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 …
LAHORE: Though turtles are resilient specie and they are considered living fossils for their adaptability to their environment, they are facing imminent threat to their survival in Pakistan because of human activity and their mass killing and smuggling. This transpired during a media trip to Sukkur, organised by the World …
Over 90,000 people were rescued from the flood hit areas but 19 have died so far in the district. Talking to APP here on Monday,Additional District Collector/focal person for flood Ali Annan Qamar said that floods had hit 135 villages and damaged standing crops on 70,000 acres across the district. …
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) is yet to take action on a last year report that highlights high levels of pollution being caused by sugar mills. The report prepared by private consultants of the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority was part of the water sector improvement project phase-1. …
Islamabad—Rains and floods have killed 280 people and injured more than 500 across the country, Ahmad Kamal, the spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management (NDMA), said. He said more than two million people had been affected in the ongoing crisis. The statement comes as military specialists blew up dykes in …
Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has said that due to increasing pollution, maximum number of trees was needed to be planted in Karachi to make the city green. He said this while presiding over a meeting at his office to review tree plantation campaign in Karachi. The meeting was also …
RAWALPINDI: Three new dengue cases have been confirmed in the Gawalmandi area of the city. Despite the ongoing anti-dengue campaign, three more cases of the dengue virus have been confirmed in Gawalmandi. According to the authorities, due to heavy rains, stagnant water on the streets, and the poor sanitation system …
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Thursday said flood-related death toll in Punjab mainly in Sialkot district had increased to 264. Sialkot has become the worst hit district from the floods with 32 deaths, followed by district Haveli of AJK with 29 deaths. In Lahore 27 persons perished …
Pakistani soldiers use an inflatable boat to rescue flood-affected residents from a village at Jalalpur Bhattian in the Hafizabad district in Punjab province on September 8, 2014. The death toll from floods in India and Pakistan has passed 375 as authorities continue efforts to rescue hundreds of thousands of stranded …
KARACHI: Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui has ordered imposition of penalty as well as other legal actions against builders responsible for chopping off around 250 trees in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. Chairing a meeting on Monday to review status of plantations done in the city during previous occasions, the commissioner said special magistrates …
Dozens of people have been killed in flooding caused by incessant rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan. At least 40 people were killed in Pakistan as torrential rain wreaked havoc in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab. In Indian-administered Kashmir, 28 were reported dead, AP news agency reports. This does …
PESHAWAR: Health authorities are gearing up to start vaccination campaigns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) following emergence of two new polio cases in the Khyber Agency and one in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Wednesday. The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed that three more unvaccinated children …
KARACHI: Female snails at the Gadani Ship-breaking Yard have been found to have developed male sex organs due to exposure to a highly toxic chemical used in ship paints, a recent study of Karachi University’s Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology has showed. Scientists have warned that the chemical contamination …
LAHORE: All rivers in Punjab are likely to be in “very high” to “exceptionally high” flood from Sept 5 to 7 because of expected intensification of the current spell of fairly widespread rains reported from various parts of the country. The spell is being generated by the first well-marked low …
LAHORE - Contaminated drinking water is posing serious hazards, as the ‘potable’ water is being supplied in the city through rusting pipelines. Though government allocated an ample fund of Rs1.5billion to replace them, the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has failed to complete the project. Among samples taken by PCSIR …
More than 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan, officials said Thursday, as authorities warned more intense rainfall and flash floods could be imminent. Most of the deaths came in roof collapses in buildings in Punjab with 13 people killed in Lahore. Pakistan …
Lahore—The Punjab government on Wednesday approved 11 development schemes of different development Sectors with an estimated cost of Rs 15,827.446 million. These schemes were approved in the 10th meeting of Provincial Development Working Party of current fiscal year 2014-15 presided over by the Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman, Muhammad …
PESHAWAR: The poor vaccination campaigns and refusal by parents against immunisation were hampering Pakistan’s efforts to eradicate polio as two new cases were notified by National Institute of Health, Islamabad on Monday, sources said. They said that both the victims of the crippling disease -- one belonging to Khyber Agency …
ISLAMABAD - National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) will hold public hearing of the yearly and quarterly tariff adjustments on Thursday, whereas second hearing for the development of upfront solar tariff would be held on September 8. According to officials, during the hearing matter of monthly charges of K- Electric …
Peshawar—Six more persons were tested positive for dengue in the district that increase to the total number of patients reached to 126 in Swat, spokesman of health department district Swat Dr. Haider said on Monday. He said presently three patients suffering from complication and receiving treatment while 113 patients have …
CHHACHHRO: Thirty-year-old Marubhat, a resident of Samo Bheel village — a two-hour drive from Chhachhro — decided to end her life on Aug 23 after she had failed to provide food for her children. Soon after her death, her home was visited by reporters and social workers where during interviews …
