KARACHI: The National Assembly on 13th September 2024 passed a bill to regulate the cultivation of cannabis, and the sale of derivatives of the plant for medicinal and industrial use. On Monday, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology approved the country’s first-ever
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a seminar called for urgent steps to unify efforts of the government, NGOs, and private sector to improve literacy as the literacy rate in Sindh particularly among rural women, trailed at just 51pc behind the overall national rate of
The Sindh Human Rights Commission has taken cognisance against the alarming surge in child marriages in District Dadu Sindh Province.SHRC issued letters to ascertain the factors in the surge of child marriages to the Director General of the Sindh Child Protection Authority
KARACHI: A project of senior doctors and medical science experts to reach out to and guide people living with diabetes but unaware of it has successfully prevented complications in 452,170 individuals, a recently compiled report said on 31st August 2024. The programme,
KARACHI: The Department of community health sciences at Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) conducted a project under which health experts collected and analysed injury and disease-related data of 2,000 patients who worked in
KARACHI: Amid the detection of a confirmed monkeypox (mpox) case in the country, the Sindh health department on 16 August initiated the screening of passengers at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, and released an advisory for healthcare institutions in the province. Officials
KARACHI: Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Memon said on Monday that the provincial government was increasing the number of rehabilitation centres for drug addicts in Sindh. At a press conference, he said that currently, there was a capacity to accommodate 400 people in
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed at the Karachi airport on 12 August between the Local Councils Association Sindh (LCAS) and the Aircraft Sales & Services Limited (ASSL) for launching a free air ambulance service for emergency evacuation of patients from
KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali
Sindh Environment Minister Dost Muhammad Rahimoon has said the fast-diminishing farmlands near urban centres due to their conversion into gated housing societies have posed serious threats to Pakistan’s food security. He stated this while speaking as the chief guest at a conference