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
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
About 78 per cent of rice crop in upper Sindh has been wiped out in floods. According to preliminary estimates of the crop losses submitted to the federal government by the Sindh Agriculture Department, standing rice crops in upper Sindh, mainly Kashmore, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot have completely been washed away under strong torrent of flood waters. Sources at the agriculture depar
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Recognising mercury as a fatal chemical, the government with the support of a UN agency has developed a draft national mercury waste management plan for various sectors to meet the challenge.
Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, was informed here on Wednesday that a revised one MGD treatment plant for domestic wastewater has been designed by water technologist Dr Mohammad Ahsan Siddiqui of Industrial Development (ID) for Kotri city and submitted to Sindh government by Public Health Engineering (PHE).
The Sindh environmental protection tribunal on Friday ordered the constitution of a three-member commission to ascertain the factual position regarding the working of a building product manufacturing and marketing enterprise located in Manghopir with special reference to its effects on the environment and human health.
The water supply network in Fatehjang will be upgraded at a cost of Rs35 million. This was stated by town administrator Mohammad Shabbir Ahmed Khan while talking to this correspondent here on Friday.
PESHAWAR, May 12: People in 14 districts of the province are at high risk of malaria and need urgent measures to be saved from the mosquito-borne disease. Dr Mohammad Salim Khan, deputy director of the Malaria Control Programme, made this call at a one-day workshop held at the Provincial Health Services Academy here on Wednesday.
The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has evolved an energy efficiency plan that will be launched soon. This was said by PEC chairperson Rukhsana Zuberi while speaking at the second session of a two-day
THATTA, May 11: Around 850 acres of forest land encroached by some influential people was vacated on Tuesday by the district forest officials with the help of police.
While Pakistan and India agree to move on to a
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has estimated that Pakistan has 70 million children working as labourers. The last ILO-IPEC survey carried out in 1996 had put the child labour population in the country at 3.3 million.