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Goods imported to Pakistan; Goods purchased in bond from one custom station to another; Goods brought from a foreign country to any customs station that are trans-shipped or transported without the payment of duty to another customs station.
The essential unit of mass used in India included ratti, masha, tola, chattank, seer and maund. Grain is usually taken is rice 8 grains of rice = 1 Ratti 8 Ratti = 1 Masha 12 Masha = 1 Tola 5 Tola = 1 chatank 16 chatank = 1 Saer. 40 saer = 1 maund 1 saer = 933.12 g 1 maund = 37.325 kg (now a day says 40 kg= 1maund) 25 Mann = 1 Ton (1000 KG)
However, it is also a convenient mass for a coin: several pre-colonial coins, including the currency of Akbar the Great (1556–1605), had a mass of "one tola" within slight variation. [1] [5] The first rupee (Urdu: رپيا; rupayā), minted by Sher Shah Suri (1540–45), had a mass of 178 troy grains, or about 1% less than the British tola. [6]
Paisa (also transliterated as pice, pesa, poysha, poisha and baisa) is a monetary unit in several countries.The word is also a generalised idiom for money and wealth. In India, Nepal, and Pakistan, the paisa currently equals 1 ⁄ 100 of a rupee.
The Pakistan (Monetary System and Reserve Bank) Order, 1947 was issued on 14 August 1947, by the Governor General of pre-partition British India, following the advice of an expert committee. [4] It designated the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the temporary monetary authority for both India and Pakistan until 30 September 1948. [4]
In North America, the typical mattress sold today is an innerspring; however, there is increasing interest in all-foam beds and hybrid beds, which include both an innerspring and high-end foams such as viscoelastic or latex in the comfort layers. In Europe, polyurethane foam cores and latex cores have long been popular.
The Indian Currency Committee or Fowler Committee was a government committee appointed by the British-run Government of India on 29 April 1898 to examine the currency situation in India. [29] They collected a wide range of testimony, examined as many as forty-nine witnesses, and only reported their conclusions in July 1899, after more than a ...
Bed sizes are defined in centimeters in all European countries, although supplementary Imperial equivalents are sometimes shown in the United Kingdom. Today, the most common widths sold by pan European retailers are: 90, 100 and 120 cm (35, 39 and 47 in) for single beds. [13] 160, 180 and 200 cm (63, 71 and 79 in) for double beds.