LAHORE  - The City District Government has planned to launch a crackdown against factories and industrial units functioning in residential areas of the provincial capital, it has been learnt.Initially, the officers of provincial Environment Protection Department, Environment Department, Labour ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The District Education Department launched a programme to activate Shaheen Scout Units in boy's primary schools with the aim to boost scouting activities in the district.The programme was launched at a function held in Government Primary School No 2, Lakki Meenakhel (Mandar) on ...

TOKYO - Global sales of instant noodles have topped 100 billion units annually, an industry group said Friday - more than one monthly serving of the portable meal for every person on the planet. Five decades after the easy-to-cook food’s launch, sales climbed again last year with China, ...

lahore - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has announced that cumulative global sales of its hybrid vehicles topped the 5 million unit mark as of March 31, 2013, reaching 5.125 million units.Positioning response to environmental issues as a management priority and based on its belief that ...

 LAHORE - The Pakistan Automotive Manufactures Association (PAMA) has released the monthly production and sales numbers of the auto sector. As per the data, total sales of the auto sector have declined by 19 per cent YoY to 228,124 units in 9MFY13 as against the sales of 283,110 units in the ...

SIALKOT/JHANG - As many as 500 small and medium surgical industrial units have been closed down in Sialkot city and its surrounding areas for the last  two weeks due to the daily 20 to 22 hours long loadshedding of electricity in export-oriented Sialkot city, said the chairman of Surgical ...

LAHORE - Small industrial units located in Kotlakhpat Industrial Estate, Qauid-e-Azam Industrial Estate, Kattar Band Industrial Estate, Sundar Industrial Estate and Industrial Clusters at Multan Road are facing power breakdowns of up to 20 hours. Manufacturers said that industrial units were on the ...

FEROZWALA - The Noor Foundation U.K has established 21 Dialysis units in different cities of the country to facilitate kidney patients including Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Khushab, Mardan, Hafizabad, Kotli, Mir Pur Khas, New Karachi, Korangi Karachi and others.In these Dylasis centers more ...

ISLAMABAD  - Eight power units have been shut as water level in Tarbela Dam nears its dead level, reported a private TV channel on Monday.The channel quoted sources as saying that only six units were working. About 520MW electricity is being produced by the dam, the sources added. Experts say ...

LAHORE – Wapda has approved the annual accounts of its Power Wing (Hydroelectric) for the fiscal year 2010-11 in a meeting held here at Wapda House on Monday. Wapda Chairman Shakil Durrani presided over the meeting while Member (Water) Syed Raghib Abbas Shah, Member (Power) Muhammad Qasim ...

LAHORE - The new fiscal year has kicked-off on a positive note for the car manufacturers. As per the latest data released by Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA), countrys auto sales surged by a significant 61 per cent to 17,563 units in July 2011 against 10,942 units in the same ...

LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that PML-N is not against setting up of more provinces in the country, however, it should not be on the basis of Punjab only, but on the basis of the whole country and in the national interest. While talking to media-men at Allama ...

LARKANA APP:- Sindh Minister for Law and Industries Muhammad Ayaz Soomro has said that three new industries will be established in Larkana district, two at Mahota and Dhamrah while the third one at Naudero. Addressing a reception hosted by Vice President PPP Larkana district Khair Muhammad Sheikh ...

aOUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) generated 31.45 billion units of hydel electricity during the fiscal year 2010-11, registering an increase of 3.84 billion units as compared to 2009-10.This additional contribution of low-cost hydel electricity by WAPDA to ...

ISLAMABAD - ARL keeping Petroleum Ministry in dark and dodging senior officials about the exact date of closure of the Plat-former Unit, has ostensibly contributed to leave the people of Punjab province in the lurch. It was learnt that ARL had kept the Petroleum Ministry in the dark and dodging ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is in process of installing solar units at around 50 different places across the country to promote this source of energy among people. The Council under Prime Ministers Initiative for Solar Power (PMISP) has launched this programme to install 600 ...

LAHORE The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz has said that 12-hour daily power outages have hit the textile units located at MangaRaiwind and MultanBhai Pheru roads, which fall in the LESCO jurisdiction. Talking to The Nation the APTMA Chairman said the textile ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Wapda generated 3.2 billion additional units of hydel electricity during the period July 2010 to March 2011 compared with the corresponding period last year and the low-cost electricity caused saving of Rs 35 billion to the national exchequer. This increased hydel ...

Power output from Tarbela Dam has plunged down to its lowest level of 540 megawatt, following water in the largest reservoirs of the country receded to dead level. Wapda sources said that the water reserve in Tarbela Dam has depleted to dead level, as it now stands at 1378 feet, while whatever ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has one of the lowest ratios in the world where people have access to the higher education, as only 5.1 per cent of people aged 17-23 years are currently enrolled for higher education in the country. The National Assembly was informed during the question-hour session on ...

LAHORE A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Turkey and Punjab Government to construct 2120 modern houses in flood affected districts. A ceremony was held in this regard at committee room of Board of Revenue Department. Mr Caglar Horoz coordinator of TOKI Housing Development ...

Citizens of Wah Cantt and Taxila have complained bitterly of overcharging of electricity bills, by adding of illegal additional units in their electricity bills. People have complained about 50-100 extra units, which increase basic units consumed, and bills are increased two folds. The authorities, ...

LAHORE - Eight-member GTZ (German Technical Cooperation Agency) team led by Walter Jahn on Tuesday held a meeting at Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) head office with SMEDA chief executive officer Shahid Rashid in chair to review the operation of Renewable Energy and ...

LAHORE - About 300 new industrial units are going to be set up at Sundar Industrial Estate (SIE) in next 15 months. Presently 100 industrial units including some big multinationals are already in operation. This has been possible because of a colonization drive launched by PIE management to ...

Sui-Northern Gas has decided to close hundred industrial units of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab to tackle shortfall of Gas for the domestic users as Gas supply in the provinces has reduced from 1090 million cubic feet to only 500 million cubic feet. According to details 550 industrial units in ...

ISLAMABAD - The ongoing war against terrorists has not only claimed thousands of innocent lives but have also rendered thousands of people jobless, especially in NWFP where three-fourths of industrial units have succumbed to adverse circumstances, TheNation reliably learnt on Monday. According to ...

FAISALABAD - Federal Government has allocated Rs 2 billion for R&D activities in the agriculture in order to increase sustainable growth rate of this significant sector. This was stated by Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin while addressing the gathering of inaugural ceremony of Business ...

President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday sought Chinese assistance in hydel, thermal and solar power generation to overcome Pakistans power crisis and invited Chinese companies to carry out feasibility study in the country. After a presentation on small and medium sized dams, water conservation and ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has decided to establish model quarries and processing units to develop granite and marble with estimated cost of Rs1 billion in the province, sources told The Nation. The Sindh Mines and Mineral Department will execute the project to establish model quarries in Thar- ...

Mangla Dam powerhouse, hit by technical faults last month, its two more units have been restored, which has further put in 230 megawatt of electricity more in the national grid. Mangla Power House shift engineer said that from the Dams tunnel #3 unit # 5 and 6 of 115MW each have been restored. ...