Seeing the increase in plastic waste on the planet, experts have introduced a technology, thanks to which plastic can be converted into valuable industrial nanoparticles. Experts have named it Flash Joule technology. This technology, developed by scientists at Rice University, is the brainchild of Dr. K. Win Wyse, the first to use flash joule heating…
Flash Joule technology is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly process that can turn waste plastics into valuable and useful components. Photo. File Houston, USA: Every minute plastic waste is being piled up on the planet, only a small amount of it is being recycled. But now, thanks to a new technology, it can be converted…
The medical equipment will be introduced after the approval of the drug regulatory authority, Dr. Shahid. Photo: File Karachi: For the first time in Pakistan, the production of advanced medical equipment including medical devices has been started at the local level. In the future, instead of importing, other medical devices will be used, including locally…
The Doha Political Declaration was adopted to a round of applause in the plenary hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre, where LDC5 has been under way since 5 March. Ushering in new era of solidarity, and enormous socio-economic benefits for world’s 46 least developed countries, today’s action comes nearly one year after the DPoA…
Notwithstanding progress in increasing enrolment rates for primary education, 16.2 per cent of children of primary school age were out of school in least developed countries (LDCs) in 2019 and almost half of children out of school worldwide are in those same countries, with girls, children with disabilities and other children in vulnerable situations disproportionately…
File photo Despite the modern advances in medical science, TB (Tuberculosis) is still a deadly disease. The disease continues to cost lives in many countries, but a new vaccine developed to prevent the disease has given hope for the future of effective TB treatment. Is. Experts from Cornell University in the United States have developed…
Cornell University experts have developed a new compound against TB which has been tested on mice. Photo: File New York: Despite the latest advances in medical science, TB still exists as a terrible disease and takes its toll, especially in poor countries. However, now with the newly discovered compound, there is hope for its effective…
On Monday at the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), a series of roundtable discussions saw global leaders, ci confront two of the most fundamental hurdles facing LDCs: how to make better use of science, technology and innovation (STI), and how to promote structural transformations that can help overcome the real impediments…
Three years after the world began its epic struggle against COVID-19, the least developed countries (LDCs) – already grappling with severe structural impediments to sustainable development and highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks – have found themselves stranded amid a rising tide of crisis, uncertainty, climate chaos and deep global injustice. “Systems are stretched…
“Countries with the least need support the most. And you need it now. You represent one in eight people on earth. But your countries are trapped in vicious cycles that make development difficult, if not impossible,” Mr. Guterres told the Summit of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), in Doha, Qatar Today’s Summit of Heads of State…
