From manual to online — pensioner’s rejoice on ease and comfort of checking their data on June 4, 2018LAHORE: The Accountant General Office (AG Office) Punjab has converted almost 84.6 percent of pensioners’ data online from manual system and the remaining data will be made online by the end of this year, Daily Times learnt on Friday. As per the information gathered by Daily Times, the online system had made it easier for […]
Bansa Wala Bazaar to be renamed as Late Nasir Saeed Road? on June 2, 2018LAHORE: The name of the Bansa Wala Bazaar, Gawalmandi is proposed to be renamed as Nasir Saeed (late) Road and an advertisement was printed in the newspapers for informing the masses and getting their opinion/objection (if any) by the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL). Sources informed Daily Times that the proposal for changing Bansa Wala Bazaar, […]
Sarangi School to open its doors for aspiring players after Eid on June 1, 2018LAHORE: Sarangi School will open after Eidul Fitr inside the Lohari Gate by the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Daily Times learnt on Thursday. The school will provide a platform for learning the dying music instruments’ playing along with violin, dholak, tabla and singing for the music lovers from the Walled City and other […]
SRU workers drawing huge salaries as compared to other govt department employees on May 31, 2018LAHORE: The excessive, discriminatory and beyond market based standards salaries being paid to the staff of Chief Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit (SRU) has become a point of discussion and distress for the other government employees of Punjab as the salaries of SRU do not match the government pay scales set for contractual or regular employee, […]
PITB revamping job portal to remove flaws on May 29, 2018LAHORE: The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) is presently revamping its job portal Punjab Jobs Online to remove the flaws indicated by the candidates, Daily Times learnt on Monday. The portal was created in 2017 on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif with a purpose of transparency in jobs, to monitor the recruitment […]
Why is the govt negligent towards improving Christian graveyards? on May 28, 2018LAHORE: The oldest Taxali Gate Cemetery (a Christian graveyard) is presently in shambles and presents a dreadful condition as the graves are being disgraced and sinking into the ground and waist high shrubs have grown all over in the cemetery, lacking maintenance and repair, sources informed Daily Times. The sources further added that the cemetery, […]
Alamgiri Gate, Prince Loh Temple, Lahore Fort illuminated! on May 27, 2018LAHORE: The Alamgiri Gate, Temple of Prince Loh and Royal Trail of Lahore Fort have been illuminated with a cost of Rs 1.5 million by the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Daily Times learnt. The project has been completed in a month’s time and these new illuminated sites will be added in the history […]
French agency invests in WCLA to beautify Lahore Fort on May 26, 2018LAHORE: French development agency Agence Française De Développement (AFD) is lending a soft loan of $28.93 million to the government of Punjab and Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) to make Lahore Fort and its surrounding buffer zone a high tourist spot and destination of choice, Daily Times learnt on Friday. A copy of proposal […]
PITB to digitally preserve 500,000 pages of historic documents on May 25, 2018LAHORE: The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) is digitally preserving 500,000 pages of historic documents present in the Punjab Archives through professional and international standards of scanning. Daily Times learnt that the archives present in the Punjab Archives were mismanaged and not digitally available for the research scholars and other people interested in that material. […]
Punjab’s Archaelogy Department lacks social media presence, updated website on May 23, 2018LAHORE: The Archaeology Department of Punjab so far has no active website or social media presence for disseminating information regarding archaeological sites, history, ongoing conservation or restoration projects or any other material necessary for the public and people related to the field, sources informed Daily Times. At present in the age of technology, the Archaeology […]