Tag: Units

The ministry of water and power has decided to regulate free units of electricity being provided to employees of all power distribution company including...

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not been able to devise a strategy to bring an end to the use of above 1,000 residential...

The high dependency units have been equipped with modern apparatus, serving through the website and SMS service for maximum public awareness to sensitize against...

Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab on Friday issued notices to 110 industrial units causing pollution. As per information, EPD constituted six squads last week in...

Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar warned the Senate on Thursday that the entire country would be unplugged if the facility of free power...

The provincial governments of all the four provinces, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan signed a joint declaration reaffirming their commitment towards education at...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday issued instructions for setting up separate units for dengue patients in all hospitals of the province and...

Iran clarified on Tuesday that its offer of allowing "full supervision" of its atomic programme in return for lifting of sanctions does not include...

A total number of 1,579 industrial units have been closed down during the last five years across the country for various reasons including financial...

WAPDA employees held a protest on Tuesday against the government’s decision of withdrawing free units. WAPDA Employees Peegham Union led the protest. Employees left their...

LAHORE - The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has generated 3.2 billion additional units of hydroelectricity during the period July 2010 to March 2011 compared with the corresponding period of last year. This increased generation was triggered by greater water availability in reservoirs, in addition to efficient operation and management of hydropower stations, said a press release issued by WAPDA.
This contribution of low-cost hydroelectricity, by WAPDA, to the

FAISALABAD - More than 400 industrial units were closed, rendering thousands of daily wagers jobless due to three-day Sui gas closure in Faisalabad.
A spokesman of the industrialists told journalists on Thursday that the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) had issued a three-day gas load management schedule for the industrial sector of Faisalabad.
He added that under this schedule, gas supply to the industrial units was suspended from the morning of April 6 till

LAHORE - Given the greater availability of water, both of the main units of Khan Khwar Hydropower Station have started generating 68 megawatt (MW) electricity in line with its cumulative installed capacity, delivering over 1.1 million units of electricity to the national electricity grid daily, which is equivalent to a revenue of over Rs 10 million. The third auxiliary unit of four MW will also go into operation soon.
It is pertinent to mention that Khan Khwar Hydropower Station

ISLAMABAD - The government has drafted a new industrial policy, focusing on the revival of about 1909 sick industrial units across the country, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders.
Official sources told APP that, in the light of the information provided by industries departments of all provincial governments, 1909 industrial units had gone sick due to a variety of reasons. They attributed closure of these industrial units to financial crunch, outstanding liabilities of

WASHINGTON - US federal prisons for the past three years have housed special units filled disproportionately with Muslim inmates whose every communication with the outside world is strictly monitored. Known as "Guantanamo North," the so-called Communication Management Units (CMU) were secretly opened in 2007 in maximum security prisons in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois and currently have 71 prisoners, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) told AFP. The US public radio

KARACHI - Almost 70 percent of respondents comprising manufacturers, services and retail sectors do not support the reformed GST. In the business category, 80 percent of retailers and 66 percent of manufacturers and service providers have rejected the proposed reformed GST.
It was indicated in a survey of the third quarter Business Confidence Survey (BCS) conducted by Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI). The BCS is conducted on a quarterly basis to gauge

ISLAMABAD - The parliament was informed on Monday that the deteriorating law and order situation coupled with gas and power shortages had led to the closure of 307 industrial units in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 14 in Balochistan last year.
Responding to queries during the question hour, Minister for Industries and Production Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani admitted that power and gas shortages and the worsening law and order situation, besides disputes of industries with banks over loan