As usual, environmental law and regulation remains the last item on the global agenda, despite the fact that it is the most pressing issue in need of the international community’s attention. There has been yet another massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – this time as a result of a crude oil leak […]
User names and media attachments such as photos and videos will no longer count towards the length of a tweet, Twitter Inc said on Tuesday, but the 140-character limit will stay. Twitter said the change, part of its efforts to simplify its microblogging service, will come into effect in the next few months.”A few simple […]
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought comprehensive reply from the PEMRA and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority over showing objectionable and obscene programmes on TV channels. The chief justice remarked that some TV channels were promoting some groups and people. He said paid programmes are conducted and shown on channels wherein the TV anchors slander […]
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 […]
KARACHI: Urdu literary magazine Qaumi Zaban’s edition dedicated to the late poet and scholar Jamiluddin Aali was launched at the Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu office on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Fatema Hassan said the edition was not just a copy of a magazine but a document about the Anjuman because Aali had been associated with […]
ISLAMABAD: Temperatures recorded across Pakistan this week were the highest for the year with the mercury in several cities in the central region hovering around 50 degrees Celsius. On Saturday, the highest temperature of 51 degrees was recorded in Jacobabad and Dadu districts of Sindh. Throughout Pakistan, the temperature has been fluctuating between 45 degrees […]
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has announced a ban on shows dramatising crimes such as rape, murder, robberies and suicide. Some of these shows have media teams raid places in the name of investigative journalism and PEMRA is forming a code of conduct for investigative journalism and will not allow such breaches of […]
SPEAKING at the London School of Economics in November, chairman of the Senate Raza Rabbani said that the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill was flawed, and conceded that many legislators in Pakistan have serious concerns about the legislation. He implied that the bill would not pass the Senate’s scrutiny in the form in which it […]
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Climate Change Syed Abu Akif on Sunday said stemming the loss of biodiversity was vital for the poverty reduction and economic sustainability. He pledged support to provincial governments and private organisations to protect biodiversity. The official was speaking at a three-day national awareness and training workshop on “Biodiversity conservation, access to genetic resources […]
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