ISLAMABAD: Amid legal vacuum surrounding the sale of around 140,000 tonnes of imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a few bulk consumers, a private company’s bid to arrange import of 20 per cent cheaper commodity is reported to have been blocked...
A senior government official said the CNG industry represented by Universal Gas Company had struck a deal with an LNG supplier at less than $7 per million British thermal units (mmbtu)...
KARACHI: A private company has been awarded one-year contract to run Madadgar 15 helpline after the authorities decided to outsource the service for effective policing and quick response to emergency calls of citizens, it emerged on Saturday...
The company is expected to begin its operation within the next two months, sources said...
In order to achieve this objective, the sponsors propose to buy-back shares held by minority shareholders, which according to the company, amounts to 0...
’The news of a buy-back was greeted warmly by investors at the stock market where the price of the Pak Gum share rose by Rs6...
ISLAMABAD: A private sector firm, Universal Gas Distribution Company (UGDC), was allowed on Wednesday to import or purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from suppliers and sell it to compressed natural gas (CNG) stations across the country for vehicular consumption...
The company is a joint venture created by CNG operators led by All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) Chairman Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha...
GUJRAT: Streetlights on various city roads have been installed by a local private company which has been given advertisement rights on electricity poles (of these lights) for five years...
The company will be responsible for installation and maintenance of these lights for the same period...
The federal cabinet on Tuesday rejected a proposal of the Pakistan Television Corporation to liaise with an Indian company for live telecast of the upcoming Pakistan-England cricket series...
Addressing a press conference after the cabinet meeting, Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry said that the cabinet was requested to approve the partnership with an Indian company, which would enable the PTV to telecast the cricket...
LAHORE: Responding to the public outcry over enhanced fees, the Punjab government on Saturday promulgated the Punjab Private Educational Institutions (Promotion and Regulation Amendment) Ordinance 2015 to regulate the affairs of the private schools...
A good number of parents of students seeking education in private schools have been protesting in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and elsewhere against the owners of the institutions for...
The High Commissioner to India also briefed Foreign Office officials about the future of Pak-India relations in light of recent developments between the two countries...
Pakistan security forces on Friday destroyed a radio tower near the Pak-Afghan border, security sources said...
"The Umar FM Radio Tower was destroyed along the Pak-Afghan border by security forces," sources told DawnNews...
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) imposed on Monday a fine of Rs1 million on the Central Power Purchase Agency (CPPA), also known as the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), for failing to provide information needed for monthly fuel price adjustments within the stipulated time...
A comedy troupe trusted to take the mickey out of those in the limelight, the Bhai Log Company has announced its comeback in a teaser image put up on its Facebook page and website...
According to the Bhai Log Company website, this new show will take place on August 8 at Karachi's Royal Rodale Club...
NEW YORK: Even before it became a household name, Google parent Alphabet has become the world’s most valuable company, vaulting past Apple in a sign of an evolving technology landscape...
Apple ends a run of four years as the world’s largest publicly traded company, having overtaken Exxon Mobil on January 25, 2012...
LONDON: Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China in 2016, presenting the Bard’s history plays about bloodshed, honour and kingship in mediaeval England to a new and potentially vast audience...
Marking 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death, the prestigious theatre company will take productions of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and Henry V to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in February and...
Two Pakistani employees of a Turkish waste management company were killed and one injured in Rawalpindi in an incident of suspected target killing early on Saturday, police officials told DawnNews...
Albayrak employees claimed that no company officials visited the injured workers for hours after the incident...
LONDON: British director Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and is credited with the boom of post-war British theatre, has died at the age of 86, the National Theatre said on Tuesday...
Hall stayed at the Royal Shakespeare Company until 1968, after which he became head of the National Theatre in 1973 and oversaw its transfer to the South Bank arts centre...