4 Aug 2023
Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers’ livelihoods
Jacobabad: Generations of Rahim Buksh’s ancestors have laboured in the rice paddies and wheat fields surrounding Pakistan’s hottest city, no strangers to intense summers or monsoon rains.
4 Aug 2023
Ten deadliest quakes of the 21st century
With the death toll rising by the hour, the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is already among the ten deadliest of the 21st century.
4 Aug 2023
Journey to the bottom of the sea: On a Titanic tour
Los Angeles, United States: The journey to the ocean floor to reach the wreck of the Titanic is one that gets relentlessly colder and darker, says one of the handful of people who have ever visited the luxury liner’s watery grave.
26 Jul 2023
Tens of thousands evacuated as cyclone menaces India and Pakistan
Ahmedabad, India: More than 40,000 people have been evacuated across India and Pakistan as a cyclone approaches their coast, officials said Tuesday, with gales of up to 150 kilometres per hour predicted.
26 Jul 2023
280 Pakistan families fear relatives died in boat disaster off Greece
More than 280 Pakistani families fear they had relatives who drowned when a migrant boat sank off Greece last week, making it one of Pakistan’s worst man-made disasters, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Friday.
26 Jul 2023
14,000 evacuated during Pakistan’s monsoon rains
Lahore, Pakistan: More than 14,000 people and their cattle were evacuated from villages in eastern Pakistan, authorities said Tuesday, following the arrival of monsoon rains across South Asia
26 Jul 2023
Karachi witnesses alarming rise in rape cases
Karachi has seen a worrisome increase in violent crime of rape during the last 1.5 year, it emerged on Thursday.
26 Jul 2023
Pregnant woman ‘mysteriously’ goes missing from Karachi’s JPM
A 24-year-old pregnant woman on Friday mysteriously went mission from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, husband said.
26 Jul 2023
Islamabad police gunned down two suspects of F9 park rape case
Two suspects allegedly involved in the F9 park rape case were gunned down in an exchange of fire with police at a checkpoint in Islamabad’s D-12 area, the capital police spokesperson confirmed on Thursday
26 Jul 2023
Balochistan’s only cancer hospital runs out of medicines despite assurances
Cenar, the only cancer hospital of Balochistan, has run out of medicines, making cure to the life-threatening disease a luxury that only a few can afford.
26 Jul 2023
Sindh decides to establish 20 new colleges, rehabilitate 15,000 flood-affected schools
Sindh Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah on Thursday said that the education government has decided to establish 20 new colleges and rehabilitate some 15,000 flood-affected schools in the province.
26 Jul 2023
Hijab made mandatory for female teachers, students in Azad Jammu Kashmir
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government on Tuesday made it mandatory for female students and teachers to wear hijab in in co-education institutions.
26 Jul 2023
Sindh govt announces public holiday on May 1
Labour Day will be observed as a public holiday in Sindh, a notification from the Services, General, and Administration Department said Thursday.
26 Jul 2023
Lahore set to become first Asian city with environment-friendly roads
Central Business District Punjab (CBD) is set to introduce the “Blue Road” concept in Lahore making it the first city in Pakistan and Asia, to adopt this innovative technology of environment-friendly roads.
26 Jul 2023
Over 3,000 Karachiites land in hospitals due to overeating during Eid holidays
Overeating of meat products on Eidul Adha earned over 3,000 residents of Karachi a trip to the hospital.