ISLAMABAD: After days of intense heat in the twin cities, citizens got the much-needed relief from rain early Monday morning. The showers also helped douse out the fire which had been breaking out at various spots on Margalla Hills during the last several days, leaving the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) environment wing in a fix. […]
LAHORE: Low energy prices and the possibility that the low price cycle could go on for three to four years, has made most entrepreneurs complacent, who have stopped or slowed down energy conservation. In the next 15 years global energy consumption will increase by 25 percent, mostly in developing economies. Global warming will become more […]
ISLAMABAD: While parliament considers a controversial cybercrime bill that seeks to regulate the Internet, the Supreme Court has been asked to order the government to introduce suitable laws to censor ‘objectionable material’ online in order to protect children. The plea is part of suggestions submitted to the court by Asif Luqman Qazi, the heir of […]
Karachi: Despite producing a negligible amount of greenhouse gases – basic cause of climate change – Pakistan ranked second in the list of countries most affected by climate change, stated director Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) Naeem Mughal on Monday. Addressing a group of school children at Naunehal Assembly on the topic of climate change […]
Karachi: British ghazal singer Tanya Wells will be performing in Pakistan on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14. She imparted this information while addressing the media folk at the Karachi Press Club over Skype from London on Monday. Wells, even though English, excels in singing ghazals and Urdu songs and is adept […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani Monday said that Habib Jalib’s poetry was against corruption and for a society with rule of law and constitutional supremacy. He noted that today the gulf between have and have-nots had increased. Rabbani was speaking as chief guest of a ceremony held to pay tribute to revolutionary poet, Habib […]
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