LAHORE: Increasingly hot weather has desisted animal lovers from visiting Lahore Zoo lately as nearly 60% of the visitorship has declined.
Zoo authorities said that during congenial weather around 10000 to 12000 visitors from the city and other towns turned up but now due to hot weather this figure has come down to 4000.
Ms Zaib medical officer at the Zoo said in order to save the animals from heat precautionary measures were taken. Ice blocks were supplied in the cages of tigers, lions and other animals; air coolers were working round the clock to keep the cages cool; multivitamin supplements were being given; bamboo screens were hung to protect birds from scorching sun, sources explained.
The doctor said a premature female Mufflen sheep was born in the Zoo on Wednesday raising the number of this specie to 21.It is European breed sheep, it was learnt.
KARACHI: The Met office has predicted that the first pre-monsoon showers over the North-Eastern parts of the country (Islamabad, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sargodha division and Kashmir) will take place during the next 48 hours.
According to the Met office, some pre-monsoon currents have started to penetrate the upper parts of Pakistan. These are likely to produce the first pre-monsoon showers. The expected showers will lead to a decline in temperatures in Punjab, KPK and Kashmir from Saturday.
The second spells of pre-monsoon showers are expected from 20th June and the third spell will be in the last week of June.
Regular monsoon rains are likely to start from the first week of July
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s Munna Bhai, Sanjay Dutt has shaved his head to appear as a villain in the remake of Agnnepath.
Initially Sanjay was using make-up to create shaved look but the extreme temperatures started melting his make-up making it impossible for him to shoot. He also had to wake-up at 5am and it took almost four hours for his makeup to be completed.
This led to Dutt shaving his head off to avoid any further hiccups.
QUETTA: Quetta, Balochistan government and private hospitals and doctors 'strike is continuing and close the CD, including emergency operation theaters are open, but doctors there do not exist due to the insensitivity of the doctors' strike and the patient is suffering from problems of Quetta. Young Doctors Association during the strike, nearly three-month CD OP, wards and operating theaters in general is completely closed. Association sources said the government if the demands were not accepted in hospitals strikeIn case of serious illness in their search for Christ's srgrdan. Quetta patients from remote areas of the province said the strike in public hospitals without a doctor's absence, and other problems due to lack of medical facilitiesKhuzdar, Mastung and other remote areas of the city in every thousand krayyy s Hospital, where doctors could not be started while Clinton was still in private hospitals which is the concern of doctors to solve problems strike called off in order to minimize public inconvenience.
