Features Archives - Page 30 of 37 - Pakistan News International

Coronavirus: Latest global developments

Posted on November 15, 2021 by News Desk

Paris, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: – China donates 500,000 more vaccine doses to Syria – China donates 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to war-torn Syria, which has one of the world’s lowest inoculation rates and what the UN […]

PM’s Energy Program: 268 mini-macro hydro-power projects start power supply in KP

Posted on November 14, 2021 by News Desk

PESHAWAR, Nov 14 (APP):With significant decrease in mercury level in upper areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the demand of electricity has increased in Malakand and Hazara divisions where people start using electricity appliances as an alternate of gas for cooking and heating purposes. In KP’s upper […]

Delhi shuts schools as government considers ‘pollution lockdown’

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

New Delhi, Nov 13 (AFP/APP):New Delhi authorities announced Saturday a one-week closure of schools and said they would consider a “pollution lockdown” to protect citizens from toxic smog. “Schools will be shut so that children don’t have to breathe polluted air,” Delhi’s chief minister Arvind […]

Millions of diabetics can’t access the insulin they need: WHO

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (APP):The World Health Organization (WHO) has decried the “vast access gaps” in the availability of insulin, a bedrock medicine for the treatment of diabetes, even 100 years after it was discovered. In a report published on Friday to commemorate the milestone […]

How to boost serotonin and improve mood

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

ISLAMABAD, NOV 12 (Online): Foods, including salmon, eggs, spinach, and seeds are among those that help boost serotonin naturally. Serotonin is a chemical found in the brain, blood, intestines, and connective tissues of the human body. It causes blood vessels to contract, helps transmit information […]

Dewan asks UN Secretary General to take up issue of Junagadh

Posted on November 10, 2021 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, Nov 9 (APP):Dewan of Junagadh Sahibzada Sultan Ahmed in a letter to the Secretary General United Nations Antonio Guterres demanded a special session of the United Nations to rediscuss the issue of state of Junagadh for its resolution through pacific means. He stated in […]

PM’s food subsidy program: A historic initiative to ebb away inflation

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

By Fakhar Alam PESHAWAR, Nov 07 (APP):The coronavirus pandemic have killed over 5.04 million people while inflicting billions of dollars losses to the economies, food, tourism, hospitality industries and petroleum exports worldwide. Following lifting of the COVID-19 restrictions, the grim situation in most parts of […]

Algeria-Morocco: Decades of tensions

Posted on November 4, 2021 by News Desk

Algiers, Nov 3 (AFP/APP):As Algeria accused Morocco of killing three of its truck drivers on a desert highway, we look at the North African neighbours’ worsening relations. The disputed Western Sahara, which Rabat considers part of its kingdom but where Algeria backs the pro-independence Polisario […]

Shah Rukh Khan’s son persecuted in crusade against Bollywood’s Muslim superstar: Report

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

NEW YORK, Nov 03 (APP):The recent arrest of Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan, was aimed at bringing to heel the Bollywood superstar, a Muslim, for not aligning with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, according to a prominent international magazine. “The BJP has been at […]

Tree transplantation for Green Lung at Kidney Park

Posted on October 31, 2021 by News Desk

KARACHI, Oct 31 (APP):By Rafia Haider Ongoing efforts for successful transplantation of trees, exposed to possible destruction in Karachi, along with cultivation of numerous flowering and fruit trees, shrubs and plants at the Kidney Hill Park hold optimum chances of its being turned into a […]

Features