LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
NEW DELHI: Solar power prices in India have hit rock bottom, but it is not all good news for the electricity-starved country as the phenomenon has hit investor confidence and threatens the country’s effort to push its green credentials...
But the price slump could hinder India’s efforts to meet its solar energy goals and limit temperature-raising emissions...
THE sharp drop in the international price of liquefied natural gas has led to the revival of several gas-fired power plants in India...
The latest to benefit from this is the jinxed Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, promoted originally by the American energy giant Enron, which had to shut down globally following bankruptcy in 2001...
“We are not sure if it will be accepted… the government is not in a position to ‘upset’ the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the moment because the proposed package will have substantial impact on the budget deficit and inter-corporate power sector debt,” he said on condition of anonymity...
The ministry has suggested a cut of Rs2 per unit in the cost of electricity supplied to the export-oriented industries besides halving the...
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday allowed Rs1...
78 per unit increase in power tariff for all the power distribution companies, except K-Electric, on account of fuel price adjustment for electricity consumed in July...
ISLAMABAD: Amid threats by exporters and the business community to close down their factories and businesses, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue on Tuesday ordered suspension of increased power rates for export industries and its retrospective recovery from January 1, 2019...
The meeting of the panel, presided over by Faizullah, noted that Power Division’s notification of Jan 13 this year appeared to be...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday abolished a 10 paisa per unit surcharge on electricity and increased the price of ghee by Rs30 per kg (15 per cent) for sale at Utility Stores...
The committee increased the price of ghee from Rs170 per kg to Rs200 per kg instead of Rs220 per kg demanded by the ministry of industries...
”The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has already approved a hike of Rs7...
91 per unit in the base price — from the current Rs16...
The clash between the division’s two top-scoring sides provided plenty of entertaining moments but keepers Kasper Schmeichel and Joe Hart were equal to everything thrown at them at the King Power Stadium...
But a request to boost the nuclear capabilities fits squarely with Trump’s understanding of power...
’”This, in a nutshell, is Trump’s theory of presidential power...
LAHORE: Chinese companies building the 1,320MW Sahiwal coal-fired power plant, the first-ever such a project in Pakistan, expect power generation next year which will be the ‘cheapest’ in terms of tariff and environment friendly...
1 cents per electricity unit to the Pakistani government under an agreement with the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority and this is the cheapest rate in Pakistan”, says Song Taiji, the Chief...
Following in the footsteps of some businesses by embroiling regulators into litigation in order to forestall penalties and losses, the government is challenging the decision of the power regulator to block the revenues flowing out of utility companies to the consumers...
In the intervening period, the government is seriously working to reduce the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) into a subservient body of the...
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that Pakistan’s economy has failed to achieve its growth potential in spite of benefiting from lower prices of oil which accounts for almost a third of its imports...
The ADB approved $1 billion for projects in Pakistan to improve transport and trade...
But even if Diamer-Bhasha reaches its funding goal, then what?The court summoned yesterday the CEOs of all bottled water companies to present data on the price of extracted water and the revenue they have made selling it...
We can question whether major bottlers are cartelised, and whether quality audits are functioning well, but let’s think here instead about what the price of water should be...