Tag: Roads

The road infrastructure around Khanna Pull area is fast vanishing -thanks to the indifferent attitude of Capital Development Authority (CDA). While the approach road...

Most of direction signboards along the capital roads are either covered with tree branches or hidden due to installation at inappropriate places, which reflects...

Dilapidated streets and roads in federal rural areas are creating inconvenience and problems for residents while authorities concerned playing the role of a silent...

It has been rightly said the biggest problem of the 21st century is car parking. Over the years, the federal capital has developed from...

Despite heavy rain in the provincial metropolis for two hours continuously on Friday noon, a major part of the city remained submerged for a...

As more than half of the roads in Garden Town have been dug up in order to install sewerage pipelines, the Water and Sanitation...

If the budget released for constructing roads was used properly, Balochistan could have had silver roads, a Balochistan chief secretary had said several years...

LAHORE - The Lahore Shopping Festival entered its third phase with the success of its four events held on Tuesday. The events were Young Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition, opening of My Lahore; a photography competition and exhibition, Vintage Car Rally and World Punjab Organization Musical Evening.
MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif was the chief guest at the opening of the business plan and photography competitions. The Vintage Car Rally started from the parking area of the Liberty

KARACHI - Reacting to the recent increase in Petrol Oil and Lubricants (POL) prices, Karachi-based transporters have taken at least 2,000 public buses and coaches off the roads, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
Moreover, the Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) has also convened an emergency meeting of all the stakeholders on Monday to announce a wheel-jam strike, discuss the government's decision and chalk out future course of action. Transporters said that if the government

LAHORE - The anti-encroachments drive, launched to remove all stuff blocking "Right of the Way", is adamant to take any action against illegal heaps of building materials lying unattended at various roads despite that fact that only four days are left until the operations ends, Pakistan Today has learnt. Since the thunderous start of the drive, City District Government Lahore (CDGL) officials have not padded up against squatters encroaching roadside areas including main roads with

KARACHI - Roads play a vital role in the development and prosperity of any country, and the present government is paying full attention to the construction, repair and renovation of Sindh's essential roads, said Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah at the CM House on Tuesday.
Presiding over the fifth meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Policy Board as the board's chairman, Shah said that by initiating various projects under public-private partnership, the provincial government

NEW DELHI - A tiny north Indian city has overnight become a hottest tourist destination, drawing Prime Ministers, corporate czars, showbiz celebrities and passionate fans for what is touted as the "mother of all cricket contests".
Nothing gets bigger in this part of the globe than a cricket match featuring India and Pakistan, who fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947. The rivalry would be renewed in Wednesday's World Cup semi-final in Mohali in the state

BEIJING - A fleet of 50 electric cabs has started operation in suburb areas of the Chinese capital Beijing. The cabs, manufactured by the Beijing-based Foton Motor Group, will mainly operate in suburban Yanqing district where the government has set up a recharging hub and 25 recharging posts at street sides, city traffic officials said Tuesday. Each of the electric cabs can run 140 kilometers on full battery and saves more than 30,000 yuan on fuel per year, a spokesman with the Foton

DASKA - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved special grant of Rs 90 million for the early repair, reconstruction and widening of three main roads. The PML-N leader from Daska MPA Yahya Gul Nawaz said the CM had approved this grant during his recent visit to Sialkot.
He said Rs 40 million would be spent on upgrading the Daska city's main College Road and construction of a service road along it. He said the government was spending Rs 50 million on the reconstruction of

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

BEIJING - Major road accidents have claimed as many as 44 lives in China since February 2, the eve of the Lunar New Year, figures released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.
Six road accidents, each killing at least five people, were reported nationwide between February 2 to 7.Most cases involved small vehicles in head-on collisions, and majority of the victims were families and friends, said the statement.
The ministry urged police across the

FAISALABAD - The dividends of city government's ongoing operation against encroachments will be enjoyed by the citizens in the coming months as most of the traffic-troubled spots have been cleaned up in an operation and District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim Sadiq has expressed his determination to expand the roads and highways to solve the traffic problems.
In the recent operation, the DCO, accompanied by Deputy District Officer Revenue (DDOR) Asif Chaudhary personally