MULTAN:Secretary agriculture south Punjab Saqib Ali Ateel said on Friday that the 2021 would turn out to be the year, marking the revival of cotton with prospects of better production and sizable cut in cost, thanks to IPM model that kept pest pressure under control. During a visit to cotton fields in Muzaffargarh, Khangarjh, Rohillanwali […]
Read MoreGilgit:Almost 100% of the drinking water supplied in Chilas is unfit for human consumption due to the presence of bacterial contamination, revealed a report of Gilgit-Baltistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report is based on laboratory analysis of 10 water samples collected from the water sources from different parts of Chilas. The report reveals that […]
Read MorePESHAWAR:The second Director Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Junior Tennis Training Camp started at the Synthetic Qayyum Sports Complex here on Friday. The camp was inaugurated by Director General Sports Asfandyar Khattak. Senior Coach Sports Directorate and international hockey player Shafqat Ullah, Administrative Officer Syed Jaffer Shah, Chairman Tennis Association Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir, Senior Vice President […]
Read MoreLAHORE:President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday said the government was ensuring ‘ease of doing business’ for attracting maximum foreign investment as revolutionizing the industrial sector was vital for the uplift of the country. He was addressing after inaugurating ‘Challange Textile Park’ a project launched by the Chinese with an investment of about $150 million, at […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema on Friday said that the government was taking every possible step to ensure the availability of essential commodities at fixed prices in the markets. Talking to a private news channel, he said the government had already taken tough action against hoarding to check […]
Read MoreHYDERABAD:The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) has paid compensation cheques to families of the slain persons who died after the July 22 explosion in a pole mounted transformer (PMT) of HESCO in Latifabad Unit 8 area. The company’s spokesman informed here Friday that families of 5 deceased persons and 7 injured persons were paid the […]
Read MoreMULTAN:District police have busted 59 gangs and arrested 180 members of these gangs besides recovering looted valuables of worth Rs 143.9 million during separate operations launched across the district in the ongoing year. The police have traced 600 cases of dacoity, robbery and theft from the arrested criminals, said a press release issued here on […]
Read MoreNAUSHEHROFEROZE: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Muhammad Tashfeen Alam on Friday presided over a meeting for reviewing arrangements made for Chehlum Shuhada-e Karbala. Addressing the meeting, DC said that control rooms would be set up at district and taluka level for monitoring the chehlum situation. He directed all Assistant commissioners to pay visits of the routes of […]
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