A boy receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan April 9, 2018. — Reuters Global health officials said polio eradication remains achievable despite a 30% budget cut, pledging to focus resources on high-risk areas and integrated vaccination efforts. The budget of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI),…
A woman mixes a bottle of baby formula May 19, 2022. — Reuters Minister of State for National Health Services Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath said the country’s economy is bearing an additional strain due to the consumption of formula milk, asserting that breast milk is the optimal choice for infants. Addressing a seminar in Islamabad,…
A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. — Reuters OpenAI on Tuesday launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser built around its chatbot that aims to loosen Google Chrome’s tight grip on the market. “This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT,” OpenAI chief…
Female Polio worker administering polio drops to children at Warsak road during anti-polio vaccination campaign in Peshawar on September 9, 2024. — APP A new case of wild poliovirus (WPV1) has been confirmed in district Torghar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad,…
The Artemis 2 Orion crew and service modules sit inside the Operations & Checkoput Building during a Nasa media day event at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, March 7, 2025. Nasa’s top official on Monday said the US space agency was opening up the contract for its Artemis 3 astronaut moon…
A logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Paris, France, March 20, 2024. — Reuters Amazon’s AMZN.O cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with…
People visit Badshahi Mosque amid heavy smog in Lahore, on November 9, 2024. — AFP As temperatures drop, Lahore ranked as the world’s most polluted major city on Monday morning, with air quality falling to “very unhealthy” levels, according to Swiss monitor IQAir. Around 8:00am, the city’s AQI⁺ was 297, while PM2.5 concentrations reached 222.5…
Pakistan launches its first Hyperspectral Satellite HS-1 from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, October 19, 2025. — Screengrab via Geo News KARACHI: Pakistan has launched its first hyperspectral satellite, HS-1, from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre (JSLC), with live scenes of the mission broadcast from the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) complex in…
Anti-smog operation under way in Kahna, Lahore. — X/ Marriyum Aurangzeb/screengrab LAHORE: Anti-smog guns lowered Kahna’s Air Quality Index (AQI) from 666 to 170 in the first operation of its kind in Punjab, provincial senior minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Saturday. Taking to her X handle, the Punjab’s senior minister called the experiment a “remarkable…
A nurse prepares an injection of the influenza vaccine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, January 10, 2013. — Reuters Winter edges in and, like clockwork, Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) step back into the spotlight. According to CNN, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects 2025–26 peak hospitalisations…