HYDERABAD / LARKANA: Arrangements to save people’s life, property and livestock in the face of impending flood have almost been completed in upper, central and southern districts, including Hyderabad, Matiari, Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts while a strategy to relocate a large number of vulnerable
IT rained heavily in 2020. And now it is 2025. The rains have once again devastated Karachi. We have witnessed flooded streets, huge traffic jams, students, working-class employees, motorcyclists and other commuters unable to reach their homes in a paralysed city. Karachi’s
KARACHI: A study conducted by the Aga Khan University (AKU) has found that one in four children, aged three to eight, attending public schools in Karachi are at high risk of developmental delays. The developmental delays mean a child has not achieved
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari distributed ownership documents of land and houses built under the Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affectees project in Khair Mohammad Brohi village near Ratodero, on 23rd August. Accompanied by MPA Faryal Talpur, PPP Sindh president
KARACHI: Heavy rains, described as “unprecedented” by the Met Office, paralysed life in Karachi on 19th August and submerged many areas mainly due to clogged drains that could not handle the rainwater flow. The rain also exposed the ill-maintained transmission and distribution system
SUKKUR: Slowly but surely there is a silent revolution underway in many cities of Sindh, and it is because of a movement started by the government-financed Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO), which works towards women-focused community mobilisation and development. The SRSO basically
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on 17th August remanded a woman in police custody in a case pertaining to the killing of her two minor children. The investigating officer (IO) of the case brought Adeeba, 37, before the duty judicial magistrate (South) and sought
KARACHI: The Sindh government has dispatched a water filtration plant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 10 trucks loaded with ration bags and other essential food items for the flood-affected families, a statement said. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also held a telephonic
KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced a man to a total of 50 years in prison in a case pertaining to the abduction and gang rape of a minor girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Naseer Noor Khan, who is also the presiding
KARACHI: Educationists, social scientists and parenting experts have warned that the increasing use of mobile phones among children is severely affecting their mental health and academic performance, citing research findings indicating that 77 percent of children who use mobile phones for more