ABBOTABAD: Several acres of land were destroyed when a fire broke out in a forest in Bara Gali in Abbottabad near the building of Bara Gali Summer Campus of University of Peshawar. Speaking to The Express Tribune, the police and forest officials said the inferno started on Saturday afternoon. It reduced trees and saplings to […]
KARACHI: Pre-monsoon months are a great time for collectors of seashells in Karachi but, this year, the collectors were in for a surprise as millions of seashells, much more than previous years, were strewn along the coast last week. As hundreds of visitors made their way to the beach to witness the extraordinary number of […]
SIALKOT- The Irrigation Department and Flood Control Authority have started a survey for establishing a flood warning system at Head Marala Barrage over River Chenab near Sialkot. The advanced system would be established before the arrival of the coming monsoon and recurring flood. According to officials, the flood warning system will warn about flood situation […]
KARACHI: Energy-starved Pakistan, where sunlight is available for up to 10 hours for a better part of the year, particularly in Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab, can benefit immensely from solar energy technology, Inam ur Rahman, CEO Reon Energy Limited, told Dawn on Saturday. “While the potential is for 250,000 megawatts, through prudent policies the […]
ISLAMABAD – The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Friday issued extreme hot weather alerts to the Districts Coordination Officers (DCOs) and Commissioners with instructions to take precautionary measures to safe the masses from scorching heat. Talking to a private news channel, the department has also instructed the public to prefer stay inside the homes and […]
ISLAMABAD: Commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) seeds, which could cause cancer according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), has been approved without consultation with key stakeholders such as farmers, environmentalists and consumers. The National Bio-safety Committee (NBC), which examines seed varieties for approval, gave the go-ahead to GM seeds of wheat, peas, sugarcane, potato, mustard, […]
Hot weather record broken in several Sindh cities; high temperatures hamper daily routines LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Various parts of the country remained under the influence of extremely hot weather throughout entire Wednesday and the sizzling temperatures badly affected the daily lives of people, reported a private TV channel. On the other hand, power outages added more miseries […]
HE decision by a Chinese sponsor to withdraw from a coal-based power project in Punjab reminds us of two crucial facts. First, the investments arriving in Pakistan under the CPEC bouquet are entirely commercial; they come on a profit basis and are not exactly the ‘gift horse’ they are sometimes referred to as. Second, at […]
Karachi In light of a recent disease breakout among peafowl in Thar, the Sindh Livestock Department has provided necessary medicines for medical aid to the Forest Department. Forest Secretary Rizwan Memon in a meeting with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday at the CM House said that he had dispatched eight teams of […]
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that 2.2 million acres of land in Thatta has been encroached by the sea due to non-implementation of the 1991 Water Accord which calls for release of minimum required 10 MAF water downstream Kotri to help stop the increasing intrusion. The chief minister expressed these […]
For Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, the only thing to fear about climate change is fear itself. Perhaps taking his words to heart, the four major US TV networks cut their already minimal coverage of climate issues to a combined total of just two-and-a-half hours for all of 2015. So it should come as little […]
ISLAMABAD: Though floods have become annual feature for the last six years, the government has neither a ‘flood protection plan’ in hand since 2012, nor authorities look serious in taking it on priority amid forecast again of ‘heavy floods’ during July-August this year, ‘The News’ reliably learnt on Saturday. “There is forecast that in July-August, […]
ISLAMABAD: An ambitious mega project, costing Rs10 billion, on the pattern of China’s “Great Green Wall Programme” to grow 100 million new plants in the next five years is likely to become a reality as its project concept-1 (PC-I) has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat for final approval, sources told The News here […]
ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi and Peshawar have been named among the list of five most polluted cities in the world according to the latest air quality report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released this month. Peshawar is surveyed second worst city for the third consecutive year with an annual average particulate matter (PM) 2.5 measurement of […]
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