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LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) awarded on Friday a contract worth $241.1 million for...

The national power regulator has swung into action after tempers began to fray nationwide over prolonged power outages, despite govt claims of surplus electricity.

External help from academia regarding expansion plan can also be sought

LAHORE: The power sector is becoming increasingly unsustainable and the state is compounding the conundrum by covering up its failure to rapidly industrialise, while it blames higher capacity...

LAHORE:The Promotion Board has approved promotion of 125 National Distribution and Despatch Company officers belonging to various cadres to the next grades.As many as 21 NTDC officers from human...

LAHORE: In an unprecedented move, the government has reshuffled about two dozen senior officials of state-owned National Transmission and Despatch Company , the News learnt on Friday.According to...

RESIDENTS of Paposh Nagar locality in Nazimabad take to the streets to protest hours-long power breakdown on Saturday amid sizzling weather conditions.—PPI KARACHI: Karachiites had a miserable day on Saturday when most of the city was left with no electricity due to the tripping of a high-tension transmission line a little after noon. The K-Electric said that its 220kV high-tension circuit was affected by the tripping in National Transmission and Despatch Company’s NKI-Baldia 1 and 2, suppl...

An electrician sits idle at his shop, unable to fix a generator during a power cut. — Murtaza Ali/White Star Several areas of Karachi faced power outage on Saturday afternoon after a high-tension transmission line of 220 kV tripped, affecting the supply of electricity to the associated grids, according to K-Electric – the utility company responsible for electricity supply in the city. "Restoration efforts have already begun and are expected to be completed within one hour. Availability of g...

Power restored to most parts of Karachi: KE By Several areas of Karachi are seen plunged in darkness in this AFP file image. K-Electric issues statement saying power has been restored to most areas with efforts by power utility company and NTDC. KE’s 220 kV Extra High Tension network on Saturday afternoon experienced tripping along with the 220 kV NKI-Baldia 1&2 circuit, says statement. Several areas report outages well into the night despite KEs statement; KE says work to restore power to r...

The Power Division claimed to have saved consumers from a burden of around Rs170b due to removal of the ‘fairness and equity’ clause from an arbitration deal.