Islamabad, Oct 14 /DNA/ : COMSTECH in partnership with UPSIGN, SAWIE, ICCFS, IFS & Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) celebrated world food day. The slogan for world food day this year was “Leave No One Behind”. To mark this year’s World Food Day, keynote talks and panel discussions were arranged with experts from all over the world with several years of experience in Agri-food research systems. The webinar discussed the key challenge faced by our food system from climate change and other threats. The experts said that our food system isRead More

ISLAMABAD, OCT 14 /DNA/ – For the first time Election Commission of Pakistan in collaboration with NADRA has made it mandatory with visits of mobile registration vans (MRVs) to ensure registration of transgender persons and people-with-disabilities at their doorstep to make political processes inclusive. This was stated by Nighat Siddique, Director General Gender Affairs, ECP here at Lok Virsa during the 2nd day of 15th Annual Rural Women Conference organized by PODA – Pakistan in Islamabad.. However, there are other facilities like preferential voting procedure and postal ballot facility whichRead More

ISLAMABAD, OCT 14 (DNA) — The country’s oil refineries have suggested petroleum products’ (POL) prices for the next 15 days based on the average price of crude oil in the market.  Sources said that the refineries had proposed Rs10.78 per liter cut in the petrol price, which if implemented, would lead to drop in the price of one liter of petrol from the present Rs224.80 per liter to Rs214.02 per liter. Similarly, they said that the refineries had suggested Rs11. 57 per liter hike in the price of High Speed DieselRead More

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: After an almost day-long outage, the Power Division on Friday said that electricity transmission and generation have been restored across the country adding that only routine power load-shedding is being carried. “Electricity transmission and generation have been restored across Pakistan including restoration of full supply from national grid to Karachi,” the division said in a statement. Power outage yet to be controlled Earlier today, sources within the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) had said that the countrywide power crisis, caused due to an “accidental fault” in the national grid,Read More

ISLAMABAD, OCT 14 (DNA) — Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif met with President of Belarus, H.E Alexander Lukashenko, on the sidelines of 6th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Astana, the PM office said on Friday. During the meeting, the two leaders reviewed ongoing bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual interest, according to an official statement. President Lukashenko said that Belarus would provide all possible support towards rehabilitation  of people affected by the climate induced floods, thatRead More