• December 20, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

Punjab Agriculture Department has launched ‘Rainwater Management in Cotton Fields’ project to minimise impacts of climate change in seven leading cotton growing districts of the province, including Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Rahim Yar Khan, Vehari, Lodhran, Khanewal and Multan. The key goal of the project is to safeguard the cotton crop from negative impacts of excessive rainfalls […]

• December 20, 2016
• Arts and Entertainment

Movie theatres began screening Bollywood films again on Monday, ending an 11-week boycott in response to political and military tensions with India, theatre officials said. Some theatre owners said the restoration was because tension was easing, but others said it was because audiences had dropped so sharply since the boycott that began on September 30. […]

• December 20, 2016
• Access to Information

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Defence has refused to respond to a query about the total number of amount spent on the pensions of armed forces’ retired personnel during the last five years under the provision of Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 and termed it against the national security, and that providing the same will not […]

• December 20, 2016
• Front Page, Media Development

The Centre for Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration (CEJ-IBA), Karachi and Centre for Communication Programs Pakistan (CCPP) organised the first ever “Excellence in Journalism Awards 2016”. Thirteen journalists received excellence awards in health reporting, for news stories published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016 at a ceremony held at […]