With around 300,000 children of school-going age not enrolled and a high dropout rate, the state of education in government schools in Thatta and Sujawal districts is beyond dismal.

As Nigeria celebrates news that polio is no longer an endemic in the West African country, Pakistan and its war-battered neighbour Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the disease is pre

The Ministry of Climate Change has decided to take the National Forest Policy-2015 to Council of Common Interests (CCI) for approval after getting cold shoulder from chief secretaries of all the fo

Despite progress, South Asia has failed to capitalize on urbanization says the World Bank report released this week. Instead of using increasing urbanization as a vehicle to convey prosperity to a greater number of people, the countries of the region have “difficulty in dealing with the pressures that increased urban populations put on infrastructure, basic services, land, housing and the environment,” which in turn has fostered “messy and hidden” urbanization

Due to poor security and ongoing curfews, illegal logging and firewood collection are going unchecked, district forest officers from Bara, Parsa, Mahottari, Rautahat and Siraha say.

The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in 2000, aiming to stop the spread of infection and alleviate suffering. Mass drug administration (MDA) is the recommended preventive chemotherapy (PC) strategy of delivering safe, anthelminthic drugs to populations at risk of LF to prevent morbidity due to infection and interrupt transmission.

For the past year, a steady stream of villagers has been visiting Muhammad Naeem's home in this quaint mountain town in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

A amendment proposal to the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act allows institutions or agencies to operate zoos

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named one of the winners of the United Nations’ highest environmental accolade for taking steps to address climate change.

KARACHI: When top officials of the Sindh wildlife, environment and livestock departments are not serious about undertaking projects to save species going extinct, there is little hope for organisat

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