Next Grade, APPSA join hands for online education of flood-hit students

LAHORE:Next Grade and All Pakistan Private Schools Association (APPSA) here Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for online education of over 20,000 schoolchildren in flood-affected areas of Pakistan. APPSA President Mian Shabbir Ahmed and Operation Head of Next Grade Muhammad Usman signed the MoU document on behalf of their respective sides. The MoU signing […]

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Commissioner Dera reviews Anti Dengue parameters

D.I.KHAN:Commissioner Dera Ismail Khan Aamir Afaq on Tuesday reviewed preventive parameters against the spread of dengue virus and said the dengue was a life threatening disease. He called upon the masses to join hands with the monitoring teams constituted by the health department to make area virus free, according to a press release issued here […]

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Commissioner Rakhshan Division bans hunting of animals

QUETTA:Commissioner Rakhshan Division Mir Saifullah Khan Khetran on Tuesday imposed a ban on hunting off all kinds of animals, birds throughout the Division with immediate effect and until further orders in interest of public service. The Commissioner Rakhshan Division Mir Saifullah Khan Khetran issued this official notification and warned that strict action would be taken […]

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Bilawal, Norwegian FM for early conclusion of FTA between Pakistan, EFTA

NEW YORK:Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his Norwegian counterpart Ms. Anniken Huitfeldt Tuesday underlined the importance of early conclusion of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The two Foreign Ministers, who met here on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, reviewed the […]

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Govt committed to ensure necessary facilities to people: SACM

KARACHI:Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh for Investment and Public Private Partnership Projects, Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar on Tuesday said that Sindh government was committed to ensure provision of necessary facilities to people for raising their living standard. He said this during a meeting with World Bank’s Public Private Partnership Hub Leader Moazzam Maikan and […]

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PU hands over flood relief items to Akhuwat Foundation

LAHORE:Akhuwat Foundation head Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib has said that every citizen should play his role to help the flood victims. He was addressing a program organized by Punjab University at its premises to handover relief items for flood victims, voluntarily collected by the students and faculty members, to Akhuwat Foundation. Dean Faculty of Life […]

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UN chief focuses on climate crisis in UNGA address, citing flood havoc in Pakistan; urges debt relief

UNITED NATIONS:UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Tuesday highlighted the huge destruction wrought by climate change, saying he himself saw it in Pakistan, where, he said, one-third of the country was submerged by a “monsoon on steroids”. “We have a rendezvous with climate disaster,” the UN chief said as he opened the General Assembly high-level debate in […]

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