Competition heats up in soda ash manufacturing industry

Sapphire Textile Mills Ltd.’s wholly owned subsidiary Sapphire Chemicals (Pvt.) Ltd. announces plans to establish soda ash manufacturing facility

Load shedding expected to increase in coming months

LAHORE: Well placed sources in the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) have claimed that the city will face increased power outages in...

Big industry output contracts by 11.59% in February

LSM output dips 5.56% YoY during July-February
Industrial policy

PESSI recovers Rs9.62b from defaulting industrial units

LAHORE: The Punjab Employees Social Security Institution (PESSI) has recovered a record amount of arrears worth Rs9.62 billion from defaulting industrial units...

IPP’s warn of impending power crisis due to forex shortfall 

The country’s power sector is on the brink of crisis with payments worth $710 million due

After PTC, Philip Morris also shows concerns over smuggling, sale of illicit cigarettes 

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani tobacco industry is facing major challenges as the sale of illicit cigarettes has spiked following a massive increase in...

MoC to launch first National Compliance Centre to facilitate businesses, exports

Move likely to help improve export opportunities for local businesses

NEPRA makes electricity more expensive

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has increased the price of electricity by 46 paise per unit under the quarterly...

Russia starts fuel exports to Iran by rail

MOSCOW: Russiastarted fuel exports to Iran by rail this year for the first time after traditional buyers shunned trade with Moscow, according to...

Court interventions and share price manipulation: What is going on at Tristar Power?

Complications and legal violations delay, and possibly avert, electricity producer Tri-Star Power Ltd’s potential acquisition by Turkish investors

Askari Securities gets green signal to amalgamate into Fauji Foundation’s securities company

The Sindh High Court sanctioned the scheme of arrangement for merger of Askari Securities Limited (ASL)  into Foundation Securities Private Limited (FSL)

Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems...

Increase of Rs2.8 per unit for power consumers!

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to impose an additional surcharge on power consumers in accordance with this the Ministry of Energy Power...

In a swift turn of events, Swyft Logistics undergoes major management changes

KARACHI: Swyft Logistics recently underwent a significant shakeup in its management structure. Muhammad Uns was relieved of his duties as CEO on...

OGRA notifies Rs49 per Kg cut in LPG price for April

ISLAMABAD: In a notification issued by Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) the prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) have been reduced...