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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Anti-polio campaign launched in Gulshan
The Gulshan Town administration will launch a two-day anti-polio drive from July 28. This was decided in a meeting presided over by TMO Shafiqur Rahman on Thursday. THO Dr Imdad, WHO representatives Dr Navid and Miss Erica, Unicef representatives Amir and Dr Shabbir, TFP Dr Abdul Malik and UC nazims attended the meeting. The meeting decided to set up control rooms in all the UC offices. The TMO appealed to the parents to ensure administering of anti-polio drops to their children. Fumigation drive
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Modernisation of fisheries industry underlined
Speakers at a seminar on fisheries development stressed the need for streamlining the fisheries sector on modern lines by employing sophisticated machinery and latest technology to enable the country to compete in the international market. The seminar on "Potential and Prospects of Fisheries Development in Sindh and Balochistan' was organised by the University of Karachi at its campus on Thursday in collaboration with the provincial fisheries department and the Fisheries Development Board (FDB). Balochistan Minister for Fisheries Hamal Kalmati was the chief guest.
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CNG outlets fleecing consumers
CNG stations across the district are overcharging consumers without any fear of action from the district administration. It has been learnt that all CNG stations in the district are overcharging consumers by Rs3.60 or more per kilogramme as they are selling gas at the rate of Rs47.28 per kilogramme instead of the government rate of Rs43.68 per kilogramme.
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Farmers decry water shortage
Despite increased flow in River Indus, several waterways of Sindh are still facing water shortage, leading to protests by farmers in different parts of the province. Growers took out a rally and held a demonstration in Nawabshah on Monday to protest against acute water shortage in Dholu Minor canal. The rally started from Daur town and terminated at the Nawabshah Press Club. Growers carrying banners and placards raised slogans against the Irrigation Department.
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Animal care still a distant dream
In a city where the number of homeless people is fast rising and humans have a hard time procuring the basic necessities of life, a facility that caters to the needs of animals appears to be a distant dream. And yet an animal shelter has been taking care of animals for the last 29 years. Spread over four acres in a somewhat deserted place near the Toll Plaza, Bilquees Edhi Animal Shelter is currently home to around 75 animals including 36 cats, 6 kittens, 18 dogs, 13 puppies and 5 donkeys.
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13 Daska villages inundated
Flood in Nullah Aik inundated 13 villages of Daska tehsil on Monday, damaging standing crops and forcing dwellers to shift to safer places.
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Govt to relaunch anti-hepatitis scheme
The health ministry has reworked its failed
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Minister orders water supply to tail-end areas
Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza on Monday warned the officials of irrigation department of severe action if they failed to supply water to the tail-end of all the canals of Badin district within a week. The minister said at a meeting with irrigation and revenue officers at Darbar Hall that the negligence of irrigation officials had caused water shortage in tail-end areas. He said that the irrigation officials who still harboured sympathies with former rulers had created artificial scarcity of water in the district. They would not be spared, he warned.
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Shahbaz Sharif reviews launch of food scheme
Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the Rs22 billion Food Stamp Scheme is being launched from Aug 14 for the people living below the poverty line in the province and 1.8 to two million families will benefit from it. He was presiding over a high-level meeting regarding the scheme at Chief Minister's Secretariat here on Sunday, says a handout. He said the scheme would be made transparent so that only deserving people could benefit from it. All DCOs would be responsible in this regard.
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Poverty alleviation government's top priority: Gilani
Alleviation of poverty is one of the top priorities of the government, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday. While speaking to various delegations from all over the country at the Prime Minister's House, he assured that the government was focusing on solving the common man's basic problems. He said the government had inherited the crises the country was presently facing but instead of blaming others, it was concentrating on ways to solve them.