Tag: environment friendly
President urges for environment-friendly tourism, addresses K2 litter situation
HUNZA: President Dr Arif Alvi Monday urged the mountaineers to practice and promote the environment-friendly tourism in the high altitude areas while showing concerns...
Govt increases import duties to cut imports
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday was informed that the government has increased import duties to cut imports.
Adviser on Commerce Abdul Razzaq Dawood further told...
Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws by 2020
Global coffee giant Starbucks announced that it will eliminate all plastic straws from its 28,000 stores by 2020, becoming the latest corporate giant to...
Apple goes green, claims ‘100% clean energy’
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple said that it had achieved a goal of "100 percent clean energy" for its facilities around the world.
The California tech giant...
Sindh leads in producing environment friendly energy: Mir Hazar Khan
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Planning and Development Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani said on Monday that our provincial government is ahead of all other provinces...
China to plant forest the size of Ireland
China has announced plans to plant new forests in 2018 that will cover at least 6.6 million hectares, an area roughly the size of...
JCC to meet this month to undertake new projects under CPEC:...
ISLAMABAD: Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC), the highest decision-making body of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), will meet here later this month to launch some new development...
Eco-friendly technology used in coal power plants: Chinese envoy
ISLAMABAD: Acting Ambassador of China to Pakistan Zhao Lijian on Friday said that environmentally friendly technology is being used in coal-based power plants installed by...
Pakistani girl becomes world’s youngest eco-friendly business owner
ISLAMABAD: Ten-year-old Pakistani girl, Zymal Umer, hailing from Sargodha took an eco-friendly initiative, becoming the youngest person in the world to own such a business.
A...
Plying of modern electric buses in Karachi augurs well: governor
KARACHI: A delegation of Chinese company headed by its chief Thomas Wang informed Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair that the company would initially ply 80...
Environment-friendly Sesbania forest grown for first time in KP
PESHAWAR: Sesbania, an environment friendly and fast-growing plant species, has been grown for the first time in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on experimental basis under the...