Tag: Natural

2017: the costliest year in US history for natural disasters

MIAMI: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a series of fires and hurricanes that cost $306 billion,...

Russia says Arafat died of natural causes: Russian news agency

Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, the head of a Russian state forensics agency that tested samples taken...

Govt has energy solutions in the pipeline

Despite various challenges, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources is working on several fronts to meet the country’s growing energy requirements. As part of...

Taxi fare explodes out of proportion in capital

Burgeoning taxi fares have become a big problem for the masses in the federal capital due to the shortage of proper public transport facilities...

OGRA sends new CNG pricing formula to ECC

Two days after the Supreme Court (SC) orders, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Sunday sent the compressed natural gas (CNG) pricing...

SC tells OGRA to put people first

The Supreme Court on Friday announced its reserved judgment in the compressed natural gas (CNG) pricing case, directing the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority...

Natural product chemistry moot commences

The four-day international symposium on natural product chemistry commenced at the University of Karachi on Saturday. According to organizers, about 600 delegates from 40...

‘1 more bcf gas by 2013’

PM’s Advisor on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain said that 1 billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas per day from different...

CPPs defy logic, belief, reason and math among other things

The captive power plants (CPP) of influential business groups, which have emerged as a parallel power sector over the decades, while benefiting only a...

Blue Whale attracts people

Huge size skeleton of Blue whale installed at Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) is attracting a large number of visitors and is real...

Petrol Pumps to be closed with CNG stations: APCA

The central chairman All Pakistan CNG Association Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha announced that if Govt doesn’t accept their demands they will not with draw strike...

200m for natural gas!

An Agreement was signed Tuesday between the Government of Pakistan and the World Bank for $ 200 million funding for Natural Gas Efficiency Project. The...

CNG association to go on strike from 6th

CNG Association and Transporters held a protest against imposition of new taxes on CNG at YMCA here on Saturday. A large number of transporters along...

RITU threatens strike over CNG price hike

The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Transport Union (RITU) has threatened to call-in an inter-city strike if the government failed to revise CNG prices with immediate effect. ...

Another matchstick lit to ignite the CNG dynamite

The government has planned to further tighten noose around the Compressed Natural Gas(CNG) industry by imposing a 10 percent duty on import of CNG...

ECC mulls gas, petroleum solutions

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet in its meeting held here on Tuesday considered the certain summaries of the Ministry of Petroleum...

Government should harness true potential of natural resources: ICCI

There is a need to develop a sound strategy to explore and utilise the natural resources because these resources have immense potential to contribute...