Year: 2022

An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy — a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*. The image — produced by a global team of scientists known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration — is the first, direct visual confirmation of the presence of this invisible object, and comes three years after the very first image of a black hole from a distant galaxy. “For decades, we have known about a compact…

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The unit-1 of Karot hydropower project with production capacity of 180 megawatts of electricity started running after the successful commissioning of “Wet Test”. “The energy produced from the unit-1 will provide support to the national grid in alleviating the energy crisis,” remarked Karot Power Company CEO Wang Minsheng. The unit-1 with capacity of 180MW is continuously running on full load and is supplying energy to the national grid, said a statement issued by Karot Power Company. “Hard work of Chinese and Pakistani staff enabled us to achieve this important milestone,”…

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Gwadar is seeking urgent arrangements for power supply to ensure robust economic growth, business ecosystem and logistic activities at Gwadar Port as well as in the Gwadar region. The demand for early supply of electricity was made at the Pakistan Energy Development Conference 2022 held at the China Business Centre at Gwadar Port. China Overseas Port Holding Company (COPHC) Chairman Zhang Baozhong said “with regards to development, there are some issues to be solved and power remains the foremost one. We cannot develop until enough electricity is available.” “At COPHC,…

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There is a need to exploit the renewable energy resources in order to meet the growing needs of the country. In clean energy, solar is one of the most economical, pollution-free and environment-friendly sources of energy that can help mitigate power crisis in Pakistan. These were the remarks made by Pakistan Hi-Tech Hybrid Seed Association Secretary General and United Business Group Chairman Shahzad Ali Malik. He was talking to a delegation of progressive farmers, led by Sabir Hussain. “Pakistan is confronted with a severe energy crisis and load-shedding is badly…

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The government has increased gas value of supply to the CNG consumers for the purpose of sales tax in the range of 5pc to 6pc across the country. A sales tax notification SRO587 of 2022 was released on Thursday by amending SRO39 of 2022 to increase the value of supply to the CNG consumers for the purpose of charging sales tax from CNG stations by the gas transmission and distribution companies. For region-I—Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Potohar Region—Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Gujar Khan, the value of supply of gas was increased…

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