Laurie Goering - The world has made important progress towards improving energy efficiency and using more renewable sources of power over the last two decades, but the gains have barely been enough to keep up with population growth and surging energy demand, a new UN-backed report suggests.In the ...

LAHORECivic Body of the Lahore Development Authority has given approval for the demolition of the 9th floor of the LDA Plaza from Tuesday (today) on the recommendations of building engineers. This is being done in the light of the initial findings of building stability tests, it is learnt.However, ...

LAHORE - The fire-affected directorates of Lahore Development Authority will resume work at LDA Johar Town office from Monday (today).LDA Director General Dr Ijaz Munir has directed the officers concerned to get back to work for reorganisation. He was chairing a meeting at LDA office Johar Town on ...

LAHORE - A five-year-old girl died and her two-year-old brother sustained burns as their house caught fire in the Shafiqabad area, police and rescuers said on Monday. Locals told the police that the children were sleeping when the fire broke out in the house of Imran in the Kasurpura area late ...

All over the world, the news of a young child dying causes hue and cry, but such news in Pakistan raises no voices! An Islamic state, a free and developing country such as Pakistan has no respect for human life, the ongoing killings in Karachi and Baluchistan speak volumes, but the news of a six ...

    WAH CANTT Family members of a deceased labourer of a private industrial unit at Hassanabdal, who burnt to death two years back, are running from pillar to post to compensation, including death grant, social security and other pension benefits which are denied to them despite the lapse ...

LAHORE -Two children burnt alive and another wounded critically when a shack caught fire near the Expo Centre in Johar Town, police and rescuers said Monday. “The fire is under control right now but two girls are found expired,” Nawab Town station house officer said.  The deceased ...

Corporal punishment in government schools is very common in our society since decades. Brutal physical punishment always discourages children, instead of teaching them a lesson in behavior. Punishment instills fear in a child and lowers the self-esteem. Children mostly start hating their schools ...

KARACHI - The increasing cases of women and children being burnt alive due to improper law enforcing mechanism are highly condemnable. Delay in providing justice, lack of implementation on policies, police negligence, poor medical facilities, medicolegal negligence and availability of limited ...

MULTAN - At least three activists of Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) got burnt when they tried to gut cotton during a protest rally against low rate of cotton here on Tuesday. The rally started from the office of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and terminated at Kalma Chowk where the ...

MULTAN - At least three activists of Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) got burnt when they tried to gut cotton during a protest rally against low rate of cotton here on Tuesday. The rally started from the office of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and terminated at Kalma Chowk where the ...

A woman was burnt to death due to fire in a house here in Abbottabad during wee hours of Sunday.According to police, the fire erupted due to unknown reasons in a house located in village Raccha Behn, Sherwan police station jurisdiction, district Abbottabad.A woman sleeping in a room of the house ...

RAWALPINDI  - Residents have demanded repair or replacement of a burnt transformer of Iesco circle Rawalpindi, Jhanda Chichi sub-division. The transformer is not working for the last two months and we have made repeated verbal and written requests to the concerned line superintendent and ...

MULTAN - Four kids including three brothers and a sister were burnt alive in a tragic fire incident here in Basti Malook, a suburban of area Multan, in wee hours of Saturday. The children were alone and asleep in their mud-made house when the premises caught fire apparently due to a ...

LAHORE – Two infants expired and another suffered multiple burn injuries when fire erupted in several cloth-made cottages of nomads near EXPOC Center in Johar Town police precincts late on Friday. The City District Government’s Civil Defence Department officials said that fire broke out ...

LAHORE  – As the usage of gas-heaters is on the rise during chilly-weather, so are the killings. At least two persons including a baby boy were burnt to death in as many incidents here in different parts of the City on Thursday. In the first such incident, a two-year-old boy was burnt to ...

LAHORE – The bodies of the four children, who had died in a fire incident in Qila Gujjar Singh Police area, have been handed over to the bereaved family after completing medico-legal formalities whereas the condition of their mother was told stable on Saturday. A seasoned investigator said a ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER FAISALABAD - Former Dijkot Police SHO Abdul Razaq Gujar was shot dead and then burnt along with his car here the other day. According to a police, some unknown persons opened fire at former SHO Abdul Razzaq in Siyal Garh area. After killing him, said Raheem, the attackers set on ...

ISLAMABAD - Though 'special arrangements are made every year to overcome fire incidents in the Margalla Hills National Park area but the data compiled by the directorate of the authority says otherwise, as 2040.25 acres of forest area burnt in 309 fire incidents during past the 10 years. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Though 'special arrangements are being made every year to overcome fire incidents in Margalla Hills National Park Area, the data compiled by the directorate of the authority portrayed an alarming figure as 2040.25 acres were burnt in 309 fire incidents during years 2001 to 2010. The ...

QUETTA (APP) - 545 passports of them two belonging to ministers were burnt when unidentified armed men set ablaze a courier van here in Khuzdar. This was stated by the Assistant Director Passport Office Saeed Agha while addressing a Press conference at his office on Tuesday. Giving the details, he ...

SWABI Four tyre shops were burnt in an inferno in old Swabi general bus stand market on Swabi-Mardan Road here on Tuesday. The fire that broke out first at the shop of a leading tyre seller was believed to be caused by setting on fire the pieces of tyres near the shop by one of the employees early ...

LAHORE - Valuables including electronics, mobile phone accessories and stationary items were reduced to ashes when fire broke out in the basement of a double-storey commercial plaza situated near Patyala ground of the Hall Road here on Saturday. The fire which first erupted in the basement of the ...