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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the economy of country was turning around with good growth rate and the government was committed to providing conducive economic environment to the private sector. Talking to Jin Liqun, President Designate Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) here at the PM House, the Prime Minister said the government had invested a lot of resources in energy sector.

Image copyright EPA Image caption German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Australian PM Scott Morrison at the G20 Summit As Australia's fifth prime minister since 2013, Scott Morrison could probably forgive German Chancellor Angela Merkel for doing some quick study before their first meeting. As the pair sat down together at the G20 summit, cameras captured…

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani announced on Sunday, 9 September that Statue of Unity will be unveiled by PM Narendra Modi on October 31, 2018. Speaking to the media during BJP's national executive meeting, Rupani claimed that the 182-meter tall statue is supposedly world's tallest statue.

The most important PM of the world is coming", is how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to Israel, the first by an Indian premier, is described in an article in one of the leading Israeli business daily. Business daily 'The Marker' in a feature story in its Hebrew edition discussing Indo-Israel ties says that Israelis had set up huge expectations from US President Donald Trump's visit to the Jewish state but "he didn't say much" while Modi, a leader of 1.25 billion people enjoying massive popularity and representing one of the fastest growing economies of the world deserves a lot of attention.

LAHORE: Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman, Saturday condemned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's recent press conference as violation of election code of conduct. "The Prime Minister led a rally by addressing a press conference a day before by-election which is violation of election code of conduct," Qureshi said while talking to Samaa.

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Saturday ruled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not violate the election code of conduct in his recent press conference in Lahore. As per code of conduct, the ECP said, the prime minister and ministers cannot ask for votes from the voters after once the election campaign ends.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Bhikki power project in Sheikhupura. But, on this occasion, he subjected Imran Khan to his carping censure. Watch his performance in this video.

Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed saw the defeat of PML-N candidate in NA-122 by-polls set on October 11. With a traditional effusion, he also predicted the countdown of Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif.

ANKARA: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday said Turkey was investigating the Islamic State (IS) group as the prime suspect in the bombings on a weekend peace rally in Ankara that killed 97 people. "Looking at how the incident took place, we are probing Daesh as our first priority," Davutoglu said, using an alternative Arabic acronym for IS.

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 1, 2018 / 1:42 PM GMT By Jonathan AllenBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - America once advocated for a "new world order." Now, it seems to prefer no world order. The transformation took nearly 30 years,…

By Charles Stockdale November 29, 2018 12:58 pm EST Some screenplays require actors to go above and beyond when it comes to delivering dialogue. The early films of Woody Allen or just about any episode of "Gilmore Girls" on television feature characters rattling off lines at a mile a minute, hardly stopping to take a…

Image copyright Getty Images The UK faces a "constitutional crisis" if Theresa May does not publish the full legal advice on her Brexit deal on Monday, Labour has warned. The PM says the advice is confidential. but some MPs think ministers do not want to admit it says the UK could be indefinitely tied to…

poster=" true bush funeral The funeral for George H.W. Bush brings together the Trumps, Obamas, Bushes and Clintons in a political détente. By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 12/05/2018 10:59 AM EST Updated 12/05/2018 12:21 PM EST 2018-12-05T12:21-0500 President George H.W. Bush was remembered Wednesday as "America's last great soldier-statesman," as family members and dignitaries from around…

Forty-eight MPs have lodged formal letters of no confidence to trigger the spill, but to push her out requires 159 votes. If her opponents win, a longer process kicks off to elect a new leader. Cabinet ministers have publicly rallied around the besieged Mrs May, but a number of her ministerial colleagues and former colleagues…

According to the figures released by World Bank for the year 2017 India has emerged as the sixth largest economy by surpassing France. India's GDP worked out to be $2.597 trillion in comparison to France's $2.582 trillion. India's growth was stunted as a result of some of PM Modi's reforms such as demonetization and faulty implementation of new tax regime, Goods and Services Tax. Only last year the economy picked up and the recovery can be gauged by the increased GDP. The comparison with France is lopsided as the population of India is around 1.34 billion, almost twice as that of France's 67 million people. So the per capita income of Indians is 20 times lower than that of France. There is tremendous growth impetus in Manufacturing and Consumer spending that acted as main drivers of the economy in the latter half of the year 2017. India's GDP had doubled within the last decade propelling it as an economic power to reckon with in Asia. International Monetary Fund has projected that India will have a healthy 7.4% growth rate and it may well reach 7.8% by 2019 due to household spending and tax reform. This is far higher than the world's expected average 3.9% growth rate. According to London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research, a consultancy, India may even overtake both Britain and France in terms of GDP by the end of 2018. They predict that India may become the third largest economy by 2032.

Comments of France former President Francois Hollande that Indian government proposed Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as its partner in the multi-million dollar Rafale deal has caught the Narendra Modi led Centre in a crossfire, with the opposition demanding his resignation. Hollande was quoted in French website Mediapart where he said they had no choice and took the interlocutor which was given, stirring a row.

After PM Modi announced the launch of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) on Sunday, AIIMS has become the first hospital in Delhi to sign on for the scheme. On Tuesday, AIIMS signed a MoU with the National Health Agency that is responsible for the scheme's implementation.

British manufacturers on Monday urged Prime Minister Theresa May to relinquish her threat that she might pull out of the European Union without a new trade deal, underscoring that they would be the biggest loser of the trade barriers with the EU.

The Russian President's positive announcement after the summit concluded at St.Petersburg, summed up the positive developments and growth trajectory that PM Modi's talks could have had. Putin said,