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Pakistan
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Alleviation of adverse effects of salt stress on sunflower by exogenous application of Salicylic Acid
Spraying plants with the hormone salicylic acid can help them withstand excess salt in the soil, report scientists in Pakistan. External application of the chemical improves the growth of salt-stressed sunflower plants and leads to higher yields.
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Kurri residents welcome halt to landfill project
The residents of Kurri and adjoining villages on Wednesday welcomed the orders of Islamabad High Court (IHC), which stayed the execution of Kurri Landfill Project. "We are happy that Islamabad High Court (IHC) has stayed the execution of the project and served notices on Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman, chief commissioner and Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) director general,' Shabbir Abbasi, a resident of Maloot Village told Daily Times.
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Five RCB localities facing acute water shortage
Five localities of Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) including Chak Madad Khan, Gawalmandi, Gulshan-e-Nayyab, Chistiabad and Allahabad are facing acute water shortage for the last three days. RCB sources told Daily Times on Wednesday that they were receiving an average 80 complaints of water shortage from these localities daily but of them only 20 percent were being attended. They said it was not possible for them to entertain all the complaints, as they had to provide water to other localities as well.
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Comment: Use-value and natural resources Majed Akhter
If the current rate of deforestation continues unabated, Pakistan will be forestless within a generation. The people who will be most immediately and severely hurt by the loss of forests are the local communities
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Pak-EPA, traffic wardens launch green audit
City traffic wardens in collaboration with Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) launched a campaign against smoke-emitting public transport vehicles in Rawalpindi city on Wednesday. The campaign started with testing of vehicles at GPO Chowk in Cantonment area.
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Hospitals receive mosquito nets for dengue patients
In the wake of the latest detections of dengue fever and a couple of subsequent deaths, the health department of the City District Government Karachi has once again begun distributing specially medicated mosquito nets to government hospitals to provide protection to patients already bitten by the disease-spreading Aedes egypti mosquitoes.
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Breach floods villages, farmland
Three villages and more than 150 acres of agricultural land came under water when a 50-feet wide breach developed in Kandeer Shakh canal at RD-61 near Keenjhar in the Mirpur Mathelo area on Wednesday. Water gushing out of the breach inundated Kajlo Pitafi, Nawab Pitafi, and Qadir Bux Pitafi villages and washed away paddy crop standing on over 150 acres of land.
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Absence of sewerage system decried
Hundreds of people on Wednesday staged a demonstration in the city's Pakka Garha locality against the district government's failure to lay a sewerage system here despite repeated appeals by locals to the authorities over the last several years. The protesters, who were carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands, raised slogans against the district government. They said there was no drainage and sewerage system in their locality and the sewerage water was entering their houses.
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No end to power & water woes of Karachi
A vast area of the city remained without electricity on Wednesday as over 30,000 complaints of power breakdowns remain unattended by the Karachi Electric Supply Company, while no one within the utility seems to be prepared to own responsibility for the crisis. The utility was still facing an approximately 500 megawatt shortfall as its flagship Bin Qasim Power Plant was only operating at half its optimum output, generating much below par
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Raise in fertiliser, diesel prices: farmers threaten to hold demonstrations
The Kisan Board Pakistan, Punjab Chapter President Khurshid Ahmed Kanju has announced a strong protest demonstration across the Punjab against the increase in fertiliser, diesel and electricity prices on August 7. According to a press release, the decision was taken during a meeting of the Kisan Board Pakistan held here on Wednesday. Kanju said that the fertiliser dealers and stockist are collecting million of rupees from helpless farmers by selling fertilisers at high rates and that the government has failed to provide any relief to the farmers.