ISLAMABAD - Capital Development Authority (CDA), Directorate of Health Services, has completed high-risk mapping and campaign to destroy dengue-breeding sites in federal capital.The CDA Health Directorate has aligned its strategy in accordance with the latest requirements and practices. The ...

The students of Pakistan Foundation School Walton Road on Monday made a study tour of Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan and visited Pakistan Movement Gallery. Meanwhile, mobile ideological units of NPT visited different schools and disseminated Two Nation-Theory among them.These schools ...

TOKYO - Japan’s earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profits at some of the nation’s top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news.Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota more than tripled its ...

SADIQABAD/AHMEDPUR EASTThe PTI candidates and Bahawalpur National Awami Party chief here have cancelled their political activities after Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Tuesday sustained serious injuries on his head and back after falling from a lifter during climbing up the stage ...

LAHORE - A leader of the Sunni Tehrik was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Tibbi City area on Friday, police said. Khurum Raza Qadri, 45, was on his way home in an auto-rickshaw after leading Friday prayers at the Begum Shahi Masjid Moti Bazaar when two gunmen riding on a Honda-125 motorcycle ...

LAHORE - Seven-day special mass vaccination campaign against measles will be started in Lahore from Monday (today) during which three million children from six months to ten years of age will be inoculated. The campaign will continue till May 5. Moreover, students of all government and private ...

chicago - New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by US lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers who say they are rushing to roll out a broad strategy to combat consumer concerns about their ...

KARACHI :-The provincial government of Sindh has completed preparations of a big drive to recover motor vehicle tax dues from the defaulters. Sindh Excise and Taxation Department (E&T) has completed preparations to begin a comprehensive road checking campaign from April 29 to May 3. DG E&T ...

Islamabad - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the chief election commissioner seeking his intervention to prevent some political parties, especially the PML-N, from a vilification campaign against him in the interest of free and fair elections. Farhatullah Babar, ...

london - A senior member of the International Monetary Fund added to calls Saturday for Britain to slow the pace of its austerity programme, a day after the country was stripped of its triple-A rating.David Lipton, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said the "pace of consolidation" should be ...

KARACHI -  The Pakistan Muslim League-Functional kicked off its election campaign in the City on Sunday. Kamran Tessori and Sardar Rahim, the PML-F candidates for NA-250 and PS-113 respectively, launched their election campaign in their constituencies. They said people of the area have been ...

RAWALPINDI - The District Health Department will launch a week-long special drive to create awareness among women about health care from April 24.Programme Coordinator Dr Javaid Iqbal told APP here on Sunday that lady health workers would go door-to-door during the campaign and educate women about ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Local Government and Rural Development Department Assistant Director Syed Khalid Israr Shah launched the enrolment drive of five- year-old children in the schools at a function in Government Primary School No. 2, Meenakhel (Mandar) on Monday.He put his signatures on the admission ...

PESHAWAR - The three-day anti-polio drive kicked off in Fata and Frontier Regions (FRs) on Monday to reach out to a target population of 7,67,360 children.A total of 2,704 teams have been constituted to reach out to the population in Fata out of which 2380 are mobile teams, 247 fixed and 77 transit ...

BAHAWALPUR – The district administration has urged the people to get their children under the age of 5 years vaccinated against polio during the three-day campaign starting on Monday (today). “About 545,198 would be administered drops during the drive. It is a national responsibility so ...

CHITRAL - Tree plantation campaign was kick started at Lawari Top area of Chitral on Sunday during which some 25,000 sapling would be planted at Ziarat and Lawari Top area. The drive has been initiated in assistance with Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP), a project of Program for Economic ...

BAHAWALPUR – The district administration has urged the people to get their children under the age of 5 years vaccinated against polio during the three-day campaign starting on Monday (today). “About 545,198 would be administered drops during the drive. It is a national responsibility so ...

MULTAN - The DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah has said that full protection will be given to polio vaccination teams as police department has evolved a comprehensive security plan for the upcoming three-day vaccination drive.He disclosed this while addressing a meeting held here to review arrangements ...

RAWALPINDI– More than 300 vaccinators in Rawalpindi, hired to carry on health campaigns funded by international institutions, have threatened to boycott the upcoming anti-polio campaign for not getting their payments.All the preparations of the anti-polio campaign to be held from April 15 ...

MULTAN - The DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah has said that full protection will be given to polio vaccination teams as police department has evolved a comprehensive security plan for the upcoming three-day vaccination drive.He disclosed this while addressing a meeting held here to review arrangements ...

The three day country wide anti-polio campaign begins on Monday.It has been announced by the Prime Minister's Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell and the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination in Islamabad. During the campaign polio vaccination drops will be administered to the children of ...

HAFIZABAD - DCO Capt (r) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal has directed the officials of Health Department to ensure administration of anti-polio drops to each and every child in the district during three-day anti-polio campaign being started from April 15. He also appealed to parents to save their innocent ...

MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin on Friday unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome from where humans will fly to space by the end of the decade. Fifty-two years to the day since Yuri Gagarin ...

ISLAMABAD - An anti-smoking drive has been launched in the Federal Capital to ensure implementation of anti-smoking law 2002 which prohibit smoking in offices, parks, bus terminals and educational institutions.The ICT Administration in cooperation with the Tobacco Control Cell has also launched a ...

LAHORE - Samanabad Town Emergency Response Committee on Dengue Chairman Muhammad Aslam Kamboh on Thursday, urged owners of sanitary stores on Ferozepur Road to ensure cleanliness, otherwise strict action would be initiated against them under the Dengue Control Act.While presiding over a meeting on ...

PESHAWAR - Expressing concern over the alleged financial corruption in the polio-eradication funds in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the ulema engaged in the campaign demanded an inquiry against the health officials responsible for misappropriation.Addressing a press conference here at press club, the ...

MULTAN/SHEIKHUPURA - The three-day polio vaccination drive will commence from April 15 and over 0.6 million children below the age of five will be administered polio drops, disclosed EDO Health Dr Iftikhar Qureshi.Briefing the participants of a meeting here on Saturday, the EDO claimed that not ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - DCO Syed Rizwan Mehboob has warned the administration of private schools of cancellation of registration if any school refused to administration of anti-polio drops to their school children. He was addressing a combined meeting of the Health, Education and Revenue officers which was ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - DCO Syed Rizwan Mehboob has warned the administration of private schools of cancellation of registration if any school refused to administration of anti-polio drops to their school children.  He was addressing a combined meeting of the Health, Education and Revenue officers ...

LAHORE – Ameerud Din Medical College Principal Anjum Habib Vohra on Sunday inaugurated tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling in the college premises. Faculty members and a number of students were also present. Speaking on the occasion, Prof Vohra said that plants were human’s ...