LAHORE  - The Provincial Selection Board-I is expected to meet on Monday under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Punjab, Javed Aslam to clear the much delayed promotion cases of provincial service officers, TheNation has learnt.The PSB-1 that is chaired by the CS promotes officers from ...

KARACHI : Tariq Sayeed, former President of SCCI, who leads S Asian business delegation, will address inaugural session of 4th Sichuan-South Asia Business Promotion Seminar under the theme of “Future Energy - The Development of Electrical Power Industry in South Asian Countries, Potential and ...

LAHORE - Five senior clerks of the Punjab University working at various departments have been promoted as assistants on seniority-cum-fitness basis. In this regard, a ceremony was held at committee room of Vice Chancellor’s office to distribute promotion orders among the employees including ...

LAHORE - A delegation of eminent players in different sports called on former Punjab Chief Minister M Shahbaz Sharif and thanked him for promoting healthy sports activities in the province during his tenure.  The 61-member team included sportspersons in the hockey, squash, badminton, swimming, ...

MULTAN : Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) and provincial industries department have joined hands with MCCI for Geographical Indications (GIs) for the economic growth of growers and people of South Punjab. Project Director GIs, Nasir Rafique told on Friday that they had recently arranged a ...

BELGRADE - Disgruntled fans of a Serbian regional league club have vented their frustration at Macva Sabac's repeated failure to gain promotion to the national second division by digging a grave on their pitch, a club official said Tuesday. The two-metre long shallow grave was also adorned with a ...

SARGODHA - University of Sargodha Vice Chancellor Dr Mohammad Akram Chaudhry has said that the luminous roots of educational progress of the university are spreading day by day.Addressing the 1st annual prize distribution ceremony of UoS Bhakkar Campus, he pointed out that the UoS was striving to ...

SARGODHA - University of Sargodha Vice Chancellor Dr Mohammad Akram Chaudhry has said that the luminous roots of educational progress of the university are spreading day by day.Addressing the 1st annual prize distribution ceremony of UoS Bhakkar Campus, he pointed out that the UoS was striving to ...

LAHORE  - Pakistan has reported significant growth in agriculture produce in both livestock and horticulture in recent years owing to adoption of modern agricultural practices and improved methods of market linkages. Despite this growth, the country shares only a negligible percentage of the ...

LAHORE – The business community has urged the ambassadors of Pakistan to work selflessly for exchange of trade delegations between Pakistan and the country they are posted in. They said that single country exhibitions and catalogue shows are proven tools to enhance bilateral trade. Ambassador ...

LAHORE – Annoyed at former Punjab chief secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa’s decision over promotion share, the former Punjab Secretariat Service (ex-PSS) officers have decided to move court, it has been learnt.A year ago, the ex-PSS officials made a request to the former chief secretary to ...

KARACHI - Russia is a great potential market for the Pakistani products which is hitherto unexplored to the desired level.This was stated by Zubair Ahmed Malik, President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), in a meeting with Yury Kozlov, Trade Representative of Russian ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has said that the new generation is lucky for having access to flood of knowledge both in shape of hard and soft copies and they must avail the opportunities not only in their own interests but also with the spirit to serve the country ...

RAWALPINDI – MNAs at a function here on Monday stressed the need for promoting interfaith harmony to establish lasting peace in the country. Member National Assembly (MNA) Malik Ibrar said that Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) PML (N) believed in protecting the rights of the minorities and has ...

LAHORE – As the committee constituted by the Punjab chief secretary to settle the dispute between the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) and Provincial Secretariat Service (PSS) over the promotion to BS-18 and above has failed to achieve the target, the matter is sent to the CS for final ...

KARACHI - The international day to express solidarity with the peace icon Malala Yousafzai celebrated here with a message to promote the girls’ education.A gathering was held at the Sindh Assembly arranged by the South Asia Free Media Association (Safma), attended by schoolchildren from ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Extracurricular activities polish students’ skills and increase their ability to prove themselves, it was said during the art and science exhibition held at a school.To encourage and instill creativity into the schoolchildren, the second annual exhibition was held in Nankana ...

LAHORE – A meeting of provincial promotion board on Wednesday considered about 50 cases of promotion of four departments. Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa presided over the meeting.  Sources said that promotion cases of officers of the departments including Zakat, Health, ...

LAHORE - Minister of State for Science and Technology Rahila Shahadat Baloch said that we should promote the culture of innovation to provide jobs to our youth and put the country on the path of economic prosperity. She was addressing the one-day ‘Invention to Innovation Summit 2012’ ...

SWAT – The society for human and natural resources development Lasoona held a workshop on ‘building alliances to promote exports in embellished fabrics and up scaling of successful intervention’ under its UASID-funded project. According to a press release, this workshop will ...

ISLAMABAD  – China will sponsor and assist all efforts for the promotion of Chinese language learning in Pakistan, new designate Chinese Cultural Counsellor Zhang Yiung Pao said on Friday. During his first ever visit to the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), the Chinese ...

Bahawalpur - The first-ever national conference on “Scope and Development of Eastern Medicine” concluded here at the Abbasia Campus of Islamia University, Bahawalpur the other night. The two day event was organised by the University College of Conventional Medicine (UCCM), IUB in ...

KARACHI - Trade Development Authority of Pakistan has organised in-store promotion of Kinnow (oranges) in Dutch supermarket chain.An in-store promotion of Pakistani Kinnow was held at Hanos Amsterdam on 2nd March 2012. The promotion was organised by TDAP and Commercial Wing Embassy of Pakistan the ...

SWABI - Teachers of public sector educational institutions here on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government plan to appoint Senior English Teachers (SETs) and Subject Specialists (SSs) against the vacant posts on temporary basis, depriving the serving teachers ...

ISLAMABAD - The promotion cases of nearly two-dozen top bureaucrats from Secretariat and District Management Group (DMG) could not be finalised due to delay in the meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB), which is causing fear of discrimination among babus regarding allocation of secretariat ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - There is an acute shortage of teaching staff at schools as in majority of the primary schools only two teachers are running six classes almost across the province.This was the crux of a seminar held here to highlight the importance of “informal education”. The seminar ...

ISLAMABAD - The promotion of around 20 top bureaucrats is in limbo as meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB) lingers on due to different reasons   including the pending ACRs of senior officers.The board was to meet in mid of the ongoing month but is still to convene. Around 20 seats of ...

Islamabad  - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday ordered the promotion of 1,046 federal government school teachers from grade 16 to 17 as per special package. Spokesman Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Rafique Tahir told APP that as many as 474 male and 572 ...

BAHAWALPUR - Eight public sector universities signed a historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development and promotion of education at the Islamia University Bahawalpur on Monday.This significant document relates to the establishment of inter-varsity consortium for growth of social ...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said on Friday that he wants to strengthen the institutions. He said if every institution functions in its constitutional ambit the clash can be avoided. The Prime Minister was talking the media at the convocation of a university here in Lahore. The premier ...