The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has imposed a Rs25 million fine on the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) for failing to reduce transmission and distribution losses and improve recovery during the fiscal year 2023–24. According to NEPRA, LESCO’s system losses increased by 4.04%, reaching 15.92%, which caused an estimated Rs47.6 billion loss to […]
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List of massive electricity blackouts in the world
Massive electricity blackouts, like those suffered by Bangladesh on Tuesday, have become increasingly frequent. Here are some of the worst cases in recent years: – Central Asia, 2022 – Three ex-Soviet neighbours, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, suffer one of the biggest blackouts in their grid-sharing region’s history on January 25, 2022. Millions of people are […]
Myanmar blackout may be cover for gross human rights violations — UN investigator
Myanmar’s army may be committing gross human rights violations under cover of a mobile phone blackout in parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states, UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee said on Monday. Lee, an independent expert who reports to the UN Human Rights Council on human rights in Myanmar, said nine townships had been blacked […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive outage
Social networking services Facebook and Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp Sunday evening faced a global outage, including in Pakistan. All three major social media platforms, which have more than two billion users worldwide, went inaccessible after the outage reported from Pakistan as well as many other countries including India, United Kingdom and Europe. Facebook and […]
Despair, anger as Venezuelans endure paralyzing blackout
Venezuelans wavered between despair and rage Wednesday as they endured a third day of a near-nationwide blackout that has paralyzed their country — the second such outage this month. “Food stocks are starting to rot. There’s no water. The transport virtually doesn’t work. There’s no means of communication,” said Nestor Carreno, who was forced to […]