FAISALABADPakistan’s per capita water availability has dwindled from 5,260 cubic metres in 1951 to 1,000 this year, a threshold value under the global criteria, putting the food security at risk, reveals an expert at a seminar which was titled “Water and Biodiversity” and held in ...

islamabadPakistan spent a huge amount of $16 billion on food and oil imports during ten months (July to April) of the current fiscal year (2012-2013).According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country spent $16 billion on importing food items and petroleum products during ...

CALIFORNIA: Gwyneth Paltrow is obsessed with food. The actress has produced two cookbooks and says her love of cooking and eating came from her foodie father Bruce Paltrow, who passed away in 2002 after battling cancer. She said, ''I have always loved food. I was raised by a foodie. I love to cook ...

ISLAMABADMost of the hotels and restaurants in different markets of federal capital are serving sub-standard and unhygienic food to their consumers besides fixing prices at their own.  The sub-standard and unhygienic food is causing certain digestion problems and diseases among the people who ...

RAWALPINDI - The sale of unhygienic food goes unabated in Rawalpindi. Despite health issues, street food vendors and stallholders have been selling harmful additives while food inspectors have been busy with ‘bribe business’.This business booms in Raja Bazaar, Murree Road area, Khayaban ...

LAHORE - Flanked by special children, District Coordination Officer Rizwan Mehboob inaugurated the Gawalmandi Food Street on Friday.Addressing the inauguration ceremony, the DCO said praised shopkeepers’ part for reopening of the food street, saying that the tradesperson renovated the area on ...

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 ...

Acne is a source of pain for the young, what they don’t know is that it can be controlled or at least held back by the use of proper food. Acne happens due to stress and eating disorders. Many healthy foods contain vitamins and minerals that are effective in helping to treat acne. Filling our ...

islamabad - The cash-starved government spent a huge amount of $14.429 billion on food and oil imports during nine months (July to March) of the current fiscal year (2012-2013).According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country spent $14.429 billion on importing food ...

LAHORE - There is an avaricious anticipation among the gourmets of Lahore following the announcement of Gawalmandi Food Street reopening.District Coordination Officer Rizwan Mehboob visited the area on Friday and directed the officials concerned to revive the eating houses. The DCO also issued ...

Rawalpindi : A large number of food lovers thronged the regional food festival, which was inaugurated here at the PC Rawalpindi Friday evening. High Commissioner of Malaysia to Pakistan Dr. Hasrul Sani Bin Mujtabar, inaugurated the three-day festival in the presence of General Manager of the hotel ...

islamabad - Pakistan’s textile exports showed growth of over 7 per cent in July to March period of the ongoing financial year over the corresponding period of last year despite unending power shortage in the country and global economic situation.Pakistan has exported textile made commodities ...

RAMALLAH - Some 3,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails on Wednesday refused breakfast as part of a one-day hunger strike to mark Prisoners’ Day, an Israeli prison official said.Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the ...

ISLAMABAD  - Speakers at a workshop Monday said that the government was introducing innovative technologies to ensure food security for its rapidly growing population at affordable prices.The workshop on “Incorporating Agricultural Service Providers into Demonstration and Dissemination ...

ISLAMABAD – Apart from being basic human need, food of a particular region, community and nations also reflects their history, traditions, climate, culture and their evolution.The sumptuous ASEAN Food Festival hosted by the Indonesian Embassy in collaboration with the ASEAN Missions in ...

LAHORE – Secretary Food Punjab Maj (r) Azam Salman Khan Saturday presided over a meeting of all the Divisional Deputy Directors of Food Department. Director Food Punjab and Deputy Directors Food gave detailed briefing to Secretary Food regarding wheat procurement arrangements and informed ...

KARACHI - Caretaker Sindh Food Minister, Iqbal Dawood, on Wednesday ordered to remove food inspectors of the province with immediate effect.The minister ordered sacking of the officials known for incompetence, negligence of duty and theft in the stock of wheat and other commodities. According to ...

ISLAMABAD - Small hotels operating in different areas of the Federal capital with a brisk pace are serving unhygienic food in an unhealthy environment to their customers and posing grave threats to human health. It has been observed that these Khokhas and Chappar hotels located along roadside or on ...

What do we serve when we have unannounced guests at tea time? Most of us would open our freezers, take out the ready-to-cook food like nuggets, shami kebabs, tender pops, chunks etc., defrost them and then cook them for just about 3-5 minutes and, a lavish hi-tea is ready to be served. This is how ...

ISLAMABAD  - The substandard food cafeterias and stall in hospitals of capitals are functioning unnoticed, taking a heavy toll on health of visitors while authorities concerned are not even considering it to resolve this issue.The food being sold in these canteens and out side stalls of ...

LAHORE (PR) – Leading agro-chemical company Ali Akbar Group arranged annual Conference of its Target Zari Markaz. Hundreds of delegates from across Pakistan participated. Farmers, agro-based businessmen, researchers, Banking sectors professionals and Media representatives were also there in ...

WASHINGTON - Global food prices continued to decline for six consecutive months, but still remain very high and close to their historical peaks, the World Bank said on Wednesday.In its quarterly Food Price Watch report, WB said food prices continued to fall between October 2012 and February 2013 on ...

ISLAMABAD - Food imports into the country shrunk by 11.68 per cent during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (2012-13) as compared to the corresponding period of last year.Food imports stood at $3.030 billion during July-February (2012-13) against $3.431 billion during July-February ...

ISLAMABAD – Head of the department Prosthodontics, Hamdard University , Hamdard Collage of Medicine and Dentistry Dr Mehmood Hussain has said that food selection, regular checkups and cleanliness help improve oral teeth health. He expressed these words in an interview on PTV and highlight ...

KARACHI  - Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) commonly known as acid reflux is a condition frequently registered by people indulged in over eating.Medical community particularly the gastroenterologists have registered their concern in steady increase in the number of people reporting with ...

ISLAMABAD  –About one-third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste, according to a study commissioned by the United Nations food agency.That amounts to more than one billion tonnes of waste around the world every year. The study recommends that developing countries ...

ISLAMABAD – The food exports of the country during first half of financial year 2012-13 increased by 4.82 per cent as compared to same period of last year.  The exports of overall food group were recorded at US $2.054 million during July-December (2012-13) against the exports of US$ ...

RAWALPINDI – Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Imdad Ullah Bosar has ordered the officials of District Food Department (DPD) to ensure the provision of wheat flour on fixed price to the consumers in the division besides taking departmental action against the profiteers and the flour mills ...

GENEVA (Reuters/AFP) - About 1 million Syrians are going hungry due to the difficulty of getting supplies into conflict zones and the fact that the few government-approved aid agencies are stretched to the limit, the United Nations said on Tuesday.The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is handing out ...

ISLAMABAD  – Asia’s ability to keep food prices in check and ensure long-term regional food security will require the region’s farm to market supply chains to become more efficient and cost effective, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.“The Quiet Revolution ...