Winners of gold medals in SAG games stand deprived of cash prizes on June 30, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has failed to make payments against agreed cash awards to national heroes who have won medals for the country in the South Asian Games (SAG) and SAF Games despite the lapse of four months. This state of affairs has sparked dismay and disappointment among the SAF games medallists and […]
Govt overlooks sports in development budget on June 4, 2016ISLAMABAD: The federal government has absolutely overlooked the sports sector in the budget for 2016-17 and has incorporated only two new schemes pertaining to sports in the development budget. The government has allocated only Rs 630.8 million through the Pakistan Sports Board in the development projects. Funds amounting to Rs 995 million have been earmarked […]
Sports Complex hostels need attention on May 23, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Sports Complex Islamabad’s Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah hostels which were made to facilitate the players are in extremely shambles and due to this plight, the players staying there are becoming ill. The smelly bathrooms of both the hostels in which cockroaches and other insects in large quantity could be seen every time. The […]
Lightning kills 59 people in three days in Bangladesh on May 15, 2016DHAKA: Lightning strikes have killed an unprecedented 59 people in Bangladesh in three days as tropical thunderstorms hit the country before the annual monsoon, an official said on Sunday. About 34 people were killed on Thursday in different locations and another 25 over the next two days around the country, said Reaz Ahmed, chief of […]
‘Great Wall of Sialkot’ under construction on May 13, 2016SIALKOT – Construction of the ‘Great Wall of Sialkot’ is underway at Allama Iqbal Chowk here. Talking to the media here on Friday, DCO Dr Asif Tufail said that the wall had been attributed to Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the poet and philosopher of the East. The wall was being constructed to promote Iqbaliyat in active […]
NUST students unveil first electric powered racing car on May 13, 2016 KARACHI: National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has made news once again as its students have built Pakistan’s first electric powered formula racing car. A team of undergraduate engineering students from the Pakistan Navy Engineering College, a constituent college of NUST, presented a formula electric racing car designed and manufactured entirely in-house, in a […]
Delay in BML installation causing huge dent to national sports on May 12, 2016 ISLAMABAD: Non completion of Bio Mechanical Lab (BML) installation project since the last two years despite release of funds amounting to Rs 37.9 million to Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) is causing colossal damage to national sports. Sources told Daily Times, a sum of Rs 37 million were allocated in the budget for the financial year […]