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Unable to tackle locust swarms, Sindh minister suggests Karachiites to mak
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 12 (ANI): Karachiites are witnessing swarms of locusts descending upon their city from Balochistan's coastal areas. Taking a jibe over the situation, Sindh minister of agriculture Ismail Rahu has asked the people to take advantage of the situation calmly by preparin
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Pakistan: Punjab govt. forms 102 special team to control locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has formed 102 special teams to monitor the possibility of a locust attack on cotton crops in the southern region of the province.
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Pakistan takes steps to control locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The Provincial Secretary Agriculture, Wasif Khursheed, on Saturday said that teams have been formed to control the latest locust threat which has put thousands of acres of cotton crop in the line of devastation in Pakistan.
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Rajasthan: Authorities on alert after locust attack warning
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Jun 24 (ANI): In the wake of a locust attack threat from across the Pakistan border, authorities here have gone on an alert to deal with a swarm of the tropical grasshoppers entering India since the insects can devastate standing crops.
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Locusts from Iran endanger cotton crops in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], Jun 24 (ANI): Things don't seem to be looking up for Pakistan's economy, as a locust attack from Iran has put around 2,00,000 acres of cotton crop in the line of devastation in Sindh.
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Indian, Pak officials hold discussion over locust outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Jun 21 (ANI): Indian and Pakistani officials have held a discussion over an outbreak of locusts, believed to be the worst since 1993, and possible joint action to tackle it.
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PM Modi posts another yoga video
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 17 (ANI): Ahead of the International Yoga Day on June 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday tweeted another yoga video that demonstrates 'shalabhasana' also known as 'the locust posture'.
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Rajasthan: LWO gears up to tackle locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], May 31 (ANI): After sightings of locusts in villages around Rajasthan's Jaisalmer near the border with Pakistan, the Jodhpur-headquartered Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) is gearing up to tackle any major attack by the tropical grasshopper.
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