Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
At least 25 dead in Indonesia earthquake: officials
MEUREUDU, DEC 07, (DNA) – At least 25 people died and hundreds were injured after a strong earthquake struck off Aceh province on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, local officials said. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck Pidie Jaya district at dawn, as some in the predominantly Muslim region prepared for morning prayers. Mosques and shops were flattened in the small town of Meureudu, where the force of the quake sent people fleeing from their homes. No tsunami alert was issued. The head of the local disaster agency, Puteh Manaf, said theRead More
Shanghai Electric to invest $9 billion in KE power infrastructure
KARACHI, DEC 07, (DNA) -The Shanghai Electric Power Company on Tuesday unveiled a $9 billion investment plan to improve transmission, distribution and generation systems of K-Electric (KE) – the power utility it proposed to acquire for $1.7 billion, a statement said. “Shanghai Electric Power along with the management of KE presented its business plan worth $9 billion for improving and adding value to the KE power infrastructure,” the statement added. It said a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy, chaired by Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Minister for Water and Power,Read More
SC to resume Panama Leaks case hearing today
ISLAMABAD, DEC 07, (DNA) – A larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Cheif Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will resume hearing of Panama Leaks case today on petitions by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and other parties. In its earlier hearing on Tuesday, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa asked three questions from the prime minister’s lawyer Salman Aslam Butt. a) How did the prime minister’s children form the companies? b) Explain the issue of dependency c) Were the prime minister’s speeches true or not? The response on the questions isRead More