Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
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Chenab likely to reach high flood level
Chenab River is likely to attain high flood level at various places during next 24 hours, while Indus River at Guddu and Ravi River at Balloki are still at low levels. Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) said on Sunday that all other major rivers are flowing below low flood level. High flood ranging from 200,000 to 280,000 cusecs is expected in Chenab River at Marala, 220,000 to 280,000 cusecs at Khanki and 200,000 to 260,000 cusecs at Qadirabad.
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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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Agro food processing by end of this year
An agro food processing facility will be functional at the Multan Industrial Estate by the end of this year. Talking to this correspondent here on Tuesday, Pakistan Mango Growers Association President Zahid Hussain Gardezi said that machinery for the Rs213 million facility had been imported from Italy. He said Smeda provided Rs135 million for the machinery, which had arrived in Karachi, while the Punjab government provided funds for land procurement and construction of a building.
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Dengue fever Costly machine goes to CHK
The health authorities have now decided to shift the unused cell separator, which was procured by the Sindh government at a cost of Rs3 million in its drive against dengue about a year back, to the Civil Hospital Karachi at the earliest.
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Lab tests find Sahiwal water dangerous'
Subsoil drinking water in Sahiwal district contains heavy proportion of sulphate and fluoride, according to the lab testing of water samples of different areas of the district. The excessive presence of sulphate and fluoride cause hepatitis, teeth deformation in children, unhealthy bone development, stomach diseases, especially constipation, joints problems, drowsiness and fatigue. The amount of concentration in groundwater creates serious implications on vital organs of humans.
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Most areas suffer water scarcity: Power outages hit pumping stations
The massive power breakdown that plunged the city into darkness on Monday night also wreaked havoc on the city's major water pumping stations, forcing the teeming millions to suffer a shortage of around 160 million gallons of water. Pumping of water to the city from all the major pumping stations
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Nazim bans felling of trees across city
As the parks department has failed to save trees from being felled in different areas, the city government imposed on Tuesday a complete ban on felling of trees anywhere in the metropolis, by any civic agency, without its prior approval.