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The Punjab Health Department on Saturday confirmed that 149 new cases of dengue were recorded across the province in the last 24 hours. A total of 997 new cases were identified over the past week, taking Punjab’s dengue tally for 2024 to 3,285. Rawalpindi remained the hardest hit reporting 134 cases, followed by Bahawalpur with three cases, and Lahore reporting two cases. Sheikhupura, Jhelum, Faisalabad, Attock, Kasur, Mianwali, Khanewal, Nankana Sahib, and Narowal each reported one case. Last week, the Punjab government declared a health emergency in Rawalpindi to curb the spike after 103 new cases were reported in the city amid fears of an outbreak of the disease. Meanwhile, the Punjab health minister on Thursday formed a district emergency response committee comprising national and provincial lawmakers in Rawalpindi to monitor the anti-dengue drive. The health department issued an advisory urging the public to maintain clean and dry surroundings to prevent the spread of the

The brutal wind and torrential rainfall of Hurricane Milton that killed 16 people in Florida this week were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists said on Friday. Global warming made wind speeds around 10 per cent stronger and rainfall greater by between 20pc and 30pc, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution. The group of climate scientists studies the role of climate change in fuelling extreme weather. Milton intensified from a Category 1 storm into a tempestuous Category 5 in less than 24 hours, feeding off record- and near-record-warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. It made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Previous scientific analyses have shown climate change has made such temperatures in the Gulf between 400 and 800 times more likely. This extra heat made Milton the third-fastest intensifying Atlantic hurricane on record, the US National Hurricane Centre said, with maximum sustained wind speeds reaching 180 mph (29

Rights activist Dr Mahrang Baloch was booked in a terrorism case over allegedly inciting people by levelling “allegations against security institutions”, it emerged on Saturday. Baloch is a leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), which has organised various sit-ins and protests in the past few months over enforced disappearances in Balochistan. On Tuesday, immigration authorities at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport had barred her from boarding a flight to New York, where she was scheduled to attend a Time magazine function. The activist had said she was due to attend the Time magazine’s gala for being featured on the Time100Next list. Claiming she was stopped by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Baloch had vowed to challenge the government’s decision to impose restrictions on her foreign travel in courts. The first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with Dawn.com , was registered by Malir district’s Quaidabad police on Friday on the co

The full court reference for outgoing Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has been scheduled for October 25, according to a letter from the Supreme Court registrar. The development emerged in a letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com , from Supreme Court Registrar Jazeela Aslam dated today to Supreme Court Bar Association President Shahzad Shaukat. Justice Mansoor Ali Shah is next in line to be the country’s top judge after CJP Isa’s retirement. More to follow. from The Dawn News - Home https://ift.tt/6tJPKHb

Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. “Hibakusha is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation. Witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict have dedicated their lives to the struggle for a nuclear-free world. “The Hibakusha help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons,” the committee said. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has regularly put focus on the issue of nuclear weapons, most recently with its award to the ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, who won the award in 2017. The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11

A junior doctor on hunger strike in India over the rape and murder of a fellow medic has been hospitalised with severe dehydration, authorities said on Friday. Aniket Mahato and six others began their hunger strike on Sunday, to protest against what they say are inadequate facilities and security for doctors, many of whom work long shifts in crowded, squalid hospitals. “When he was admitted he was severely dehydrated, pulse rate was very high and was in a very unstable condition,” Soma Mukhopadhyay, a professor at the hospital, said. His pulse, blood pressure and fluid levels had improved by Friday afternoon, she said but added more investigation was needed about other possible damage. Mahato, a junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, was taken to the hospital on Thursday night. The rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at the hospital has triggered a wave of protests by doctors across the country, demanding greater workplace safety for w

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Thursday said that sales tax evasion by companies was responsible for 50 per cent of tax leakage the government had estimated at Rs7 trillion previously. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the finance minister, along with Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Rashid Langrial, said that he wanted to address the “war on tax fraud”, saying that it was a necessity to increase the tax-to-GDP ratio to 13pc. “It is important that we take you all on board and have a fact-based discussion,” he said. “This is not a 10,00 feet level discussion — this is not an emotional discussion.” The finance minister noted that the burden of taxation, which primarily fell on the salaried and manufacturing class, “has to now be taken evenly to bring tax-to-GDP ratio up so that we can be a sustainable country”. On tax fraud, the finance minister presented a slide show, stating there was a need for a “fact-based” discussion to rein in tax fraud. “On the other