The Sindh Health Department has initiated 73 projects with an amount of Rs 5.23 billion, said Provincial Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed while talking to a delegation of doctors from various districts of the province, here on Sunday.
Sindh reported its second polio case in a week, as onset of paralysis was confirmed in an 11-month-old boy of Sanghar district, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the province to eight and the country to 35 this year.
A Secretary of the Sindh health department, Dr Abdul Majid, said on Wednesday night that the latest victim of the virus (P1)
The Sindh High Court asked the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board and the city district government on Tuesday to submit on Aug 18 a plan for pure and hygienic water supply to the city along with an estimate of the funds required.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Sajjad Ali Shah observed while hearing a public interest petition filed by Advocate Islam Hussain that
In the backdrop of global and regional soaring food prices, the government on Friday signed with European Union (EU) worth 40 million euro (Rs 4.5 billion) project to combat rising food prices in Pakistan.
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan inaugurated on Monday a CNG bus project, saying that it was a gift for the citizens of Karachi and would ease their transport and pollution problems.
In the first phase, the city government will run 50 CNG-powered buses on two different routes
Threats of hazards are still not taken seriously in Pakistan to the extent of taking precautionary measures in an institutional form. The country has been facing socio-economic losses as hazards are converted into disasters. Earthquakes, floods, droughts, tsunamis and cyclones have occurred in different parts of the country in the recent past.
The Sindh government would soon initiate work for the promotion of small scale mining by employing latest practices in marble and granite mining. Sources told Business Recorder on Monday that a scheme was being introduced to improve mining practices in small scale mining sector at Sonda, district Jamshoro, and granite at Nagarparkar with a total cost of Rs 2,500 million.
The Sindh government would soon initiate work for the promotion of small scale mining by employing latest practices in marble and granite mining. Sources told Business Recorder on Monday that a scheme was being introduced to improve mining practices in small scale mining sector at Sonda, district Jamshoro, and granite at Nagarparkar with a total cost of Rs 2,500 million.
Federal government has provided Rs 1607.012 million for providing training and latest agriculture input technology to small farmers to enhance per acre yield and increase their income with collective market mechanism and small agro business interventions in Sindh.
Sindh government has given a thirty-day deadline to the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) to complete work for the provision of gas facility to at least 14 districts of the province, Business Recorder learnt on Monday. According to source, an agreement was signed between the provincial government and the SSGCL regarding provision of Sui gas to at least 83 villages of various districts.
