Monday, October 5th, 2020
FATF to decide on Pakistan’s grey list status in virtual meeting on Oct 21
ISLAMABAD, OCT 05 (DNA) – A virtual meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be held from October 21 to October 23. The Financial Action Task Force is all set to decide on Pakistan’s grey list status in a virtual meeting scheduled later this month. During the meeting, Pakistan will present its performance report on 27-point action plan given by the FATF. In February, the FATF gave Pakistan, which missed 13 targets, a four-month grace period to complete its 27-point action plan against ML&TF committed with the international community. TheRead More
90pc employees in ML-1 project would be from PR: Sheikh Rasheed
ISLAMABAD, OCT 05 (DNA) – Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed has announced to regularize all the contractural employees of the PR before end of his tenure as minister. Talking to media persons, ML-1 is a gamechanger project for PR and 90pc of the employees in the project would be from the Pakistan Railways. Tender for ML-1 will be released this month. Sheikh Rasheed reiterated that ‘PML-S’ will part ways from PML-N. He also claimed that opposition wants to sabotage Senate election so that PTI could not get the majority in theRead More
WHO believes 10% of world has had virus
Geneva, OCT 5 – The WHO estimated Monday that 10 percent of the world has been infected by the new coronavirus — way more than has been recorded — as it mulled speeding up internal reforms. To date, more than 35 million cases of Covid-19 have been registered worldwide, including some 1.04 million who have died. But the World Health Organization now estimates that around a tenth of the planet’s 7.8 billion or so people have already been infected since the virus first surfaced in China late last year —Read More
Uzbekistan to introduce energy management system
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and energy management systems (EMS) will be introduced into the electricity sector of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Energy said. This project is being implemented in accordance with the program “Digital Uzbekistan – 2030”, developed as part of the presidential decree “On measures for the widespread introduction of the digital economy and e-government” dated April 28, 2020, and the state program “Year of Development of Science, Education and Digital Economy”. The goal of the project is to create a modern automated dispatching system for managingRead More
Digital Technologies Training Center opens in Amudarya District of Karakalpakstan
Tashkent — In accordance with the third direction of the Five initiatives put forward by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan – creating conditions for the wide and effective use of computer technologies by the population and youth, attracting young people to entrepreneurship in the field of information technology by the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in cooperation with state authorities, work continues on the creation of digital technology training centers throughout the republic. Digital Technologies Training Center was opened inRead More
RCCI shows concern on rising food inflation
DNA RAWALPINDI, OCT 5 – Government should take immediate measures to control inflation. Power, gas tariff and POL prices should be reduced to promote business activities. Inflation and rupee depreciation have already reduced the purchasing power of the common man. Mohammad Nasir Mirza, newly elected president of the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce (RCCI) said in a statement that prices of food and basic necessities have increased manifold over the past few months. Rise in prices of milk, vegetables, fruits, pulses, edible oils, ghee and flour, sugar have affected the purchasingRead More