Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sardar Ali Amin Khan Gandapur has taken a principled decision to arrange mass marriage of four thousand deserving girls from the social security fund for which a grant of Rs 2 lakh will be provided per girl. A meeting regarding the use of social security funds was held under the…
Karachi: The maximum temperature was recorded at 35.5 degrees on Friday in Shahr-Quaid, but the intensity of the heat was felt higher than the actual temperature, the mercury may touch 42 degrees on Saturday. Due to the ongoing heat wave in the city since May 29, the humidity in the air increased to 65% on…
A new study suggests that consumption of flavonoid-rich foods can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 28 percent. Type 2 diabetes is considered a major threat to public health worldwide. At present, more than 415 million people are suffering from this disease, while 40 million deaths occur due to this disease worldwide. In…
Photo: File After the environmental samples of polio in three districts of Swabi, Swat and Kohat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came positive, the health department has decided to start anti-polio campaign in 9 districts. A 5-day anti-polio campaign will start from Monday in 9 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Peshawar. During the campaign, more than 35…
Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we will no doubt see what we saw happen in the north in the first months of the war”. Mr. Hollingsworth recently spent 10 days in Gaza. Speaking from Jerusalem, he told journalists in New York that people in the…
Only three field hospitals are operating in Rafah in southern Gaza, one of which is only functioning partially, and all of these facilities are overwhelmed and undersupplied, OCHA said, with the seven-month-long war severely impacting civilians and the infrastructure they depend on for healthcare. The UN humanitarian aid agency said the Malnutrition Stabilisation Centre in…
Allegations of responsibility point to both armed groups and State actors. “While armed groups are presumed responsible for the vast majority of incidents and victims and should be held accountable, I am also deeply disturbed that security and defence forces and their auxiliaries, the Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie, allegedly carried out wanton…
At 10:45 PM local time on 27 May, the DPRK, also known as North Korea, conducted what it described as “the launch of reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1-1 aboard the new-type satellite carrier rocket” from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. According to the DPRK, the launch failed “due to the air blast of the new-type satellite carrier…
The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) follows the finding that more than four in five children “did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days” ahead of a food insecurity survey. Hunger snapshot “These are children under five who are not getting food all day,” said WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret…
The annual AI for Good Summit has been described as the leading UN platform promoting this technology to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities. Frederic Werner, Head of Strategic Engagement at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) underscored the need to develop standards to combat misinformation and deepfakes. “You…
