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Industries' owners in Pakistan's KP province announce civil disobedience
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], February 2 (ANI): Industries' owners in the Nowshera district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province announced civil disobedience move on Tuesday and closed down their units in protest against the imposition of high taxes in electricity bills.
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WFP needs USD 2.6 billion to address humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 2 (ANI): World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday announced that it needs urgent funding of USD 2.6 billion to boost operations for 8.7 million starving Afghans as the freezing winter is deteriorating the situation.
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Pakistan: Protest held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against hours-long power load
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 1 (ANI): Thousands of people gathered in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to protest against the hours-long electricity load-shedding and dereliction of duty by the staff of Peshawar Electric Supply Company at Gandheri area in Nowshera district.
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Afghanistan owes Tajikistan over USD 33mn for electricity: Tajik Energy Ho
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Dushanbe [Tajikistan], February 1 (ANI): Afghan energy company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), responsible for electricity transmission and generation in the country, owns Tajikistan more than USD 33 million for the electricity already supplied, Mahmadumar Asozoda, the first deputy di
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Core sector output grows 3.8 pc in Dec 2021
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): The output of eight core sectors of the economy rose 3.8 per cent in December 2021 as against a contraction of 0.4 per cent in the same month last, according to official data released on Monday.
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BJP's every promise was a 'Jumla', says Akhilesh Yadav
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 29 (ANI): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday hit out at the ruling BJP government in Uttar Pradesh and said that every promise that they made during before the 2017 Assembly elections in the state turned out to be a "Jumla".
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Pak: People protest in Peshawar against frequent power outages
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], January 28 (ANI): Hundreds of people in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province held a rally in Peshawar against prolonged power suspensions and demanded repair of the damaged supply lines, according to a media report.
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Amid electricity crisis in Kabul, Uzbekistan-sourced power cut off
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 28 (ANI): Amid complaints about the shortage of power in the capital city of Kabul, the transmission of power from Uzbekistan has been halted due to technical problems found in the electricity system that includes the Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhsta
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Pak Punjab farmers to protest against new taxes on electricity for tube we
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab farmers on Thursday staged a protest over the imposition of new taxes on the electricity consumed by agriculture tube wells while calling to widen the protest against the Imran Khan government.
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Mumbai: Iconic double-decker goes electric, BEST procuring 900 AC buses
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 27 (ANI): Maharashtra Minister Aditya Thackeray on Thursday said that the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) is procuring 900 AC electric double-decker buses for Mumbai.
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Nationwide protests against murder of journalist in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Apart from the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist (PFJU) hundreds of Electricity, Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) workers held protests across the country over the killing of journalist Hasna
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Subsidy withdrawal likely to increase power tariff prices in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 25 (ANI): Pakistan government's decision to increase electricity tariff up to Rs0.95 per following withdrawal of Rs20 billion subsidy has compounded the power-consumers problem.
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