KARACHI: Moderate to heavy rainfall on Tuesday brought the city to a standstill, as it flooded numerous roads and streets and plunged several neighbourhoods into extended power outages, adding to residents’ woes. According to the Met department data, the highest amount of
• Sindh Food Authority claims 71 of 127 samples laced with detergent, salt, sugar, or watered down • Commissioner orders crackdown on milk sellers • Dairy farmers reject findings, demand Rs50 per litre price hike KARACHI: While dairy farmers want a massive
KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Wednesday urged parents and guardians to reject negative propaganda against the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and ensure that their daughters are vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease of cervical cancer during the ongoing immunisation drive.
KARACHI: Nearly 35,000 parents in Sindh have reportedly refused to get their children vaccinated against poliovirus, with the majority of refusals reported from Karachi. The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme, in collaboration with the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), had carried out a
ISLAMABAD: A new confirmed polio case in Hyderabad has pushed Pakistan’s nationwide tally to 27 and the number of cases in Sindh to seven so far this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on September 22. According to Regional Reference
• NICVD, AKUH collaborate to save child from a type of inherited arrhythmia syndrome • Expert says rare surgical procedure is carried out by a few centres in US, Canada KARACHI: Amidst a constant flow of distressing news emerging from their hometown
For the first time in Pakistan, the Sindh government has launched an AI-based online training programme for teachers, designed to support educators in adopting faster, more effective and modern teaching practices. To formalise this initiative, the school education & literacy department, Unicef
Seven people went missing after a rickshaw and two other vehicles were swept away in the swollen Konkar stream in Gadap Town late on Tuesday night. Police arrived at the scene immediately after the incident and called in rescue teams, but the
Sindh Minister for Education and Mineral Development Syed Sardar Ali Shah said on September 10 that due to the country’s rapidly growing population, resolving issues within the available resources is becoming an increasing challenge. He highlighted that every year 1.2 million children
Karachi was lashed by heavy downpours as the second wave of monsoon rains hit the city, with Surjani Town receiving the highest rainfall at 129.8mm over the past 24 hours. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Gulshan-e-Maymar (Jamia Rasheed) recorded 93.1mm,