Month: May 2020

E-commerce giant Amazon has announced its plan to develop five new renewable energy projects in China, Australia, and the U.S. This latest initiative is a part of Amazon’s commitment to achieving 80% of its power requirements by renewable energy by 2024 and net-zero carbon target by 2040. Amazon has announced that it was planning to make 50% of all of its shipments with net-zero carbon by 2030. The company plans on achieving this goal by leveraging renewable energy, biofuels, and reusable packaging. The company calls this initiative “Shipment Zero.” Amazon…

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KARACHI — In a move that has seriously displeased India and tightened economic relations with China, Pakistan has awarded a contract to a Chinese-Pakistani joint venture to build a dam in the long-disputed Kashmir region. The initial phase of the Diamer Bhasha dam project, worth 442 billion Pakistan rupees ($2.75 billion), has been awarded to a joint venture between Power Construction Corporation of China and the Pakistan Army’s Frontier Works Organization on a 70:30 basis. The project is located in Gilgit-Baltistan, a northerly region 320km from the border with China. The multipurpose…

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slamabad has been bandying the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the ultimate panacea that will solve all financial woes of Pakistan. And since it dubs CPEC as a “game changer for the region,” it doesn’t take very kindly, any contrarian views on this issue. Islamabad’s extreme sensitivity to any comments describing the unfavourable terms and conditions of CPEC project as a ‘sell-off’ is understandable as no nation would like to be told that it is being taken for a royal ride by another country that’s not only an “all weather friend,” but…

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WASHINGTON, DC: The Pakistan has shown a gesture of solidarity with the United States by sending a gift of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the United States Armed Forces, Friday. The PPE dispatched by Armed Forces of Pakistan arrived via a C-130 flight from Islamabad at Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), Maryland. Pakistan Ambassador to the US Dr. Asad M. Khan and senior officers of the Embassy’s Defence Wing were present on the occasion. From the U.S. side, David Helvey, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and…

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Green Algae blooms are popping up more often on Antarctica’s white snow because of warming temperatures.

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