KARACHI: Female snails at the Gadani Ship-breaking Yard have been found to have developed male sex organs due to exposure to a highly toxic chemical used in ship paints, a recent study of Karachi U

PESHAWAR: Health authorities are gearing up to start vaccination campaigns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) following emergence of two new polio cases in the Khyber Agency and one

August was a month of destruction as Nepal floods and landslides, triggered by severe monsoon rains, affected over 200,000 people.

KATHMANDU: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) today disposed 50 jars of Ava branded bottled water that were unsafe for drinking.

TANAHUN: As many as 100 houses in Tanahun are at high risk of landslide due to continuous land erosion by the Seti River.

KATHMANDU: The Environment Protection Committee of Parliament has summoned Nepal Crusher and Mine Industry Entrepreneurs’ Federation on September 10 to discuss extraction of river materials.

KATHMANDU: The United States, through its US Agency for International Development, has announced three new programmes worth up to $70 million (approx Rs 6.85 billion), aiming to help Nepali communi

The Committee on Environment Protection of the Legislature-Parliament has criticised the government’s decision to ease the ban on crusher industries from mining and exporting of stones, sand and ag

Floods and landslides have damaged standing paddy and vegetables on 35,804.1 hectares in 17 districts, including the rice-bowl districts of the country such as Bardiya, Banke, Dang, Kanchanpur, Sir

European Union (EU) has announced the relief fund of Rs 32,293,750 for the most vulnerable families that have been affected by the natural disaster in the Mid-Western region.