PARIS - Chinese, South Korean and Spanish firms are vying to develop a hydropower project likely to cost between $9 billion and $14 billion on the Congo River, Congolese officials said on Saturday.The planned Inga 3 scheme, which aims to overcome power shortages that have curtailed economic growth ...

Lahore - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) – a joint venture of Engro Powergen Limited (EPL) and government of Sindh, for purchasing power from SECMC’s 600MW mine mouth power plant at Thar Block ...

NEW DELHI :India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests. "The plant has been set up for people's welfare," said the ruling on the Kudankulam plant. "Necessary ...

lahore - The circular debt continues to affect the operations of thermal power plants, as the Narowal thermal plant, which had been partially operating during the first week of January, is now fully shutdown since March 26, 2013 on account of fuel shortage, official sources in the company told The ...

WEST, Texas AFP A Texas fertiliser factory exploded in a huge fireball Wednesday, destroying nearby homes and perhaps killing as many as several dozen people, with one official likening the blast to a ‘nuclear bomb’.Smoke and a strong burnt smell lingered in the air hours ...

Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing the local emergency manager.The explosion comes as the United States was on edge as it pieces through deadly explosions that hit the Boston marathon on ...

RIYADH (AFP) - The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday called for international inspectors to be sent to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant over concerns of possible radiation leaks after an earthquake hit the area.The body demanded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “send a ...

TEHRAN  – A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Iran on Tuesday killed ‘at least 20 people,’ the official IRNA news agency reported, quoting a local health official.“At least 20 bodies have been taken to the morgue” in the city of Khormoj, an ...

A powerful earthquake struck near Iran's Gulf port city of Bushehr on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 800 but leaving Iran's only nuclear power plant intact, officials said.Shocks from the quake were felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, ...

Unidentified miscreants blew up Uch Power Plant gas supply pipeline Sunday further exceeding electricity shortfall in the countryFollowing the gas supply line was blown up, 525MW power supply from Uch plant to national grid was suspended resulting the electricity shortfall exceeding 6000MW.Sources ...

QUETTA - A Memorandum of Understand has been signed between Government of Balochistan and CK Solar Korea for the installation of 300MW Solar Power plant near Quetta.This was disclosed by provincial Secretary Energy, Fuad Hashim Rabbani while talking to media here on Saturday.He said that the ...

KARACHI - Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has urged the investors to benefit from the export processing zones set up by the government, which offer exclusive incentives to them.Addressing the inauguration of Tuwairqi Steel Mill, the first steel plant in the private sector, here on Saturday he ...

WASHINGTON - Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study has revealed.The seeds of the herbaceous Silene stenophylla are far and away the oldest plant tissue to ...

LAHORE - Punjab Board of Investment & Trade (PBIT) shall assist Gujranwala Chambers of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in nominating foreign technology partners for a coal gasification plant wherein GCCI shall nominate a consortium of companies for the same. The nominated consortium of companies ...

SAHIWAL - Rotary International District President Dr Pervaiz Ahsan Khan has urged philanthropists to actively participate in social services because government alone cannot address the growing community problems. He said this after inaugurating a water filtration plant at Farid Town, Sahiwal. ...

GILGIT  - Dozens of families in Naltar near Gilgit are at risk of being washed away as cracks which appeared in the walls of a power plant’s reservoir upstream have widened, local residents said.There are visible cracks in the walls which pose a serious threat to the local population. ...

TEHRAN  - Iran said on Monday that all its nuclear activities are under IAEA watch, including those at a new uranium enrichment bunker at Fordo that one Western diplomat said was already up and running.The UN atomic agency confirmed Monday that Iran has started enriching uranium at a new site ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER HYDERABAD - With the assistance of the Republic of Korea, a Three-MW solar power plant, worth $20million, will be established at the Liaquat University Hospital (LUH), said Korean Ambassador Choong Joo Choi in his address to businessmen at the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SADIQABAD - Two persons were burnt as a welding plant exploded in their shop in Abassia Town of tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. The injured person were shifted to nearby hospital. 35-year-old Kaleem and 26-year-old Raashid were busy in their gas-welding works. Suddenly, the plant went ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a high-level meeting here on Sunday, which reviewed in detail the waste water treatment plant project, to be installed in Lahore with French cooperation. Mr. Diber and Mr. Michael of France, MNA Pervaiz Malik, Ch. Shahbaz ...

ISLAMABAD - Reshma Rental Power Company on Friday returned over Rs4.5 billion advance mobilisation amount which it has taken for installing power plant. A two-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday ordered the Reshma Rental Generation Ltd to ...

Reshma Rental power Company has deposited Rs 4.68 billion in the national treasury after supreme Court issued it a stern warning to pay back all the monies paid to it in advance with interest within 24 hours. According to a report submitted to the Court today by Director Finance of PEPCO the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $97 million to fund a new private sector hydroelectricity plant to ease power shortages as well as creating new jobs opportunities in the country. A statement issued by the bank here on Tuesday said that approval of $97 million loan ...

A powerful typhoon struck Japans main island on Wednesday, stranding thousands of commuters in Tokyo and threatening to pour heavy rain on the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the nations tsunami-ravaged northeast. Evacuation advisories went out to more than 1 million people across the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who is traveling across Russia in his armored train visited the largest hydropower plant in Russia's Far East on Sunday. Russian presidential envoy in the Far-Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev and Amur Region governor Oleg Kozhemyako gave him a short tour of ...

Iran's top nuclear official has announced a plan for the official inauguration of Bushehr's nuclear power plant in southern Iran in mid-November or in December. Bushehr nuclear power plant is currently nearing its pre-operation phase which means that initial tests for its reactor and turbine are in ...

JHANG - It has been learnt that a power plant has been proposed near Sufi More on Chiniot Road. However, it can cause health problems for the people in the community. The issue has been brought into the notice of the Federal government by the Jhang Civil Society through the Punjab government. As ...

A shocking report prepared by Russias Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a total and complete news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown ...

MIANWALI - Pakistan needed alternative energy sources like nuclear power to overcome a crippling shortfall of electricity, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday while inaugurating a civil nuclear power plant at Chashma in Mianwali. The project is Pakistans third nuclear electric power ...

Pakistans third nuclear electric power plant went operational Thursday, pumping another 330 MW into the national grid in a bid to help meet countrys growing energy demand and cut down the shortfall. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani inaugurated the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-1 ...