DoST organizes STEAM summer camps for students from merged districts

PESHAWAR: The Directorate of Science and Technology Khyber Pakhtunkwa (DoST) has successfully conducted its first residential STEAM Summer Camp for secondary level students from the merged districts in two phases. The summer camps managed to engage a total of 400 young learners in inter-disciplinary STEAM-related subjects. STEAM camps are a collection of in-person summer camp […]

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241 new cases of coronavirus, 1 death reported in Pb

LAHORE: About 241 new cases of coronavirus were reported in 24 hours on Wednesday across the province while one death was observed due to the pandemic. According to the data shared by the spokesperson of Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD), the number of coronavirus cases in the province reached 518,993 while the total […]

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President stresses extensive plantation to save country from climate change

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday called for concerted efforts by all segments of society to carry out extensive plantation in a bid to save the country from the horrendous effects of climate change. In his message on the launch of the national monsoon tree plantation drive, he urged every citizen, particularly youth, to […]

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KIIR chairman condemns killing of prisoners in fake encounters

ISLAMABAD:Chairman of Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) Altaf Hussain Wani has strongly condemned the killing of under trial prisoners by the Indian Army in fake encounters and said Kot Bhalwal Jail has become a new death trap for innocent Kashmiris. “It is quite ridiculous to see that prisoners are being used as scapegoats and […]

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Monsoon plantations begin in UoP

PESHAWAR:Vice Chancellor, University of Peshawar, Dr Muhammad Idrees Khan here Thursday inaugurated monsoon plantation campaign in the university. Accompanied by Principal Quaid-e-Azam Commerce College, Professor Dr Yourad Ahsan Zia, Provost Dr Fazal Sher Khan and others senior officers of the administration, the vice chancellor inaugurated the monsoon plantation campaign by planting a sapling. The vice […]

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Action underway against illegal housing societies: Shahadat

ISLAMABAD:Minister of State for Law and Justice Senator Shahadat Awan on Thursday said Capital Development Authority (CDA) was taking action against all illegal housing societies being developed in its jurisdiction as per by-laws and the Constitution. During ‘question hour’ in Senate, he said there were 117 illegal housing societies being built in the domain of […]

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Cloudy weather with isolated rains predicted for KP

PESHAWAR:The Regional Meteorological Centre Peshawar on Thursday forecast partly cloudy weather for most parts of the province during the next 24 hours. However, it said widespread rain with thunderstorm is likely to occur in Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, North and South Waziristan and Bannu districts. The Centre further said that isolated to scattered rain-wind/thunderstorm of […]

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India’s settler colonialism in IIOJK begins to show true colours: Hurriyat leader

MIRPUR ( AJK): Incarcerated Senior APHC Nayeem Ahmed while condemning Indian occupation authorities’ move to grant voting rights to Indian citizens ordinarily residing in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir(IIOJK), has said that India’s settler colonialism has begun to show its true colours. In a message from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, issued here on Thursday, […]

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