliament has demanded that it see the text of any accord by Sunday at the latest, and the UK government says it will not allow talks to go beyond December 31.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 04:53pm
As pandemic rages across U.S., Congress scrambles to reach relief deal
USA

As pandemic rages across U.S., Congress scrambles to reach relief deal

  • As the coronavirus pandemic roared to new record highs across the United States, it lit a fire in the U.S. Congress, where Republicans and Democrats were scrambling to pass a new round of aid after months of partisan finger-pointing and inaction.
  • Multiple lawmakers floated the possibility the federal government would run out of money early Saturday morning while the COVID-19 relief negotiations continue.
Updated 18 Dec, 2020 04:27pm
Sikh diaspora drums up global support for farmers' protest in India
South Asia

Sikh diaspora drums up global support for farmers' protest in India

  • Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against deregulation of agriculture markets are drawing strength from Sikhs around the world who are urging foreign governments to intercede with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  • Sikhs living overseas, most of whom have families at home tied to the farms, have picked up the thread in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, demonstrating outside Indian embassies to draw attention.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 03:30pm
Lockheed Martin to help Japan build stealth fighter

Lockheed Martin to help Japan build stealth fighter

  • Lockheed will partner with project leader Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
  • The new fighter, which is known as the F-3 or F-X and is expected to cost about $40 billion, will replace the F-2
Published 18 Dec, 2020 12:53pm
Britain, EU strike pessimistic tone in post-Brexit trade talks
Europe

Britain, EU strike pessimistic tone in post-Brexit trade talks

  • Britain and the European Union struck a pessimistic tone in trade talks on Thursday, with a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying it was “very likely” there would be no agreement unless the bloc changed its position “substantially”.
  • Just over two weeks before Britain finally leaves the bloc’s orbit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was also downbeat, saying it would be “very challenging” to overcome the “big differences” that remained.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 11:21am
Lockheed Martin to help Japan build stealth fighter

Lockheed Martin to help Japan build stealth fighter

  • The new fighter, which is known as the F-3 or F-X and is expected to cost about $40 billion, will replace the F-2. Lockheed had proposed a hybrid design based on its F-35 and F-22 jets, but Japan rejected that in favour of a home-grown design.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 11:15am
Two dead as super cyclone levels Fiji villages

Two dead as super cyclone levels Fiji villages

  • "It's devastating to see another big cyclone affect Fiji so soon after Cyclone Harold and so close to Christmas," the Red Cross's Suva-based Pacific chief Kathryn Clarkson said.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 11:04am
Japan to develop longer-range anti-ship missiles

Japan to develop longer-range anti-ship missiles

  • The missiles would allow Japan to expand a strategy known as anti-access area denial (A2AD), that is meant to stop foreign forces from operating freely in waters close to home territory.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 09:35am
Google wins EU antitrust nod for $2.1 billion Fitbit deal
Europe

Google wins EU antitrust nod for $2.1 billion Fitbit deal

  • Alphabet’s Google won EU antitrust approval on Thursday for its $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit after agreeing restrictions on how it will use customers’ health related data.
  • The deal had triggered criticism from privacy advocates on both sides of the Atlantic, consumer organisations and Google rivals about the company’s market power and the use of people’s health data in targeted advertising.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 09:30am
Macron tests positive for COVID-19, European leaders rush for tests
Europe

Macron tests positive for COVID-19, European leaders rush for tests

  • Macron had numerous recent meetings with EU leaders.
  • Believed to have contracted virus at EU summit last week.
  • Said to be tired with cough, may move to palace retreat.
  • Wife Brigitte tested negative but is self-isolating
  • France among European nations hardest hit by COVID-19.
Published 18 Dec, 2020 12:37am