The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended the authorisation for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate in Europe for six months, the airline’s spokesman said on Tuesday. The move follows the grounding of 262 pilots whose licences Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan termed “dubious”. “EASA has temporarily suspended PIA’s authorisation to operate to the EU member states…
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By Ken Silverstein, award-winning columnist who has covered energy and the environment for more than two decades. Follow him @Ken_SilversteinAfter Russia, Iran and Qatar, the US has the world’s greatest natural gas reserves. But unlike those other countries, it has trouble building pipelines, threatening its ability to supply domestic and international markets. Americans tend to see issues in black and white: it is industry…
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Scientists are already alarmed at the spike in temperatures in Russia this year. While the mercury is creeping up everywhere, in Siberia it has spiked dramatically, delivering unprecedented heat. This summer is on course to be the hottest since record-keeping began, in the world’s largest country. Towns usually still blanketed by snow at this time of year are experiencing a…
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The outgoing year 2019-20 proved to be a historic for hydel power generation in Pakistan, as WAPDA provided highest ever number of hydel electricity i.e. 37.4 billion units to the National Grid. Previous record of hydel generation in a fiscal year was 33.15 billion units that was set way back in 2015-16. The surged hydel generation in 2019-20 not only…
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In a very short period of time after COVID-19 Pakistan has started the local manufacture of ventilators according to the standards of European Union. The first batch of ventilators named “PAKVENT-1” will be delivered to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the first week of July 2020. Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry in a video statement said…
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Bill Gates is warning that the US is still “very much in the thick of things” when it comes to COVID-19. And he believes that, given that many people refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing, that we are heading for another big round of infections in the fall. “Better treatment is reducing the deaths, but, particularly as you…
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Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates used his to warn about a rough autumn ahead due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. “There’s good progress … but nothing that would fundamentally alter the fact that this fall in the United States could be quite bad, and that’s…
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The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up, and he criticized governments that have failed to establish reliable contact tracing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Speaking at a briefing in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our…
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The United States held a record-high level of commercial crude oil inventories as of the week to June 19 following the collapse in demand in the lockdown and the slow demand recovery after lockdowns were lifted, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Monday. In its latest Weekly Petroleum Status Report, the EIA reported a 1.4-million-barrel increase in…
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ISLAMABAD: With a view to wriggling Karachi—business capital of Pakistan out of crippling power outages and to avoid increasing loadshedding in Punjab, KP, Sindh and Balochistan, the state owned Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is all set to hold much awaited bids opening tomorrow (June 30, 2020) for import of furnace oil. And the furnace oil will be imported through Pakistan…
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