Aviation

PIA Decides to Resume Flights to Europe from Jan 10, 2025

Finally after the due process of safety checks and required clearances, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the flag carrier of Pakistan, have now been allowed to fly to Europe. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency had banned PIA from flying to Europe in 2020 after a plain of PIA crashed inside Pakistan, resulting deaths of nearly 100 people. Also around the same time inside the National Assembly of Pakistan, someone had claimed that around 40% of the pilots in PIA have fake licenses. This turn of events and bad publicity had resulted in PIA being banned to fly to Europe. Good news, again is that finally PIA have been allowed to resume flights to Europe. This development just came forward in […]

Petroleum

Petrol and diesel prices increased for period until Dec 15, 2024

As the Nov 2024 have ended, Govt. of Pakistan have announced new prices of petrol and diesel. Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) suggests new prices after calculations based on international crude oil price, procuring cost, applicable taxes etc. Then these prices are forwarded for approval to finance ministry and ultimately to the Prime Minister himself. They can also adjust the price, any adjustment on this level results in increase or decrease of taxes. So after going through the whole process described above, the petrol and diesel prices have been increased for the first fifteen days of December 2024. The details of new and old prices as well as the difference is as follows. Petroleum Product New Price Old Price […]

Personal Finance

Passive or Side Income Ideas to Increase your Income

This is mainly a related post for the following video which I have published on Youtube.com, it will hold some very brief details and the related web addresses for the stuff which is mentioned in the video, as that is bit hard to manage there. Also will keep updating this post with new web addresses to the new useful resources I find. At first, following is the video I am talking about, so make sure to watch. And if you like, you can go and subscribe the channel as well. So I talked about following five to six categories of passive or side income ideas in this video. 1. Investment in Money / Debt Market If you are already earning […]

Education Sector

All schools and colleges in Punjab to remain close from Nov 13 2024

Punjab education department have notified that all the schools and colleges will remain close all over punjab from Nov 13, 2024 to Nov 17, 2024. This includes all the public and private sector schools in the vicinity of Punjab province. Wherever, the facility is available, these educational institutions will switch to online mode and classes will continue as per routine but from home. This decision was taken in wake of prevailing smog condition in the province and the related reduced visibility. Smog which was only a problem for city of Lahore from few weeks is recently seen in other cities of Punjab, as far as the city of Rawalpindi. Also the adjacent city, Islamabad, got affected by the smog. However, […]

Petroleum

New reduced petrol and diesel prices are set for first half of Sep 2024 in Pakistan

As per usual schedule of every 15 days, on the start of Sep 2024, Govt of Pakistan have once set new prices for petrol and diesel. Prices of both petroleum products as well as the Kerosene oil prices have gone down. The change in prices is however not significant. Specially petrol price have gone down by mere Rs. 1.86 while the high speed diesel price have gone down by Rs. 3.86 per litre. Full details of old and new prices of petroleum products in Pakistani Rupee (PKR) are as follows. Petroleum Product New Price Old Price Difference Petrol 259.20 260.96 -1.86 High Speed Diesel (HSD) 262.75 266.07 -3.32 Light Diesel Oil (LDO) 154.05 157.02 -2.97 Kerosene 169.62 171.77 -2.15 These […]