Food bylaws in tatters
Shopkeepers in the city are openly violating food bylaws as most do not clean their shops and leave foodstuffs uncovered while the Health Directorate...
Zero Point Interchange remains incomplete
The incomplete Zero-Point Interchange project has become a nuisance for commuters as its unfilled roadsides continue to threaten traffic on a daily basis. On...
Accused QAU officials be shown the door: committee
The committee constituted to investigate cases of alleged harassment of two female students of Quaid-i-Azam University on Saturday recommended the QAU Syndicate fire the...
Ill-equipped security pickets irk commuters
Upon travelling hardly a few hundred yards in the federal capital, one becomes confronted with yet another ill-equipped police picket. Instead of increasing security,...
6 injured in road mishap at Zero Point Interchange
At least six persons were injured when a speedy passenger bus overturned near Zero Point Interchange here on Friday, police said.
According to eyewitnesses, the...
CDA to launch housing scheme
On the directives of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, the administration of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to setup a Housing...
TMA to crack down on dairy farms
Tehsil Municipal Administration would launch a grand operation on Saturday morning to shift buffaloes from the Rawal Town limits. The TMA had given the...
Legal water connections in full swing in Cantt
Illegal water connections are in full swing in Cantonment Board Chaklala while Department of Water Supply chooses to remain mum. The residents of Cannt...
Timber mafia active in chopping trees
Timber mafia is busy in tree chopping in Murree and adjacent tehsils while the Department of Forest remain indifferent to the law violations. Timber...
Khalid Iqbal comes in as new PAL DG
Renowned poet and scholar Khalid Iqbal Yasir has assumed the charge as Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) director general. Iqbal had been working as...
PMD predicts more monsoon rains
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Friday predicted 4th spell of monsoon rains in the country from Friday night that may produce scattered rains with...
Milk prices set to rise again
Dairy farmers have decided to increase the fresh milk price by Rs 2 per litre. The new price of fresh milk would be applicable...
Obesity – bigger cancer risk than smoking
A woman’s chance of developing breast cancer depends on a range of factors, including family history, age, time of menopause and whether she has...
No check on harmful drugs in twin cities despite ban
Harmful banned drugs are selling under the nose of the health authorities in the medical stores of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad...
I-8 tubewells have gone dry!
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) had installed 15 tubewells in sector I/8, about half of which are presently either out of order or not...
Security arrangements for Ramadan finalised
The Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad, Amer Ali Ahmed finalized on Friday the security arrangements for mosques and imambargahs during the holy month of Ramadan....
State of the Art
What is the relationship between art and people in Pakistan? What role do art galleries play, of which there are at least twenty six...
