Islamabad: Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) is going to set up 30 kiosks in different shopping malls and markets across the federal capital to distribute environment friendly bags as alternate to plastic bags. Talking to, MoCC Senior Joint Secretary Hammad Shamimi said the decision had been made after much hue and cry created against the […]
ISLAMABAD: The website of state-run broadcaster was hacked for an hour on Sunday evening, sources in the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) told Dawn. “The Radio Pakistan website was hacked between 3pm and 4pm. Some hackers claimed responsibility. However, the site has been restored,” said a senior PBC official. According to the official, those accessing the […]
Taliban kidnapped six Afghan journalists working for private and government media organisations in eastern Paktia province, government officials and Taliban said on Saturday. The reporters, working for radio and TV news companies that broadcast news in the Pashto and Dari languages, were abducted while travelling together from neighbouring Paktika province to Paktia to attend a […]
A dozen international media organisations, including AFP, have signed up to a new initiative launched by the BBC to fight misinformation. AFP said in a statement on Saturday it has joined the BBC initiative, alongside organisations such as the European Broadcasting Union, the Financial Times, First Draft, The Hindu, the Wall Street Journal, CBC/Radio Canada, […]
VENICE: Pakistani short film ‘Darling’ has won an award at the Venice Film Festival. Directed by Saim Sadiq ‘Darling’ was selected as the Best Short Film, international media reported. ‘Darling’ premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in its new Orizzonti section, making it Pakistan’s first short movie that enthralled the oldest movie gala’s audience. […]
KARACHI: As Karachi continues to suffer the miseries left by recent rains, the Sindh government and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) seem unwilling to bail citizens out of this impasse on one pretext or other. With swarms of mosquitos and flies growing all over the city in the aftermath the monsoon rains, the Karachi Metropolitan […]
LAHORE: PML-N Senator Kulsoom Perveen, convener of the sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee for Information Technology, has said parliamentarians and citizens are being defamed through propaganda on the social media. She asked the CIA Cyber Crime Cell to take action against the culprits. A meeting of the sub-committee was held under the chair of […]
The social media giants Facebook and Twitter were cooperating very little with Pakistani authorities against spread of fake news on social media through unverified accounts and this cooperation witnessed further low level after August 5 when India revoked special status of Indian-occupied Kashmir. This was revealed by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) while briefing a subcommittee […]
Quetta: Two staff members of Dunya television were injured when improvised explosive devices (IED) exploded, the first IED went off near the office of a transport company at Khezai Chowk area. Reporter Ibrar Ahmed and Cameraman Rehmat Ali reached the area to cover the first explosion, then the second IED exploded. Ahmed and Ali were […]
KARACHI: The scale of government apathy towards what health experts described as a ‘volatile source of infection’ could be gauged from the heaps of unattended medical waste lying in and outside one of city’s largest public sector hospitals. A visit to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) on Wednesday showed that there were three garbage dumps, […]
KARACHI: Pakistan can increase its IT exports by a wide margin if it focuses on providing training to its youth on how they can form groups or companies rather than operating as individuals to compete more efficiently in the bidding process. This was stated by E-commerce Gateway Pakistan President Dr Khursheed Nizam in a press […]
Sindh Environment and Law Adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab has demanded that the federal land-owning agencies in Karachi, including the cantonment boards, DHA, KPT and Pakistan Railways, should engage the Sindh government in properly disposing of the municipal waste generated in their respective territories at the two main landfill sites of the city. He raised this […]
The Sindh human rights department is chalking out a comprehensive strategy to improve the situation of human rights in the province and a formal announcement in this regard will be made very soon. Veerji Kolhi, the special assistant to the Sindh chief minister on human rights, said this on Thursday as he was speaking at […]
ISLAMABAD: China Overseas Port Holding Company (COPHC) will plant one million trees in Gwadar as part of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s environmental campaign that envisions the planting of 10 Billion saplings across the country. These views were expressed by the COPHC Chairman Zhang Baozhong in a meeting with Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change […]
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