With no ground-level air-quality monitoring equipment of international standard functioning in any city of Pakistan, implementing these air-quality targets will be near impossible...
Imported, hand-held air-quality monitoring devices are being used by “some environment consultants and industry to monitor industrial emissions,” says Rafay Alam, vice-president, Pakistan Environmental Law Association...
STANBUL: An aeroplane cleaner at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport died of injuries suffered in an explosion near a parked aircraft on Wednesday, a Turkish news agency said...
The cause of the blast, which also injured a second cleaner, was not clear...
AJDOVSCINA: Ultra-light, fast and cheap: more than a century after the Wright brothers flew the world’s first powered aircraft, a small Slovenian company now hopes to revolutionise the aviation industry with its award-winning electric planes...
Pipistrel’s pioneering Taurus Electro is seen as a breath of fresh air in a sector responsible for 13 per cent of CO2 emissions from all transport sources
Chinese banks are hiring blockchain experts as the government pushes use of the technology behind bitcoin to increase transparency and combat fraud in its financial sector...
Lenders have struggled for years with outdated and disparate technology
Hathi told Reuters the NARSS questionnaire contained leading queries about toilet usage that may have influenced respondents, and the government ignored suggestions aimed at fixing queries...
Such coercion, sanitation experts say, discourage honest answers about toilet usage as villagers fear reprisals...
TOKYO: Japan is trying an unconventional way to impress visitors to their country with both their technology and their gracious hospitality — a toilet “gallery” where it’s just fine to touch, and sample, the exhibits...
Toto, Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer, plans to soon open a high-tech bathroom “gallery” in the departures section of Tokyo’s Narita international airport...
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping has called for continued efforts to upgrade the country’s toilets as part of an ongoing “toilet revolution” campaign...
Why has China started this campaign, and why has China’s top leader personally spoken out on this seemingly petty issue? To understand it better, it is necessary to look into what Chinese toilets were in the past and the far-reaching impact of the toilet renovation...
An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors...
The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled on Friday in favour of the woman, who argued that her husband's failure to provide an indoor toilet during their five years of marriage amounted to cruelty...
If need be, he wouldn’t hesitate to pick up a shovel or a pickaxe to dig up soil to make a toilet for his fellow human beings...
This is exactly what happened during a promotional campaign tour for his forthcoming film, Toilet Ek Prem Katha...
NEW DELHI: Angered by his claim that far too many Indian institutions and places were named after the Nehru-Gandhi family, Congress workers have called a public toilet in Allahabad after movie actor Rishi Kapoor, local reports said on Thursday...
“Some Congress workers, from the youth wing of the party, hung a poster, naming (a) public toilet in the Shivaji Park area after the Bollywood film actor and inviting the people to use the...
STOCKHOLM: The pilot of a Swedish domestic flight used an axe to pry open a toilet door after a drunk passenger locked himself just before landing, Swedish police said on Thursday...
Airline regulations do not allow passengers to be in the toilet during landing...
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SAHIWAL: A public school headmistress tortured a Class II student for allegedly using her toilet in an emergency...
On Thursday morning at school, she wanted to use a toilet and in the urgency she used the headmistress’s toilet as the other washrooms were non-functional...
PESHAWAR: An app is going to be launched on Nov 19 to help people, particularly tourists, find public toilets across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province...
This was announced by Imranullah Mohmand, assistant coordinator of water and sanitation services cell (W&SC) of local government department, while briefing Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Science and Technology, Kamran Bangash, here
A failing domestic cricket system? Draft selection to the rescue...
The draft system of selection has been a hit with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as its use in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), Pakistan Cup and now the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy shows...