Faisalabad: Sui Gas authorities send notice for closing down factories for 3 days

Sui Gas officials have issued a notice against ECCs decision for three day load shedding in industrial sector of gas in Faisalabad region.

According to Sui gas officials, it is stated in the notices issued that due to less availability of gas, industrial sector will experience load shedding due to load management plan. It has been decided to shut the supply of gas to all textile and other industries of Faisalabad region. Gas officials state that notification for two-day load shedding of gas supply has not been received from Federal Government. On the other side, industrial organistions have not agreed upon the notices for closing factories for three days; where as they have announced two close down factories for two days only.

Punjab’s industrial gas supply halted, millions lose daily wages

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LAHORE: Under the National Energy Saving drive, the gas supply of many industrial zones of Punjab has been halted on Monday morning which is causing a huge lost to the millions of daily wages’ workers of the concerned industries.

According to Sui Northern Gas Company (SNGC) source, the gas supply of Lahore, Sheikhupura and Sahiwal regions’ industries will remain closed on November 29-30, and it would resume on December 1 at 6.00am.

The industrialists of the affected zones have rejected this ongoing two-day weekly gas break while saying that this weekly gas closure not only halts the industries, it also turns millions of daily wages’ workers jobless.

Under the weekly gas break schedule of SNGC, more than 2,000 CNG stations of Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala, and Faisalabad regions would remain closed on Tuesday. Trend Pk

Digicon6 special: Inter BEE kick starts on promising note

Tokyo: With the support of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB-J), the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) has hosted the Inter BEE 2010 – an audio-video and communications broadcasting equipment exhibition at Makuhari Messe from November 17 to 19, 2010.

Currently in its 46th edition, Inter Bee has achieved remarkable success, in its role as a promoter of broadcasting technology. This year, in addition to traditional broadcasting, Inter BEE displayed a comprehensive selection of exhibits that provided an overview of a wide range of technological fields such as communications, IT, audio and lighting.

Here are the key highlights of the event:

The Tutorial Session: Targeting young people in the industry and students, instructors actively working in the video and audio domains help to nurture competent technicians in the workplace by imparting knowledge about equipment and system use, and contents creation techniques.

The Technical Report Conference on Commercial Broadcasting: An annual event that has been in place since the inauguration of Inter BEE. Front-line experts in the field of commercial TV discuss the constantly changing state of and problems facing commercial TV. This provides a valuable opportunity to learn about the course and direction of future broadcasting.

IPTV, Mobile TV, Crossmedia Zone: Here, people gather under one roof to see the latest IPTV services, and create a place to check-up on post-digitization mobile TV business. In addition to this, adopting a theme of digital signage, digital cinema and 3D images, a pavilion exhibition is kept where one can experience the possibilities and technological advancements of new media.

On the sidelines of Inter BEE, TBS Digicon6 also hosted an ‘Asia Contents Forum’ where the winners of respective countries showcased their work and key notes were delivered from the prominent film makers and directors of Asian countries.

3-day gas supply cut for Faisalabad industries expected

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FAISALABAD: Thousands of laborers of industries are protesting against two-day gas supply cut in Faisalabad but the Sui Northern Gas Company plans to stop the supply for three-day.

The company has stopped supplying gas to the industries for two-days therefore all the industries of the city are closed. The industrialists have rejected company’s decision.

On the other hand, sources told that the Sui Northern Gas Company has decided to discontinue gas supply for three day in a week from November 15 to February 28. The new schedule has been sent to the authorities for approval, sources added.

All the industrialists have also been informed about the new schedule during winter season. Trend Pk

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Faisalabad: Industries defy Govts gas loadshedding plan

Over 1,500 industries have rejected Governments three-day gas suspension plan and resumed functioning on Tuesday.
The Sui Northern Gas Company (SNGC) restricted Faisalabads industries, under load management scheme, to avoid the gas usage from Monday to Wednesday.The industrialists of Faisalabad obeyed the restriction for one day only and kept all industries closed on the first day of the gas break, Monday, but on the second day of the break, Tuesday, they reopened industries after rejecting three days gas beak scheme of SNGC. The industrialists were of the view that they are ready to observe only one days break every week but cannot follow the three days closure, which causes millions of rupees loss to their industries while thousands of workers suffer a lot for losing their daily wages.

