tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77129821366169791882024-03-13T08:31:45.003-07:00PakisnessIt is about business and technology.mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-50008313069705820432020-04-26T02:39:00.000-07:002020-04-26T02:39:04.961-07:00Why should one invest in mutual funds?Wealthy people have their wealth in form which offers them returns. The forms in which wealthy people park their money is real estate, bonds, debentures, mutual fund units, shares and stock along with others. Take the example of shares which are in fact part ownership of corporations. If you invest in shares of a corporation you in fact own part of it thus taking part in its future profits and mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-32900911549016735252020-04-21T07:37:00.000-07:002020-04-21T08:16:43.964-07:00What is common among countries with effective Covid-19 response?Countries with best respons to covid19 have women leaders in common. Countries with female heads performed well in containing the spread of covid-19 as well as containing the casualties. Female leaders have again and again showed the world that they have different focus and they have different way to wield the power. They proved that equal power on the political front can not only benefit the mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-53436024825551200642019-06-01T13:42:00.002-07:002019-06-01T14:35:22.839-07:00Making sense of buyer's powerIn economic theory monopsony is a market structure in which one large buyer controls big portion of the market and thus exercises bargaining power. After 2017, China has overtaken United States to become the largest oil importer. China in last year imported 239.2 billion $ worth of crude oil from 15 different countries. India is third largest oil importer after US and China and roughly imports mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-79791319506457382602019-05-12T06:13:00.001-07:002019-05-12T06:21:46.586-07:00Secret to buying happinessConventional wisdom has always taken the position that money can’t buy you the happiness but a scientific study reveals that there are ways out there which you can use to buy happiness.
Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton during their study for the book ‘Happy money: The science of happier spending’ learnt that you can buy happiness by becoming a little poor. Following are the ways in mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-78955422795271349792019-02-26T06:51:00.003-08:002019-02-26T07:05:27.936-08:00Why Saudi Arabia matters to PakistanAs the crown prince Muhammad bin Salman completed his two day Pakistan visit, the debate about Pakistan joining the Riyadh’s camp, against Tehran, for financial largesse dominated the public discussion. Pakistanis are vying cost and benefits of Saudi financial assistance. Both countries are linked by financial assistance, religious ties, energy markets, and defence agreement. Pakistan needs mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-6693307177568068862018-12-02T06:15:00.002-08:002018-12-02T06:22:05.729-08:00Is bitcoin energy consumption overblown?Researchers from Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education has found out that mining a dollar worth of bitcoin consumes more energy than digging up a dollar worth of gold. "We now have an entirely new industry that is consuming more energy per year than many countries," said Max Krause, lead author of the study. "In 2018, Bitcoin is on track to consume more energy than Denmark." Denmark mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-1261287061867424152018-10-30T23:54:00.001-07:002018-10-30T23:59:32.603-07:00Rice bran oil production potential of PakistanAbid Butt, chief executive of e2e supply chain management, is an entrepreneur who has established Pakistan’s first rice bran oil mill.Rice bran as it is called is a byproduct of rice milling process. Rice when converted from brown rice to white rice it gives rise to this byproduct. The bran is the outer coating of your everyday grain of rice, and is often removed during processing and used as mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-31246920982341512472018-05-06T11:33:00.000-07:002018-05-06T11:37:30.621-07:00Mediterranean diet and Mediterranean lifestyle for health living.<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Nawaz
Sharif’s Govt. over his four year tenure added 35 billion $ to Pakistan’s debt
pile. The maximum number of loans – amounting to $10.1 billion, the highest
taken out in any mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-90760721063633140762017-10-28T07:29:00.000-07:002017-10-28T07:43:43.309-07:00One more Asian billionaire every other day: UBS study finds<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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According to
Pakistani law provident fund and gratuity funds are two distinct things. Provident funds are paid to regular employees
and gratuity payments are made to contract employees. Gratuity is a tip for
good services and therefore its payment is contingent on successful completion
of contract. Employees who are removed on disciplinary basismahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-79066672364414104472017-09-17T01:33:00.003-07:002017-09-17T01:45:00.673-07:00Just in Time production and its benefits <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Luxembourg is
a heaven for workers, the country where an average worker works only 28 hours
in week. The under-worked employees are not problem for employers as well
because the worker produces much more in an hour than many, in other countries,
would have produced in 3 hours.
