While hearing a case related to environmental pollution, the Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday ordered to close all the educational institutions in the provincial capital for two days in a week. The court ordered the administration to issue a notification for the two-day closure of the educational ...

Air quality in Lahore, the cultural hub and capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, continues to worsen as it has been ranked the first most polluted city in the world, according to data released by an international monitoring agency. November is usually the worst month for pollution across north ...

LAHORE: A multinational telecommunication company, Nokia, has entered into an agreement with the Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) for setting up a pilot project of ‘Smart City’ in Lahore. “During an event held at the Pakistan Pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai on Sunday, the PSCA ...

Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has taken important steps to contain smog as all public and private schools will remain to reclose for three days a week in Lahore link. On the direction of CM Buzdar, Relief Commissioner Punjab Babar Hayat Tarar has issued a notification that schools in ...

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Thursday said that introducing modern and environmental-friendly transport system through electric vehicles was of unprecedented importance to efforts for coping with Pakistan’s air pollution woes and making ...

ISLAMABAD-Cognizant of the country’s existing and future energy needs, the Petroleum Division (PD), during the year 2020, has aligned its strategy to streamline the matters related to the oil and gas sector. It introduced the ease-of-doing-business plan and took radical measures to ensure ...

LAHORE: Punjab government is launching an unprecedented project in the housing sector under which 35,000 apartments will be constructed on 8 thousand kanals of land. In the first phase, 4,000 apartments are being set up in LDA City and this project will cost Rs 40 billion. Punjab Chief Minister ...

ISLAMABAD: In a bid to counter propaganda against Ravi Urban Development Project and Bundle Island Project, the federal cabinet has directed the ministers concerned to highlight the short-term and long-term benefits of the two important federal government initiatives. According to sources, the ...

LAHORE - Lahore topped the global ranking of cities with the worst air quality on Friday after air quality soared to ‘hazardous’ with an Air Quality Index (AQI) 489. According to the reports, Lahore had an air quality index of 489 on Friday, which is categorized as “very unhealthy”. Air ...

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced to relocate scheduled matches at the cricket headquarters in Lahore to Rawalpindi and Karachi due to poor air quality caused by smog. The cricket body said that the decision has been made by taking into “consideration the health and ...