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 ...

LONDON - The single biggest risk to Britain’s nascent economic recovery is continued eurozone weakness, the Bank of England’s outgoing governor Mervyn King said in a television interview on Sunday.He called for a “credible medium term plan” to get the economy back on track ...

SEATTLE : The website for the Washington State court system has been hacked and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and a million driver's license numbers may have been accessed, officials said on Thursday. The disclosure raises concerns that the information accessed could be used to commit ...

ISLAMABAD - Uninterrupted periods of sitting at work are very unhealthy, and by frequently breaking up those long bouts with just a few minutes of light exercise lowers a person's cancer risk, a new study has claimed.According to Neville Owen from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in ...

lahore - SALMAN ABDUHU  - Taking serious note of the large scale import of virus-infected poultry products from bird flue hit China, the poultry industry has said that non-stop entry of unhealthy chicken is not only a serious risk to humans but also a great threat to local poultry sector due ...

london - Global commodity markets rebounded this week from recent losses on the back of growing investor appetite for risk, dealers said."Commodity prices are firmer, having posted varying degrees of recovery from the previous week's widespread price declines," said Barclays analyst Sudakshina ...

ISLAMABAD  -Smoking during pregnancy can triple the baby`s chance of developing meningitis, researchers warn.Children exposed to smoke from a parent`s cigarettes at home are also twice as likely to have the deadly illness.Researchers believe that passive smoking gradually weakens children`s ...

Beijing  : China will control risk arising from local government debt, Premier Li Keqiang was quoted as saying on Wednesday, while assuring the public that the world’s No. 2 economy was in “good shape”.Li made his comment on debt in passing, but it came after Fitch Ratings ...

KIM Kardashian is allegedly putting herself and her baby at high risk for killer diabetes.Sources say the 5-foot-2 reality star has packed more than 100 pounds onto her normally 119-pound frame. According to a new report, if Kim has gained that much weight, it’s four times more than what is ...

ISLAMABAD – Men who don’t smoke and eat a lot of soy may have a lower risk of lung cancer, according to a new study.Soy contains isoflavones, which act similarly to the hormone estrogen, and may have anti-cancer qualities in hormone-related cancers of the breast and prostate, the ...

KARACHI – Pakistan is among the high ranking countries where people are still get affected of preventable diseases like tuberculosis, polio and malaria while non-communicable diseases are raising vigorously in different cities due to apathy of the authorities concerned which is not playing ...

ISLAMABAD  – Male pattern baldness is linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease, but only if it’s on the top/crown of the head, a new study has revealed.A receding hairline is not linked to an increased risk, the analysis indicates.The researchers from University of ...

ISLAMABAD  – People who spend more than 11 hours a day at work increase their chances of having a heart attack by 67 per cent, a study has found.A team from University College London looked at more than 7,000 civil servants over a period of 11 years and established how many hours they ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday failed to give an in-camera briefing on security to the specifically scheduled sitting of the Senate.Senate Opposition Leader Ishaq Dar criticised the minister when Deputy Chairman Sabir Ali Baloch informed the house that he had received a ...

CHILDREN in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on.  It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village and ...

KARACHI - Outbreaks of bird flu, dengue fever and now the ‘brain-eating’ Naegleria fowleri have all made people very concerned about their health. But this brain infection, caused by the amoeba Naegleria entering through the nose, can be avoided, said the experts at a public health ...

A Taliban ban on polio vaccinations will put 240,000 children at risk in troubled northwest Pakistan if an inoculation campaign cannot start next week, officials warned Friday.Local Taliban and warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose followers are fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, have banned polio ...

ISLAMABAD - More is better when it comes to drinking coffee to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major study released by researchers.Men who drank six or more cups per day had a 60 percent lower risk of developing the most lethal type of prostate cancer and a 20 percent ...

UNITED NATIONS - State-sanctioned religions risk alienating minorities and discriminating against members of other faiths, a United Nations human rights expert warned Tuesday. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva where he presented his latest report on freedom of religion or belief and ...

PARIS  - Commonly-prescribed sleeping pills are linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature death, according to an American study published in the journal BMJ Open on Monday.These medications were also associated at higher doses with a 35-percent increased risk of cancer as compared with ...

DIET soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it everyday may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new US study.Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day ...

ISLAMABAD  - Reko Diq, an untapped copper and gold mine of fabulous potential, was meant to be the biggest foreign investment in the country’s mining sector, but it’s beginning to look more like fool’s gold to the companies involved.Set in one of the bleakest places on earth, ...

ISLAMABAD  – The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said SECP’s move to push Sharia compliant risk coverage in Pakistan is to benefit millions.  The move may triple insurance density and penetration in which Pakistan ranks lowest in the region, it said.Islamic insurance ...

Bhasha dam site is not a natural site for a storage dam like Tarbela and Kalabagh. It was identified as a site for hydropower development by the World Bank in 1967. However its first feasibility report was drawn for a storage dam on cue by Wapda in 1984. The RCC Bhasha dam height is 922 feet with a ...

LONDON - Gold climbed for a fourth session on Thursday as the euro hit a two-week high versus the dollar, benefiting from solid Spanish and French debt auctions, and European stock markets rose, indicating better appetite for assets seen as higher risk.Spot gold was up 0.3pc at $1,663.80 an ounce ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Tanners Association Northern Zone Chairman Khawaja Muhammad Mehr Ali has strongly condemned suspension of gas supply to Punjab industries, including the leather tanneries, which are already facing numerous challenges. Khawaja Mehr Ali while addressing a press conference said that ...

ALAN PHILPSThey are too few in number. They are not properly trained for a task of enormous complexity. And we do not even know exactly who they are. Those are some of the more polite accusations being levelled against the Arab League team monitoring compliance with a peace plan designed to stop ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Any number of laboratories worldwide could engineer bird flu viruses into bioterror weapons capable of causing a human pandemic, and US government efforts to censor research might only increase the risk that rogue elements may give it a try.Experts say an unprecedented request by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite concerns that removing both of a womans ovaries would raise her chances of dying from diseases associated with aging, a large new study suggests the procedure may be safe. Looking at data on more than 130,000 California teachers, researchers found that women who were 45 ...

BRAVE X Factor star Amelia Lily has revealed she could go blind due to a lifelong battle with severe diabetes. The plucky 17-year-old is now one of the favourites to win the singing contest after returning to the reality show in last weeks major twist. But what fans dont know is that each time ...