A model court on 04-January-2024 sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife. Meghraj Anand was found guilty of strangling his wife Kaanta Kumari to death at his flat in the Lea Market area within the jurisdiction of the Baghdadi
“The present water supply of Karachi, like that of many Eastern Cities, is insufficient. It has a capacity of only 11 to 15 million gallons per day, whereas the water demand for the city in the first stage of development is estimated to be
KARACHI: Raising alarm over multiple outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths of a large number of children across the country, health experts said on 4th January that these precious lives could have been easily saved if the governments at the federal and
It is unfortunate that we do research just to increase the number of publications rather than focusing on solving societal issues. It is very alarming that we do not have concrete research on our problems, and that is one of the major
SUKKUR: The District Advisory and Implementation Panel has called for devising joint actions for urgent implementation of the Sindh Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding and Young Child Nutrition Act, 2023. Iqbal Detho, chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission who co-chaired a
MITHI: Young schoolchildren coming from nine districts of the province highlighted issues relating to their studies and institutions at a mock assembly convened in the Tharparkar District Council hall with the joint collaboration of Unicef, Thar Education Alliance (TEA) and Sindh government’s
IN the 1960s, governments started introducing labour welfare schemes primarily comprising benefits such as medical care and cash benefits, old-age pension, housing, free school education, share in company profit and employment for differently abled persons. The medical and pension schemes require regular
PAKISTAN’S first comprehensive occupational safety and health (OSH) profile exposes the inadequacies of worker protection in a country where over 72m people constitute the formal workforce. It arrives against a backdrop of preventable industrial tragedies: the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi,
Seeta Kolhi, a ninth-grade student at the Govt Girls Secondary School Wehro Sharif, is the only literate female in her community. Most girls in her colony spend their days working in the fields, picking cotton and other crops, often alongside their families
The year 2024 appears to have been good for the Sindh police, with improvements observed in the department as regards investigations and information technology, owing to which they succeeded in solving major terrorism cases, including the attack on Chinese nationals near the