Whether you love it or dread it, small talk is woven into the fabric of everyday life. From elevator chats to pre-meeting pleasantries, it plays a quiet but crucial role in helping us navigate the social world. But why does small talk matter, and why do so many people find it excruciatingly hard? As it […]
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The Shifting Axis of Power
For centuries, the Western world stood as the unchallenged epicentre of global power. The British Empire once boasted that the sun never set on its dominions, a poetic reminder of how far its reach extended from the Indian subcontinent to the Caribbean, from Africa to the Pacific. The United States later inherited this mantle, rising […]
Flood-hit power consumers ‘get August bill waiver’
The federal government has waived August electricity bills for consumers affected by floods, sources in the Power Division confirmed on Friday. Flash floods killed at least 1,037 people and injured 1,067 across Pakistan, according to the National Disaster Management Authority’s data from June to October. The decision – approved by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – […]
Ports Without Power
When global shipping sneezes, trade-dependent economies catch a cold, pandemic aftershocks have given way to conflict-driven detours via the Cape of Good Hope, adding days to voyages, reconfiguring services, and pushing up operating costs. In such turbulence, ports that deliver predictability-fast vessel turns, clean documentation, reliable hinterland-win disproportionate volumes. Pakistan sits on premium sea lanes, […]
The Geometry of Power
Power is not only about who governs but about how close that governance feels to the ordinary citizen. History teaches that legitimacy comes not just from constitutions and parliaments, but from the ability of people to see their government in action, repairing the street outside their home, running the school where their child studies, ensuring […]
Power Priorities
The good thing (or bad thing) about the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is that it keeps changing its goal posts and keep putting different people in different roles. In politics, changing position is often called U-turn. This is what PTI founder Imran Khan has done this recently: he asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa party head Junaid Akbar to […]
Israelis vote as Netanyahu seeks return to power
JERUSALEM: Israelis are voting today (Tuesday) in their fifth election in less than four years, with the hawkish ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu campaigning for a comeback alongside far-right allies. The latest ballot follows the collapse of the so-called “change” coalition, which united eight disparate parties who succeeded in ousting Netanyahu last year after a record […]
Lights out? Swiss brace for looming power shortages
FinhautEmosson, Switzerland: Switzerland is among the world’s wealthiest countries, but its reliance on Russian gas and French nuclear power both in short supply has it bracing for power shortages and even blackouts this winter. With hundreds of hydropower plants spread across the Alps, Switzerland produces more than enough power in the summer months. However, the […]
300 mw Gwadar power plant to start functioning by 2023
ISLAMABAD: A 300 megawatts coal-fired Gwadar Power Plant would start functioning from October 2023, to cater the needs of some 150,000 people of Gwadar under the 2050 Master Plan of Gwadar. The power plant of independent power producer, is one of the key energy projects on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), said official sources. The […]
PESCO notifies power suspension from various grid stations
PESHAWAR: Power supply from 132 KV Peshawar Cantt Grid Station will remain suspended due to maintenance work on July 25th and 28th from 07:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M, resultantly consumers of 11 KV Marble Industry, Palosi-1&2, Scarp and Tehkal Payan feeders will face inconvenience. According to a press release issued here from PESCO headquarters on […]