The book writer Akram Sahar Farani gives away his book to a person during the literary session Mushaira and the launch of his book at Al Hamra Arts Council
Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori briefs the delegation of Abu Dhabi Ports UAE led by Consul General Bakheet Ateeq Al Remeithi regarding Free Food distribution under Taqatwar Pakistan programme at Governor House
Group photo of the participants of 37th Mid -Career Management Course with the Inspector General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Akhtar Hayat Khan
Group photo of the participants of 37th Mid -Career Management Course of NIM Islamabad with Special Secretary (P&D) KP Government
The participants of 37th Mid -Career Management Course are being briefed at the Regional Tax Office
Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Azam Khan calls on by Australian High Commissioner Neil Hawkins
UNA, Ryptly to hold workshop on verification principles of news coverage
JEDDAH, Jul 13 (APP): The Union of OIC News Agencies (UNA) is set to host a virtual workshop on “How to Apply Verification Principles to News Coverage” on July 18, in cooperation with the international video news agency, Ruptly, the leading agency in the field of video news and investigative journalism.
The workshop aims to introduce the latest techniques in video validation and verification for the newsroom.
UNA Acting Director-General, Mohammed Abd Rabbo Al-Yami explained that the workshop comes as part of UNA’s endeavours to strengthen the role of news agencies in combating disinformation and fake news.
He indicated that the workshop will allow journalists of news agencies and media in Islamic countries to learn about the latest technologies in detecting disinformation methods that are constantly evolving and to identify the applications used in this aspect.
Dinara Toktosunova, Ruptly CEO said: “We are very grateful and happy to collaborate with UNA to carry out this verification workshop. We hope very much that our achievements and innovative approach in this sphere will help all the participants with the verification process. And we hope to continue co-operating with UNA in various areas.”
Two-day national conference on population to start on July 14
ISLAMABAD, Jul 13 (APP): The Population Program Wing of the Ministry of Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in collaboration with the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan will organize a national conference on ‘resilient Pakistan: calibrating population and resources’ on July 14.
The purpose of this conference is to take stock of the achievements, identify the difficulties faced, preempt the emerging challenges, and deliberate upon how best we can address the population and development agenda in Pakistan.
The participants will discuss how we can achieve the targets of the National Population Action Plan, Pakistan’s Commitments at the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit, Pakistan’s Commitments for FP2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The conference will assemble the relevant national and provincial political leadership, national and provincial program managers and the implementing partners in the public and private sector, legal fraternity, development partners, diplomats, academia, religious scholars, population champions in civil society, youth leadership, women champions and media, among others.
The conference will provide a forum to advocate population issues as a matter of human rights. It will create an opportunity to sensitize the stakeholders on the gravity of the situation and its logical consequence.
Previously, out of the three main determinants of rapid population growth, the operational dimension has been emphasized.
The Conference will focus on the social determinants and reforms in the policies of relevant sectors that are linked with the population.
The Conference will provide a platform for the implementing partners to highlight their achievements and come up with new vigor that could create momentum for accelerated implementation of the action plan.
It will allow the policymakers and planners to collect experts’ opinions to sharpen the national vision on population and introduce changes in the action plan.
It would be a call upon national and provincial political leadership, national and provincial program managers and the implementing partners in the public and private sector, and international development partners to come up and commit their best to address Pakistan’s fundamental issue of rapidly growing population.
PEMRA issues licenses for 140 satellite TV channels since 2022
ISLAMABAD, Jul 13 (APP): Pakistan Electronic Media Regulator Authority (PEMRA) has issued 3,899 licenses for cables, 140 for satellite Television Channels, 269 for FM, 23 Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), 3 TMA, 1 teleport and 1 Direct to Home (DTH) each, and 36 landing rights permissions since 2022.
PEMRA Chairman Muhammad Saleem Baig told this to Old Ravians Executive Committee during their visit to its headquarters on Thursday, said a press release.
The delegation was comprised of President Syed Tayyab Hussain Rizvi, Senior Vice President Islamabad Sajjad Atta and others.
The PEMRA chairman apprised the committee about the authority’s administrative affairs and services regarding issuance of licenses.
He said offices of PEMRA were fully operational in multiple cities including Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sargodha and Gilgit Baltistan.
The authority’s officers and staff have been making all-out efforts to ensure quality broadcast for viewers across the country, he added.
Saleem Baig also briefed the delegation about PEMRA’s laws and codes of ethics for electronic media.
The delegation acknowledged the crucial role of PEMRA in the progress of media expressing the hope that it would continue to do so for the development of the country.
It is worth mentioning here that the chairman studied from the GC University.
Chinese cities turn air-raid shelters into heat shelters
BEIJING, July 13 (APP): Many cities in China have been opening air-raid shelters for local residents to escape heat waves in some areas which have seen temperatures soaring past 40 C, leading to chickens and pigs in farms perishing from the heat.
Temperatures inside some shelters are about 10 C lower than outside, making them attractive places for students to study or play chess and some residents to play ping-pong or read free books, media reports said.
Two shelters in Central China’s Wuhan, Hubei Province, will operate for 12 hours each day until September. Six air raid shelters, able to accommodate up to 2,000 people, in Hangzhou, the capital city of East China’s Zhejiang Province, have been equipped with free wifi, drinks and heatstroke medicines to the residents. Hangzhou has also designated specific areas within seven subway lines as rest areas where chairs are provided for passengers to cool off, ThePaper.cn reported.
Besides Wuhan and Hangzhou, air raid shelters used as public cooling centers can also seen in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province.
Large parts of China have been experiencing unusual heat this year. As of Tuesday, the National Meteorological Center has issued 43 high temperature warnings this year, including 27 yellow warnings and 16 orange warnings. The national average precipitation is 233.4 millimeters, 11.2 percent less than the same period in 2022, the People’s Daily reported Gao Hui, a chief forecaster at the National Climate Center, as saying.
Several animal tragedies have been attributed to the scorching heat. A late-night power outage in Harbin, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, led to the death of 462 pigs at a hog farm due to sustained elevated temperatures. Previously, a chicken farm in Suizhou, Central China’s Hubei Province, failed to issue an alarm in time due to a faulty alarm line linked to a fan, causing more than 4,000 chickens to perish from the heat.
Persistent heat waves have led to a surge in electricity demand and resulted in a major power plant setting a new record for electricity production. The integrated load of the entire network of the China Southern Power Grid, which provides power to five provinces, reached 227 million kilowatts on Tuesday, setting a record high, according to cinic.org.cn.
El Nino comes with an increase in sea temperatures in the tropical Pacific, resulting in changes in atmospheric circulation patterns, which in turn affect climate and weather patterns worldwide, Sun Shao, a senior researcher at the National Climate Center affiliated with the China Meteorological Administration, told the Global Times on Thursday. About 90 percent of the impacts of El Nino from July to September will likely prevail until the end of 2023, according to the World Meteorological Organization citing model predictions and expert assessments.