Bottled water booming despite worries over waste

Environmental campaigner Hemantha Withanage is adamant that the purchase of plastic-bottled water should be discouraged.Bottled water booming despite worries over waste. “Damage from plastics is irreversible,” the chair of Friends of the Earth International tells sources. “Once fragmented into microplastics, it pollutes all of the ecosystem including the oceans and the air we breathe, with […]

Risks associated with IMF $3 billion programme implementation

Tax on wedding functions, air tickets proposed as Pakistan unveils ‘mini-budget’ to revive IMF deal

Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday tabled the Supplementary Finance Bill 2023, being dubbed as the mini-budget by public and opposition, to meet the preconditions placed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to receive ninth tranche of loan. The government has proposed taxes on several sectors in order to shrink the […]