The Japanese government on Wednesday formally agreed to grant a concessional loan of Rs5 billion to Pakistan for supporting the energy sector reforms.

ISLAMABAD: Australia and Nor­way have announced increasing funding for eradication of polio in Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

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 de

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, Kar

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 ma

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.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Thursday approved 22 development projects valuing around Rs13 billion for the next fiscal.

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 ‘

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 m

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 fo

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