In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
Environmentalists attending the 36th Indian National Geography Congress in Jaipur have sought the intervention of the Union government to build pressure on Pakistan for putting a ban on the hunting of endangered species Houbara Bustard. On November 16, Pakistan had issued special permission to royal families of Gulf region to …
Believe it or not, as many as 3.72 lakh people die every year globally by drowning. This death toll is over half that of malaria, says World Health Organisation's first Global report on 'Drowning: preventing a leading killer'. But unlike malaria, there are no broad prevention efforts that results into …
Bangladesh also has the highest number of urban people living below the poverty line – 21%, as opposed to 14% in India, 13 % in Pakistan, 5% in Sri Lanka and 15% in Nepal Bangladesh has the highest number of slum dwellers – 60% of the urban population – in …
Islamabad - For the eradication of polio, the government of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed agreements on Monday to make sure that children are vaccinated in Pakistan. Amir Sheikh, joint secretary ministry of national health services, regulations and coordination (MoNHSRC), witnessed the …
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on Monday decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. “Now, forests will be managed under the government’s approved working plan,” information minister Mushtaq Ahmad …
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency informed a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday that the Karachi Port Trust was operating a coal handling terminal in Shireen Jinnah Colony without adhering to the environmental laws which not only constituted an environmental hazard but also posed a serious …
UMERKOT: The ongoing spell of drought and accompanied sickness in Tharparkar claimed another 14 lives on Monday, all infants. The latest casualties take the death toll from drought to 80 in just 48 days. Four children died as a result of malnutrition and thirst on Monday followed by a further …
While Pakistan's poverty reduction strategy paper emphasises microfinance as an important development tool, the sector is well on its way to becoming an important part of the country's mainstream banking industry, focusing more on achieving commercial viability and a resulting dilution in the sector's social mission, i e, poverty eradication. …
Lahore—Over 300,000 patients of liver diseases need liver transplant due to which cadaver donation has become need of the hour. These views were expressed by Associate Prof. Dr Amir Latif of the Liver Transplantation Unit of Kidney Center Shaikh Zayed Hospital (SZH) in an exclusive talk with APP on Sunday. …
KARACHI: Dengue prevention & control activities have slowed down in Sindh province due to the lack of coordination between hospitals and management of dengue control program, PPI learnt on Sunday.Well-informed sources confirmed that all dengue prevention & control activities have been slowed down in the province especially in Karachi city …
Islamabad - Members of civil society and media have supported tobacco control advocates’ efforts for legislation on comprehensive ban on tobacco advertisement, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS). Addressing an advocacy meeting organised by The Network for Consumer Protection, senior journalists, representatives of various non-government organisations (NGOs) and health professionals expressed their …
Reducing poverty, hunger, and food insecurity are overarching goals of the Government of Pakistan. The government is committed to inclusive and equitable socioeconomic development and eradicating hunger, and as a part of this is currently preparing an Agriculture and Food Security Policy. To eradicate hunger, it will be important to …
KARACHI: As a preventive measure ahead of expected tropical cyclone, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has set up special disaster management wards consisting of around 200 beds in four of its hospitals. Emergency has been imposed in all KMC-run hospitals and leaves of medical and paramedical staffs have been cancelled. Following the …
Rains drench most places in Goa; winds with speeds of 45-50 kmph likely along coast, max and min temperatures below normal in north Goa; fishermen told not to venture into seas PANJIM: The cyclone Nilofar, which is set to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during next 24 hours …
Islamabad—World Food Programme is implementing a programme in 40 districts including three new districts in Cholistan to reduce the incidences of malnutrition and improve public health and food security in a sustainable manner. Expansion of project called Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) is also underway in Punjab with inclusion …
ISLAMABAD: With a parliamentary committee approving an amendment to the Seed Act 1976, fear of foreign ‘genetically modified’ (GM) seeds has returned to haunt the agriculturists of the country after 10 years. “We are writing to the Ministry for Food Security and Research to discuss the changes before placing the …
KARACHI: The Sindh Board of Revenue has been directed by Qaim Ali Shah to declare Kachho, Kohistan and parts of Thatta district calamity hit. He directed Sindh Food, Revenue, Relief and concerned Commissioner/Deputy Commissioners to distribute wheat among 34,000 identified drought affected families with 50 kilogrammes to each family for …
KARACHI: More than 30,220 trees have been felled illegally in Sindh with over Rs5.1 million fine recovered from the culprits involved in the practice between 2009 and 2013, the provincial assembly was informed on Monday. Parliamentary secretary of the forest department Nasir Shah provided the information while responding to questions …
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on National Food, Security and Research Wednesday approved Seed Amendments Bill 2014 to improve the existing law, enabling it to meet the requirements of modern seed industry. The committee that met with Malik Shakir Bashir Awan in the chair here decided to increase the proposed …
More than half (53.9 percent) of the elderly population of the country do not have normal weight as they were either underweight or overweight. According to the findings, 15.8 percent of the elderly are underweight, 24.2 percent are overweight while 13.9 percent fall under the category of obese. The latest …
