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—Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) launched a special cleanliness operation at fruit and vegetable market, Iqbal Town on the request of its administrator after reports of persistent issues of sanitations due to lack of any SWM services in the market. LWMC removed and transferred more than 150 tons of waste …
HIV/AIDS mortality rate rising by 11pc annually in Pakistan Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - Karachi—Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in …
The United Nations expressed concern about the possible spread of polio in the war-ravaged countries of Syria and Iraq and beyond on Tuesday despite the biggest vaccination campaign undertaken in the history of the Middle East. A report by the World Health Organization and Unicef said that 36 children had …
Pakistan may adopt some concepts implemented in the Sabarmati riverfront project for its ambitious Ravi Riverfront Urban Development (RRFUD) project, said members of the high-level delegation of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday. The team led by the LDA commissioner made a detailed technical inspection of the 11-km riverfront …
All marine turtles nesting sites are on Hawksbay and Sandspit beaches. These two beaches are the most important turtles green nesting grounds in the world. Each year thousands of female green turtles come to beaches of Hawksbay and Sandspit off the coast of Karachi to lay their eggs. The Sindh …
CHITRAL: The Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) will build a small hydropower station to provide electricity to 70 households of the remote Baroghil village, bordering Afghanistan. Talking to Dawn, SRSP district programme manager, Tariq Ahmed, said that the area bordering the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan, was without electricity and faced …
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that gastrointestinal diseases, acute respiratory infection and unexplained fever are on the rise among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan Agency, living in Bannu district. The world health agency has called for urgent coordinated measures to safeguard more than 992,990 …
The Punjab government on Monday has approved 6 development schemes of different development Sectors with an estimated cost of Rs. 5316.587 million. These schemes were approved in the 3rd meeting of Provincial Development Working Party of current fiscal year 2014-15 presided over by the Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman, …
A high level Pakistani delegation will visit the city on Monday morning to study whether the Sabarmati Rverfront Development Project could be replicated along Ravi river in Lahore. This four-member delegation from Pakistan will visit various projects initiated by prime minister Narendra Modi while he was chief minister of the …
FAISALABAD: A sum of Rs90 million have been allocated for 10 schemes of water supply and sewerage under annual development programme of the district government. According to official sources, an amount of Rs2.14 million will be spent on water supply schemes in two villages Chak No 446-JB and Chak No …
MITHI: The relief inspecting judge for Tharparkar, Mian Fayyaz Rabbani, has urged the government to pay attention to the ‘alarming situation’ in this district as the aggravating drought may cause more human lives. Speaking to the media during his visit to the Mithi Civil Hospital, Mr Rabbani observed that thousands …
MANSEHRA: Hazara Commissioner Abid Ali Khan has asked people to extend their help to the government to protect forests in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “If we want to give healthy and pollution-free environment to our coming generations then we should help government in its sincere efforts to curb timber smuggling and control …
DUBAI: A Dubai initiative to provide potable water to five million people facing shortages in Asia and Africa has raised nearly $50 million (36.89 million euros), local media reported on Wednesday. The UAE Water Aid campaign, named Suqia, has exceeded its goal as the funds collected will in fact benefit …
QUETTA: About 22,000 tons of garbage piled during the past 10 years in the provincial capital has been lifted under the ‘one-time cleaning activity project’ under way for a few days. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Administrator of the Quetta Metropolitan Corporation Arbab Jabbar Kasi said that no effort …
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The country has surpassed last year’s polio count of 93 cases as it has recorded three new cases, taking the nationwide tally to 94 so far this year. Two new cases were confirmed by Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Wednesday. An official of …
Pakistan has extended relief assistance worth one hundred thousand dollars to the drought hit people of Niger. According to Radio Pakistan, the cheque was presented by Pakistan's Charge D'Affairs Dr Manzoor A. Chaudhry to the Prime Minister of Niger Brigi Rafini the other day. The Prime Minister of Nigeria thanked …
FAISALABAD: A sum of Rs90 million have been allocated for 10 schemes of water supply and sewerage under annual development programme of the district government. According to official sources, an amount of Rs2.14 million will be spent on water supply schemes in two villages Chak No 446-JB and Chak No …
CHITRAL: The Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) has completed a water supply scheme at a cost of Rs2.3 million, benefiting at least 400 households of Orghoch village. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, villagers, including Mohammad Wali Shah, Qazi Naeem, Mohammad Ilyas and others praised the SRSP for completing the project. …
MINGORA: Another dengue case was detected on Tuesday at Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, Swat, bringing the number of dengue patients during this season to 19 in Mingora city. Owing to fear about the possible outbreak of dengue epidemic the district administration had expedited the awareness activities to prevent dengue …
LAHORE: Civil society has termed `illegal and unlawful' the public hearing pertaining to proposed further widening of the Canal Road project, being arranged jointly by the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at Alhamra Cultural Complex on Ferozpur Road on Wednesday. "The public hearing is not …
