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KW&SB losing 174 million gallons of water per day

Karachi Water & Sewerage Board's (KW&SB) water supply losses have gone up to 30 percent, or 174 million gallons per day (MGD) resulting in severe water crises in the mega city of the country. As per official documents, the city was facing a water shortfal

Published 22 Jun, 2019 12:00am

KW&SB losing 174 million gallons of water per day

Published 22 Jun, 2019 12:00am

Federal govt, KE reach agreement for additional 150 MW electricity

KARACHI: The federal government has reached an agreement with K-Electric to provide additional 150 MW electricity f

Published 20 Jun, 2019 10:20am

KMC council regularises services of 722 employees

The City Council on Tuesday approved a resolution seeking regularization of as many as 722 contract employees (from BPS 1 to BPS-15) of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) with the civic body has decided to pay their salaries right from January 1, 2019

Published 19 Jun, 2019 12:00am

Power breakdowns cause acute water shortage across city

Three consecutive power breakdowns in a short span of 33 hours on K-Electric's transmission network virtually brought the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KW&SB) Dhabeji water supply system to a halt, causing acute shortage of water to Karachi in this sizz

Published 18 Jun, 2019 12:00am

Sindh government wants rehabilitation of KCR land's affectees

The Sindh Government - one of the major stakeholders of Karachi Circular Railway project (KCR), seems to have serious objections to the modus operandi of the ongoing anti-encroachment operation along the KCR route, as the provincial ministers called for a

Published 10 Jun, 2019 12:00am

Sindh government released only 50 percent of KMC's share: mayor

Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar said that Sindh Government has released only 50 percent of the total KMC's share of district ADP for the financial year 2018-19, putting additional monetary burden on the already ailing civic body. In a letter to the Chief Mini

Published 08 Jun, 2019 12:00am

Peak-hour rates to be imposed: K-Electric not to charge meter rent, bank fee from next billing cycle

K-Electric's consumers will no longer be charged with meter rent, and the bank collection charges from the next billing cycle. However, the electricity tariff for KE users has now been revised upward and the concept of time of use (ToU) billing has been i

Published 29 May, 2019 12:00am

Business & Finance

Pakistan Railways to run five special trains on Eid

KARACHI: Pakistan Railways (PR) on Tuesday announced to operate five special passenger trains from all provincial capita

Published 28 May, 2019 08:00am

Railways restores container train service after 22 years

Pakistan Railways (PR) has resumed container train service from Karachi to Lahore bringing an end to the 22-year suspension on Monday. With 70 containers, the train left Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT), Karachi Port Trust (KPT). Federal M

Published 21 May, 2019 12:00am

Railways restores container train service after 22 years

Published 21 May, 2019 12:00am

Railways restores container train service after 22 years

Published 21 May, 2019 12:00am

Expansion of Karachi Expo Centre: centre commits over Rs 1.3 billion financing

The federal government has committed to put in over Rs 1.3 billion financing in the initial phase of remodeling and expansion of Karachi Expo Centre, within one year. According to official documents of the project available with Business Recorder, a total

Published 14 May, 2019 12:00am

KE may suspend supply during Sehr-Iftar due to power shortage

K-Electric's residential consumers, particularly those living in city's slum areas are likely to face load-shedding even during Sehr and Iftar in the holy month of Ramazan after the KE linked the exemption with additional 300MW power supply from the natio

Published 06 May, 2019 12:00am

World Press Freedom Day: There's 'undeclared censorship' in country: Bilawal

Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday said there is an "undeclared censorship" in the country despite constitutional guarantee to freedom of press. "Journalists as human rights defenders suffer the most when freedom of ex

Published 04 May, 2019 12:00am

World Press Freedom Day: There's 'undeclared censorship' in country: Bilawal

Published 04 May, 2019 12:00am

IMF deal won't be accepted sans NA's nod: Bilawal

Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned the PTI-led federal government on Wednesday that his party will reject any deal with International Monetary Fund (IMF), without getting it approved from the National Assembly.

Published 02 May, 2019 12:00am

Sindh government, KMC blame each other for citizens' woes

Instead of making coordinated efforts to resolve issues of Karachi ahead of the holy month of Ramazan, the Sindh govt and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) have started blaming each other for financial irregularities and corruption.

Published 01 May, 2019 12:00am

KE launches mobile application web portal 'KE Live'

In a bid to improve its customer facilitation service K-Electric (KE) launched a mobile application web portal - 'KE Live' here on Thursday. The app is currently not facilitating its users to pay power company's bills online. Danish Javed, Head of Digital

Published 26 Apr, 2019 12:00am

Business & Finance

K-Electric launches its mobile app, web portal

KARACHI: K-Electric on Thursday launched mobile app and Web portal for its customers. The app launching ceremon

Published 25 Apr, 2019 01:58pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 30	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 30	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 30	156.75
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 30	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 30	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 30	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 29	5116.17
Nasdaq / Apr 29	15983.08
Dow Jones / Apr 29	38386.09
India Sensex / Apr 30	75020.21
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 30	38337.50
Hang Seng / Apr 30	17733.21
FTSE 100 / Apr 30	8175.09
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 30	18100.97

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Apr 30	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 30	82.43
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 30	20000
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 30	207390
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 30	2326.07
Diesel/Litre / Apr 30	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 30 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 30 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 30 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 30 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 30 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 30 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 30 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 30 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 30 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 30 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 30 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 30 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 30 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 30 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 30 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 30 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 30 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 30 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 30 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 30 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 30 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 30 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 30 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 30 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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