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Pakistan records highest ever weekly inflation in decades amid calamitous
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday stated that the inflation measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) rose steeply in the previous week climbing to a record 45.5 per cent year-on-year in September, the highest level in a decade.
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Study reveals climate change-related incidents pose negative effects on ps
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): As the heavy monsoon rains and floods continue to play havoc with people's lives and resources in Pakistan, analysts have climate change produces negative effects on the psychological and reproductive health of women who bear the major brunt of disast
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Flood-hit Pakistan gets 50 trucks of vegetables from Iran, Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): Amid soaring prices of vegetables and food products in the country facing devastating floods, 50 trucks carrying vegetables from Iran and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan through the Taftan and Chaman borders.
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UN expresses concern over food security as Pak floods threaten Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 3 (ANI): The United Nations on Friday expressed concern over the worsening flood situation in Pakistan as it will threaten the food supply to crisis-ridden Afghanistan.
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Over 1/3 of Pakistan underwater amid its worst floods in history
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): More than one-third of Pakistan is underwater amid its worst floods in history, according to satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Pak Finance Minister Miftah Ismail hints at early exit, says 'may not have
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): Amid dissatisfaction within the new coalition government of Pakistan led by Shehbaz Sharif, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has hinted at his early exit, saying that although the coalition government has 13 months, he may not have that much time.
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Catastrophic floods affect 30 out of 34 provinces of Afghanistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 2 (ANI): Flash floods in Afghanistan have affected more than 100,000 people this year, devastating 30 of the country's 34 provinces, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' (OCHA) report.
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Kumaraswamy slams Karnataka CM on encroachment of Bengaluru Lake
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 2 (ANI): Amid the flood-like situation in Bengaluru, Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Friday hit back at Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and demand to issue a white paper on the encroachment of Bengaluru Lake and Rajkaluve.
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Pak Floods: Female survivors struggle for hygiene products, medical needs
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): As relief efforts for Pakistan flood victims continue, women and their needs have taken a backseat as many of them are forced to live under an open sky and feminine hygiene products and toilets are not a part of the conversation about relief items.
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About 8 lakh livestock lost in Pakistan floods
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): Over the past few weeks, torrential monsoon rains have broken a century-long record and dumped more than five times the 30-year average for rainfall in some provinces, killing more than 1200 people, including about 400 children.
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Pakistan faces acute shortage of medicine amid devastating flood
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): Following heavy rains and floods in Pakistan, close to five billion people are at risk of various diseases and medical experts and organizations have warned that medicines worth over a billion rupee are immediately needed in the affected areas.
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Bhagalpur villagers make boat to carry patient to hospital
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhagalpur (Bihar) [India], September 2 (ANI): With the lack of proper system to ferry patients to the hospital in a flood-like situation, a patient in Bihar had to be taken for a medical emergency in a makeshift boat on Friday.
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