ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has once again taken up a project to protect human health and environment by monitoring air, water and land pollution. They intend to do this by reinitiating abatement activities which were discontinued after former director general Dr Khursheed Khan left the country in June 2015. After emerging from […]
PESHAWAR: The Pak-USAID Need-Based Merit Scholarship Programme and IMSciences Fata Need-Based Merit Scholarship Programme have approved a total of 13 fully-funded scholarships, worth Rs 5.5 Million for the financially needy and talented students of IMSciences Peshawar. The News
Karachi: Unless the Pakistan People’s Party-led Sindh government stops its unnecessary meddling in policing and administrative affairs, lives of innocent children will continue to be lost and attacks against minority communities will not be controlled. This was said by Dr Ramesh Vankwani, the patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council and an MNA of the federally-ruling […]
KARACHI: The Coalition on Transparency and Access to Information (C-TAI) undertook yet another attempt to convince the government to pass the Sindh Right to Information (RTI) Bill, 2015. Members of C-TAI, which is a coalition of 26 Sindh-based NGOs, gathered at an advocacy and consultative session to discuss the draft of the bill at Movenpick […]
ISLAMABAD: The office of the Federal Ombudsman is being used to pressurise Islamabad Police to favour an influential “journalist” detained in an alleged massive fraud case. Because of ‘journalistic’ influence, police were unable to take any considerable action against the powerful accused but when an FIR was registered following court orders, office of Ombudsman jumped […]
ISLAMABAD: An official of Radio Pakistan was found dead in the Koral police jurisdiction on Saturday. According to police, the deceased was identified as Muhammad Ilyas, deputy controller of news at Radio Pakistan. His body was found in Ghauri Town Phase-V, according to Investigation Officer Ashfaq Ahmed. He said the body was recovered on Saturday […]
KARACHI: It pains me to know that relatives living on both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border cannot easily meet each other. Authorities should make a resort on no man’s land and allow them to meet. This was one of the many interesting remarks made by the distinguished Indian actor Om Puri while speaking at a […]
ISLAMABAD: During disasters, more lives are lost due to panic created mainly by a huge communication gap between the media and disaster management authorities. In times, it also becomes difficult to reach people affected by disasters. And so, there is a need to prepare mediapersons for a proper disaster reporting. This was agreed by participants […]
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