LAHOREThe Punjab University College of Information Technology has organised a job fair at its campus to provide employment opportunities to intelligent IT students. More than 400 students participated in the fair who were interviewed by 31 national and multi-national companies. The representative ...

  LAHORE The Punjab police are all set to undergo another massive reshuffle, right from top to bottom, as the PML-N is ready to form the next government in the biggest province for another five-year term since it emerged as the single-largest political party in the general election 2013. In ...

LAHORE (PR): The Information Technology University Punjab (ITU-Punjab) is set to hold an Information session on Saturday (today) at the Arfa Software Technology Park located on Ferozepur Road, Lahore. This event will be a great opportunity for prospective students to learn about ITU’s ...

GujranwalaPunjab Labour Secretary Yousaf during his visit to the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the industry was critically faced with energy crisis and sorry state of affairs in the country. Addressing a meeting at GCCI office, he hoped that the new regime would bring a new ...

LAHORE - (OUR STAFF REPORTER) - The SNGPL management is planning to provide four days a week gas supply to CNG sector of Punjab.The gas outlets of the province are observing four day a week gas load management plant for past two months. “The gap between demand and supply is shrinking and we ...

lahore - The electricity shortfall is touching 5,000MW with 12 hours loadshedding in urban and rural limits of the country. The hydel plants, IPPs and thermal power plants are jointly generating 10000MW against the demand of more than 15000MW.The city is under the grip of massive outages with ...

LAHORE:Punjab Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal on Wednesday left for Dubai on two-day official visit. Senior Member of Board of Revenue will hold additional charge of the top administrative slot in the CS absence, a notification issued by S&GAD said. Meanwhile, Higher Education Special Secretary ...

LAHOREThe Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab police chief to promote deputy superintendents of police and inspectors according to their seniority and turn. This order was passed by an apex court divisional bench of Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani and Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Wednesday set aside the notification for termination of 20 law officers of the office of the advocate general Punjab, issued by the caretaker government on May 5 this year. The order from Justice Umar Ata Bandial came on a petition filed by the terminated law ...

MULTAN Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that the elections are held in peaceful environment in Punjab and there is no complaint regarding large scale rigging in the province.“If there is any tiny complaint, it’s just a local issue,” he added while talking to ...

LAHORE - The Punjab police are yet to trace the whereabouts of the abducted son of former Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, as the investigators are still groping in the dark with no clue and no lead, police sources revealed on Tuesday. A top police officer believes that Ali Haider Gilani was ...

LAHORE Following a landslide victory by the PML-(N) in Punjab, a major bureaucratic reshuffle is expected by the end of this month to bring back those who served in the previous government on key posts, sources confided TheNation on Monday.In a move to retrovert what the Election Commission of ...

Senior PPP leader Mian Manzoor Wattoo has tendered resignation from his office reportedly over party’s failure to grab sufficient seats from Punjab in May 11 general elections.Wattoo, who is president of Pakistan Peoples Party’s central Punjab chapter, has dispatched his resignation to ...

lahore - The Punjab government has approved twenty one (21) revised on-going development schemes of various sectors of the economy with an estimated cost of Rs25.72 billion. These schemes were approved in the 33rd meeting of Provincial Development working Party of current fiscal year 2012-13 ...

  lahore PML-N has emerged as the largest party in Punjab obtaining 207 of the total 297 general seats, which has placed this party at a very comfortable position to form the government fifth time in the province. Surprisingly, the potential parties of the past, PPP and PML-Q, have almost ...

Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmood on Monday resigned as Governor of Punjab province.Talking to media persons here, the Punjab governor said he moved his resignation to President Asif Ali Zardari and he hoped the president would accept it.“I have forwarded my resignation to President Asif Ali Zardari. I ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/SARGODHA/SIALKOTOur Staff reportersDefying all fears and speculations, the voters from all age groups including women streamed to polling station both in urban and rural areas well before the set time of 8:00am, queued up enthusiastically to cast their votes. The voting continued ...

    LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that the caretaker government has fulfilled its promise of holding fair, transparent and peaceful elections and efficiently discharged its national obligation of providing an opportunity to millions of people ofPunjabto exercise their ...

The US Consul General, Ms Nina Maria Fite, called on Punjab Governor Makhdum Syed Ahmad Mahmud at Makhdum House on Friday. During the meetign, they discussed the issues of law and order as well as the holding of the general elections. The governor said the government was a firm believer in ...

LOWER DIR/MIANWALI  - Elders in Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Mianwali district of Punjab have banned women voting in their respective areas. According to BBC Urdu, the elders of KP-97 Lower Dir have decided that no woman would cast vote on May 11. Similarly, the elders of ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Thursday has promoted 116 Associate Professors (BPS 19) to Professors (BPS-20) on regular basis, says a notification.These include Dr. Babar Baig Mitaly, AP Islamiat, Government PG College, Satellite Town, Gujranwala, Rashid Najib, AP Physics / Principal, ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday called reply from the Punjab government on a petition filed against inordinate delay in conduct of local bodies elections in the province. The petitioner submitted that as per a notification issued by the Punjab government local bodies polls were should ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Punjab province has achieved 16 per cent of cotton sowing target fixed for the sowing season 2013 to fulfill the domestic requirements of the commodity as well as to export it. The sowing is 16 percent higher than that during the same period of last year, said Cotton Development ...

LAHORE - The Punjab cabinet on Tuesday finalised a number of matters. They include arrangements and security plan for free, transparent, impartial and peaceful conduct of general elections in the province, up-gradation of Fatima Jinnah Medical College to Fatima Jinnah Medical University, reduction ...

ISLAMABAD - While the tricky game of politics has always transformed foes into friends and allies into opponents, it has also been instrumental in dividing families as kith and kin become overnight rivals aiming to defeat the otherwise loved ones.The Southern Punjab is full of such cases as the ...

ISLAMABAD - Whatever the reasons may be behind the going into hibernation of the top leadership of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) but this indifference to the party's election campaign, especially in central and upper Punjab areas, would cost their candidates dearly.Interaction ...

Nearly 300,000 security personnel including 32,000 army men will be deployed in Punjab for general elections.The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at Corps Headquarters Lahore on Wednesday.Briefing the media after the meeting, ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government transferred and posted various officers on Monday.Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) Chairperson Mrs Rashida Malik has been transferred and posted as secretary to government of the Punjab, Management & Professional Development ...

lahore - After taking notice of the tax experts’ fear that lack of coordination between federal and provincial revenue departments could lead to oozing of taxes from the national exchequer, the Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi sent his adviser on Tax and Finance to visit Sindh to settle the ...

LAHORE - Unannounced power cuts of up to four hours are rubbing salt into wounds of powerless public, though authorities have already been carrying out 14-hour announced loadshedding.The national grid is facing over 6,000MW shortfall, around 60 per cent of the countrywide demand and the situation ...