KARACHI: Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is looking to enter the marine services business, official sources told Dawn on Saturday...
The national flag carrier has bid for two 75-tonne bollard pull tugs and two pilot boats that Karachi Port Trust (KPT) requires on chartering and hiring bases for a three-year period...
KARACHI: Karachiites will soon see five marine mammals, two pairs each of bottlenose dolphins and sea lions, and a beluga whale, in action at the Maritime Museum, where preparations are under way for the show likely to open on Aug 20...
Everything is new for them and they will take a week or so to feel comfortable, though the weather conditions here are similar to what we have back home these days,” explains Vladimir Pugovkin, the...
Artist, author and educator, Rumana Hussain says Karachi’s 87 metre-tall mural, Rising Blue depicts the city’s unique mangroves, striking coastline and alludes to the rising ocean...
“It is an awakening of the conscience to climate change,” Hussain, the founding executive member of I Am Karachi, tells thethirdpole...
WASHINGTON: A Muslim Marine saved the lives of more than 60 people in the Orlando massacre, the US media reported on Friday...
The reports said that New York native Imran Yousuf had joined the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as a security guard after retiring from the US Marine Corps...
AHMEDABAD: Indian scientists said on Thursday they had identified a prehistoric marine reptile fossil discovered in a western desert region known as the subcontinent’s Jurassic Park...
The 150-million-year-old marine reptile known as “ichthyosaur” is the first of its kind found in India and was unearthed by a team of local and German geologists...
PARIS: By pushing her maverick father out of the far-right party he founded four decades ago, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen is banking on an act of political patricide to ensure he does not end up ruining her bid for power...
But Marine, whose core strategy since taking over the party in 2011 involves making it more palatable to mainstream voters, was always going to have to find a way of silencing her father before the...
LONDON: A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern Ireland’s peace process...
RECENTLY I, with my other classmates, visited the Karachi International Container Terminal for a study tour that was organised by the Mehran University Institute of Science, Technology, and Development, Jamshoro...
KARACHI: How polluted our sea has become was indicated on Thursday when fishermen at sea around 270km south of Karachi caught a flat needlefish stuck in the handle of a plastic cup in their catch, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) reported...
“Continued dumping of plastic products in the terrestrial and marine environment has become a serious threat to animals and plants inhabiting coastal and offshore waters of...
KARACHI: Astola island, a major biodiversity hotspot and the largest island along Pakistan’s coast, was declared the country’s first marine protected area through a notification issued by the Balochistan government on Thursday...
It is home to several species of marine and terrestrial animals and plants...
NEW DELHI: India's top court on Monday granted an Italian marine detained over the 2012 killing of two fishermen off the coast of Kerala another six months at home to recover from a medical condition...
Massimiliano Lattore and his fellow marine Salvatore Girone shot the fishermen while serving as part of an anti-piracy mission off southern India in 2012...
KOROR: The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau created a vast marine sanctuary the size of Spain on Wednesday, banning fishing across the bulk of its waters to preserve the ocean for future generations...
Conservation efforts are underway in the Pacific to create a network of marine parks across the region to ensure one of the world’s last pristine ocean ecosystems is managed sustainably...
THE HAGUE: Italy on Wednesday launched a legal battle at an international tribunal to bring home an Italian marine, barred from leaving India after the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen who Rome says were mistaken for pirates...
Marine Salvatore Girone has been living in Italy’s embassy in New Delhi for several years and is banned from leaving the city pending resolution of a dispute which has soured bilateral ties...
VIRGINIA: November 8, 2016 will be a historic day for America...
While everyone is on the edge of their seats to find out which candidate will win the presidential election, 38-year-old Atif Qarni goes door-to-door in counties across swing-state Virginia, canvassing for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — the first woman in US history to achieve this status
BATON ROUGE: The black former Marine and Iraq war veteran who shot dead three police officers in the southern US city of Baton Rouge at the weekend specifically targeted the cops, officials said Monday...
But the weekend bloodshed in Baton Rouge kept the city -- and the country -- on edge...