KP announces awards for best teacher and best school on August 31, 2016PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to confer Best Teacher and School Award under the Teacher Incentive Programme 2015-16. The officials of the education department say the number of the schools and teachers have been doubled than the previous year. The door of goodwill for the teacher’s community in the province was opened […]
PPP completes reorganisation of provincial officebearers on August 28, 2016PESHAWAR: The re-organisation of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for the slots of district, divisional and provincial level office bearers, was completed on Sunday and the caretaker organising committee will send the proposed names to the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, for the final decision. The caretaker organising committee established in March of the current […]
Education rationalisation put future of students at risk on August 11, 2016 PESHAWAR: The education rationalization policy along with new infrastructure scheme implementation in Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) have put the future of the students at high risk, the new policies have slow down the rehabilitation process in the education sector in the tribal region. As per the rationalisation policy, a primary school if situated […]
PTI rally starts from Peshawar today on August 7, 2016PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and leadership are all set to take out Tehreek-e-Ehtesab rally from Peshawar to Khairabad Attock on Sunday (today). Party activists from all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including, Southern division, Malakand division, Hazara division, Peshawar division and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) would reach Zakori Bridge on Sunday morning. PTI Chief […]
Disgruntled PTI members refuse to communicate with CM Khattak on July 24, 2016PESHAWAR: The ‘pressure group’ in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was not ready to hold any dialogue with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak for resolving the political strife among the party members in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Sources told Daily Times on Sunday that the refusal of the group came after PTI Chairman Imran Khan held telephonic conversation with […]
PTIs chief election commissioner Rustam Mohmand resigns on July 23, 2016PESHAWAR: The differences between PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Rustam Shah Mohmand, chief election commissioner for the intra-party polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were exposed on Saturday after the latter submitted his resignation from the office. Sources in the party told Daily Times that the intra-party election commissioner tendered his resignation on July 2 to the […]
Vice chancellors appointments found to be politically biased on July 23, 2016PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Zafar Iqbal Jhagra on Saturday returned a summary for the appointment of vice chancellors, terming it a politically biased appointment by the PTI provincial government. An official told Daily Times that Governor Zafar Jhagra, who is also the chancellor of all universities of the province, returned the summary to the PTI […]
Dozens of government schools in KP nonfunctional on July 15, 2016PESHAWAR: Fifty five government schools for boys and girls in the rural union councils of the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtukhwa (KP) have been non-functional for the last five years. According to the data of district Peshawar education officers, more than 55 government schools, for boys and girls including primary, middle and high schools have […]
KP continues to increase spending on education on July 14, 2016PESHAWAR: The trend in education expenditure over the past few fiscal years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa shows that the provincial government every year upwardly revised budgetary allocation for education sector only to lapse after a paltry chunk of the funds is utilised. This has been revealed in a recent research publication of Institute of Social and […]
Students hold protest outside Institute of Paramedical Science on July 13, 2016PESHAWAR: Students of the Institute of Paramedical Science (IPMS) Hayatabad demonstrated outside the Khyber Medical University (KMU), protesting against it transferring its registration and affiliation to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Paramedical College, a state run institute. Talking to Daily Times, the representative of the protesting committee on Wednesday said that IPMS has been affiliated with KMU […]