Tag: Safety

Students in a painting exhibition on Wednesday presented ideas to maintain traffic discipline in the city and tried to deliver the message that responsible...

In all the silly controversy over The Atlantic-National Journal article, one underlying United States unease has gone unnoticed, a deeply satisfying fact for me...

Last week we had talked about ‘dang tapao’ or ‘making do’ and how this attitude was leading to poor services and manufacturing and was...

The demand for Social Safety Nets as a process of social development has increased manifolds due to food inflation and other factors particularly affecting...

The UN atomic agency said Monday it would set up an “action team” to help prevent nuclear accidents around the world following the Fukushima...

On the surface, last week’s currency market gyrations implied increasing uncertainty as Monday’s welcome return of risk appetite quickly gave way to familiar turbulence....

Gold spiked to another all-time high this week as slumping global stock markets sent investors fleeing for the safe-haven precious metal while industrial commodities...

As many as 65 people have lost their lives in 62 road accidents in the current year in Islamabad, but the Capital Development Authority...

Nestlé Pakistan signed an agreement with National Highways & Motorway Police as part of its continued commitment to enhance Drivers Safety through training. The...

Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim and many other prominent personalities are likely to present awards to...

Owners of the plazas and high-rise buildings in the capital city pay no heed to the Capital Development Authority (CDA)’s Building Standards for Fire...

Addressing a function at the PCSIR Auditorium on Thursday, the Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said the Punjab emergency service has rescued...

Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain demanded on Friday that Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the government be held accountable, saying that...

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has launched its Road Safety Awareness campaign on the city’s major arteries. The Transport and Communication Department of the...

News of suicide attacks, drone attacks, targeted killings, attacks on schools and shrines flash across the media as breaking news, but the Sorange mines accident was lost somewhere in the cacophony of these no-less-disturbing incidents. The Sorange mines, which are located 16 kilometres east of Quetta and contain 12.95 million tonnes of coal, are where 43 poor miners lost their lives apparently owing to poor ventilation. Last year alone these poor departed souls had mined 60,404

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) on Tuesday advised the authorities concerned to undertake a safety review of the country's two atomic power plants in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster.
PNRA said in a statement that it had asked the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to revisit the safety aspects of the nuclear power plants at Karachi and Chashma. "PNRA will continue to study the accident at Fukushima and the response of Japanese and other

TOKYO - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday proposed a meeting of G20 nuclear industry officials in May to start hammering out new global safety standards in the wake of the power plant disaster in Japan.
Japan's battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown of fuel rods at the earthquake-wrecked facility north of Tokyo has triggered alarm and safety reviews in nuclear-powered countries around the world. Sarkozy, the first foreign leader to visit Japan since the March 11