LAHORE (APP):- Agriculture experts have said that each year almost 10 to 15pc stored wheat is affefcted by insects in godowns and advised utmost care to avoid losses. Agri experts told APP on Tuesday that moisture level increases in the weather which is favourable for insects’ attack on ...

Gunmen stormed the emergency department of the Jinnah hospital on Friday evening, shot dead their opponent when he was under intensive care and, police and eyewitnesses said. Kashif Shah was admitted to the hospital with multiple bullet injuries he sustained during crossfire with his rivals in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is the most dangerous place to be born in Asia as it has the highest first day mortality rate for babies in Asia and shares 6 per cent burden of the global first day deaths due to high rate of pre-term births, low birth weight, poor nutritional status of mothers, poor family ...

KARACHI - Currently diabetes affects 366 million people worldwide, and this number is projected to increase substantially to 566 million by 2030 with 80 per cent burden in low and middle income countries. Warned experts at a public awareness programme on diabetes held recently at a local hotel ...

ISLAMABAD - To advocate for the cause of protecting the mother and the child from preventable diseases through immunisation, the World Immunisation Week and Mother and Child Week was launched here on Wednesday.This year the vaccination week focuses on measles elimination with the slogan 'stop ...

PESHAWAR - Participants of a seminar have stressed the need for creation of proper awareness among adolescent girls and expecting mothers regarding health complications. The seminar titled "Advocating for Improved Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Policy ...

LAHORE – Since the police are busy in ‘electioneering’ in the Punjab province, the incidents of killings, abductions, robberies, and other heinous crimes are rapidly increasing while the police performance is negatively descending. It seemed that the newly-appointed police ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Punjab Najam Sethi has said caretakers are here to do neither accountability nor policy-making but to hold fair elections.“We have the mandate only to hold free, fair and transparent elections besides running day-to-day business of the government”, he said ...

U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson said his country was committed to improving Pakistani access to quality health care, particularly for young mothers and children under five years old.He expressed these views while inaugurating a new obstetrics and gynecology facility at the Jinnah Post Graduate ...

SIALKOT - Though the government was claiming to spend billions of rupees annually for the promotion of education and literacy rate, yet the government officials were seemed to be unaware of the importance of correct spellings and pronunciations of Urdu words. It was observed here when the Rescue ...

MILEY Cyrus doesnt care that she was caught on tape smoking a bong. Video footage posted on the internet showed the 18-year-old singer-and-actress inhaling salvia smoke at a party held at her Los Angeles home on November 28. Miley has seen the recordings which were obtained on TMZ and has ...

ISLAMABAD - Sustained treatment, care and support to people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the flood affected areas is a critical public health and protection measure for vulnerable populations and is in line with global human right considerations in emergency and humanitarian situations. This was the ...

LAHORE -Osteopathy Without Borders, a foundation set up to help bring osteopathy and training to the developing countries, has been active in Pakistan. Osteopaths Sylvie Erb from USA and Sarah Clinton, Guillaume Gagnon, Brian Olney and Jad Khoury from Canada are visiting Pakistan now a days with ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study. The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military ...

KARACHI - Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah has said that nurses can provide creative and innovative solutions that can not only improve the health of their patients, but also provide solutions that can help in the development of health systems in communities and hospitals. Speaking at a seminar ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) while criticizing the FBR decision to shift CARE password facility for importers to Karachi, has demanded the Federal Board of Revenue to review its decision and revive the old system of issuance of password from respective Collectorates. ...

KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises  (Unisame) has invited the urgent attention of the Collector of Customs to the delay in reopening of the Customs Administrative Reforms System (CARE) for rice exports although the minimum export price (MEP) condition has been waived. ...

The Pakistani stock market closed on Friday the last     day of the trading week (June 09-13, 2008) under     review at 12942 points with an increase of 34 points     with reference to the closing of the market at 12908    ...