Pakistan is facing a severe water crisis, with the agricultural industry looking at deeper impacts, in the aftermath of India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam massacre in which Islamabad-backed terrorists gunned down 26 people, mostly tourists. Pakistan’s Indus River System Authority (IRSA) reported discharging 11,180 cusecs of additional…
Representative image (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel recommended that the benefits under the central income support scheme (PM-Kisan) be extended to farm labourers, noting that nearly 55 per cent of the country’s population is engaged in the farm sector but not all as landowners.Currently, only landholder farmer families receive an annual Rs…
Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Trump began making deep cuts to agencies and programs that play critical roles in human health, slashing funding for medical research, halting global health aid and firing scores of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the campaign to downsize government, which has…