The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KATHMANDU, JUN 19 - The government has decided to provide Rs 40,000 as relief package to each of the families of those who lost their lives in the flood s and landslides in Far West and Western Regions of the country. An emergency meeting chaired by Chairman of Interim Election …
The Chitwan National Park has handed down prison sentences ranging from 10-15 years to a dozen people found guilty of being involved in poaching rhinos and trading their body parts. National park chief Kamal Jung Kunwar handed down sentences to Amar Bahadur Gurau, Mukti Gurau, Hiralal Mardaniya, Bishnu Bahadur Gurau, …
Bangladesh celebrated the installation of 2 million solar home systems this month thanks to the hard work of the Infrastructure Development Company Limited and the Partner Organisations. Starting in 2002 with a target to install 50,000 systems over a period of 5 years, more than 50,000 solar home systems are …
Kathmandu, June 18: The government Tuesday announced a relief amount of Rs. 50,000 each to flood-hit victims of Darchula and Kanchanpur locals. A meeting of the Central Natural Disaster Rescue Committee at the Home Ministry held under Home Minister and Foreign Minister Madhav Prasad Ghimire decided to provide the relief …
KARACHI, June 17: The Sindh government has allocated Rs17 billion for 78 new and 103 old schemes, including 13 related to prevention programmes, in the health sector in its annual development programme (ADP) for the financial year 2013-14. The government has kept a total of Rs67.4 billion for its health …
LAHORE, June 17: The Punjab government has added some new schemes in the budget proposals for the 2013-14 fiscal, with a total allocation of Rs97.37 billion for the province’s health sector, focusing more on preventive side than the curative. Of these, Rs4 billion has been allocated for ‘Pilot Health Insurance …
KARACHI - The Sindh government has allocated Rs 6.167 billion for the development of agriculture sector while the proposed allocation would be utilised on 37 new and ongoing schemes. Syed Qaim Ali Shah, while presenting the budget for 2013-14, said the focus of this budget is optimal utilization of the …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - Islamabad—Provincial Government of KPK directs Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to take quick rehabilitation measures in flood-hit areas. The provincial government also directed PDMA and district administrations to carry out detailed survey to assess the losses of lives and property, reported PTV. District Coordination Officer …
SATKHIRA : The annual budget of Satkhira municipality for 2013-14 fiscal year was announced on Thursday, reports UNB. Municipality Mayor M A Jalil announced the budget at poura auditorium without imposing any new tax. The budget envisages an earning of Tk 36.84 crore and the same amount will be spent …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Thursday formed a three-member committee to probe measles related deaths. The court directed the committee to ascertain cause of deaths, shortage of funds, quality of vaccine and capacity of staff besides determining responsible.The court directed committee to complete work within ten days and submit a …
'mPHI', a project designed by the National Mobile Service Provider, Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel together with the corporation of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Health Ministry, is one that aims to uplift the efficiency and quality of the country's healthcare sector. Launched initially as a pilot project in the Kegalle district, mPHI …
DHAKA : Denmark will provide 110 million Danish Krone (about Tk 158 crore) to Bangladesh to cope with adverse impact of climate change, said outgoing Danish Ambassador in Dhaka Svend Olling on Thursday, reports UNB. “This assistance will be provided to Bangladesh in three stages by 2015,” he said during …
Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha inaugurated a programme to put forests at the heart of Sri Lanka's strategy to tackle climate change. Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka Subinay Nandy and others at the launch of the …
KARACHI: As the world observed international day against child labour, at least 10 million Pakistani children were reported engaged in labour practices, putting a big question mark on the status of children rights in this country. World Day against Child Labour was observed across the globe on June 12 with …
Excessive rain and hailstorm have caused colossal damage to crops in five upazilas of the district. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said, around 15000 farmers in five upazilas of the district incurred a huge loss due to damage of crops worth Tk 10 crore. Rain and storms in May …
Agricultural scientists in Bangladesh are guiding farmers to address global warming that poses serious threat to food production in the country in the coming decades, officials at the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) said. The country has maintained an average production of some 34 million tonnes of rice, the staple over …
The District Secretary and the Administration of Ratnapura, assisted by the Ministry of Labour and Labour Relations, with technical and financial support from the ILO are embarking on a journey that will make the district officially free of Child Labour by June 2016, the ILO announced yesterday. "Ratnapura is home …
An outbreak of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in Lajab gewog’s community school, Dagana that was reported in the first week of June has now been brought under control, district health officials said. Almost all of the school’s 159 students were infected since the first case was reported on June 2. …
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - Lahore—Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed flood arrangements and preparedness of flood prone districts. The director general chaired a meeting of senior rescue officials at Rescue 1122’s Headquarters here on Wednesday and discussed the flood action plan. The DG was …
SANGSAD BHABAN : The present Mohajote government gave Taka 28,628.34 crore subsidy to the agriculture sector in the last four years, Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury said on Tuesday, reports BSS. Replying to a tabled question from treasury bench member M Abdul Latif, the agriculture minister said Taka 11,006.34 crore …
