Parts of city still to get surveillance cameras on January 7, 2017LAHORE: Although Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has claimed completing the first phase of the Safe City Project in a record time and he addressed the opening ceremony in October 2016, the excavation and cable laying work is still continue in Gulberg and adjacent areas. Under the project, out of total 8,000 cameras to be […]
Road accidents claim 35 lives a day in Pakistan on December 22, 2016LAHORE: Road accidents claim 35 lives every day in Pakistan, besides injuring 13,000 people, which has pushed the country in the world ranking in terms of road safety from 20th in 2014 to 67th in 2016. These facts, based on a UN study, were shared at a safety workshop for journalists organised by Telenor and […]
Trump say 2 million illegal immigrants will be thrown out on September 1, 2016PHOENIX: The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump came down harsh on President Obama’s policy regarding immigrants in the US, and said there will be “no amnesty” for the undocumented migrants living in the United States and he would build a great wall across the southern border in Mexico to stop illegal immigration, maintaining that Mexico […]
Banks witness low turnout of clients on Saturday on July 9, 2016LAHORE: All banks of the city remained open until 5pm on the directions of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to facilitate businessmen and citizens. However, extremely low turnover of the customers irked the bankers throughout Saturday in the provincial capital. Unlike the routine business, it was a working day for all banks’ staffers, who […]
Punjab in debt of more than half a trillion rupees: Finance Minister on June 15, 2016LAHORE: The Punjab government has a total of Rs 533 billion circular debt. The government will be in a position to collect agriculture tax after two years, and the present condition of the agriculture sector is due to the ignorance of the previous governments, stated by Punjab’s Finance Minister Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, while addressing the […]
Karisma Kapoor, Sunjay Kapur split up on June 14, 2016MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor and Delhi-based industrialist Sunjay Kapur officially divorced on Monday with the family court accepting their consent terms agreed by the couple in April. The couple has had a long battle over divorce and custody of their two kids, before they agreed to a consent term before the Apex court in […]
Five killed, 22 injured due to collision between coach and truck in Hub on June 14, 2016QUETTA: At least five people have been killed and 22 others among them women and children have been injured in a collision between a Karachi-bound passenger coach and a Mazda truck on national highway in Hub area of Lasbela district, here Tuesday. The police said a passenger coach carrying commuters was on way from Quetta […]
Government earmarks Rs 550 billion for development projects on June 14, 2016LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated Rs 550 billion for development plans and schemes for the fiscal year 2016-17, as compared to last year’s fiscal in which Rs 400 billion annual development plan were earmarked, reflecting a 37.5 percent increase in the development estimates. The budget stats reflect that out of total Rs 1,681.41 billion […]