The municipal services department on Friday asked constructions companies to stop dumping waste material in Leh Nullah otherwise it will issue violation penalties.

Seven children reportedly died of measles in the last one week in Chak 39-D in Depalpur tehsil.

At least five children are under treatment at DHQ Hospital.

Speakers at a meeting of national coordination body of the Mangroves for Future (MFF) programme on Thursday called for protection and conservation of mangrove forests which, they said, played a vit

According to a report compiled by the Disease Surveillance System of the Punjab Information Technology Board and issued on Thursday, the number of measles cases in Punjab has reached 7,794 since Ja

At least two peacocks died in a remote village of Tharparkar district on Monday, sources told Dawn.

The peacocks, they said, were found dead in Sangelo village in Diplo taluka.

Two more patients — a 12-year-old girl and a woman in Rawalpindi — have contracted Swine Flu (H1 N1 influenza) as their throat swaps sent to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad for analysis

The US government’s development finance institution, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has approved a credit facility of $95 million for a 50MW wind-power plant in Gharo-Ketti Bandar

Health experts have said that prevention of tuberculosis is still a big challenge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the number of patients has increased during the last one year in the province.

An NGO in collaboration with the Imran Khan Foundation will establish ‘Solar Charging Stations’ in selected off-grid villages in Dera Ghazi Khan, Mianwali and Dera Ismail Khan.

Illegal hunting, trapping and export of parrots on a mass scale have brought about a sharp decline in its population in Sindh and Punjab, a survey shows.