KARACHI: The gender gap in financial inclusion was rising, with only 11.7 million, or 18 per cent of the adult women, having active bank accounts compared to 51pc for men, State Bank of Pakistan Deputy Governor Sima Kamil said on Monday. She was speaking at the consultative launch of “Banking on Equality: Reducing the Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion,” a …

ISLAMABAD: As the government released about Rs12 billion for part payment of retrenchment cost and salaries to employees of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), the Insaf Labour Union (ILU) has demanded that the president and the prime minister investigate an additional loss of over Rs50bn suffered by the country’s largest industrial unit over the past two years. According to two separate …

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh has directed the Commerce Ministry to hold a special meetings with stakeholders to control surging egg and vegetable ghee rates. Chairing the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) meeting on Monday, the minister urged the provincial governments to strictly monitor egg and ghee prices. Shaikh further directed the secretary commerce to call a meeting with representatives …

Pakistan’s current account recorded a surplus for the fifth consecutive month in November at $447 million as compared to a deficit of $326m during the same time last year, data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Tuesday. “In contrast to the previous five years, the current account has been in surplus throughout FY21 due to an …

Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The iPhone maker’s automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when it first started to design its own vehicle from scratch. At one point, Apple drew …

Kayi tribe is seen mourning  the death of  a major character in  the new trailer for “Kurulus:Osman, a historical TV series created by  Mehmet Bozdag. Bozdag on Monday shared the new trailer for the upcoming episode of the  TV series, which is sequel to hit Turkish show “Dirilis:Osman”. Scheduled to be aired on Wednesday on a Turkish TV channel, the …

Melissa Benoist recently received backlash for supporting Joe Biden. After the election results were finalized, the actress  disappeared from Instagram leaving her fans concerned. In her last post, she congratulated  Biden on the photo and video sharing app on November 7. Melissa, who has over 4.5 million followers on Instagram, emerged as one of the staunch opponents of President Donald …

Natalie Portman recently opened about her inner demons, as well as struggles around bullying with a candid flair. The Emmy award winning star touched on her myriad of struggled during an interview with Drew Barrymore. There she was quoted saying, “I read this thing about how you didn’t have an easy time in school because you would go out to …

Priyanka Chopra is eyeing an eventful 2021 with back to back releases scheduled ahead. On Monday, the actress gave the sneak peek at the official trailer of her upcoming movie The White Tiger via an Instagram post. “The White Tiger trailer is here! Coming to Netflix Jan 22!” Pee Cee captioned the video. The White Tiger is based on the debut novel of the …

Wonder Woman 1984 opened to a less than heroic $18.8 million in China over the weekend and a disappointing $38.5 million overseas. That’s far less than the $38 million that the first Wonder Woman grossed in its opening weekend in China and likely means that the follow-up will earn far less than the $90.5 million that its predecessor pulled in from the country …