KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Friday destroyed around 800 shisha or glass hookahs, equipment and tobacco confiscated by their vigilance teams during various raids over the past two weeks on shisha parlours and bars in a bid to cleanse the area of this health hazard...
The rows of sparkling green and silver, blue and silver, yellow and silver, and black and silver shisha hookahs at Defence Authority Country and Golf...
The Russian Football Union (RFU) is warning players against drinking “exotic tea” or smoking shisha pipes as it tries to avoid any doping cases ahead of its home World Cup...
The RFU also advises players “not to consume exotic tea,” to avoid smoking shisha, and to be wary of possibly contaminated meat from China or South America...
The federal government will act to ban thousands of flavors used in e-cigarettes, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, responding to a recent surge in underage vaping that has alarmed parents, politicians and health authorities nationwide...
”The Food and Drug Administration will develop guidelines to remove from the market all e-cigarette flavors except tobacco, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters during an...
HANAU: A shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city of Hanau, police said on Thursday, before apparently killing himself and his mother...
The rampage started at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Wednesday at a shisha bar in the Heumarkt area of central Hanau, a city some 20 kilometres east of Frankfurt...
The presence of World Health Organisation (WHO) officials has also played a role in the decrease in the prevalence of tobacco in the city...
WHO officials have easy access to various areas and can move about freely in the city due to better security, compared to the rest of the country...
Hailed first as the country's Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in multinational IT firms and their monied executives, today Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success ? it's a city overflowing with garbage, its infrastructure and waste collection services unable to keep up with decades of unchecked growth...
Located on a plateau and blessed with a relatively cool climate, the city is dotted with public parks and...
LONDON: Manchester City turned on the style to dismantle West Ham United 4-0 and revive their fading Premier League title aspirations as Manchester United’s hopes suffered a potentially fatal blow with a goalless home draw against struggling Hull City on Wednesday...
City produced a scintillating first-half display, scoring three times before the break through Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva and new boy Gabriel Jesus, before Yaya Toure’s...
KARACHI: With temperatures rising in the city, it wouldn’t be surprising to see only a few leaving their homes to attend any event but by the evening considerable number of people had gathered to see the public space luminous with art installations and performers entertaining audiences...
A joint effort of the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) and ‘I AM Karachi’, the Karachi City of Lights Festival brought a glowing radiance to...
KARACHI: A noisy protest by members of opposition parties on Tuesday forced Mayor Wasim Akhtar to prorogue the City Council session in less than 10 minutes after the house passed a single resolution relating to a trivial issue...
He said the elected mayor of the city, unfortunately, showed that he could not run the KMC even at par with the efficiency of the administrators of the recent past...
KARACHI: City School PAF Chapter (Blue) proved their superiority by outplaying rivals in both junior (schools) and senior (colleges) categories to win the Karachi Girls Netball Cup here at the PSB Coaching Centre on Thursday...
In the junior (schools) category, the thrilling final was played between City School PAF Chapter (Blue) and Habib Girls School teams which was won by City School 7-6 to become the champions of Karachi Girls...
KARACHI: The city council on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the Sindh and federal governments immediately sanction at least Rs500 billion as a joint package for Karachi’s development...
“Karachi is a huge metropolis...
Karachi has been named among the least safe cities of the world in a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) — the research and analysis division of The Economist Group...
Asia and the Middle East and Africa dominate the bottom of the index as Dhaka, Yangon and Karachi are at the bottom of the list...
The more developed a city, the more sophisticated and expanded an infrastructure network it needs to maintain its growth momentum...
Urban economists, however, lament the low level of current investment for development of civic facilities in Karachi which hosts the country’s premier financial and capital markets and is a major commercial and industrial hub and a port city...
KARACHI: A panel discussion on the recently held first Karachi Biennale (KB) took place at the Amin Gulgee Gallery on Thursday...
Answering the question about how she saw KB 17, Ms Afroze said she came to Karachi in the 1970s when there were not many art galleries but there were individuals such as Ali Imam, Bashir Mirza, Kohari and Sadequain who had open minds...
KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that Karachi will carry on its progress towards becoming a smart city on the lines of Singapore, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid and Stockholm...
“Municipal governments need such support especially with the rapid growth of urbanisation in most megacities of the world,” said the mayor of Karachi on Monday while speaking to the media at his office after returning home from the Russian city, Ulyanovsk,...