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Right to education: ‘Provision of facilities will help student retention’
LAHORE: The School Education Department (SED) is set to initiate more than 8,600 schemes to provide missing facilities at schools across the province to improve student retention. The missing...
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Planning ahead: Wheat price won’t be raised, says Bosan
MULTAN: “Wheat prices will not be raised… there is no shortage of wheat in the country,” Federal Minister for Food and Security Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan said on Saturday. He was speaking at a...
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Law enforcement: Headless city police also lacking requisite numbers
RAWALPINDI: With crime rate increasing by the day, lack of manpower has incapacitated the district police to perform its duty as there are only 7,000 cops to protect life and property of around five...
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Back to the camps: Pindi police to clear Afghan refugees from district
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi police are preparing a massive operation to evict all Afghan refugees illegally residing in the district and will also book those who have helped refugees illegally acquire...
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Save the environment: Raising awareness through 3-D models
LAHORE: Students from around 80 schools displayed 3D models representing various environmental themes at the WWF’s 16th Annual Nature Carnival at Race Course Park on Sunday. More than 10,000 people...
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Hackathon concludes with web solutions
LAHORE: “There is a need to empower citizens by allowing them to generate solutions for every day affairs,” said Code for Pakistan founder Sheba Najmi at the concluding day of the Civic Hackathon on...
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Visionary forum: Seminar held at TECH Society Club
LAHORE: “A dialogue can only be held with terrorists if they disarm”, said former federal minister Abida Hussain at a seminar organized by the Pakistan Visionary Forum at TECH Society Club on Sunday....
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Youth festival: Tehsil games conclude 9,551 people moving to the next round
LAHORE: As many as 158,000 people participated on the concluding day of tehsil-level competitions of the Punjab Youth Festival on Sunday. A total of 9,551 people moved to the next round. At Nishtar...
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LHC stays houbara bustard hunt
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court last week put an interim ban on hunting of houbara bustard and directed the government to submit a list of permit holders. The court passed the order on petitions...
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Development: CM promises university, cadet college for RY Khan
SADIQABAD: The construction of a cadet college at Rahim Yar Khan will be complete in 18 months. After this the government will start building a university for Rahim Yar Khan, Chief Minister Shahbaz...
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Medical negligence: Surgeon loses PMDC membership, pension
FAISALABAD: The Punjab Health Care Commission, in a landmark ruling last week, stripped the head of the orthopaedic department at the Allied Hospital of his Pakistan Medical and Dental Council...
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Energy crisis: Shahbaz welcomes Chinese interest
LAHORE: “The energy crisis has crippled the national economy. The government is making efforts to resolve this issue at the earliest,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday. He said the...
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Bahria Town project: Over 50,000 receive booking form
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s largest real estate company, Bahria Town (BT) on Sunday started the booking process for its residential plots in Karachi and Rawalpindi. Under the project, the real estate giant...
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Terror in Rawalpindi: Four attacks, zero leads
RAWALPINDI: There have been four major attacks that took at least 20 lives and injured 40 people in the last two months but the police have failed to make any headway to arrest the culprits involved...
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Neglected no more: Govt school gets new classrooms, furniture
RAWALPINDI: The students of Anwarul Islam Middle School were all smiles on Monday, after media attention helped resolve a chronic furniture shortage in the building. In addition, two new rooms and a...
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Agriculture: ‘Oil seeds, pulses are cash crops’
FAISALABAD: “Pakistan needs to grow oil seeds and pulses to help alleviate poverty,” Iqrar Ahmad Khan, the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) vice chancellor, said on Monday. He was...
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Responsible citizens: In Pindi, around 700 private schools evading taxes
RAWALPINDI: Aside from a formal education, schools are where children are sent to instil good values in them, and if values are learnt from example, Rawalpindi has a new generation of tax evaders...
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‘Quack-rodhisac’: Lizard oil - only demand is rising
RAWALPINDI: Cure-alls are a regular offering at stalls and shops run by quacks. In Rawalpindi’s Raja Bazaar, about 40 quacks sitting along the footpath are selling an oil-based concoction famed to be...
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Accountability: Drive against gas theft fizzles out in Faisalabad
GUJRANWALA / FAISALABAD: The anti gas theft campaign launched in the district in August 2013 has failed to achieve its objectives, The Express Tribune has learnt. According to Sui Northern Gas...
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Up in the air: Signal-free corridor work enters second phase
LAHORE: Construction started on Monday on the second phase of Metro Bus signal-free corridors at Chungi Amar Sidhu and Qainchi. Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA) Chief Engineer...
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