Month: February 2022

ISLAMABAD: Almost 666 appointments have been made in Ministry of Housing and its attached departments since August 2018. In a written reply to a question, Minister for Housing and Works Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema informed the Senate on Thursday 26 Officials were appointed from August, 2018 to till date in the main Ministry office. He […]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed Thursday said that National Highway Authority (NHA) had witnessed 128 percent increase in its total income during the last three years. Addressing a press conference here, he said that NHA total revenue saw a jump of 107 billion rupees in the last three years. He […]

ISLAMABAD: Administrator Municipal Corporations Islamabad (MCI) on Thursday assures to address issues of traders to facilitate trade and business activities in federal capital . A delegation of traders led by Muhammad Ijaz Abbasi, Convener of MCI Committee of the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) held a meeting with Hamza Shafqat, Administrator MCI and […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) production grew by 16.7 percent during December 2021 compared to the previous month of November 2021, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Thursday. On year-on-year basis, the LSM growth witnessed an increase of 3.8 percent in the month against same month (December) of the preceding year, […]

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at an international Webinar on Thursday took exception to the boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics by a few countries and highlighted its significance for the promotion of peace, harmony and co-existence among the comity of nations. “Winter Olympics is an opportunity for the world to build and give peace a chance. There should […]

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved Rs 2.59 per unit decrease in power tariff for the consumers of K-Electric for December 2021 under monthly fuel adjustment (FCA) mechanism. “The Authority has approved negative FCA of (Rs 2.593 kWh) for the month of December 2021 having an impact of Rs 3.03 billion, to […]

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Thursday hailed ZuPeshawar-the operator of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, on receiving International Gold Standard Status (IGSS) saying that Pakistan’s Peshawar now has become officially first in the sub-continent, third in Asia, and 11th city globally to receive Gold Standard. Dr. Walter Hook, member of the Tech Committee, which […]

ISLAMABAD: Two Indians were among eight people arrested in Kathmandu for possessing uranium-like substances, which were brought from India to be sold illegally in Nepal, the local Nepali police said. According to the Indian newspaper Deccan Herald, the police on a tip-off, arrested eight people after they recovered these substances from a car parked in […]