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Leading Swedish-based retailer IKEA is keen to import household items worth Euro 100 million 9US$130 million) during the next fiscal year. The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and IKEA, in the meanwhile are jointly organizing EPB-IKEA conference at Karachi and Lahore on May 17 and 19, respectively. The EPB has advised companies engaged in manufacturing home …

Shazia’s finger, which has been mysteriously churning out needles and operated upon five times for 8 needles to be taken out so far, didn’t show any sign of the new one cropping up, when X-rayed after two days of the last operation, while her mystified family members attribute this to the outcome of successful counter-measures …

Based on the topic, ‘Find Yourself,’ Quratul Ain has created free forms that have metallic surfaces embellished with thumb pins to produce the effect of movement. Most of her work is figurative and stylised. Both the artists are conscious of the difficulties that they may encounter in pursuing a career as sculptors but are determined …

New Park Energy Ltd (NPEL) in Thatta district of Sindh has launched the first wind energy project. It will produce 45 megawatt as a first step towards becoming the 100-megawatt pilot project to be completed by the end of 2005. The wind generated electricity would be provided to the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) …

According to State Bank during the last one week the foreign reserves with a 0.40 million dollars increase have remained at 13.2 billion dollars. The foreign exchange reserves under custody of the bank with a 10 million dollar increase have remained at 10.23 billion dollars while there has been a 66-lac dollars decrease in the …