Tag: Power
KP minister cancels power projects with ‘no progress’
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Caretaker Minister for Energy, Power and Public Health Engineering (PHE) Haji Fazal Elahi directed the cancelation of all those power projects...
India cuts power to smelter after deadly anti-pollution protests
THOOTHUKUDI: Indian authorities on Thursday cut the power to a large copper smelter run by London-listed Vedanta Resources after police shot and killed 13...
WAPDA’s claim of power restoration falls flat as several cities still...
A Ministry of Power spokesperson claimed on Twitter that the power breakdown, that left the national grid with a 4,000 MegaWatt shortfall, is now...
Karachi suffers 10-12 hour loadshedding as fault persists in Bin Qasim...
KARACHI: Several areas of Karachi continued to face prolonged outages on Saturday as K-Electric’s Bin Qasim power plant could not be restored even after the passage of two...
Work on 16MW hydropower project in Gilgit underway
GILGIT: The construction work on 16-Megawatt (MW) hydropower project at Naltar area of Gilgit is in progress.
A spokesman of the power department said that...
Punjab striving to become ‘energy efficient’, says PEECA
LAHORE: Punjab Energy efficiency and conservation agency (PEECA) on Wednesday organised a consultative workshop on revision and modification of energy building codes (ECBC) for Punjab.
PEECA...
Power tariff likely to be scaled down by Rs2.97 per unit...
ISLAMABAD: Power tariff is likely to be scaled down by Rs2.97 per unit.
According to media reports, Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has filed an...
Maldives’ chief judge arrested as state of emergency declared
MALE: The Maldives' top judge was arrested Tuesday as security forces stormed the Supreme Court at dawn after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of...
House committee interviewing Bannon after his fall from power
WASHINGTON: The House Intelligence Committee is poised to question Steve Bannon, the onetime confidant to US President Donald Trump, following his spectacular fall from...
CM directs improvement in Gilgit-Baltistan energy regulation system
ASTORE: Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman on Friday directed the secretary energy to take prompt measures to improve the energy regulation system for the welfare...
Czech govt to lose confidence vote, Babis’ party likely to retain...
PRAGUE: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, battling allegations he illegally tapped European Union subsidies a decade ago, looked certain to lose a parliamentary confidence...
Lust of power, corruption root causes of our slow growth: Pervez...
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak has said that the lust for power, rampant corruption and irregularities were the root causes...
PM launches power consumer friendly net-metering framework
Says PML-N fulfilled its obligation to overcome country’s energy deficit
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...
WAPDA team attacked during anti-theft crackdown
NAROWAL: Four employees of WAPDA were injured after being attacked during a crackdown against power theft here on Tuesday.
Police said that a WAPDA, team taking...
Chashma Nuclear Power Plant running smoothly
ISLAMABAD: The new nuclear power plant situated at Chashma, with a capacity of generating 340MW, is running smoothly and contributing to energy resources of the...
Direct investment up by 38.8% to $1.281bn in 2015-16
Total investment declined 65.6% to $952.4m during the year
The direct investment of the country increased by 38.8 per cent to $1.281 billion mainly supported...
Power tariff lowered for agriculture tube wells
The government on Monday notified reduction in power tariff for agriculture tube wells by Rs 3.50 per unit, while directions were issued to all...
