Pakistan’s recent torrential floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains in different parts of the country, killed at least 412 people and injured 1,172 others besides affecting over 8.2 million more.

Karachi—The windmill project, based on 66 turbines, at Jhampir town of Thatta district will start generating 106.4 MW per day in January 2013.

Islamabad—Capital Development Authority (CDA) has chalked out a comprehensive plan to get over 215 mgd water from different sources to overcome water scarcity in the capital, said a document placed

PEOPLE who have never smoked, but who live in areas with higher air pollution levels, are roughly 20 percent more likely to die from lung cancer than people who live with cleaner air, researchers c

World Bank suggested Balochistan government to construct more dams to preserve rainwater in the wake of fast declining level of subsoil water.

Karachi—A brain-eating amoeba has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan’s most populous city since May, a World Health Organisation official says.

Around 42 percent of the city’s total population living in 539 slums is without having access to a proper toilet and appropriate sanitation system.

The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Friday said an immediate ban on biofuel production can save the world from looming food crisis which can result in massive malnutrition, starvation, and riots.

Five more peacocks on Monday died in Tharparkar, taking the death toll across Sindh in one month to 198.

The Khyber Pakthunkhwa Government will install 436 bio gas plants in current fiscal year in Khyber Pakthunkhwa keeping In view its rich potential as low cost fuel for heating and power generation.

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