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EPA issues notices over canal pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued notices to the DCOs of Hyderabad and Tando Mohammad Khan, Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (Site) managing director, Taluka Municipal Administratio
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Over 200 Buffaloes killed in Landhi fire
More than 200 buffaloes were killed on Thursday when a fire swept through wooden sheds at a farm in Cattle Colony in Landhi.
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Sewage treatment plants to be ready by next month
Two under-construction treatment plants for treating sewage and enabling it to be used for irrigating lands instead of discharging into the River Indus and Phulelli Canal, would be ready by next month
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Plea to revive rural uplift project
The Centre for Environment and Development (CEAD) has expressed concern over the proposed closure of Asian Development Bank-backed Sindh Rural Development Project (SRDP), and said that it is unfortuna
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Wildlife department told to halt import of big cats
The federal government has advised the Sindh government not to process any request for the import of big cats
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Removal of encroachments from ancient site sought
A Sindh Archaeology Department team visited the pre-historic site of Lakhian-Jo-Daro near here on Thursday and handed over to the DCO a letter from the director general of Pakistan Archaeology Depart
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CNG-based public transport system promised by June
The government will launch a pilot project on the public-private partnership basis for improving the public transport system of Karachi in June this year.
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Experts fear deadly fungus in South Asia wheat fields
A wheat-killing fungus has spread from Africa to Iran and may already be in Pakistan, which depends crucially on wheat to feed its population, New Scientist magazine says.
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Reservoirs' storage capacity declining
Pakistan has lost 24 per cent of water storage capacity and its reservoirs can now hold only 11.38 million acre feet water against a capacity of 15.02maf, according to a survey of dams.