SCOTLAND’S national musical instrument, the bagpipe entered the Uttarakhand hills through army troupes stationed in Garhwal and Kumoan during the British period...
The wind instrument has intermingled with traditional drums of Uttarakhand such as ‘Dhol’ and ‘Damau’ to add melody to the Uttarakhand folk music...
With the food industry in Pakistan experiencing an exponential boom in the past few years, it's no shocker that everyone has became a food critic from behind their monitors...
SWOT's Guide for Karachi's Restaurants & Cafes or Karachi Food Diary are not alien terms for most...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan can achieve food security through sustainable food production, food experts at a lecture titled ‘Food Security and Need for Good Agricultural Practices in Crop Production’ said on Monday...
“Food security is one of the bigger challenges facing the world today,” Charge d’ Affaires at the Embassy of the Netherlands Renate Pors said, adding that though the Netherlands was a small country, it focuses on achieving food...
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will declare Rawalpindi as the model city for food safety and measures will be taken so people can get quality food items in the market...
Talking to Dawn, PFA Chairman Umer Tanveer Butt said the provincial food authority was taking measures for provision of quality food to people including milk, meat and other edibles in the open market...
ISLAMABAD: The ministry of science and technology has decided to outsource inspection of the mandatory food and non-food items...
Currently, quality and standard of over 160 items are mandated for inspection to the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA), an attached department of the ministry...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index (FFPI) is the most reliable indicator of movements in international commodity prices...
Measured by this index, global food prices were up 33...
World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a 10-year peak, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday...
The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) also projected record global cereal production in 2021, but said this would be outpaced by forecast consumption...
ISLAMABAD: The head of legal department of Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), Barrister Asghar Khan, tendered his resignation on Monday after developing differences over issues relating to payment of capacity charges worth billions of rupees to independent power producers and transactions about new power projects on coal and liquefied natural gas...
PESHAWAR: The German Ambassador to Pakistan, Ms Ina Lepel, inaugurated the newly-upgraded radiology department at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) here on Tuesday...
The upgraded radiology department is funded by the Federal Republic of Germany through the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron), the Commissionerate of Afghan Refugees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and UNHCR under the joint government and the UN’s Refugee Affected...
WASHINGTON: US troops will begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year in an expansion of their current mission, which so far has been limited to instructing Interior Ministry national guard units, the State Department said on Friday...
This additional programme brings our total security assistance committed to Ukraine since 2014 to over $244 million,” State Department Mark Toner said...
ISLAMABAD: The postal department suffered a loss of Rs559 million due to fraud and misappropriation during the past five years...
WASHINGTON: The elevator brings visitors up out of the dull, beige maze of the US State Department’s bureaucratic warren and back in time to a hall lined with period decor recalling the era of the American Revolution...
Today, the reception area comprises 42 rooms covering 28,000 square feet on the seventh and eighth floors of the State Department’s Harry S Truman Building in downtown Washington’s Foggy Bottom district...
The Sindh Wildlife Department, working with game police on Thursday, arrested four poachers at Angri Lake near Nindo Shahar and recovered 70 migratory birds from their possession...
PESHAWAR: The Board of Governors of Hayatabad Medical Complex thumbed its nose at the health department after convincing Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to withdraw his own order of inquiry into the issue of a fake doctor at one of Peshawar’s largest public sector hospitals, according to sources...
Sources said that BoG of HMC approached the chief minister and informed him that the fake doctor had already been arrested after an internal...
LAHORE: Jail authorities across the country are giving remissions to thousands of murder, hurt and rape convicts which sources dealing with the subject say are in violation of law and orders by the Federal Shariat Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan...
Also read: What denies convicts compromise opportunityPunjab Prisons Department officials when contacted clarified that such prisoners were not being given any special remission...