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Alvi urged to take part in UN meeting on TB
Deliberations for the moot have been under way for almost a year and it’s time to sign a global declaration on...
Faiza Ilyas
Study finds young students at high suicide risk
Results show that 58.54 per cent of the total sample had suicidal thoughts.
Experts voice concern over medical negligence causing disability among children
KARACHI: Medical negligence is largely unaccountable in Pakistan. Its worst victims are children who, in many cases,...
‘Ending marine pollution needs comprehensive approach’
Industrialists unwilling to cooperate with research institutions.
‘Pakistan must make decisions in its own national interests’
Former foreign secretary Najmuddin A. Shaikh discusses challenges facing new govt on external front.
Karachi University without research grant since 2016
Most of the varsity’s funds go into paying staff’s salaries and allowances.
Study finds lentils, potatoes, chicken meat contaminated
None of them is found free of lead, arsenic
‘Bird habitats in DHA Phase 8 need to be protected’
KARACHI: In our blind quest for building lavish housing projects, we are destroying nesting and resting places of...
Coal being dumped in open in violation of SC orders
SC had ordered in June 2018 that coal only be stored in warehouses.
Public hearings of high-rise projects attract criticism
‘We will examine the process and ensure that court orders are being implemented’
Govt on tax collection spree amid livestock traders’ complaints
Fee being collected at city’s three entry points raised by 200 per cent.
No relief in sight for commuters as work on Green, Edhi lines runs at a slow pace
Prolonged delays prompting encroachments and garbage dumps.
Korangi creek biodiversity being destroyed by untreated waste: study
"Concentration of oil and grease found exceptionally high in water and sediment samples."
Experts urge people to get screened for hepatitis
KARACHI: Sharing worrying statistics that about 20 million people in Pakistan are infected with hepatitis B and C,...
Experts link glacier melt to climate change, call for risk assessment
Over two dozen houses got submerged and many land-based assets were washed away.
25 Russell’s vipers born in zoo after a decade
Births in deer, black bucks, nilgai, rhesus monkeys, blue peacocks, crocodiles and tortoises also reported.
Experts critical of PTI’s plan to resolve city’s water, garbage, electricity issues
PTI deserves appreciation for coming up with a list of proposed solutions to the city’s worsening civic conditions.
Experts alarmed by rising XDR typhoid cases in Karachi
"Exercise under way to collect comprehensive data on the disease from various hospitals ," says Dr. Salahuddin.
Encroached drains, poor waste management put Karachi at risk of urban flooding
"Karachi can't withstand even 100mm of rain. There would be deluge everywhere," says one expert.
Wildlife photography show opens
KARACHI: Images depicting a majestic snow leopard resting in a rescue facility in Naltar Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan,...