The phenomenon
of reducing number of hours worked with enhanced productivity isn’t uncommon in
other countries. mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-42306551848782301572017-04-28T08:50:00.002-07:002017-04-28T08:54:08.607-07:00Baby shark method: the secret of many successful retailing giants
Albert Gubay,
the late billionaire, from humble beginning established United Kingdom’s most
successful supermarket chain Kwik Save.
It started, in 1959, when he founded value
foods. His aggressive price cuttings lead many distributors and suppliers to
refuse him.
In 1964, he
visited United States learning from there a technique which helped him built
his retailing chain. Sooner his Valuemahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-76899267210327191352017-04-05T10:51:00.002-07:002017-04-05T11:01:40.857-07:005 Most effective ways to study
Since the
time of Greek thinkers man is searching for ways to study and memorize
effectively. Now a team of researchers led by John Dunlosky has unveiled number
of ways in which educators can enhance the effectiveness of learning for their
students. Moreover, teaching these strategies to students can also help saving
the cost on education and save you from becoming the next target of PEEDA
(mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-3725877800707611812017-03-16T02:59:00.000-07:002017-04-02T03:11:36.497-07:00Superconductivity breakthrough can revolutionize power generation, power distribution and electronics industry.
European
researchers on Tuesday announced the development of Superconducting tapes. The
statement said that the breakthrough could one day revolutionize the power
transmission and power generation industries. The statement went as far as to
claim that the technology is already being used in many appliances.
Eurotapes, a
European research project on superconductivity has produced 600 meters
mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-23504042112973825392017-03-06T06:22:00.000-08:002017-03-14T06:28:27.272-07:00Growth of Islamic Finance in Pakistan
Assets of Islamic banks have doubled in the last four years and SECP is
now considering amending laws and giving tax relief to enable them to issue sukkuk
bonds and real estate investment trust.
“The assets in Islamic banking (in Pakistan) have doubled, jumping from
Rs837 billion to Rs1.6 trillion, from 2012 to 2016, now accounting for 11.7% of
the total banking assets,” said Securities and mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-49817445787667099382017-03-02T22:48:00.000-08:002017-03-02T22:51:14.723-08:00Who owns PSL cricket teams
Pakistan is
a cricket loving nation. The cricket matches between Pakistan and India are
biggest sports event and therefore good business opportunity for sponsors.
Pakistanis
use to spend a lot of time on watching the game as it is long game unlike
football.
Pakistan
Cricket Board in its effort to reintroduce international cricket in Pakistan,
established Pakistan Super League (PSL). PSL mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-692805671151205012017-02-13T10:19:00.002-08:002017-02-13T10:27:01.181-08:00What are REITs and how they work.
They knew it
or not but when group of merchants raised money for the Boston pier in 1772,
they were early pioneers of vehicle called REIT. The financing structure for
the pier – merchants owned the land together and shared the rent-after 250
years has become an important way for investors to earn hefty returns.
The idea behind
REIT is simple raise money from investors, buy property and share mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712982136616979188.post-40451422086254584252017-01-25T03:32:00.000-08:002017-01-26T04:30:05.301-08:00Cherat Cement announced expansion plan
Cherat Cement, on Monday,
announced it would install a third cement production line at its existing site
in Nowshera. Cement manufacturers are announcing expansion plans in the wake of
growing cement demand.
CPEC is expected to generate additional cement demand of 1.5-3 million tons per annum
The new plant is expected to have an annual production
capacity of 2.1 million tons, taking mahmudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777107490233883303noreply@blogger.com0