Karachi: Governor Sindh takes notice of lengthy power outages

Federation of Pakistan Camber of Commerce and Industry has announced their support for the Wednesday strike announcement by their industrial sector of Karachi, Dunya News reported on Tuesday.
Whereas tomorrow all the industries of the cosmopolitan would observe strike against the lengthy power outages by KESC. On the other hand the Governor Sindh ha taken a serious notice of the issue and summoned all the concerned authorities and KESC officers tomorrow for an important meeting in the provincial governor house to resolve the issue.
KESC has refused to reduce the length of the power outages despite the announcement of strike by the industries of the city. According to the KESC sources, due to reduced supply of gas by Sui Southern Gas Pipelines Limited SSGPL it has become impossible for KESC to reduce the duration of load shedding in the industrial areas.
On the other hand the Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat Ul Ibad Khan has taken serious notice of the power break downs and the consequent unrest amongst the masses. The Governor has summoned the concerned authorities and the KESC officers immediately to look into the matter.
The industrial unions of the industrial zones of Karachi, including those of S.I.T.E, North Karachi, Federal B. area, Landhi, Korangi and Super Highway, have announced a complete strike on Wednesday which was duly supported by the chairman of the federation Sultan Chawla in a press conference in Karachi. He also said that due to the planned one-day strike, atleast 10-12 billion rupess loss would be incurred in terms of production while atleast 1 billion would decrease from the tax receipts for the government. Sultan Chawla demanded from the government that the issue of these lengthy power outages should be resolved so as to save the jobs of almost 2 million workers and employees.

Faisalabad’s industries reopen after rejection of gas break

Staff Report

FAISALABAD: More than 1,500 industries have rejected the three days’ gas break schedule of the government and resumed functioning on Tuesday.

The Sui Northern Gas Company (SNGC) restricted Faisalabad’s industries, under load management scheme, to avoid the gas usage from Monday to Wednesday.

The industrialists of Faisalabad obeyed the restriction for one day only and kept all industries closed on the first day of the gas break, Monday, but on the second day of the break, Tuesday, they reopened industries after rejecting three days’ gas beak scheme of SNGC.

The industrialists were of the view that they are ready to observe only one day’s break every week but cannot follow the three days’ closure, which causes millions of rupees loss to their industries while thousands of workers suffer a lot for losing their daily wages.

Zamzama gas field closes for annual overhaul

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DADU: Due to the closure of Zamzama gas field for annual overhauling, the gas supply to industrial units in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Bahawalpur will remain closed for the next three days.

According to sources, the overhauling work of Zamzama gas field will be completed before November 4. During this all period, gas supply for domestic consumers will not suffer, but many industrial areas of Punjab will not get gas supply for the next three days.

The gas supply of many other industries of Punjab including Pak Arab Fertilizer Company, Pak American Fertilizer Company and Dawood Hercules has been also halted for the next nine days which has created fear that the supply of urea can suffer during the current wheat sowing campaign.

The CNG Association of Pakistan has announced that as a protest against the two day gas load shedding,

SNGPL issues new schedule for CNG stations closure

Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited has issued a new notice for the closure of the CNG stations in Punjab, Dunya News reported on Monday.
According to the new schedule of SNGPL, all the CNG stations in Punjab would remain closed for two days per two weeks instead of one day closure in two weeks. Also that another day has been added to the closure schedule of regions having one day off in a week. The closure decision has resulted due to reduced supply of gas from the Qadirpur and Zamzama gas fields. Earlier SNGPL had issue closure schedule for the industries according to which the gas supply would remain discontinued for six days till 4th November this year. This decision has not been altered by SNGPL.

Film Business Center at 12th Mumbai Film Festival

MAMI’s Film Business Center in its 12th Film Festival seeks to become the finest platform for Indian and International film Industries to come together.

For the first time in any Indian Film Festival all the important Buyers and Sales agents from around the world will be attending the film festival. The Film Business Center at Chandan Cinema, an initiative in its second year, will host several important world sales agents and buyers. Representatives of Pathe (France and UK), Studio Canal (France), Icon (UK, US, Australia), Metro Films (South Africa), IM Global (USA), Fortissimo (Netherlands) Pioniwa (Japan), MK2 (France), Memento Films International (France), Visit Films (USA), Umedia (France), The Match Factory (Germany), Bavaria Films International (Germany), Beta Films (Germany), Wide Management (France), YTV (Japan), Visual Media Centre (Iran) among a host of others will converge at the Film Business Centre. Several Indian producers, distributors, exhibitors and television channels will be active in the Film Business Centre which is set up to facilitate B2B interactions among the film professionals who are participating in the festival.

The Business Centre will arrange for meetings which will support corporate as well as Independent Film makers and Distributors/buyers. Indian distributors will be able to buy foreign films from over 50 foreign producers and sales agents from abroad.

The Film Business Centre will provide a combination of lounge facilities, DVD screening facilities and Internet connectivity to these professionals to ensure smooth interactivity.
This facility will function like an exclusive professional club. Industry professionals need to separately register to access the Film Business Centre.

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