Tag: Clean

Pakistan have paved the way for a clean sweep over Zimbabwe as they convincingly beat the hosts in the second one-day international. On the...

Expressing dissatisfaction over cleanliness in different areas, Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Hussain Syed on Saturday directed the town administrators to improve sanitary...

Environmental protection is directly linked to economic progress and to make the country a welfare state, there is an urgent need to address the...

After Ian Botham had predicted a 4-0 whitewash of the India team in the ongoing four-match Test series, Michael Vaughan anticipated a similar scoreline....

British Prime Minister David Cameron, asked about a phone hacking scandal during a visit to Africa, said on Tuesday that wrongdoing in the media...

Contrary to the tall claims of the sanitation wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to keep Islamabad clean and green, the overflowing roadside...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not given a clean chit to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) over Osama bin Laden’s presence in the...

Skipper of the Pakistan A team Sohail Tanvir hoped that they would sweep the three-match rubber against Afghanistan which will start from May 25...

The Punjab government is freezing the Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) project designed to install 3,494 water filtration plants, a brainchild of former...

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) member Nasir Khan Banuzai, who allegedly thrashed a 60-year-old woman, Bushra Sayyeda, on Thursday in the bar premises, filed an application on Saturday in the bar, calling for an inquiry by a bar committee, to help him cleanly come out of the case. On March 24, Nasir allegedly thrashed Bushra with a shoe, injuring her head and face, for sitting at his makeshift office in the bar premises.
Nasir claims that Bushra was a

GUJRANWALA - Only 35 percent people in Pakistan's 7th largest city have been provided by Gujranwala Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) with clean drinking water while most of them are forced to intake contaminated water owing to out-of-date infrastructure of the water supply system. A survey report revealed that the WASA could only deliver water supply services to 35 percent of the population while only 70 percent of the masses in the city area have the civic amenity of sewerage

LAHORE - Imperial College of Business Studies has launched a programme 'Reverse the Surroundings' in which a group of students have initiated the challenging task of spreading awareness about cleanliness in the society. The leader
of the group is Abdullah Arshad and included four other members Abdur Rehman Arshad, Ahmad Jahanzaib, Abid Mehmood and Fahad Shehzad. They have worked tirelessly on beautification of Main Saddar Market Sarwar Road through a practical approach, with

LSHORE - Pakistan needs an educated, visionary and clean leadership and civil society should catalyse the process of change, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday.He was addressing a seminar on the problems facing Pakistan at the Tech Society. Qureshi said that the country was in "intensive care" and the intellectuals should rescue Pakistan from its weak position. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader said that God had given him more respect now compared to

ISLAMABAD - With the devolution of Ministry of Environment to the provincial level from the federal, the fate of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (PEPA) and its Central Laboratory for Environmental Analysis (CLEAN) is hanging in the balance. Despite being equipped with computerised analytical equipment, the PEPA laboratory has been dysfunctional for a long time because of a lack of ownership and interest by the relevant ministry and unavailability of qualified staff. PEPA,

LAHORE - The Punjab Finance Department has abolished eight posts of the clean drinking water project "in haste" without fulfilling the basic requirement of issuing a one-month prior notification, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The clean drinking water project is a federal government-funded project, which was handed over to the Local Government and Community Development Department of the Punjab government, but was stopped owing to downsizing drive of the government. But the funds

KARACHI - An old lady tries to make fire with cow dung cakes to cook her breakfast, as a flock of crows and kites soars over the colony in search for food. The colony that is devoid of brick pavements and metallic roads has open water supply pipes, but water does not flow through them.
Many families sit outside their houses on customary charpais placed in zigzag streets, and established outside the houses on small platforms are shops that sell everything under the sun.
It is

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama proposed on Monday boosting funds for clean energy research and deployment in his 2012 budget by slashing subsidies for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal. The budget provides the Department of Energy $29.5 billion for fiscal year 2012, up 4.2 percent from the proposed 2011 budget, and up 12 percent from the enacted 2010 budget.
Some $8.0 billion would support research in clean energy like wind, solar and advanced batteries. "Whomever leads