DNA ISLAMABAD, SEPT 2 – Addressing the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change, Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman said, “The government had ordered that all brick kilns be converted to “zig-zag” technology, a design change that makes more efficient use of fuel but no deadline for the switch has been set. We were told that the government will give 1 crore per plant, depending on the size to install the zig zag. The federal government made the comm/itment to provide them with the moneyRead More

KARACHI : The election commission has started preparations for local government elections in Sindh this year with formation of committees for local bodies delimitation. The election commission has notified formation of the committees for delimitation of local government constituencies. The delimitation committee for each district will be comprised of three members and the District Election Commissioner will be convenor of the body, according to the notification. The Deputy Commissioner and District Education Officer or Taluka Education Officer will be other two members of the committee. The committee in the firstRead More

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, on Wednesday vowed to make Islamabad Pakistan’s first city where transport will be fully electric. While addressing a press conference here in Islamabad, the Fawad Chaudhry said that federal government will import 120 electric buses this year and local assembling of battery powered buses will start next year. “Electric buses will operate in Pakistan this year as the government is all set to import 120 buses,” said Fawad and added that domestic manufacturing of these buses will start in three yearRead More

ISLAMABAD : The Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) Aug 17 judgement of striking down the sugar inquiry commission and its report. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, allowed the relevant institutions to proceed with their investigation into the sugar scandal in compliance with the report. The court was hearing an appeal filed by the federal government through which it challenged the SHC verdict. It issued notices to 20 sugar mills to file their comments on the petition andRead More

DNA ISLAMABAD, SEPT 2 – Founder of Byonyks, the medical devices company that developed Pakistan’s first bloodless dialysis machine, Farrukh Usman called on Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque on Wednesday.   Farrukh Usman, a Harvard graduate has developed a painless and risk-free dialysis machine with the support of Ignite SEED funding and angel investors. Byonyks’ unique technology does not require extracting blood out of the human body to perform dialysis. Patients can perform bloodless dialysis at home without any supervision with protection from life threateningRead More