Month: May 2020

Pakistan Combats Massive Unemployment By Hiring People to Plant 10 Billion Trees

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Though this period of uncertainty and loss has been challenging for people around the world, we’ve been able to focus on moments of compassion, renewal, and persistence to help us through the coronavirus pandemic. Every story of an animal species returning to its habitat (which is now devoid of industrial traffic) can uplift us even in our most isolated moments. One of these optimistically faith-restoring projects comes out of Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan, who launched the 10 Billion Trees Tsunami initiative in 2018 to help the country counter the…

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Govt to present next year’s budget on June 5

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Expenditure target for FY21 to be fixed at Rs10.4tr –Rs600bn to be spent on development projects; Rs200bn on corona-related programmes ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to present the budget for fiscal year 2020-21 on June 5, it was learnt on Friday. According to sources, the finance ministry has recently given a presentation to the prime minister with regard to next fiscal year budget, wherein he was informed that the next year’s budget would be presented in the first week of June and for this purpose, the ministry’s preparations were in…

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Five million babies expected to be born in Pakistan in 9 months since Covid-19 outbreak: Unicef

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The report also warned that lockdown measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus may cause disruptions in life-saving health services “putting millions of pregnant mothers and their babies at great risk”. “The continuing rapid spread of Covid-19 across South Asia means new mothers and newborns will be greeted by harsh realities, including global containment measures such as lockdowns and curfews, health centres overwhelmed with response efforts, supply and equipment shortages, and a lack of sufficient skilled birth attendants as health workers […] are redeployed to treat Covid-19 patients.…

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CNG, Electricity & Gas Prices to Get a Major Cut as RLNG Prices Reduced by 20%

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The government has reduced the prices of re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) by 21.63% or $2.0729/mmbtu for Sui Northern Gas Company (SNGPL) and 18.9% or 1.8061/mmbtu for end consumers of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) for May. According to the notification issued by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), the RLNG prices were decreased for the consumers of both the state owned gas distribution companies for the month of May. Due to the lockdown in the country with significant reduction in the international prices of Brent Oil, the prices…

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Eight out of 10 people in Karachi know someone who has lost their job or business during lockdown, says study

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A study conducted in Karachi shows that eight out of 10 people know someone who has lost their job or business during the preventive lockdown against COVID-19, while three out of 10 are now in need of financial assistance to run their daily lives. Pulse Consultant, a leading marketing and social research firm, conducted an in-depth study through the computer-assisted telephone interviewing technique with 1,000 respondents residing in all the six districts of the city. The study was conducted in two phases — April 16 to April 18 (477 interviews)…

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