Despite ban, IJT ‘allowed’ to consolidate position in PU on October 30, 2018LAHORE: Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Niaz Ahmed has allegedly allowed the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), a student wing of Jamat-e-Islami (JI), to consolidate its position in the university by organising events on campus and starting moral policing. Sources said that despite the ban on holding any programme by any political, ethnic or […]
Activists demand increase in resource allocation to improve children’s rights on October 18, 2018Civil society organisations and activists working on promotion and protection of children’s rights on Wednesday, demanded the newly elected provincial government to increase resource allocation to improve the status of child rights in Punjab. This was demanded during a media briefing arranged by Search for Justice and Child Rights Movement (CRM) in connection with International […]
Old Lahore comes to life with folk music, traditional food and an enthusiastic crowd on October 16, 2018LAHORE: The spiritual poetry of Bulleh Shah to go with a scrumptious cuisine of desi foods, Andaaz restaurant’s Curry & Concert with Andaaz, amused Lahoris on Sunday. The event took place at the restaurant’s rooftop so attendees could enjoy the historic view of the Badshahi Mosque. A wide array of dishes including paneer tikka, malai […]
NAB under criticism for bringing PU’s former VC to court in handcuffs on October 14, 2018Higher Education Commission (HEC) is planning to hold a meeting of public and private universities of Pakistan in the coming week to discuss the situation arising from the arrest of Punjab University and Sargodha University former vice chancellors and senior professors on charges of corruption and illegal appointments by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). A […]
NAB report says corruption has caused losses worth Rs 1.362bn to Sargodha University on October 11, 2018Sargodha University has suffered a loss of Rs 1.362 billion due to the mismanagement and corruption of its former vice chancellor Dr Akram Chaudhary in establishing private sub-campuses, affiliation of private colleges, development projects and illegal appointments, reveal National Accountability Bureau documents. According to the documents, the private sub-campuses made admissions over and above the […]
Court grants NAB 10-day physical remand of former management of Sargodha University on October 10, 2018An accountability court on Tuesday granted 10-day physical remand of Sargodha University’s former vice chancellor Dr Muhammad Akram Chaudhary along with the varsity’s former registrar Brigadier (r) Rao Jamil Asghar to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a case pertaining to the establishment of illegal sub-campuses under the Public Private Partnership Policy. Judge Syed Najamul […]
NAB arrests former management of Sargodha University on corruption charges on October 9, 2018LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday arrested the top former management of Sargodha University including its former vice chancellor, registrar, chief executive officer and administration director of the Lahore and Mandi Bahauddin sub-campuses over their alleged involvement in establishing illegal sub-campuses under public-private partnership policy. The NAB arrested SU former VC Dr Muhammad […]
My late grandfather stood for peace between India and Pakistan: Mandira Nayar on October 7, 2018LAHORE: A seminar was held at Government College University on Saturday to celebrate late veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar’s vision for peace. Kuldip Nayar’s granddaughter Mandira Nayar who is also a journalist, chaired the seminar and later planted a “peace tree” in her grandfather’s name at Shahab Gardens of GCU. Speaking on the occasion, Human […]
World Teachers Day celebrated in all educational institutions of Punjab on October 6, 2018LAHORE: World Teacher’s Day was observed in the provincial capital on Friday to pay tribute to the “builders of the nation”. A numbers of ceremonies were organised at government level, schools, colleges and at universities. Seminars and conferences were among the programmes organised to mark the day. One such ceremony was organised at Aiwan-e-Iqbal which […]
Protecting freshwater resources is need of the hour: WWF on October 3, 2018World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) conducted an awareness session of the city-wide partnership initiative on improving industrial environmental performance in Ravi River Basin on Tuesday. The partnership will be made through a water stewardship approach, now under the Asian Development Bank funded project titled Revitalising the Ecosystem of Ravi River in collaboration with the […]