The $600 million Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is in doldrums due to a lingering dispute between the provincial and city governments on the domain of the important infrastructure development project.

Sindh Minister for Irrigation and Power Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Sindh Irrigation Drainage Authority (Sida) would play effective role to empower the stakeholders for improving the irrigation system at grass roots level to benefit the growers community of Sindh.

Emphasising the importance of preserving and maintaining the aesthetic environmental grandeur of the fragile Himalayan region during the Amarnath yatra, Governor NN Vohra today called for effective measures to ensure zero discharge of pollutants into Lidder and Sindh rivers.

Sindh government has chalked out a plan to construct 500 kilometers of rural roads in various districts of the province, for which it will receive a loan of $ 76 million from Japan.

Sindh Wildlife Minister Daya Ram told the provincial legislative house that the Indus River has a reserve of around 922 Blind Dolphins. Responding to a question, he said that the government has taken effective measures to prevent the extinction of the blind dolphins, whose number has increased from 150 in 1974 to 922 in March 2008. The number is increasing day by day, he added.

The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday demanded of the government to take effective measures to protect land from erosion by the sea in the coastal areas of Badin and Thatta districts.

This demand was made through one of the three resolutions adopted by the house unanimously.

The environmental resources of the province are declining at an alarming rate and particularly the condition of Indus Delta needs immediate attention, which is fast degrading due to lack of freshwater in Indus river. This was stated by Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternate Energy, Askari Taqvi.

The Sindh government has planned to vaccinate 1.4 million newborns and 245,000 adults against hepatitis B and provide treatment to about 16,600 patients of hepatitis C during this fiscal year under the

The World Bank has agreed to provide technical assistance worth $ 26 million for the Sindh Coal and Power Project and its details will be finalised with its team currently on a visit to Pakistan.

Low intensity tremors were felt in Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Qubo Saeed Khan, Jacobabad and Dadu towns at around 5.35 pm on Wednesday, leaving a three-year-old boy injured.

People, who were already scared by tragic news of a major quake hitting Blaochistan the same day, which had left hundreds dead and injured as many, ran outside the rooms and enclosed areas for fear of being buried alive.