DUBAI/LONDON: Citigroup and Standard Chartered have begun evacuating their Dubai offices, telling staff to work ...

Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday held a virtual meeting with the Pakistan Banks’ Association (PBA) and senior leadership of major banks to review the ...

LONDON: OPEC said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia sharply increased oil production in February ahead of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and kept its forecasts for relatively strong global oil demand ...

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks were mixed early Wednesday as markets digested a flat US inflation report and an uptick in oil prices amid the Middle East war. US consumer inflation rose 2.4 percent year ...

MIRPUR: Bangladesh pace sensation Nahid Rana claimed his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals to lead his team to a crushing eight-wicket win over Pakistan in their opening match on ...

“Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security which you have destabilised,” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran’s military command, said in comments ...

MUMBAI: Market turbulence kicked up by the Iran war is reverberating across corporate India’s foreign-exchange hedges, with exporters grappling with mark-to-market losses and importers increasingly ...

AMSTERDAM: Dutch airline KLM has canceled all flights to Dubai until March 28 due to the war in the Middle East, it said on Wednesday. “Due to the ongoing geopolitical unrest in the Middle East, KLM ...

Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after co-host the United States launched airstrikes against the country alongside Israel, killing its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...

Indian benchmark shares slid on Wednesday as the escalating Middle East war and choppy oil prices fanned worries about their potential impact on inflation and growth. The Nifty 50 settled 1.6% down at ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called for tighter enforcement of tax collection through modern, automated monitoring of the country’s most productive sectors, in a bid to curb ...

CHENNAI/BENGALURU: In kitchens across India, hot food and drinks - even tea - are disappearing from the menu in place of fast ...