10 killed, over 40 injured in bus collision in southern Pakistan

STORY: 10 killed, over 40 injured in bus collision in southern Pakistan DATELINE: June 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the accident scene and rescue efforts STORYLINE: At least 10 people were killed and over 40 others injured on Sunday in a collision between two passenger buses in the Nawab Shah district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, the rescue service reported. According to the reports, the accident occurred in the district's Daur area in the wee hours when the two buses traveling in opposite directions on a single-lane road overtook two different vehicles at the same time. As a result, the two buses ended up crashing into each other. The rescue workers reached the site and shifted the victims to the local hospitals, said the rescue service. Some of the victims got trapped in the buses initially and were pulled out following a rescue operation, it added. The victims included women and children, the rescue service said. One of the buses

A visit to Bangladesh's solar fish farm

STORY: A visit to Bangladesh's solar fish farm DATELINE: June 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:35 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of floating solar panels 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Bengali): MD MIZANUR RAHMAN, Engineer, Joules Power Limited 3. various of floating solar panels 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Bengali): ABDUL MOMIN, Administrative officer, Nawab Group 5. various of a technician monitoring the output of a floating solar panel 6. various of floating solar panels STORYLINE: A solar fish farm in Chapainawabganj district, some 302 km northwest of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, has been connected to the national grid. The Joules Nawab Floating Solar Plant is a combination of fish farming and solar power generation. It consists of numerous solar panels mounted on specially designed floating platforms in a human-made pond with an area of 22,000 square meters. It uses floaters from Chinese renewable energy company Sungrow, solar panels from China's JA Solar, and inverters from German SMA Solar Technology. Md Miza