Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
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Australia, Norway increase aid for polio eradication
ISLAMABAD: Australia and Norway have announced increasing funding for eradication of polio in Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. The Australian government said it would commit $100 million over the
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Rs5bn Japanese loan for energy sector reforms
The Japanese government on Wednesday formally agreed to grant a concessional loan of Rs5 billion to Pakistan for supporting the energy sector reforms. This loan is provided as part of a joint programme
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Lab test confirms poliovirus presence in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Analysis report of sewage samples confirms the presence of poliovirus in Hyderabad which has most probably transferred to the city from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan or Gadap, Karachi,
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No mechanism exists to regulate GM crops
KARACHI: Research and commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops that included a commendable work of making an indigenous drought-resistant wheat variety has received a major blow with devolution
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World Bank to approve $577m for Dasu power project
The Executive Board of the World Bank will meet in Washington on June 10 to approve financing of $577 million for Dasu hydropower project, the bank’s top official in Islamabad said on Saturday. World
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Probe begins in WB-funded project scam in Hassanabdal
TAXILA: The Punjab chief minister’s inspection team has initiated an investigation into the alleged mismanagement, embezzlement and violation of construction plan in the multimillion solid waste management
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Bodies formed to tackle four deadly diseases
Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Thursday formed several committees to look into various health issues, particularly, the ‘brain-eating amoeba’ — naegleria fowleri — after the death of a man in
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Coal power project to destroy marine ecology
KARACHI: Environmentalists, wildlife experts and other stakeholders at a public hearing of a coal power project to be built at Port Qasim declared its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report ‘highly
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KP govt approves Rs13bn development projects
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Thursday approved 22 development projects valuing around Rs13 billion for the next fiscal. The approval came during a meeting, which
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Project to save peafowl launched
Deaths of peafowl in Thar because of frequent outbreaks of Newcastle disease and other factors, among them loss of habitat and prolonged droughts, have prompted a foreign NGO to launch a project for the