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Economy showing improvement after a span of turmoil

Economy showing improvement after a span of turmoil

Struggling hard against odds like economic recession globally and devastating flood at home, the country has started showing improvement in its economic indicators with exports solely increasing by 40 percent during first quarter of current financial year. Rupee value against US dollar has improved and with the concerted efforts of the coalition government, the country…

Dengue – a persisting challenge

Dengue – a persisting challenge

Emerging every year like a nightmare affecting thousands of countrymen, Dengue fever remains an enormous challenge for the authorities with health experts terming irresponsible behaviors and rapid urbanization as main reasons for its outspread. Persisting in our country since last two decades, Dengue commonly known as “breakbone fever” every monsoon hits the populace across country…

Digitization: Transforming mode of book reading culture

Digitization: Transforming mode of book reading culture

The prevalent notion that “book reading culture is fading away” stands in contradiction with the ground reality as the number of book readers have been increased with rising number of published books and electronic gadgets. Though the readers of classical literature (hardcopy lovers) have reduced as the material had been presented to them in audio-video…

Dengue on prowl as flood inflicts huge losses to KP health infrastructure

Dengue on prowl as flood inflicts huge losses to KP health infrastructure

Unaware of being a victim of dengue virus, Bakht Zaman (52), a poor donut vendor was busy in his routine business on Ring Road to earn livelihood for his family when suddenly he felt ache and rising temperature in whole body that compelled him to go back to home for rest. Bakht Zaman, the father…

Tea cultivation needs govt attention to save foreign exchange

Tea cultivation needs govt attention to save foreign exchange

Hazara and Malakand divisions are blessed with different ecological zones, salinity free lands and better climate conditions, making it suitable for tea cultivation. The initial work on tea cultivation was started in 1958 in the country and later a project was launched through Pakistan Agriculture Research Institute in 1976 that led to establishment of (NTHRT)…

UN chief urges world leaders to boost efforts to fight climate crisis

UN chief urges world leaders to boost efforts to fight climate crisis

As many heads of state and government, including Pakistan’s Premier Shehbaz Sharif, prepare to come to New York for the General Debate of the new General Assembly, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged them to bring hope to a fractured world, and increase efforts to fight the climate crisis. At a press conference in New…

CSAIL launches report on Pakistan’s power industry

CSAIL launches report on Pakistan’s power industry

China Three Gorges South Asia Investment Ltd (CSAIL) Thursday launched a report titled “Overview of Pakistan’s Power Sector and its Future Outlook” that summarizes the precious practical and theoretical achievements in the construction of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Power Projects and looks forward to the future development direction of the industry. The report also…

Pakistan ranks 161st on UN’s Human Development Index

Pakistan ranks 161st on UN’s Human Development Index

Pakistan was ranked at 161st position among 191 countries on UN’s 2021/22 Human Development Index (HDI)’s annual rankings that are measured by combining indicators of health, education, and standards of living, warning that multiple crises, mainly the Covid-19 pandemic, are halting human progress in most countries. In the 2020 report, Pakistan, which is now placed…

Unbridled social media ruining moral values

Unbridled social media ruining moral values

Over the centuries human being discovered numerous equipments, machines and technologies to ease out hardships in dispensation of tasks in different arena of life. Besides many other inventions, if the revolutionary invention of wheel paved way for effective and accelerated functioning of machines, the discovery of ‘Chip’ is described as another milestone in the area…

Pakistan moves six points up in international travels & tourism index

By Fakhar Alam Pakistan has moved six points up in the International Travel and Tourism Development Index as per the report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The report shows that the country is heading in the right direction in tourism industry as its beautiful landscapes have attracted both the local and international communities….