Tag: Scrap

Japan to scrap evacuation drills for N Korean missile threat

TOKYO: Japan plans to suspend the civilian evacuation drills it started last year while North Korea was repeatedly test-firing missiles near and over Japanese...

Legal report asks PEMRA to make fresh DTH service plans

Says executing service shall be tantamount to contempt of court Raises questions over functioning of PEMRA, observes Authority was being run illegally over years A due-diligence...

US military gear sold as scrap in Afghanistan

The armoured trucks, televisions, ice cream scoops and nearly everything else shipped for the US war on terror are now part of the world’s...

US to scrap $7b military equipment in Afghanistan: WP

Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the US military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military...

India faces pressure to scrap peace talks after Kashmir attack

  India's government faced mounting pressure on Wednesday to put proposed peace talks with Pakistan back in deep freeze after a deadly cross-border attack on...

World’s largest steel maker scraps $12b project in eastern India

In a major setback to India's foreign direct investment initiatives, the world's largest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, abandoned a $12 billion project of building a...

400 tonnes of stolen railway scrap recovered

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday recovered 400 tonnes of iron scrap stolen from the Pakistan Railways. The scrap was recovered from four...

Blast kills 3, injures 5 at PAF scrap depot

Three people were killed in a blast at Sargodha’s Pakistan Air Force (PAF) firing range in Chiniot district on Tuesday. According to PAF officials,...

Blast kills 3, injures 5 at PAF scrap depot

Three people were killed in a blast at Sargodha’s Pakistan Air Force (PAF) firing range in District Chiniot on Tuesday. According to PAF officials, a...

Scrap smuggling affecting tin-plate industry

Government’s tall claims of establishing ‘Specialised Industrial Zones’ in the country are still a distant dream as no step in this regard...

Shershah scrap market closed indefinitely from today

Traders of the Shershah scrap market on Sunday announced a strike for an indefinite period until the deployment of the paramilitary force in Asia’s...

ICC mulls lifeline for minnows, scrap rotation policy

Cricket’s governing body began its annual conference on Sunday with all eyes on controversial proposals to scrap its rotating presidency and bar non-Test playing...

Impeachment of Iran foreign minister scrapped

Iran's parliament on Wednesday scrapped plans to impeach Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi after he dismissed a controversial deputy who is close to the...

Germany to scrap N-power by 2022

Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan,...

Lyon, PSG in scrap, Monaco stare at abyss

AC Ajaccio and Dijon won promotion to Ligue 1 after finishing second and third respectively in the French second division on Friday. Evian, who...

Food streets plan headed to the scrap yard?

Due to a lack of planning and half-backed strategy, the Punjab government’s mega plan to establish nine food streets hit a stumbling block after...

HEC’s devolution to scrap National Digital Library?

LAHORE - Librarians and research scholars on Friday condemned the purposed devolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and said that it will directly affect the research culture in public and private-sector universities, as after the devolution, the HEC National Digital Library Programme will be stopped immediately due to lack of funding, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to sources, the HEC is giving millions of rupees annually to various public and private-sector