Tag: Blackout

Pakistan's 2024 elections unfolded with intense anticipation, marred by a renewed suspension of cellular services after a brief resumption, casting a shadow over the democratic process.On February 8, millions of Pakistanis voted for their representatives in the four provincial assemblies and the 16th National Assembly. However, as ...

GUWAHATI: Browsers and bookmarks on phones sprung back to life in strife-ridden Manipur on Saturday after 143 days as the BJP-led state government ended the country's second longest mobile internet blackout after the one in J&K since August 4, 2019, that lasted a record 552 days. The return of ...

File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A petition was filed in the Supreme Court against the mechanical and repeated shutdown of internet in Manipur even after an “admitted de-escalation” in violence and clashes across the State.The plea filed by Chongtham Victor Singh, an advocate with the Manipur High ...

Millions of people are affected; a senior official says the electricity supply will be restored in 12 hours Large parts of Pakistan and all of its major cities have been left without power this morning due to a breakdown of the national grid system. Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan ...

Pakistan was plunged into darkness after a power transmission system fault in the early morning caused a nationwide outage, according to officials. Source link

Source link www.rferl.org As scattered anti-government and anti-hijab protests continue across Iran, members of one beleaguered ethnic and religious minority who joined in the demonstrations are still assessing the toll from "Bloody Friday."Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, was the scene of the violent crackdown carried ...

Pakistan's electricity crisis is becoming more and more acute. Due to lack of fuel, electricity cannot be generated in the country. As a result, the period of black out is getting longer. Which increased to 12 hours now. This situation is reminiscent of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, adding to the ...

Onions and Unions have this common characteristic of bringing tears to one’s eyes when dealt with. But while in the case of onions the tears are worth the trouble, the latter can never justify the hardship that they routinely pose to the citizenry. Just a few weeks back we ...

A look at the headlines right now:Power minister refutes reports of coal shortage, says ‘unnecessary panic’ created about outages: Meanwhile, governments in five states and the national Capital Delhi have undertaken measures to reduce power consumption amid fears of blackouts.  UP government is shielding minister and his son in Lakhimpur Kheri ...

The top separatist leader buried quietly at a cemetery located near his residence in Srinagar's Hyderpora area at around 3.30 am on Thursday SRINAGAR: Authorities cracked down on public movement and imposed a near-total communications blackout Thursday in disputed Kashmir after the death of Syed Ali Geelani, a top ...