Thatta,  January 18: Members of civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and political leaders have pressed on need to take all-out efforts to launch livelihood development programmes to alleviate poverty in Sindh.

ISLAMABAD, Dec16: There is an urgent need of collaboration among academicians and researchers in order to determine actionable and creative research agenda for socio-economic growth of Pakistan and make the development more durable, said Dr …

ISLAMABAD: December 14: Climate-resilient low carbon economy, ownership of MDGs, pro-poor good governance can help achieve food security and fight hunger, mal-nutrituion and bring livelihood to 600 million poor in South Asia, said today the …

KARACHI: Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 4: Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest and many …

Tharparkar, Pakistan: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.

BADIN: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Badin Dr. Kazim Hussain Jatoi claimed that the district government is making all-out efforts to provide food, shelter, drinking water and health facilities to the people of rain and flood-hit …

Karachi, July 13: Chief Secretary Sindh, Raja Muhammad Abbas, has stressed for pacing up the work on water projects and purification of the Manchar Lake Water to provide safe drinking water to the people and …

Nagarparkar: Members of civil society organisations, environmentalists, natural resources experts, conservators and local people have strongly condemned lease of the Lake Salt in Mukhai village of the Nagarparkar district,

Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests. Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has …