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Patient taken away in protest against doctors
FAISALABAD: Over three dozen residents of Saifabad on staged a protest demonstration late on Wednesday night against doctors of Allied Hospital for not providing medical treatment to a patient...
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Bad news: University boys exchange fire ‘over a girl’
FAISALABAD: An MSc student of the Faisalabad University of Agriculture was injured on Thursday when an armed clash broke out between two groups. Rafiq Asghar, a student, told newsmen that on Thursday...
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Higher education: Louisville University expresses interest in a medical...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday said the government was setting up a Knowledge Park on 800 acres in Lahore. He said separate campuses for information technology, engineering,...
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Procurement: Committee formed to review support price of wheat
LAHORE: Food Minister Bilal Yasin said on Thursday Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had formed a committee to review the support price of wheat. He said the committee would meet on Thursday evening or...
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Wedding curfew: Umar Akmal’s guests granted bail
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday granted bail to three people accused of violating the wedding curfew. Muhammad Shahid, Abdullah and Saeed were granted bails against...
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Debt of gratitude: GCU alumni want road named after founding principal
LAHORE: Eminent Government College University (GCU) alumni said on Thursday Kutchery Road should be renamed to honour Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. Addressing a seminar on Cultural Landscape of...
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Cannibalism: Govt’s reply sought on petition seeking legislation
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to the government for a reply on petition seeking legislation on cannibalism. Advocate Kashif Solomani had filed the petition in the wake of a...
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Feudal feud: Landlord orders kidnapping, public humiliation of schoolteacher
CHINIOT: A landlord in a village near Chiniot took the law into his own hands when he had a primary school teacher kidnapped after accusing him of assaulting a student. The schoolteacher’s face was...
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Mastermind behind attack on Express News anchorperson arrested: CCPO Lahore
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Chaudhry Shafiq said that police have arrested six people, including the mastermind behind the attack on Express News anchorperson Raza Rumi. CCPO Chaudhry...
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Hit-and-run: Minor killed in road accident
RAWALPINDI: A toddler was killed in Sadiqabad, Rawalpindi, according to the police. A two-and-half-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run accident, the police said on Thursday. Shayan Ali was...
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Private-public: Shaikh Zayed to charge fees approved by its board
LAHORE: Lahore High Court has allowed the administration of Shaikh Zayed Medical Institute to charge its students Rs350,000 for the first three years and Rs400,000 for the next two years of MBBS...
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Rights and wrongs: Young doctors stop working at Children’s Hospital ward
LAHORE: Several medical officers and post-graduate trainees at the Gastro Ward of Children’s Hospital have stopped working, The Express Tribune has learnt. Gastroenterology and hepatology patients...
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New policy: Private schools to be built on LDA land
LAHORE: “The government has decided that Lahore Development Authority (LDA) land would be used for promotion of education,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday. He said schools would be set...
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Seminar: ‘Service delivery crucial for health sector’
LAHORE: “After the 18th amendment, there was a need to review the status of the health sector in the Punjab. The government developed its own health sector strategy approved by the chief minister,”...
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Metro bus: Blacklisted firm slips onto A-list
ISLAMABAD: To construct a portion of the Islamabad- section of the multi-billion metro bus project, Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has hired a firm blacklisted by a Punjab government...
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The gift of education: Tablets offered to promote technological education
LAHORE: A private college is offering students a chance to win a tablet computer by registering for its short courses. The college administration say they intend to promote technological awareness...
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Vote rigging: Arrest warrants issued for 22 presiding officers
BHAKKAR: An election tribunal on Friday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for presiding officers of 22 polling stations on charges of rigging elections to the National Assembly constituency NA 73....
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Welfare projects: Shahbaz promises 10,000 Aashiana houses for the poor
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday said 10,000 houses would be constructed in Aashiana Iqbal. He issued instructions for reorganisation of the Punjab Land Development Company to make the...
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Suspension of Gilgit-Pindi bus service threatened
GILGIT: Office bearers of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Transport Association and Kohistan Transport Association (KTA) on Saturday threatened to suspend the bus service between G-B and Rawalpindi over...
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Caught red-handed: ‘Transformer thief’ beaten to death
BAHAWALPUR: A man died on Friday after he was beaten by a mob after allegedly being caught stealing an electricity transformer from near Basti Mazharabad in Khairpur Tamewali, police said. They said...
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