India and other South Asian countries are expected to get a ‘normal’ rainfall during forthcoming monsoon months (June-September), which is expected boost food production in the region, a global forum has predicted.

The South Asian Climate Outlook Forum, which met late last week in Kathmandu, in its prediction has stated ‘large-scale summer monsoon rainfall will mostly likely to be within the normal range with a slight tendency towards higher side of the normal range.”

Pollutants brought in by monsoon winds from South Asia — and not industrial emissions from China — are behind the melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, a leading Chinese scientist has claimed

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority has finally moved ahead to develop the much-trumpeted Bird Aviary Park in the federal capital, five years after it had been proposed in 2007.

Pasakha Industrial Estate: A few power intensive industries at the Pasakha industrial estate are turning off their gas cleaning plants (GCP) at night to cut down costs, say officials of the Nationa

Camera Trap: The presence of a royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) in Lampelri botanical park was confirmed recently, a couple of years after a cow herder had complained of losing his cattle to th

LAHORE – The fate of 40 slums has been hanging in the balance though the chief minister promised the betterment of these dwellers last year.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The Margalla Hills National Park has battled encroachments and lost land, landscape and nature after it was declared a protected habitat in 1981.

HYDERABAD, Jan 6: Participants of a Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) meeting on Sunday urged the government to ensure scientific treatment of wastewater being released into the Sindh waterways by establis

MYAGDI: More than one hundred locals have taken ill due to the chickenpox outbreak in Hidi village, Myagdi, sources said today.

KATHMANDU: A budget crunch is likely to hit irrigation projects as the caretaker government has failed to bring a full budget and has only brought an interim public expenditure arrangement twice fo