India will make fuel efficiency standards mandatory for the transport sector from 2011 as part of a growing suite of measures to fight climate change, the country

The United Nations issued its

Twelve million people in Pakistan are suffering from Hepatitis, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC) Executive Director Huma Qureshi as saying on Wednesday. She said the first-ever survey on Hepatitis had been conducted across the country in 2008.

Iran will start laying the pipeline for gas supply in Pakistan next year, sources said on Monday.

The decision was made on Monday, the first day of three-day talks between officials of the two countries.

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has once again decided to install chairlift at Margalla Hills despite the objection raised by environmentalists that caused to shelve the project in 2004. The environmentalists believed that the chairlift was hazards to the National Park, reserved as green area under Master Plan.

Sindh Minister for Health Dr Saghir Ahmed has said that Rs 1.11 billion would be spent on the Health Preventive Programme this year throughout the province. He said this while presiding over a meeting in his office on Tuesday.

Only four out of 379 industrial units operating in Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate have separate water treatment plants and the site for a combined treatment plant has not been allocated yet, a report said on Sunday.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Thursday approved 24 mega projects including the Diamer-Bhasha Dam.

The committee also gave relevant authorities three months to resolve issues related to demarcation and royalty of the dam.

The total cost of the Diamer-Bhasha project is Rs 894.257 billion and the dam would take eight to 10 years to complete.

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Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has prepared a plan to install 17 Floating Solar Powered High Flow Circulators/Solar Bees and 10 Portable Wastewater Treatment Plants worth of Rs 400 million at Rawal Lake to clean contaminations from its water, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2009 prepared by the federal government seeks transformation of society along the lines of Islamic teachings and revitalise existing education system to cater to social, political and spiritual needs of individuals and society.