WASA Faisalabad has laid off over 700 daily wage workers due to the financial crisis, as the country battles with unprecedented inflation.
According to Samaa News, Faisalabad WASA has also issued a notification to the same. According to the Director Admin, he is unable to bear the expenses so daily wager employees will no longer be working in the department.
Flood waters from Yamuna river have reached the boundary wall of the Taj Mahal, raising fears of damage to the most famous building in India.
Water levels in Yamuna have risen steadily since June when unusually heavy rains hit north India including Uttar Pradesh, home to the iconic Taj. According to India’s Central Water Commission (CWC), the portion of the river flowing alongside the Taj Mahal rose to 152m on Tuesday evening, well above the warning level for potential danger of 151.4m. The level considered dangerous is 152.4 metres.
The last time flood waters hit the boundary wall was in 1978, exactly 45 years ago.
The mausoleum, where Mughal emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal are buried, remains untouched by the water as of now.
However, the red walls of the compound appear submerged in photographs shared by Indian news outlets.
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system.
A report in Deccan Herald (DH) suggests that scientists said this after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. Researchers scrutinised material brought back to earth in 2020 from the asteroid Ryugu.
The 5.4 grams (0.2 ounces) of rocks and dust were gathered by a Japanese space probe, called Hayabusa-2, that landed on the celestial body and fired an impactor into its surface.
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists said the Ryugu samples could give clues to the mystery of how oceans appeared on Earth billions of years ago.
“Volatile and organic-rich C-type asteroids may have been one of the main sources of Earth’s water,” said a study by scientists from Japan and other countries.
But the organic materials found “in Ryugu particles, identified in this study, probably represent one important source of volatiles”.
Residents of Islamabad’s sectors G-13 and G-14 are paying private tankers up to Rs5,000 to fetch water for their homes to meet their needs during the current summer season.
Buildings and houses are being constructed in these sectors, but the availability of water continues to be a severe issue that has to be handled by the concerned authorities.
When water is only occasionally—once a week or never—given, the locals are left at the tanker mafia’s mercy. The G13 sector has been one of the most severely impacted communities.
According to The News, there was a plan to use Khanpur Dam to deliver water to these areas, but there were several obstacles, such as encroachment and the failure to acquire property for the supply lines.
The civic agency began supplying water to certain sectors via tankers at discounted prices. At its G-10 facility, there were no fees for filling private water tankers, allowing the inhabitants of these two sectors to obtain water at subsidised prices.
Since water at reduced rates was only provided once a week, eventually residents are compelled to buy water from tankers at outrageous prices.
The locals reported that they are also having issues with their schools, crumbling roads, electrical shortages, a lack of parks, filthy conditions, and a lack of health care services.
The water flowing through River Ravi has been found to be among the most polluted in the world, reports Dawn.
A study, which is part of the University of York-led Global Monitoring of Pharmaceuticals Project, measured the presence of 61 pharmaceuticals in 258 rivers around the world. More than 1,000 test sites in over 100 countries provided samples for the study. More than a quarter of the 258 rivers sampled had “active pharmaceutical ingredients” present at a level deemed unsafe for aquatic organisms.
Waterways in Lahore, Bolivia, and Ethiopia are among the most contaminated, according to the study while rivers in Iceland, Norway, and the Amazon rainforest fared best.
Pollution of the world’s rivers by medications and pharmaceutical products, according to the research, constitutes a “threat to environmental and global health”.
A bride robbed her husband while going to her in-laws’ in India’s Uttar Pradesh after she sent him to bring water for her.
As per reports, the groom’s marriage was fixed through a mediator and the latter had mentioned a condition that made the groom’s family pay INR80,000 to the bride.
The groom named Raju agreed to the condition and gave the money along with jewellery, gifts and clothes.
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The newly-married couple went to a bus station to leave for home.
The bride asked her husband to fetch her a glass of water at the bus station, as she was thirsty. After he returned, the bride was not there. She disappeared depriving him of money, gifts and clothes that were given to her, as they were also not there.
Later, the husband reported the case to the police.
Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo removed Coca-Cola bottles placed in front of him in a pre-match Euro 2020 press conference on Monday before holding up a bottle of water to the room and declaring people should drink water instead.
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Then, for dramatic effect, he rolled his eyes and said with borderline disgust, “Coca-Cola”.
The brand is an official sponsor of the tournament, but as Ronaldo took his seat in front of reporters, he almost immediately looked uncomfortable.
Ronaldo is not just health-obsessed but has previously revealed that it irritates him when his son drinks fizzy drinks.
Ronaldo is one of the most supremely fit footballer even at the age of 36 years. Heading into his 50th Euro Championship, Ronaldo still remains one of the most feared strikers in the world.
Meanwhile, Portugal begin their play in Group F on Tuesday against Hungary before facing Germany on Saturday and France next Wednesday.
Sindh Irrigation Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal has shared a WhatsApp number for the masses, ARY News reported on Tuesday. This was done in order to tighten the noose around the people involved in water theft by the Sindh Irrigation Department.
Siyal, while releasing the WhatsApp number of the Irrigation Department, urged the masses to record videos of water theft and share them with the Sindh Irrigation Department.
The video, along with the date and time highlighting the irrigation water theft, should be forwarded to 03330291781, the minister said.
Siyal ensured that action would be taken against the guilty within three days.
Last week, Sindh Irrigation Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal met with Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad.
An Indian official accidentally drank hand sanitizer mistaking it for a bottle of water at a public meeting.
According to details, Ramesh Pawar was at a budget committee hearing in Mumbai on Wednesday when he sat down and took a sip from a bottle placed at the table.
He took a sip but a person around him hurried to warn him that it was hand sanitiser. The official instantly noticed his mistake and spat out the sanitiser while others at the meeting rushed to help him and gave him a bottle of water.
In another such incident, at least 12 children were hospitalized after they were given hand sanitiser drops instead of oral polio vaccine drops in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
If you are an Insta-stalker like myself, you may have noticed that several A-list celebrities were spotted lounging and posing away in the pool. While I initially thought that it was just a new Pakistani trend, I stumbled upon pictures of Hollywood celebrities posing in the pool as well, establishing the fact that getting wet (and wild) is the new trend in fashion and editorial photoshoots.
It all started with Emmad Irfani, who did an entire editorial shoot wearing dress pants and a dress shirt while standing in a pool.
Damn, check that style and swag.
Sheheryar Munawar was next, who took it a notch higher and wore a full suit in the pool while inviting us to join him for a cup of tea.
Munawar then went on to do another shoot in the pool, this time without a shirt.
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We then spotted Minal Khan also posing away in the pool wearing a black high-neck sweater.
Next up we have Jennifer Lopez aka JLo, who turned up the heat and she stood in the pool. The shoot was from her upcoming skincare brand ‘JLo Beauty’. From where does the actor look 51?
Last but not the least there is Sacha Baron Cohen, who also suited up in the pool. Though we do have to add here that our boys slayed it better.
Which pool shot was your favourite? Ours has to be JLo and Sheheryar.