Friday, September 18, 2009 KARACHI: Stock market investors would be enjoying double Eid, as the prices of their shares purchased during Ramazan have jumped up by over 13 percent.Rhe investors of the stock market this year would be celebrating double Eid—one, which everyone celebrates at the end of the month of Ramazan, while the other exclusively for having earned significant profit on their purchased shares during Ramazan leading to over 13 percent on the average increase in the value of their investments.Karachi stock Exchange KSE-100 index today after a long time breached the psychological barriers of 9400, while from the advent of Ramazan thus far KSE-100 index swelled up by 16 percent i.e. by 1300 points.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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