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High concentration of urea in the Keenjhar Lake drain is believed to have caused death of aquatic species and animals recently in Jhimpir, a town in Thatta district, laboratory tests of the contaminated water samples have shown. It may be recalled that a large number of fish, a turtle, four...

Sahiwal police on Friday registered a criminal intimidation and breach of trust case against the administration of Chishtia'n Sugar Mills on directives of an additional session judge and an assistant commissioner. ASJ Chaudhry Jameel Ahmed and Assistant Commissioner Haq Nawaz Chauhan issued...

Pakistan, being an agro based economy, is primarily known for its aromatic Basmati rice in the world but it may lose the position in Middle East as Philippine is all set to introduce the same Variety of rice in the region. The foreign country which once itself was a rice importing country is...

There’s a new face on campus, standing on the north side of the Curtis Lecture Hall on Campus Walk at York’s Keele campus – and he could be a world first for York. A sculpture of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan and the country’s first governor general, was unveiled Tuesday...

“Many people do not believe that a car can be properly cleaned without using water. I keep my car dirty to show people who are reluctant about the products being applied to their cars for the first time,” says Muhammad Anas. “I give demonstrations to convince car owners that it’s possible to...

Last week, Abdul Razzaq hung up his boots, put away his kit and walked away from the sport after leading Pakistan Blind cricket team for a decade. He captained the side to two World Cup titles and 13 consecutive series-wins. His influence in the side could be judged from the fact that just...

The first US wheat shipment to Iran in nearly three years was about to set sail, US government data on Monday showed, in a resumption of agricultural trade between the two countries locked in a dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The shipment from the US Gulf Coast totalling more than...

Complete Yeh Shehar by Ejaz Mangi

The inventor of the so-called red sea snake wave energy device has been awarded the Saltire Prize medal. Dr Richard Yemm founded Pelamis Wave Power in Edinburgh in 1998. The company uses giant wave machines to generate electricity by harnessing the power of the sea. Saltire Prize medal...

The state-owned Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) and the Punjab food department are planning to initiate the annual wheat procurement drive by the second week of April. The announcement was made by Punjab Food Director Najam Shah and Passco General Manager...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved the distribution of dates received as gift from the Government of Saudi Arabia among the four provinces and the regions including Azad Jammu and Kashmir at the ratio of 60:40 percent respectively. The division of the dates among the...

Following the increase in its support price, Pakistan's wheat has become very expensive as compared to benchmark international price while an amount of about Rs 6.045 billion will be required as subsidy to offload one million tons surplus stock. According to sources, the issue was discussed...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved two projects on Tuesday totalling US$1.09 billion aimed at supporting Pakistan’s growth agenda for reducing poverty. The Tarbela IV Extension Hydropower Project will add power generation capacity of 1,410 megawatts, and the Punjab...

Only ten percent increase in food prices pushes 3.5 million more Pakistanis into extreme poverty (earning below $1.25 a day), noted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its recent study report released on Monday. According to new ADB report, a spike in the cost of food staples like rice and...

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), report says pollution will become biggest cause of premature death, killing an estimated 3.6 million people a year by 2050. Urban air pollution is set to become the biggest environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades...

TEHRAN (FNA)- US sources announced that despite the unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington against Tehran, Iran is close to completing purchases of 220,000 tons of wheat from American exporters due to be shipped as early as April. The US said Iran has purchased 60,000 tons of American...

Vendors at the local market in Beijing could be forgiven for thinking that Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping run a restaurant. But the bags stuffed full of vegetables the brothers lug back home are used for a very different purpose — musical instruments. The two grew up surrounded by vegetables in...

The earnings of the rural population with landholdings of 13 acres and above have substantially increased due to increased market price of important crops like wheat, sugarcane, paddy, cotton, maize, pulses, vegetables and livestock. Contrary to general perception support price has played a...

New Delhi: The fleet of frontline Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft remained grounded today for the fifth day as investigations went on into the two air crashes that occurred within a gap of 11 days. Two whole fleet of 49 Mirage 2000 aircraft was grounded for preliminary checks after the two...