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Gunmen open fires on Ghanaian doctor in Karachi Gunmen opened fire on a U.N. vehicle in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, seriously wounding a Ghanaian doctor who was part of a campaign to eradicate polio from Pakistan. The attack was a further blow to the three-day polio vaccination drive, which had already been stymied […]
Satellite to track Mars goes out of orbit NASA might not be able to continue getting real-time coverage of the decent of Mars rover ‘Curiosity’ into Gale Crater as the satellite that was supposed to track the task went out of orbit due to a manoeuvring system glitch last month. Engineers were able to recover […]
Polio campaign starts today The three-day national immunisation campaign against polio, during which 17.3 million children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio drops all over the province, will start from Monday (today). The Health Department had constituted more than 38,000 teams to achieve the target, a spokesman said on Sunday, adding […]
Hailstorms damage cotton fields in Xinjiang More than 50,000 mu (3,333 hectares) of cotton was damaged in hailstorms that swept through western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Friday and Saturday, said local authorities Sunday. A total of 50,110 mu of cotton plants and 1,000 mu of fruit trees were damaged in the western Xinjiang’s Awat […]
Young BMI players beat one of the best football clubs in the history of Islamabad to reach the final of the inter-city tournament. The Suzuki Swift Islamabad Soccer Cup, organized by the ‘Constructive Youth of Pakistan’, witnessed another shocking upset as the young players from BMI managed to beat one of the best sides in […]
Young doctors call the strike off The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab, has called off its strike and resumed treatment of patients in all departments of public sector hospitals in the province in compliance with orders of the Lahore High Court. “The normal functioning of indoor and outdoor wards resumed in hospitals on Monday”said YDA, Punjab, office-bearers including its president Dr Hamid Butt, […]
Students organize rally against Polio The rally culminated at Charbagh rural health centre after students, who were holing banners and placards inscribed with slogans, marched through various roads. Speaking on the occasion polio immunisation coordinator Dr Adnan Mughal said preparations for three-day polio vaccination drive, starting from July 16, had been finalised. He said if […]
Aliens are not little green men Aliens may not actually resemble the little green creatures Hollywood loves to portray them as. Rather, they are more likely to look like ‘giant jellyfish with orange bottoms’ , if a British space scientist is to be believed. "My vision of aliens is an inhumane, silicon-based life form that […]
Significant progress towards the goal of Universal Salt Iodisation Punjab Health Services Director General Dr Nisar Ahmed Cheema on Friday appreciated the role of media in ‘significant progress’ towards the goal of Universal Salt Iodisation (USI). Addressing a media dissemination seminar, he said media has been consistently highlighting the importance of micronutrients such as iodine, […]
Doctor’s strike on the high The Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued its strike on 19th consecutive day on Friday. The four doctors, allegedly involved in a child’s murder case, were presented before a court here in Lahore. The court extended their physical remand. Now the doctors are protesting against arrest of their four fellows in […]
Man caught smuggling heroin The Anti Narcotic Force arrested one person for attempting to smuggle a large amount of heroin. ANF officials deployed at Benazir International Airport said that Zulfiqar, a resident of Sargodha, was a passenger of Abu Dhabi flight and upon checking his luggage the ANF officials found 15 kilogram heroin. He was […]
Four doctors taken in custody These doctors and three others were accused of pulling a drip tube needle out of the vein of one-and-a-half-year old Fahad Hussain, resulting in his death on Sunday night. Young doctors gave this ‘treatment’ to all patients admitted to emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital and stopped work in protest […]
