Pakistan is likely to employ DNA barcodes — a way to identify species to curb illegal wildlife trade as smugglers come up with new techniques to transport endangered species by mislabelling them.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take all kinds of effective steps to protect the Sakhipur reserve forest area in Tangail.

Pakistan is categorised amongst the highly vulnerable countries to the adverse impacts of climate change due to its diverse topographic and demographic settings.

BIRATNAGAR, JUL 06 - Three persons have died and two others gone missing in separate monsoon-related incidents in Sindhuli, Sankhuwasabha and Khotang districts in the past 24 hours.

Improving environmental adaptation in crops is essential for food security under global change, but phenotyping adaptive traits remains a major bottleneck. If associations between single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) alleles and environment of origin in crop landraces reflect adaptation, then these could be used to predict phenotypic variation for adaptive traits. We tested this proposition in the global food crop Sorghum bicolor, characterizing 1943 georeferenced landraces at 404,627 SNPs and quantifying allelic associations with bioclimatic and soil gradients.

Islamabad - Pakistan is one of the 95 countries that have met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation aimed at halving the proportion of the population without sustainable acces

The Punjab government will spend up to Rs 70 billion to provide clean drinking water for the next three years which includes up to Rs 11 billion for the financial year 2015-16, official sources rev

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned the attorney general and advocate generals of the four provinces to appear personally on the next hearing of a case relating to protective measures to check f

BIRTAMOD (JHAPA), JUL 03 - Settlements at Khudunabari-3, 4 and 5 in the district were inundated for around 24 hours after the flooded Biring river breached an embankment on Tuesday night.

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