Sindh Excise Minister Mukesh Kumar on Tuesday announced that the registration of electric vehicles (EVs) and motorcycles has begun. The decision has been taken keeping in view the increasing demand of people buying electric vehicles and motorcycles while customers have been facing difficulties due to the delay in the registration process. Earlier in June, in order to implement the decision…
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Pakistan achieved the honour of becoming a leader in manpower export in the region, surpassing major players including India and Bangladesh in 2020. Determined to be at the forefront of this, Descon Engineering Limited is all set to provide close to 10,000 job opportunities in the GCC region for 2021. Majority of these positions will be filled from Pakistan. The…
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NEPRA has imposed a fine of Rs28 million on Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO) on charges of negligence resulting in fatal incidents during the period July, 2019 to November, 2020. NEPRA upon receipt of reports of 20 deaths due to different electrocution incidents during July 2019 to November 2020, constituted a three-member investigation committee under Section 27-A of NEPRA Act…
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The government on Tuesday appeared set to increase the electricity tariff it had put on hold in April as part of revised Circular Debt Management Plan (CDMP) and efforts to ensure continuous foreign inflows from lending agencies – particularly the IMF, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The tariff increase along with CDMP is expected to set into…
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The state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has announced a gas and condensate discovery in Frontier Region Lakki of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The OGDCL said in a statement that it spud-in Wali#01 well on Dec 2, 2019, as an exploratory well and drilled down to total depth of 4,727 metres (measured depth) inside Kawagarh Formation. Based on the good…
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) is the key corporate proxy at the centre of the U.S.’s Middle East pushback against increasing Chinese and Russian influence across the region via their activities in Iran (and Iraq). The awarding of exploration, development, and ancillary contracts for its onshore and offshore oil and gas fields is a principal mechanism by which…
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he Sindh government is going to mount a legal challenge to the Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP) 2021. Speaking to Dawn on Tuesday, Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh said the federal government has excluded the cost-effective energy projects of Sindh from the plan, which is against the least-cost principle of the IGCEP model. “The federal government has approved expensive hydel projects…
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Have you been shocked by the unduly large electricity bills you have been receiving recently? You are not alone. Families across the country have been forced to pay unfairly high electricity bills in the past few months as billing malpractices by Pakistani power companies have gone unchecked by the apex regulator, a new Geo News investigation has revealed. Meanwhile, despite…
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Tauseef H. Farooqi, the chairman of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), said on Wednesday that in line with the initial estimates the rate of charging an electric car should be Rs47 per unit, Daily Times reported. while winding up the meeting held to fix the charging rates, the chairman said that the Authority would like to hold more…
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The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982. It follows…
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