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After examining the use of water by the oil and gas industry during Gavin Newsom’s tenure as governor, Food & Water Watch research has found that on Newsom’s watch the industry used more than 3 billion gallons of freshwater for drilling operations that could have been diverted for household use. “Fossil fuel extraction not only hastens climate change and endangers the lives of frontline communities,” said Alexandra Nagy, director of Food & Water Watch’s California campaigns. “It also takes water from Californians struggling through one of the hottest and driest…

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The Leading Pakistani Scientist Prof. Tasawar Hayat Received The Obada-Prize Distinguished Researcher (International) 2021 Award For His Remarkable Work In The Field Of Natural Sciences, Mathematics. Prof. Hayat is a Distinguished Professor at Quaid-I-Azam University. He is Secretary General at Pakistan Academy of Sciences. His work contributions include the developments of fundamental diversified models for modified Darcy’s law, peristalsis, Cattaneo-Christov theory, fractional calculus, complex network systems and climate change thermodynamics. Prof. Hayat is the recipient of forty two awards and honors including (Hilal, Sitara and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) by the President of…

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Beating other regional players like Bangladesh and India, Pakistan emerged as the ‘Manpower Export Leader’ in the region as around 224,705 workers proceeded to various countries for various job assignments in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Bangladesh sent 217,699 workers and India 94,145 for employment purpose during the same period, said the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and HR Development while making the comparison in a tweet. “Pakistan becomes a ‘Manpower Export Leader’ in the region despite the pandemic, leaving behind India and Bangladesh in the export of manpower in 2020,”…

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Pakistan reported 1,019 new coronavirus cases and 34 deaths during the last 24 hours, which is the lowest number recorded since the country was hit by the third Covid-19 wave this year. The country’s positivity ratio stands at 2.59%, while there are 41,726 active and 2,676 critical cases. During the last 24 hours, 39,214 people were tested for the novel virus, out of which 1,019 tested Covid-19 positive. So far, Pakistan has conducted 13,857,250 tests, out of which 942,189 came out positive. During the last 24 hours, 34 people also…

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Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar has disclosed that the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) recently severed additional supply of electricity to Karachi Electric (KE) due to non-payment. He shared this information at a recent meeting presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan when issues related to KE came under discussion. Well-informed sources told Business Recorder that supply to KE was restored after payment of about Rs3 billion to the government and now both the government and the KE are negotiating on various clauses of the new Power Purchase Agreement…

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