ISLAMABAD: Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan on Thursday visited the injured forest officials who were thrashed by timber smugglers in Kallar Syedan forests a few days ago.

KATHMANDU, JUN 30 - The World Bank Group on Tuesday approved two credits totaling US $300 million to rebuild houses in poor, rural areas of Nepal and to provide an injection of cash for the governm

GORKHABAZAR, JUN 29 - A series of big and small landslides triggered by torrential rains in northern Gorkha has added to the suffering of the earthquake survivors of Keraunja, sweeping away 60 hous

A fresh aftershock of 5 on the Richter scale was felt early Monday morning.

ISLAMABAD: An earthquake shook large parts of Pakistan's northern region including several areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan provinces early on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD: The winner of the 2015 UNESCO Avicenna Prize of Ethics in Science is Pakistani Professor of Biotechnology and bioethicist Zabta Khan Shinwari.

Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan has called for making country’s agriculture sector adapt to changing weather patterns caused by global warming.

KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: As 16 more people died of heat exhaustion in Karachi on Monday, the climate change ministry set up a committee to look into the causes of the current heatwave and possibly why

LAHORE: Environment activists have turned down as inadequate remedies proposed for air pollution during the construction of the Orange Line Metro Train in the environment impact assessment (EIA) re

At least 23 people have died in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains that lashed southeastern Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday.