ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority Advisory Committee (IAC) on Tuesday approved water availability for the Rabi 2025-26 season, projecting an overall system shortage of 8%, despite the country experiencing heavy floods during the current year. The figure marks the lowest shortage in the past decade, according to officials. As a result, the anticipated provincial…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finalised a $3.5 billion financing agreement with six major international financial institutions for the development of the historic Reko Diq mining project in Balochistan – a milestone for one of the country’s most significant mineral ventures. According to official sources, the financing package includes commitments from leading global lenders such as the…
When it comes to scripted storytelling about unfathomable tragedy, immediacy is rarely an asset. It’s different for documentaries — immediacy and urgency can sometimes be the entire point — but narrative features or series about tragic events usually require the passage of some time to allow for perspective and development. Even then, I’m not sure…
ISLAMABAD: The chief military spokesperson has said Chinese weapon systems deployed during Pakistan’s four-day military conflict with India in May performed “exceptionally well”. “Of course, lately, recent Chinese platforms, they [Chinese weapon systems] have demonstrated exceptionally well,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said in an interview with Bloomberg….
American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can…
One of Australia’s biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard. Optus’ emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, which has been linked to four deaths, including that of an…
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HYDERABAD: After Karachi, dairy and cattle farm owners in Hyderabad are also preparing to sharply increase the price of milk by Rs50 to Rs60 per litre, blaming rising production and transportation costs for the move. Speaking to Daily Express, Hyderabad Retail Dairy Sellers Welfare Association General Secretary Nasir Ghori confirmed that, given the current inflation,…
LAHORE: A biodiversity survey is under way in Punjab, covering the province’s wildlife, flora, and fauna under the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) National Survey Programme. After completing assessments of terrestrial and aquatic reptiles, experts say that nearly 90 per cent of the flora survey has also been finalised, while the migratory bird…
