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Two labourers die of toxic gas in sewerage lines

  • ISLAMABAD, (APP): Two labourers have died while cleaning the sewerage lines near Korangi Mehran Town on Wednesday. One of the labourers entered the area but went unconscious due to the toxic gas, labourers were shifted to Jinnah Hospital in critical condition but could not survived, reported a private news channel. The second labourer entered in […]

  • Approx.62,651 nurses working in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): At least 62,651 nurses were currently working in the country who were taking training from registered 72 centres in Punjab,59 in Sindh, 12 in Balochistan and 19 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to report issued by World Health Organization (WHO), United State stood on first position with 26,69,603 number of nurses,reported a private news […]

  • India making Kashmir institutions redundant: Mirwaiz

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): Chairman of his own Hurriyet forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that New Delhi is making institutions of the territory redundant. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was reacting to the Indian Supreme Court ruling, which held that Indian states including occupied Kashmir cannot conduct their own entrance examination for medical courses, KMS reported. “India is […]

  • Hanging of Bangladesh’s JI leader mourned in IOK

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): Thousands of people offered funeral prayers in absentia across the Valley for Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh leader, Motiur Rehman Nizami, who was executed by Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. Socio-religious and Hurriyet organizations organized funeral prayers for the executed leader all across the Valley,reported KMS. Hundreds of people assembled in Saraiballa near Iqra Masjid, Old […]

  • Men who eat soy may have lower lung cancer risk

    ISLAMABAD,(APP): Men who do not smoke and eat a lot of soy may have a lower risk of lung cancer, according to a new study. Soy contains isoflavones, which act similarly to the hormone estrogen, and may have anti-cancer qualities in hormone-related cancers of the breast and prostate, BBC health reported. Cells in the lung […]

  • Two Ordinances laid in Senate

    ISLAMABAD,(APP): Two Ordinances were laid on Wednesday in the Upper House of Parliament as required by clause (2) of Article 89 of the Constitution of Pakistan. Two Ordinances laid in the House included the Credit Bureaus (Amendment) Ordinance 2016 and the State Life Insurance Corporation (Re-organization and Conversion) Ordinance 2016. Earlier, the Chair admitted an […]