Tag: toxic

UN’s Environment Programme representative vows to fight mercury toxicity in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Programme Officer Dr Shunichi Honda has expressed all-out support on behalf of his organisation to help Pakistan weed...

Twitter aims to be less toxic

With social media platforms increasingly coming under fire for fanning hate speeches, trolling and failing to stop the spreading of fake news, Twitter has...

Toxic pollution damaging babies’ developing brains: UN

NEW DELHI: As New Delhi and other major cities hit new toxic smog peaks, the United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the damage that...

Statistically smog kills more people in Pakistan than militancy

ISLAMABAD: The toxic smog that has covered parts of the country for weeks has exposed official torpor over rampant pollution that has killed thousands of more...

Toxic tea claims three lives

LAHORE: Three members of the same family died and three others were hospitalised after drinking poisonous tea in village Chak No 148 10-R near...