Tag: Online

Radio Pakistan goes online

Radio Pakistan has archived a treasure trove of 3.5 million minutes of its broadcast, including historic speeches and interviews of national leaders, that will...

FC College holds online talk on Arab Spring

An online talk on regime changes in recent Arab Spring was hosted by “Khudi” under the title “Between Extremism and Dictatorship: Lessons from Arab...

NBP brings branches online

National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has recently converted its Islamabad and Quetta regions to completely online status. This is in line with the bank’s...

Intricacies of online marketing

As the internet grew into the news and entertainment media’s prime habitat, it was only natural for the marketing industry to enter an unprecedented...

Conned online

While visiting a public place or traveling by a public transport, white A4 size prints, pasted on walls with “Earn dollars by working from...

US congressman Weiner admits online affairs

US Representative Anthony Weiner on Monday tearfully admitted having a number of inappropriate relationships with women over the Internet, saying he was deeply ashamed...

Mozilla, YouTube bring you 3D home movies online

As if the downturn on theater ticket sales wasn't enough bad news for proponents of upgrading movie theaters for 3D screenings, now comes the...

YouTube starts online hits music video chart

YouTube on Thursday began publishing a chart that tracks top music videos at the popular Google-owned website. A YouTube 100 chart online at youtube.com/music...

KESC billing goes online

The customers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) can download their electricity bills from the KSEC’s website. This was announced by the spokesman of the...

Pakistan Railways computerize 41 stations for online reservation

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Railways has computerized 41 Railway Stations for online reservation in order to facilitate passengers during journey.
An official of Railways ministry told APP that a new reservation office has started functioning at Karachi Cantt Railway Station as the previous reservation office at Karachi was causing inconvenience to public due to congestion.
He said that in order to apprise the passengers regarding latest position of running trains, electronic train

Punjab Legislation Project goes online

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday inaugurated the website of the Online Legislation Project, "Awareness about Law for Everyone" at the Chief Minister's Secretariat. The website will promote public awareness about laws and policies of various departments of the provincial government. Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that online provision of information to the general public about laws of government departments was a revolutionary step of the Punjab

Royal wedding recording to be online within hours

LONDON - The official recording of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 will be available to download within hours of the service finishing. Decca Records, part of the Universal Music label which also released the recordings of Prince Charles's wedding in 1981 and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, will have a recording of the royal nuptials for sale on the net within hours and then release the official album of the marriage ceremony on May 5. The

Petition filed to terminate BISEs’ online system

LAHORE - An application was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday seeking termination of Dr Majid Naeem, head of new online system for all education boards and abolition of the boards' online system that could not issue role number slips to students on time. The application was filed by Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique as an addition to his already pending main petition against the new Matric exams system.
The petitioner alleged that Dr Naeem was a corrupt person and he

Online admission form submission irks students

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday admitted an application pleading that NADRA B-Form should not be submitted along the online Matric admission form. Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed this application to an already filed petition pleading against the compulsion that NADRA B-Form should be produced with the admission forms of class ninth and tenth, during submission. He submitted that Board Of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE)

Online complaint system for telecom consumers launched

KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an "online complaint management system" which enables consumers of all telecom services, including internet and broadband users, to lodge their complaints against their service providers online and to have prompt response on them. This system is integrated with operators and the telecom regulator.
The primary objective of this new system is the management and resolution of telecommunication subscriber's complaints.

Josh Gad launching Borat-like online comedy series

NEW YORK - Actor Josh Gad has created a new scripted comedy series that's going to be distributed exclusively online. In Gigi: Almost American, a foreigner played by Gad immigrates to the US with dreams of obtaining the American dream - and not letting his lack of street smarts, fashion sense, or mastery of English stand in his way.
The Borat-like series is from BBC Worldwide Productions (the company's first digital series, in fact), My Damn Channel and comedy troupe The Lost

Online investment to boost foreign exchange

LAHORE - The facility of online investment for overseas Pakistanis in the National Savings will boost the inflow of foreign exchange to the country. National Savings Director General Zafar M.Sheikh said that a website is being launched to facilitate overseas Pakistanis for online investment in National Savings from all corners of the world.
This initiative, he said would certainly attract overseas Pakistani workers to directly invest their savings in Pakistan, as a result the