Making hay: Taxi drivers in Rawalpindi are charging exorbitant fares from commuters. The shortage of natural gas is good business opportunity for them. The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Ltd, Pakistan

tsunami relief: Sri Lankan authorities destroyed large stocks of rice, pulses, vegetable oil and canned fish and other food items, donated as tsunami relief, on December 29. The food stocks, donated by the UN World Food Programme, were stored in warehouses in Boossa from December 2004 and were no longer suitable for human consumption. A special investigation had been initiated by Galle district

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The Petroleum Institute of Pakistan (PIP), a representative body of Pakistan oil and gas industry is organising a seminar on "Energy Crisis and Lessons Learnt" at a local hotel here on November 25, 2008. The objective of the seminar is to debate the growing energy crisis and critically review its causes and impact on our economy.

Pakistan reports more polio cases: Pakistan reported four polio cases just two days after the much-publicized anti-polio campaign concluded on October 16. Three polio victims are from Punjab and one from the North West Frontier Province. These cases take the number of children incapacitated by the disease this year to 81. Five cases of polio surfaced in the capital city Islamabad, seven in the

The bilateral donor countries and institutions are likely to offer Pakistan the much needed funding in foreign exchange for the construction of the Rs 130 billion Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Power Project, sources told Daily Times on Thursday.

The Petroleum Ministry has finalised a draft of a new petroleum policy that lays stress on exploration in new blocks and offering various fiscal incentives to exploration companies. Sources in the Ministry said that after approved by the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources the draft would be forwarded to the Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet for final endorsement.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has directed that the allotment leases of wind energy companies should be cancelled if they violate their agreements in any way.

The Third Power and Alternative Energy Asia 2009 International Exhibition and Conference will be held here in March next. This was announced by the Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan in a statement here on Monday. It pointed out that the Embassy of Pakistan, Athens, has extended its support to Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan to promote this conference and exhibition.

About 700 villages would be electrified and three new 132KV power grid stations would be established in Balochistan under Rs1.6 billion Second Rural Village Electrification Project also known as Kuwait Fund, sources in Balochistan Provincial and Planning department told APP on Monday.