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Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project will be closed for Next 6 Months
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Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project will be closed for Next 6 Months

It will take six months to restore power supply to the national grid at the Neelum Jhelum hydropower project, which has been non-operational since July 6. There was a blockage in the tail race tunnel of the 969 MW project, which resulted in a malfunction. A geological failure in the tunnel is suspected, but the real cause will be found once the dewatering process is completed, according to top energy ministry officials. A major crack in the tailrace tunnel of the 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project has forced the closure of the project, which was completed at an estimated cost of about Rs508bn. A preliminary report informed PM Shehbaz that the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) had no idea about the magnitude of the loss. Water is being pumped into the tun...
Twitter finally announces that it is shutting down ‘Fleets’
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Twitter finally announces that it is shutting down ‘Fleets’

“We will explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter”, says the platform. Twitter, on Wednesday, 14th July, announced that they have decided to discontinue the Fleets feature after almost 9 months of its release. The social media released ‘Fleets’ back in November of 2020. While releasing it the company in a blog post said, “We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter”. It released this feature so that it could encourage people who shy away from public conversation on the application. The platform wanted to encourage them to take part in the social medium and be much more active on the application than before. Twitter has a goal to achieve more than 315 million daily users by 2023. Goodbye ...