South Africa GDP shrank 1.3 percent in the final three months of 2022 to return below pre-pandemic levels as record power shortages hit activity, official data showed Tuesday. “After rallying in the third quarter of 2022, South African gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter,” the national statistics agency StatsSA […]
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Research shows UK towns most addicted to social media
Research shows UK towns most addicted to social media. Wrexham, a city in Wales, was named the most social media-obsessed city in the United Kingdom by the gambling website AskGamblers. The quantity of monthly Google searches for major social media platforms in 2022 was examined by AskGamblers. The study’s objective was to look at the […]
Meezan Bank introduces 36-Month installment option for all bikes
These days, more people are buying bikes as a result of rising fuel and automobile prices. Meezan Bank Limited has chosen to take advantage of this by providing “Apni Bike,” a 36-month installment plan for all bikes in Pakistan. The specifics indicate that the programme is offered for one, two, and three years. However, the […]
Ukraine will join NATO in the “long-term”: NATO chief says
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance in the “long-term”, but stressed that the immediate issue is it’s remaining an independent nation in the face of Russia’s invasion. “NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance, but at the same time that […]
Iranian Rial falls to record low against USD
Iran’s rial fell to a record low against the US dollar in the market. The U.S. dollar was fetching as much as 601,500 rials on Iran’s unofficial market on Sunday, compared with 575,000 on the previous day and 540,000 on Friday, according to foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. Iranian authorities have blamed the currency’s fall on […]
Ten killed as air strikes hit convoy of Iran-backed groups in Syria
Ten killed as air strikes hit convoy of Iran-backed groups in Syria. Ten people have been killed by air strikes that hit a convoy of trucks carrying weapons into eastern Syria from Iraq, according to an activist group. The strikes, which no country has claimed, killed seven “truck drivers and their assistants, all of them […]
Hazara nationalists want Hazara division as a separate province
Hazara nationalists want Hazara division as a separate province. Tehreek-i-Suba Hazara convener Mushtaq Khan Advocate demanded of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led central government to declare the Hazara division as a separate province. Talking to reporters here, he said both PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had been playing politics on Hazara province issue. Flanked by Tehreek’s other […]
Social role of Bacha Khan against colonial powers highlighted in a seminar
Abdul Ghaffār Khan also known as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan and honorably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan was a Pashtun independence activist and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. He was a revered Muslim who fought for Hindu-Muslim harmony on the subcontinent while also being a prominent political and spiritual figure recognized for his nonviolent protests and lifelong nonviolence. Khan earned […]