Anti-Corruption: Agriculture Dept officer arrested for accepting bribe
GUJRANWALA: An Agriculture Department officer was arrested on Tuesday for accepting a bribe. Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officials said they recovered marked currency from him. The action was...
View ArticleYDA Protest: Doctors to work outdoors from today
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab has announced that its members will boycott outpatient departments at public hospitals across the Punjab from Wednesday, but will see patients...
View ArticleUrban development: ‘Gujranwala will no longer be Asia’s most polluted city’
GUJRANWALA: “The Sheikhupura Road flyover will be completed by March. The contractor has been given a March deadline,” Commissioner Abdul Jabbar Shaheen said on Tuesday. He was addressing a meeting...
View Article‘A culture of respect must be developed’
LAHORE: The treatment of diseases will get easier, the more medical research and investigation there is, said Lahore General Hospital Prof Anjam Habib Vohra, also principal of the Post Graduate...
View ArticleCity zoning: Commercialisation fees for Chamra Mandi suspended
LAHORE: The district coordination officer has suspended the payment of commercialisation fees at Chamra Mandi (Hides Market), after shopkeepers protested at city government notices demanding such...
View ArticleBZU book fair: More than 40,000 books displayed
MULTAN: More than 40,000 books have been displayed at the book fair in Bahauddin Zakariya University. The fair began on Monday and will continue till Thursday. More than 30 publishers and dealers...
View ArticleNew rules: LePark street parking at owner’s risk
LAHORE: LePark has absolved contractors of responsibility for parking lots. Causing consternation among car owners regarding the kind of precedent this would set for international contractors. LePark...
View ArticleLahore Arts Council: Caricatures and comic strips go on display
LAHORE: An exhibition of comic caricatures of the famous (television celebrities), infamous (politicians and bureaucrats) and not-so-famous is on display at the Lahore Arts Council. Mudassir Butt’s...
View ArticleFor docs not technicians: Alumni want King Edward Medical College restored
LAHORE: The alumni association of the King Edward Medical College (KEMC) and the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) on Tuesday decided to launch a drive to make the KEMC a constituent college of...
View ArticleJI viewpoint: Qadri can’t stop change say Munawar
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Munawar Hasan said on Tuesday Dr Tahirul Qadri will not succeed in his bid to prevent the inevitable change in the country. He was addressing the concluding session of a...
View ArticleNew appointments: Four UAF departments get new chairmen
FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad’s (UAF) syndicate has approved appointments of four new department chairmen. The syndicate meeting was held on Wednesday with UAF VC Dr Iqrar...
View ArticleRansom paid: Two of three kidnapped cousins reach home
BAHAWALPUR: Of the three cousins who were abducted on December 26, two reached home on Tuesday night after their families paid the ransom, families of the kidnapped men told The Express Tribune on...
View ArticleCountering theft: FESCO to purchase latest electricity meters
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) is in the process of purchasing new electricity meters to discourage power pilferage through old and depreciated meters, Fesco Chief...
View ArticleSyndicate meeting: Drug testing lab to be set up at KEMU
LAHORE: A drug-testing laboratory will be established at King Edward Medical University (KEMU), the university’s Syndicate decided here on Wednesday, said a press release. Conducting its 19th...
View ArticleParties united: The people will decide country’s future says Governor
LAHORE: Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood has appealed to the people of Pakistan to support democracy and the Constitution and praised the response of political parties to the challenge of “undemocratic...
View ArticleDeath in custody Judge orders production of police officials
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Rai Muhammad Ayub Khan Marth said on Wednesday that the police were playing hide and seek with the court. The judge was referring to police officers,...
View ArticleRohtas 2: An ode to Lahore from afar
LAHORE: Nusra Latif Qureshi’s latest works on display at the Rohtas 2 Art Gallery make a statement about her love for her native Lahore. Desires of Memory features 23 pieces of art, all but one of...
View ArticleTextile design: Thesis work inspired by spider webs, journalism
LAHORE: The theses of 17 Textile Department students went on display at the National College of Arts (NCA) from Wednesday. The works range from spider web meshes and a critique of Pakistani...
View ArticleVisa Fraud: FIA given more time to report on Asim Malik hunt
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday gave the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) more time to file a report on its attempts to arrest Asim Malik, the chief executive officer of visa consultancy...
View ArticleCough syrup plea: Cough syrup ban extended as Health Dept fails to reply
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday extended a stay order on the sale and manufacture of Tyno cough syrup and adjourned further hearing of the case till January 21. Justice Sheikh Najamul...
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