Tag: Summer

The intense heat wave made markets and recreational places empty of visitors as citizens thronged the canal and the River Ravi to battle the...

Promising footballers of Lahore will show their skills when the seventh Model Town Football Academy (MTFA) Football Summer Camp 2011 for both boys and...

Private schools have shown their displeasure over the Punjab government’s given schedule of summer holidays for educational institutes of Punjab. According to the Schools...

No decision has been made about the summer vacations in the province’s schools yet, the spokesman for the Sindh Chief Minister said on Monday....

KUWAIT - Pakistan will not be able to afford subsidies on fuel this summer and much of the rising oil price burden will have to be shifted to the consumer, Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar told Reuters.
"Pakistan has not yet recovered from the 2008 oil price rise and we have no planned subsidies for the summer months because we can't afford it," Qamar told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Kuwait.
Pakistan imports about 80 percent of

LAHORE - President Lahore City Cricket Association Khawaja Nadeem Ahmad inaugurated the Punjab Chief Minister's Summer Cricket League today. Nadeem was of the view that the league will help in identifying talented player besides formulating performance-based criteria for the selection of Lahore's team to take part in PCB's domestic tournaments. "We have picked 15 grounds for the event in order to revive club cricket on the pattern of summer leagues of yester years," said Nadeem. He

LAHORE - Guard Group clinched the Summer Polo Cup after beating PESSI in the final here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Sunday. Guard's won by 7

LAHORE - The inaugural Punjab Chief Minister Summer Cricket League will roll into action from April 18 at 15 grounds of the city. The event is an effort by the Lahore City Cricket Association to revive club cricket on the pattern of summer leagues organised in the past.
President LCCA, Khawaja Nadim Ahmad, said that National Gymkhana will meet Pindi Gymkhana in the opening match at LCCA ground. He said in all 550 matches will be played in the event. "The main objective of this

KARACHI - Sprite has created a unique youth engagement platform by the name of 'University of Freshology'.
The platform recognises problems of the Pakistani youth, and provides witty solutions to those problems as well as promotes 'Fresh Thinking' in the students.
Through a nationwide activity promotion, the University of Freshology would collect 'maslas' (problems) of every nature through SMS and e-mail, and discuss the short-listed issues through workshops.
Sprite has

LAHORE - With the summer season intensifying, the demand and supply gap has widened; thereby increasing load shedding in the city to 10 years on Tuesday. Some of the areas experienced outages for up to six hours due to technical repairs, while the majority of the city faced five-hour outages.
The outskirts of the city were lesser fortunate, facing up to 10-hour electricity closures. Some citizens were critical of load-shedding during peak working hours. Saeeda Khalid a resident

KARACHI - At least 70 percent of pole-mounted transformers (PMTs) in the city are either outdated or overloaded, as the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has not been able to fulfill its commitment to the develop the power supply infrastructure during the last three years, sources told Pakistan Today.
Therefore, the 18 million residents of the city would not only have to put up with the scheduled nine hours of load shedding, but their sufferings would be exacerbated this

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Water and Power was told in a meeting chaired by Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah here on Monday that there would be no respite from grueling power outages during the hot summer months and people in urban areas would have to bear daily outages of at least 4 to 6 hours, while those in rural areas would be subjected to 6 to 8 hours of no power from April to September.
National Assembly members attending the meeting were not

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - An alarming situation has developed with the Ministry of Water and Power expecting the worst ever power load shedding this summer, as the shortage is being estimated at more than 5,000MW. Meanwhile, electricity shortfall crossed 3,000MW level resulting in massive load shedding across the country on Monday. The ministry said the shortfall could rise to 7,000MW in case fuel supplies, furnace oil and natural gas were not available to generate electricity.
An

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has delayed the implementation of the controversial Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) till summer this year as further deliberations are needed on various issues Trade Secretary Zafar Mehmud briefing the media about recent developments during the consultative session of Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Coordination Authority and indicated that both sides need greater cooperation on issues such as bank guarantee, letter of credit, installation of tracker

LAHORE - There will be less load shedding in summer, as the Pakistan Electric and Power Company (PEPCO) has made various arrangements to cope with energy demand, PEPCO Energy and Management Conservation (EMC) Director General Muhammad Khalid said on Tuesday in a press conference.
He said that various distribution companies have been given 0.3 million connections in the last six months. "Around 0.2 million domestic connections, 26,180 commercial, 4,058 industrial, 6,484 tube well

SYDNEY: Snow fell in Australia on Monday, as the usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas. Snow has fallen in parts of east coast states New South Wales and Victoria, leaving ski resorts - some of which are usually snow-free at this time of year - with dumps of up to 10 centimetres (four inches). "It's white, everything is white," Michelle Lovius, the general manager