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  • Multinational firm offers internships to 160 students

    ISLAMABAD: A leading communication technology company offered 160 students across Pakistan a three-month internship...

    Speaking to interns, who recently joined the company’s office in Islamabad, Huawei Pakistan’s Chief Operating Officer (CEO) Aragon Meng said: “The internship at Huawei is a great opportunity for you to learn and enhance your knowledge with its practical implementation...

  • Electrical failure leaves Belgian airports at standstill

    BRUSSELS: Belgian airports were at a standstill on Wednesday after an electrical failure at air traffic control in Brussels caused Belgium-bound flights to be diverted, with departures delayed and flights cancelled...

    The electrical failure took place at about 0730 GMT, with authorities hoping for a solution to the problem by 1500 GMT at the latest as electric crews worked to fix the breakdown...

  • Electrical wire falls on bus in India, at least 17 dead

    JAIPUR: An electrical wire fell on a bus carrying people to a wedding in western India on Friday, killing at least 17, a local official said...

    India's power transmission infrastructure is often poorly maintained and electrical cables sometimes fall, electrocuting nearby people...

  • Senate committee terms sale of Heavy Electrical Complex suspicious

    ISLAMABAD: The sub-committee of Senate Standing Committee on Finance criticised on Friday the privatisation of Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) and termed it a conspiracy to sell national assets at throwaway prices...

    He said the sale of Pakistan Steel Mills had been stopped by the former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in 2005-06 on grounds of alleged corruption and now the country had been bearing Rs1 billion loss a month for the PSM...

  • NA body opposes privatisation of Heavy Electrical Complex

    ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Industries and Production has opposed the government’s plan to privatise Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC), Haripur, since the public-sector entity has become profit-earning and is starting to overcome its losses...

    Committee members visited HMC last year, the report stated, and had recommended that HMC should be connected with China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)-related...

  • Heavy Electrical Complex privatisation likely by end of September

    ISLAMABAD: Five investors have prequalified for privatisation of the Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) and the transaction is expected to be completed by September this year, the Privatisation Commission said on Wednesday while reviewing the current status of the government’s divestment programme...

    The salient features of the transaction structure of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) will be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the...

  • At least 41 killed in Egyptian church fire caused by electrical fault

    At least 41 people were killed and 45 injured in a fire sparked by an electrical fault during Mass at a Coptic Christian church in the Egyptian city of Giza on Sunday...

    Electrical fires of this kind are not a rare occurrence in Egypt; in late 2020, a fire at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients killed at least seven people and injured several others...

  • Egypt’s engineering feat

    EGYPT has built a new Suez canal, 72 kilometers in length alongside the existing canal...

    The new canal is much wider and deeper to accommodate very large vessels
  • Girls grab top positions in intermediate pre-engineering and general science exams

    KARACHI: Girls bagged all the top positions in the annual Pre-Engineering and General Science Part-II exams as the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced their results at the Sir Syed Government Degree Girls Science College here on Monday...

    Sidra, too, said she wanted to study software engineering and was looking forward to getting admission in the National University of Sciences and Technology or Comsats...

  • ‘Engineering research’

    THIS is apropos Sumamah Hamidullah’s letter ‘Engineering research’ (March 9)...

    No one will deny that there is a lack of research culture in Pakistan, otherwise there wouldn’t have been loadshedding...

  • PAC orders blacklisting of engineering firm

    The Engineering Consultant Inter­national Limited (ECIL) had designed Shershah bridge in Karachi which collapsed soon after its inauguration in 2008...

    As per audit report, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had engaged the ECIL in 2010-2011 for upgrading the MIA which included construction of passenger terminal building and allied electrical and mechanical works...

  • Turnaround in engineering business

    Nothing could have been a better gift for the shareholders of Thal Limited on its 50th anniversary than the sharp rise in the sales of its engineering segment on the back of recent turnaround in the fortunes of the domestic automobile industry...

    Thal is a diversified conglomerate having manufacturing facilities in Karachi (engineering products like car air-conditioners, radiators, wiring systems and engine components), Muzafarrgarh...

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