Today, Jaan Pakistan, an award-winning social startup, researching and manufacturing affordable energy solutions, is turning this ambition into a reality...
Jaan Pakistan’s primary research initiative is to indigenise well-established renewable energy and to spread these technologies across Pakistan’s off-grid communities...
ISLAMABAD: After holding two separate meetings with Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood and other officials of the education ministry, the teaching and non-teaching staff on Sunday announced that the boycott of classes would continue until the government revoked Section 166 of the Local Government Act...
On the other hand, due to closure of all 390 schools of Islamabad, around 200,000 students have been out of school for the last one...
What I like about Italian cooking is its simplicity and its use of fresh ingredients...
Giorgio Locatelli, owner of the Michelin-starred Locanda Locatelli, star of TV cooking programmes, and author of several cookbooks, is an expert on olives, and claims that Sicily produces the best ones...
“I have grown up in Pakistan and these are not entirely unfamiliar areas...
Now, I’ve got a well-organised team at Xander’s cooking the food for me...
KARACHI: Don’t ponder too much over the screens and drapes, the aroma of delicious snacks should be enough an explanation about what’s cooking inside...
When my grandmother, who was in-charge of the entire project, finally decreed that they were ready, preparation began for the actual cooking...
Another case of all night cooking took place in Muharram; especially when it occurred in the winters...
KARACHI: A Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) team raided a ghee and oil factory in Korangi on Monday, seized a large quantity of products prepared there by using substandard ingredients, and sealed the factory...
No quality control system as per the Pakistan Standards specifications was found at the factory...
KARACHI: Prices of ghee and cooking oil have surged by Rs30-50 on a five-kilogram carton in the provincial capital, with retailers blaming manufacturers who in turn blame costlier palm oil and an appreciating dollar...
In contrast, the average increase in prices of the two commodities all over the country came to Rs12-15 a kg during the past year, said an official of Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers’ Association (PVMA)...
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan on Monday withdrew the Vegetable Ghee and Cooking Oil Companies (Cost Accounting Records) Order 1990, and also issued a circular requiring appointment of QCR-rated auditors for performance of cost audit...
The 1990 order required companies in ghee and cooking oil sector to maintain cost records...
Ihave always wondered the science involved behind all the food that we eat, how it is grown or made, what processes it involved and can we experiment with it? There is a website that has answers to most of these questions and much more to learn — Science of cooking...
Science of cooking will leave you scratching your head on knowing the simple science behind your favourite food items like egg, bread, pickles, meat, candies, etc... ...
Here I am, very near San Francisco at my son Shakir and his wife Sheila’s home, and have just finished cooking a large pot of aloo gosht...
Although he spends at least a fortnight in Pakistan every two months, Shakir still misses desi food when he’s here...
ABBOTTABAD: The food department and police on Sunday sealed a factory and arrested four persons for allegedly making cooking oil from intestines and animal waste...
The raiding team accompanied by Abbottabad Tehsil Nazim Mohammad Ishaque also recovered a huge quantity of cooking oil and animal waste from the factory located in Salhad area...
Chinese-styled chickenIngredientsChicken ½ kgWhite pepper powder ¼ tspBlack pepper powder ¼ tspSalt to tasteGinger-garlic paste 1tbspWorcestershire sauce 1tbspOyster sauce 1tbspHoney ¼ cupCornflour 4tbspEgg 1Green onion 1Oil for fryingOil 3tbspWater ½ cupMethodCut chicken into four pieces...
Marinate chicken with salt, pepper and cornflour
ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands hosted a live cooking demonstration, tasting, and discussion on salt tolerant potatoes at the Serena Hotel...
The event was held with the support of the Securing Water for Food Program - a combined effort by USAID, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs that has tested salt tolerant potato varieties in Pakistan with...
KARACHI: The price of one-kg ghee and one-litre cooking oil pouches have been increased by Rs2-10 in the wake of rising trend in palm oil rates on the world markets...
They said as per the quality of various brands, some manufacturers have pushed up price of ghee by Rs8 per kg and Rs10 per litre in cooking oil...