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 …
Monday, January 21, 2013 - Lahore—Punjab Wildlife Department on the special directive of the Secretary Forest,Wildlife and Fisheries Punjab Shah Nawaz Badar has constituted mobile teams to launch a campaign against poachers,to discourage illegal hunting and preserve wildlife in the province. Official sources told APP here Sunday that heavy penalty …
Jan 20, Nuwara Eliya: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that his government is spending a considerable amount of funds on improving the health sector to provide quality healthcare to the public. Addressing a ceremony to launch a project to modernize the Nuwara Eliya Hospital in the country's tea plantation …
KARACHI – Sindh government is working on 40 different power projects in its wind corridor, with a total generation capacity of 2000 MW in next two years, said Mir Hussain Ali, provincial Secretary for Environment and Alternate Energy Department. This will also allow the electrification of about 120 schools in …
HYDERABAD - The polio-eradication campaign which was launched in 23 out of 52 high-risk and environmental positive union councils of the four talukas of Hyderabad district on January 17, has come to an end on Sunday with immunization of 1,27,100 children under five years of age against the disease. The …
KATHMANDU, JAN 20 - Representatives from various alternative and renewable energy enterprises and concerned government authorities stressed the need to scale up the use of various forms of renewable energy technologies like solar, bio-gas, solar-thermal and micro-hydro projects, among others, to solve the problem of ongoing acute energy crisis in …
KARACHI, Jan 20: The Sindh government is working on 40 different power projects in its wind corridor with a total generation capacity of 2,000 megawatts in next two years, said the provincial secretary of environment and alternative energy department. The work would also allow the electrification of about 120 schools …
NDB entered into a partnership with the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SEA) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) as a participating financial institute for a special initiative introduced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to assist the development of Micro Hydro Power projects within the estate sector. Through …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) said various irrigation and watershed management technologies have been developed and being tested to meet future challenges. Dr Iftikhar Ahmad Chairman PARC in a meeting said PARC, ICARDA and USDA jointly held a meeting on ‘Rehabilitation and Irrigation Improvement in Pakistan’ in Karachi for …
BIRATNAGAR, JAN 18 - Agriculture extension programmes in the Eastern Nepal have been in limbo for want of adequate resources. Although the government promised doubling investment in agriculture, absence of a full budget restricted the government from spending more than what was spent in the last fiscal year. “Compared to …
ISLAMABAD: Some South Korean companies are helping Pakistan in generation of 353 megawatts (MW) hydropower through different schemes, sources told Daily Times here on Tuesday. The sources claimed that South Korea is cooperating with Pakistan in the projects of water and power. A company namely ‘Star Hydropower Ltd’, owned by …
PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has given a go-ahead signal to execute the Kurram Tangi Dam, a long-awaited multi-purpose project, in Kurram Agency. The dam on completion will affect 0.35 million acre land of Bannu and Lakki districts besides the respective tribal belt and generate 83 MW …
UMERKOT, Jan 14: A token hunger strike being observed outside the local press club for five days against the government’s indifferent attitude towards over 5,000 residents of Samoon Rind village ended on Monday. Residents of the village, some 60 kilometres from Chhachhro town, claimed that at least five people died …
The fish harvest in 2012 increased by 54,000 metric tons compared to last year, with a harvest of 488,340 metric tons. This is the largest fish harvest recorded in the history of the Sri Lankan fisheries sector, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne said. The sea water …
HETAUDA: Makawanpur locals halted the Kulekhani Hydro Electricity Project work today. They stopped the project work putting forward a 10-point demand including employment to the locals, training on expertise, agricultural development programmes, training women on knitting, compensation to the blast victims, drinking water facility, village road construction among others. Surya …
PALPA, JAN 13 - Residents of Kachal VDC in the district were recently connected to the central power line, bringing electricity to the village, thanks to the government’s rural electrification programme. As per the programme, the government will bear 80 percent of the total cost to connect an area to …
JHALAKATHI, Jan 13 (UNB): The district sees itself on a course of yielding a bumper harvest of mustard this year, much to the joys of its growers. Farmers in the four upazilas of Jhalakathi are expecting higher yield of the winter crop than the target this season mainly due to …
NILPHAMARI, JAN 13: Chemical fertilizer and insecticide free potato, wheat and mustard are being cultivated in Domar upazila of the district by NGO Proshika in recent times. Sources said, about 30 acres of lands have been brought under potato cultivation, 15 acres under wheat and 13 acres under mustard farming …
DHAKA, JAN 13: A roundtable conference on Climate Change and Environmental Pollution in Bangladesh was held at Police Research Centre (PRC bd.) office complex in Dhanmondi Residential Area Saturday morning, says a press release. The conference was presided over by the Chairman of PRC bd., Prof Dr Akbaruddin Ahmad. The …
JHENIDAH, JAN 13: Pneumonia has broken out in an epidemic form in the six upazilas of the district. According to informed sources, the disease has taken a serious turn in the district town and its adjacent areas since a month before and is spreading day by day. Minor members of …
MITHI, Jan 10: The residents of a village in Tharparkar district observed a hunger strike and staged a protest demonstration against failure of relevant authorities to provide them with potable water. Residents of Samun Rind village, Chhachhro taluka, said that more than 50 people in their village had become ill …
