PESHAWAR - The inhabitants of internal city on Saturday hit the roads against the excessive and unscheduled power outages and blocked main Circular Road for all kind of traffic in protest. The protestors holding sticks in their hands came out from Ganj, Kachi Mohalla, Gari Khana and surrounding ...

ISLAMABAD - Too much exercise may damage your heart, doctors have warned, suggesting that rather than adding years to their lives, fitness freaks could be working themselves into an early grave.Experts warn that exercising intensely for more than an hour or two can damage the heart, causing its ...

RAWALPINDI - The business community in the city came down hard on the government as well WAPDA for excessive electricity loadshedding and said that power outages are causing huge losses to their business. In this regard, a meeting was convened by RCCI here on Tuesday. The meeting was president by ...

NOORPUR THAL - Unscheduled loadshedding has perturbed people across Thal. During a survey, The Nation learnt that the consumers in different villages of Thal had to suffer 16 to 18 hours electricity loadshedding basis on a daily. Despite the fact that in winter season power load reduces ...

ISLAMABAD - People have started using gas heaters particularly at night to keep rooms warm oblivious to health hazards it poses to human health.Very few among them are aware of precautionary measures and majority do not care for even if they are known to these precautions. Scattered incidents of ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Elders of Abakhel and Dallokhel villages have expressed their concern over the unbearable electricity loadshedding and demanded an immediate halt to power outrages. A delegation of elders consisting of Haji Zarwali Khan, former nazim Johar Muhammad, Barkatullah, Noor Aslam and Qari ...

SWAT - The city has started experiencing 10 hours power loadshedding once again, with a blackout every other hour, duration of loadshedding is 10 to 12 hours in city, and in last few weeks, duration of loadshedding was not more than 3 hours in 24 hours due to which peoples get relaxed, but few days ...

People have risen up in arms against unscheduled and excessive duration of loadshedding  as the electricity shortfall crossed 7000 MW on Wednesday.There were protests in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Wazirabad, Jhelum, Chakwal, Bhalwal and other cities of Punjab on Wednesday as people have been forced ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Citizens have vehemently condemned the highhandedness of the Gepco and have protested against the issuance of excessive electricity bills for the month of June in Nowshera Virkan Sub-Division. They claimed that the electricity metres were showing less reading than had been charged ...

KARACHI - Health experts have urged the citizens to use plenty of water during Eidul Azha holidays and be careful while eating red meat, as more than 2 to 3 ounces of red meat in a week is medically recommended. They said that excessive use of red meat may not only cause digestive problems but ...

LAHORE - While the nation is enduring severe and prolonged power breakdowns, the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has said that it is carrying out discussions and trying to maintain liaison through effective coordination with all the public representatives, oil and gas companies, IPPs, ...

LAHORE - Traders community will hold protest demonstration against electricity loadshedding and the proposed 17 per cent hike in power tariff at Regal Chowk on Monday (tomorrow). This was stated by Anjuman Tajiran Lahore patron in chief Haji Maqsood Butt at a press conference accompanied by ...

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Wednesday said that the KESC had been maintaining dedicated feeders in industrial areas, which hardly faced any problems because of the proper method followed by most of these consumers. Addressing a news briefing, Jan Abbas Zaidi, Chief ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Wednesday said US was pushing whole world into another crisis by printing excessive currency to overcome its record budget and trade deficits. Political will of American leaders has failed as they are taxing their own people and whole world ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The harvesting season is yet to approach and agriculturists are concerned that excessive rains across the country may harm wheat crop this year. The harvesting season usually starts in mid April but the continuous rains might delay the process and it is feared that more rains can ...

Former SSP CID and TPO Lyari Umer Khitab has been targeted with a bomb near Saddar police station area on Saturday. According to reports, TPO Lyari was on his way to office when a blast happened in A B Senia Line behind Saddar police station. Raja Umer has been escaped in the attack.

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 ...