increase was in May last year. The OPR, the benchmark of bank interest rates, had been cut to its

KUSHIRO( Japan): After a decade of massive monetary stimulus, Japan’s inflation is “ clearly in sight ” of the central bank’s target, its board member Naoki Tamura said yesterday, signalling conditions for phasing out ultra-loose policy could be met early next year. While Tamura is considered by markets as a hawk within the Bank of Japan’s( BoJ) nine-member board, his remarks suggest that discussions on the timing for dismantling the BoJ’s radical stimulus will intensify in coming months. Althou

Even if GOP representatives can pass their House bill, they will need to work with senators on a version that can clear both chambers, meaning that much of what’s below could change.... There is some question over whether those requirements would kick in starting in 2027 or 2029 as Republicans work to finalize the bill. Regardless, the bill achieves cost savings by assuming fewer Americans would have health insurance.... A preliminary assessment of an early version of the bill by the Congressi

to become mayor and deputy mayor. The petitions were filed last year by Jamaat-i-Islami’s

Standing Committee on Interior approves amendments after token debate？... Irfan Siddiqui vows to ‘stand with media persons if law weaponised against them’？... Mr Murtaza warned that the current government would itself be--come a victim of this law. Flawed billTwo journalists, Shahzad Iqbal and Amir Abbas, who were present at the meeting, raised their objections to the amendments....

The government is considering changes in the Income Tax Act to bring gains made from transactions in cryptocurrencies under the tax net in the Budget next year.... These currencies have also gained wider acceptance among youth. The tax department’s view has been that taxing such “ intangible ” assets won’t mean that trading in them will be legitimised.... Now that it has really grown a lot, we will see whether we can actually bring in some changes in law position or not....

All Pakistan Lawyers Convention passes resolution opposing proposed constitutional court？... Opposing the amendmentKBA President Aamir Nawaz Waraich presented a resolution at the conclusion of the hours-long event, opposing the proposed constitutional amendment bill.... They also claimed that judges of the proposed Constitutional Court would function like “ contractors ”....

“ Don’t we want to match the new strains that are most likely to circulate as closely as possible?... Cody Meissner of Tufts Medical Center, an advisor to the Food and Drug Administration, asked Pfizer scientists recently.“ I don’t quite understand why this is not Delta because that’s what we’re facing right now, ” fellow advisor Dr.... Now the FDA is weighing evidence for boosters of the original Moderna and Johnson Johnson vaccines.“ It’s less churn and burn on the manufacturing ” to switch

The NHS app has been updated so that fewer people will be asked to self-isolate in a government U-turn designed to end the disruption caused by the" pingdemic". Under new programming, only those who have been in contact with an asymptomatic case in the past 48 hours will be pinged. Previously, the app traced contacts back five days for both symptomatic and asymptomatic infections, even though previous studies have shown that people become infectious one to two days before the onset of symptoms a

against the BoJ’s decision last month to loosen its grip on yield curve control.... April is the most