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The National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) has announced that its upcoming event, the 15th Annual International Corporate Social Responsibility Summit-2023, will recognize the best relief and charitable efforts in the country to provide emergency humanitarian support to flood-hit communities in the country.Sindh Local Government Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, recently performed soft launching of the 15th Annual International CSR Summit-2023 held at a hotel in Karachi.The 15th Annual International CSR Summit will be held at a hotel in Islamabad in February 2023. leading corporate leaders, CSR practitioner, NGO,…

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State Minister for Petroleum Musadik Malik announced on Monday that Russia has decided to provide crude oil, petrol, and diesel to Pakistan at discounted rates. The decision comes a month after Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that the country is considering buying discounted Russian oil, pointing out that neighbour India has been purchasing oil from Moscow and Islamabad also has a right to explore the possibility. Subsequently, Malik flew to Russia last week for talks on issues including oil and gas supplies. Pakistan struggles to meet domestic gas supply needs as winter…

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It “will take years” to get energy prices back to pre-Ukraine war levels, the boss of one of the world’s biggest energy firms has told the BBC. Enel’s Francesco Starace said bringing prices down depends on new sources of energy such as renewables and heat pumps. Governments across Europe are spending billions helping business and households afford energy bills. They are also scrambling to secure new supplies. Mr Starace said the company, which produces and distributes electricity and gas, tried to shield its 20 million European customers from energy market…

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project” with concessional ordinary capital resources lending of $3.60 million. The project documents revealed that the government of Pakistan requested Project Readiness Financing (PRF) from the ADB to prepare the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project. The project supports the government of Pakistan’s Vision 2025 and the ADB’s country partnership strategy for Pakistan, 2021-2025, which emphasises addressing the food security constraints, building climate resilience, and investing in value-chain rural infrastructure developments importantly improving water storage and regulatory capacity,…

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Iran has begun the construction of a new nuclear plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the country’s atomic energy agency said Saturday. Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced in televised remarks the start of construction of the 300-megawatt Karun power plant in the Darkhovin district of Khuzestan. Construction of the plant will take seven years and is expected to cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, he added on state television. Eslami said the power plant was “first set to be constructed by…

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