British supermarket giant Morrisons has accepted a takeover offer from a consortium of investment groups following its rejection of a private equity bid last month, the chain announced on Saturday. Under the £6.3 billion ($8.7 billion) deal, the group of investors comprising Softbank-owned Fortress, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Koch Real Estate Investments (KREI) […]
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Govt aims to cultivate 220 million acres of land:Jamshed Cheema
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema Wednesday said that under the Agriculture Transformation Plan, the government would bring all the land into cultivation where a human being or a plant can survive all across the country. “We have 220 million acres of land and out of […]
Food for thought or the thought of food: the dilemma of workplace meals
Lunch break is perhaps the only office time the most efficiently used by people at the workplace the world over. “That’s just like recess at school, the most awaited hour at my office,” says Lala Rukh, an IT engineer, who has recently joined a multinational firm in Lahore. “The only problem with my 90-minute break […]
Pakistan hits record wheat crop this year, claims Aleem Khan
LAHORE: Pakistan has produced bumper wheat production in the history of the country as in 2021 the crop has hit 28.75 million metric tons as per the data till date – May 18, 2021. Punjab Senior & Food Minister Punjab Abdul Aleem Khan said in an official handout the agrarian reforms, initiated by Prime Minister Imran […]
‘Govt striving to transform Pakistan into real Islamic welfare state’
FAISALABAD – State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib has said the government is striving to transform Pakistan into a ‘real Islamic welfare state’ as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan. During his visit to the Panahgah (a shelter home) at the General Bus Stand, he said that innovative project […]
A taste of Central Italy
The food at Tuscany Courtyard is tricky. Ever since the restaurant opened in Lahore not many years back, the variation in taste keeps fluctuating. It is like an on off button. Delicious for half a year, not so much the other half of it. I’m talking mind-numbingly, food coma – taste of heaven delicious. The […]
UN aid official: Yemeni militia blocking food for thousands
A World Food Program spokesperson says Yemen’s militia have blocked a shipment meant to feed some 100,000 families in the war-torn nation that’s been pushed to the brink of starvation. The official says the aid was blocked after the WFP partially suspended aid last week after accusing the Houthis of looting aid. The militia, who […]
From poo to food: Kenyan toilet waste key for new animal feed
Kenyan farmer Victor Kyalo’s chickens have doubled the number of eggs they are laying. The reason: Human excrement. He is feeding them food from a Nairobi-based organics recycling company. Sanergy harvests waste from toilets it operates in a franchise network in Nairobi’s sprawling slums and feeds it to fly larvae, which become high-quality animal feed. […]
Food for deserving!!!
Sir: Here, I would like to share with you some very interesting and realistic facts from the city of lights in which there’s lots of people’s raise a smart amount on daily bases in the form of CSR to Silani and Chippa welfare. By this amount they made delicious foods like mutton qurma and equivalent […]
Food for thought
We as human beings have many thoughts in our mind which are set by us and except them we do not want to accept any other things. That’s why we cannot think ahead from those things and we could not be able to think what is right and what is wrong? From them, one of […]