General Motors has spent billions over decades trying to blaze an electric trail, releasing pioneering EVs and hybrids that ultimately failed to achieve mass-market sales before being scrapped. This time…
Federal subsidies in Pakistan, particularly those directed towards the power sector, have raised significant concerns regarding transparency, effectiveness, and their impact on poverty alleviation. For the fiscal year 2023-24, the…
Pakistan’s power sector continues to be heavily reliant on government subsidies, a mechanism intended to keep electricity affordable for consumers. However, the State of Industry Report 2024 by Nepra paints…
Switzerland’s financial supervisor has been scrutinising how UBS vets risky wealthy clients that it wants to transfer from Credit Suisse, sources said, as the regulator takes a hands-on approach to…
Subsidies, especially those extended to poor people in Western and developed states, have always been resented by free market advocates who argue they amount to encouraging people to be sluggish,…
UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse has fed a creeping anxiety that Swiss companies will pay a price for the enlarged bank’s outsize market strength. The historic 2023 deal created a…
Lakshmi Narayan was one of the first to see the light: in 2020 the engineer put solar panels on his roof in India’s Bhopal city, becoming a clean energy pioneer…
Media personnel were way more insistent on manifestoes from the three national parties in the run up to the 8 February elections than the general public – a demand met…
For a very long time, the government has been supplying gas at a subsidized rate to fertilizer companies (mainly to urea manufacturing plants where natural gas is the chief raw…
While the Sindh government is set to hold a retake of the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) on Nov 19, the controversy surrounding the key exam refuses to…
