ISLAMABAD: Amid continuous rise in flour prices, the government on Wednesday decided to immediately release another 650,000 tonnes of wheat to Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to ease out demand and supply equilibrium in the market. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Com­mittee (ECC) of the cabinet presided over by Prime Minister’s Adviser on …

ISLAMABAD: The government has lifted the ban on new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) connections across the country. The moratorium on fresh connections on local gas to the industrial sector was imposed in 2011 and the industry was given re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) connections. The move was welcomed by All Pakistan CNG Association Central Chairman Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha. In a …

ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to keep the prices of petroleum products largely unchanged for November as the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has worked out minor adjustments in the costs of various imported products. A senior official at the ministry of energy said that Ogra had worked out an increase of Re1 and 27 paisa in the prices …

WASHINGTON: US-Italian auto giant Fiat Chrysler and France´s Peugeot are in merger talks that would yield an entity valued at about $50 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Tuesday. Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Peugeot´s parent, PSA Group, would lead the new company as CEO while John Elkann, chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobile (FCA), …

ISLAMABAD: Protesting traders on Wednesday struck a deal with the government under which the latter agreed to delay the condition of CNIC till January 31. All Pakistan Traders Association President Ajmal Baloch confirmed that  the  talks with the government  were successful. Markets and wholesale merchants across Pakistan observed a strike on Tuesday to protest the IMF-backed taxation measures to document …

Fourth- and eighth-grade students in Dallas and Fort Worth continue to struggle on national tests designed to give a common measure of student achievement across the country. Math and reading results for the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called “the nation’s report card,” were released on Wednesday. And Dallas and Fort Worth fared poorly — not only when …

WASHINGTON — Democrats are suing Texas in federal court, alleging a new state law banning temporary voting locations unconstitutionally depresses voter turnout among young people. The Texas Democratic Party and the party’s Senate and U.S. House campaign arms — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court in Austin, …

AUSTIN — Dallas and Tarrant counties are in the top five U.S. counties for uninsured children. Harris County is No. 1, with Bexar and Hidalgo counties also in the top 10. And the trend lines for Texas and the nation are not good: Nationwide, there about 406,000 more uninsured kids than there were just two years ago – with 30 …

  AUSTIN — Brushing past its staff’s initial reluctance, the Texas Medical Board voted last month to investigate an East Texas fertility doctor for possible “unprofessional and unethical conduct” for using his own sperm to inseminate a woman who selected another donor. On Oct. 18, the board voted to reopen and continue an investigation of Nacogdoches obstetrician-gynecologist Kim McMorries. Over …

WASHINGTON — The rancorous impeachment inquiry moves to a new phase Thursday, when the House votes on a package of rules that will govern open hearings on President Donald Trump’s alleged misdeeds and the wisdom of trying to remove him from office. Republicans have complained for five weeks that Democrats have deprived Trump of transparency and due process by taking …