Making cancer detection more easy and quick, scientists developed a cancer-detecting breathalyzer that can detect cancer just through a person’s breath and have already begun its clinical trials. A UK-based
Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that the government would facilitate and provide investor friendly environment to the Chinese companies in Pakistan. He said that the Chinese interest to invest in the hydel and wind power generation projects would help meet countrys future power requirements at affordable prices.
For provision of clean drinking water, the government of Pakistan has successfully completed the drinking water scheme in Jawaki Shin Dand Village, Frontier Region Kohat, which directly benefits 6,400 persons. The project was identified by the community in a meeting with the local political administration. The APA ordered immediate work on the drinking water scheme.
The government has formally approved the much-awaited two more nuclear power plants, of 340 MW each (cumulative capacity 680 MW), at Chashma at a cost of Rs 190 billion ($2.374 billion) with foreign exchange component (FEC) of Rs 140 billion ($1.75 billion), sources told Business Recorder.
The Ministry of Special Initiatives has unearthed a number of irregularities in the clean drinking water projects, and withheld payments of the contractors for not installing plants as per required specifications, sources close to Industries Secretary told Business Recorder.
Steel industry located in Islamabad industrial area must ensure environmental compliance this directive was issued by the Federal Minister for Environment, Hamidullah Jan Afridi, during his visit to steel furnaces in I-9 Sector, Islamabad, here on Thursday.
Economic Officer US Consulate Lahore Mark S. Palermo has said that United States will provide vast resources for the poverty alleviation by boosting agricultural productivity in order to obtain rural development and food security of Pakistan. He was talking to the scientists and scholars of UAF during his one-day visit to the University on Thursday morning.
Further investment in tractor industry is linked to stable government policy that provides at least level playing field to the local manufacturers instead of periodically facilitating tractor imports on concession.
The residents of Model Town Humak and its adjoining localities are facing acute shortage of public transport service on Sihala-Raja Bazar route as they have no option to travel other than the Suzuki van. Thousands of people daily travel on this route which starts from Raja Bazar, Rawalpindi and culminate at Sihala Bazar - a rural area of the federal capital.
Developing countries including Pakistan are facing the burden of communicable disease including dengue, fevers, diarrhoea and cholera, which may result in emergencies.
Thousands of effected families of Preedy Street are facing a confusing situation after a Sindh High Courts stay order on launching housing schemes in Mahmoodabad, the area which was being given to them by the city government as a compensation. Allotment orders were issued by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) to those who had lost their houses in the construction of Corridor-III.
