Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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Sailing in uncharted waters: Carefully navigating the Polio endgame
<p>In 1988, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a historic resolution to eradicate polio by the year 2000, resulting in the creation of the largest public–private partnership for health—the
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Population immunity against Serotype-2 Poliomyelitis leading up to the global withdrawal of the oral Poliovirus Vaccine: Spatio-temporal modelling of surveillance data
<p>Global withdrawal of serotype-2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV2) took place in April 2016. This marked a milestone in global polio eradication and was a public health intervention of unprecedented scale,
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India to speed up hydropower building on rivers flowing into Pakistan: source
India will accelerate its building of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday, in a move likely to aggravate already tense relations
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How India can leverage the Indus water treaty
What does the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) involve? Signed in 1960 after 10 years of negotiation, IWT has stood the test of political tensions better than everything else India and Pakistan have negotiated.
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Pakistan to launch remote sensing satellite in 2018
With space technology being used in the planning and monitoring of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) is set to launch
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Pakistan experiences severe climate change, govt seems unaware
Pakistan is amongst the top ten countries on the globe experiencing frequent and intense climate change events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, heavy rains, extremely high temperatures, etc. The
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Scores of turtle remains found along Sukkur lake
KARACHI: Dozens of freshwater turtles were found dead on Saturday along a lake in Sukkur where they were released a week ago, it emerged on Sunday. According to sources, scores of turtle remains were
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80pc Pakistanis drink contaminated water, Senate told
ISLAMABAD: More than 80pc Pakistanis consume contaminated and unsafe water, Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer informed the Senate on Tuesday.Responding a question from PPP Senator Sherry
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Asia-Pacific tagged as ‘hot spot for water insecurity’
Economies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot sustain their present dynamic growth “unless water is brought into the equation” as the region faces a “crisis” in securing and managing the prime resource.
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Three among 57 injured students critical as quake hits Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
At least 57 school students were injured when panic ensued in classrooms after a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district in Pakistan on Monday. The students were shifted to