Day: June 21, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has issued a clarification on a news story appearing in ‘Daily Times’ wrongly portraying that a proposed amendment in the Finance Bill, 2021 makes it mandatory to make payment of total assessed demand for filing of first appeal. FBR has explained the relevant section of the enforced law to remove […]

ISLAMABAD: Central Chairman of Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) Khalil Sattar on Sunday demanded for tax reduction on poultry inputs to avoid fluctuation in price of poultry items and keep the poultry prices down for the consumers. “Prolonged prevalence of COVID-19, disruption in global and local supply chain including import of poultry grandparents, market speculation, taxes […]

ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU)’s Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has completed the process of online admissions for the educational programs to be offered in the 1st phase of autumn 2021 semester. It is pertinent to mention here that ICT has completed the process of automation of key academic, administrative and financial […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi on Sunday said that the rigging, in general elections, will be controlled through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Talking to private news channel, he said that new amendment bill of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was good for the common man and opposition’s criticism had no validity. He said […]

ISLAMABAD: Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU), Khairpur, Sindh, and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together engaging academia in policy sphere on socioeconomic development issues. The MoU was signed by Prof Dr Khalil Ahmed Ibupoto, SALU Vice-Chancellor and Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri, SDPI Executive Director, in […]

ISLAMABAD: Spokesman MET office Islamabad Dr Zaheer Babar on Sunday informed that monsoon would likely to onset from next week. Talking to reporter, he said the first spell of monsoon would likely to occur mostly in northern and upper parts of the country while rain would also forecast for few places of Sindh. He said […]

ISLAMABAD: The government has planned to award 684 overseas scholarships, 2, 171 indigenous scholarships and 2, 490 need based scholarships during the year 2021-22, under the Knowledge Economy Initiatives. According to the Annual Development Plan (ADP), another target is to train 300 needs-based scholarship beneficiaries in 10 workshops during the period. While around 200 Postdoctoral […]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority, Lt. Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa on Sunday said the pilot project of Chilli farms in the country had been completed with cooperation of the Chinese agricultural experts. “Pilot project of Chilli Farm with100 acres is completed, ” he said in his tweet, adding that in the […]