Govt powerless amid mounting line losses
ISLAMABAD: Despite coming to power on an energy-driven manifesto and promising that it would fix Pakistan’s power crisis, the PML-N government has been unable to rein in transmission and distribution losses, which have cost the exchequer around Rs83...
30pc newborns die in DI Khan, Mianwali hospitals
ISLAMABAD: Every third newborn baby in two remote districts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dies due to poor facilities at district hospitals, certified data collected by The News from 20 districts of the two provinces revealed.The data shows...
LAHORE: With around 84 per cent of the harvesting and 75 per cent threshing completed, the Punjab is still debating the final size of its wheat crop -- its latest estimates now range between 18 million tonnes and 19.10 million tonnes.
Lately, Punjab tried to revise its expected yield down to 18...
According to officials, the consultant had asked Akbar Associates, which won the bid for the construction of the second LNG terminal last week, to respond to 29 queries pertaining to the bid document. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
The board of directors of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has given...
The high-performing Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE)-100 index fell by 1,023.94 points on Monday to get the financial week off to a panicky note.
The loss apparently came after rumours that government was planning to investigate various brokers.
On the opening day of the week amid rumours of...