FAISALABAD - As many as 6.3 million hectores of the land is victim of the salinity in the country while the situation has started taking nasty turn with the addition of 4,000 hectors land affected by salinity every year. The salinity across the globe has also affected 7 per cent of total world land ...

International aid agency Oxfam is mounting an emergency response to get aid to those affected by fresh flooding in Sindh province in Pakistan. This is the second year of flooding in Pakistan, and many of those affected had not fully recovered from last years mega-floods. There is an urgent need to ...

KARACHI - Confusion prevailed at Customs House on Thursday as the clearance activity came to a halt for more than 24 hours following the arrest of two officials of Provincial Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department by the Anti-Corruption Department on account of their misconduct. According to details, ...

LAHORE - Mycoplasma, an atypical bacterium, is causing respiratory problem and huge economic losses to the poultry industry across the world and especially in Pakistan. This was stated by Prof Dr Mazhar I. Khan from University of Connecticut USA while delivering a lecture on workshop titled Avian ...

LAHORE - The worst ever flood after causing breach of Tauri Bund caused widespread destruction in towns of Karampur, Ghouspur, Jacobabad, Thai Garhi Khero, Shahdadkot and other areas and entered Dadu District with ferocious intensity. The floods have severely affected the operations of Zamzama Gas ...

MULTAN The floodwater level in River Chenab receded considerably on Saturday as the discharge from Head Trimmu, located in District Jhang, dipped to 1,95,000 cusecs while the current water flow near Multan stood at around 2,25,000 cusecs. The water flow will return to normal level within two days, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Tourism registered downward trend in Hunza following massive land sliding early this year in Attaabad village that siphoned off water flow downstream subsequently forming a huge lake. Ataabad is one of the younger villages in Hunza, inhabited by people from the central oasis five ...

Internet service in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern countries was cut on Friday after submarine cable failed in the Mediterranean Sea, said the company that runs the service. Three cables linking Italy and Egypt failed for yet unknown reasons, Shaheed al-Sateeh, a manager ...

TEENAGERS who excessively use their cell phone are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research abstract that will be presented on June 9 at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). The study, authored ...

KARACHI - Experts have warned citizens to get their children vaccinated against typhoid fever, as the life-threatening disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhoid is on the rise in the metropolis. They said that typhoid fever is still common in the developing world, affecting about 21.5 ...

CANNES (AFP) - China's lone contender for the top Cannes prize, Jia Zhangke, probes the aftershock of the country's socialist policies on individual people in "24 City", shot in quake-hit Sichuan. Currently one of the top three favourites for Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or for best film, the ...