Tag: Homes

LAHORE - PCB's National Cricket Academy donated coaching kits and cricket gear to the Roshni Homes Trust and SOS Children's Village. The equipment was handed over to the two organisations at a small ceremony at NCA on Jan 17.
Haroon Rashid, Head NCA Youth Development and Mansoor Rana, women team coach presented kits to the representatives of the concerned organisations in the presence of Ali Zia, Director Game Development (A).

COLOMBO - Flooding in Sri Lanka has forced more than one million people out of their homes, the government said on Thursday as it began distributing emergency food, clothing and bedding. At least 23 people have died during a week of monsoon floods, with the centre and east of the island worst hit by rising water levels and mudslides.
A spokesman for the disaster management centre in Colombo said the eastern district of Batticaloa, which saw bloody fighting in the civil war that

LAHORE - There were long queues of vehicles outside the CNG stations and people have to wait hours for getting CNG on Wednesday. The domestic users also suffered badly, as SNGPL totally failed to provide relief to them.
The CNG stations opened after four days continuous closure and there was huge rush at every CNG stations. Many CNG stations could not start service, as the gas pressure was very low for these stations.
The gas pressure also went very low at the homes due to

LAHORE - Not everyone knows what lies hidden and unnoticed in many small villages of the country, which translates into a peek at our heritage. Architecturally, the public must be aware of the Mughal arches and domes, and mosque like huge and magnificent forts which have been regularly visited by many in Lahore. On the other side are British buildings, a common sight for residents of this old city.
In their red brick colours and Western postures, these are also some of the most

ISLAMABAD - An Australian oil and gas company operating in Pakistan has handed over 49 houses, built at a cost of Rs 6.0 million, to the flood victims' homeless families in Isakhel district of Mianwali, to mitigate their sufferings in the severe winters.
The houses have been constructed at one of the worst hit villages at Sharifabad in Isakhel, located along the Kunhar river and have been provided to the widows and the elderly on priority. The Combined Engineering and Integrated

BUNDABERG - Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions".
As Queen Elizabeth II sent her "sincere sympathies" to Queenslanders who rang in a damp new year, helicopters were being used to deliver food and other supplies to isolated towns. Up to 200,000 people have been affected by the floods, which have hurt the nation's lucrative mining industry

JERUSALEM - Israeli settlers have illegally begun work on at least 100 homes in the occupied West Bank since the end of a freeze on settlement construction, Israel's Peace Now movement said on Thursday.
"Since the end of the settlement freeze at the end of September, at least 100 buildings are now under construction in the West Bank," Peace Now's secretary general Yariv Oppenheimer told AFP.
In November 2009, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implemented a freeze on

LAHORE - The Aashiyana Housing Project (AHP), backed by the Punjab government, is all set to turn into a housing scam, as mystery prevails over the procedures for the project despite the announcement of its inauguration.
As yet, there has been no notification about the project, land acquisition, land transfer, the number of plots and expression of interest for the development of the infrastructure of the AHP. The Punjab government announced the scheme with high-profile publicity