Tag: Students

Massive load shedding will haunt intermediate students who get ready for their final examinations from May 7. Out of the 606 examination centres established...

Much like other parts of the country, prolonged and unscheduled power outages have made the lives of people miserable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining...

A large number of students and people rallied against unscheduled power outages by the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO). The participants protested against the...

Police opened fire at students doing wall chalking near the Government College University (GCU on early Saturday morning. At 2 am, police found three...

Students of the 21st century are fast paced and prone to electronic gadgets due to which this generation is termed as Generation Y and...

The graduating class of the Punjab University Fine Arts Department displayed their thesis in Graphics in the department’s auditorium. The work was presented on several...

KARACHI - First year students of the Sindh Madressatul Islam College (SMIC) organised a farewell party for the passing out students of second year. A passionate performance by the students on the Sindhi folk song 'Sindh Jeay, Sindh Wara Jean' (long live Sindh, long live its people) captivated the hearts and minds of the audience. Similarly, a '2Man Show' and skit on the subject of science, symbolising the provinces of Pakistan including Gilgit Baltistan, was entertaining and

KARACHI - Students of Abdullah Faysal School, Shah Faisal Colony have been saved in the nick of time: the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) had barred them from taking their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part I & II exams over a wrangle with the school administration, but a Sindh High Court (SHC) division bench on Monday ordered the Board to allow 29 students of the school to appear in SSC Part I examinations that start from today (Tuesday) even without any admit

ISLAMABAD - The Quaid-e-Azam University students on Monday boycotted their classes in protest against fee increase and lack of facilities in the hostel.
During their protest, students stopped the university shuttle service. As a result, several students could not reach the university.
The students said that there were no Internet, transportation and water for the students living in the university hostel.
They also demanded that the intervention of political parties in

LAHORE - A paper titled 'Barriers to Islamic Banking in Pakistan' presented by 5 undergraduate students Hassan Ahmed, Nausherwan Saleem, Khawaja Jaffer Abbas, Muzammil Altaf Barkhurdaria and Jawad Mehmood from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) received the best student paper award at the Global Islamic Marketing Conference held in Dubai, UAE in March, 2011.
The conference, sponsored by The United Arab Emirates University and Emerald Group Publishing, was

ISLAMABAD - Over 35 students and their parents gathered at the National Library on Sunday to kick off their pre-departure orientation for the United States (US) government-funded 2010-11 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Programme. This is the 9th group of YES students to go to the US.
The orientation programme, organised by the International Education and Resource Network iEARN Society, plays a key role in equipping students with the required skills, attitude and

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has enhanced endowment fund from Rs 2 billion to Rs 6 billion and 17,000 male and female students have been awarded scholarships for higher education. He revealed this while addressing the convocation of National Science College Gujranwala.
College Chief Executive Qamarul Islam Raja, Principal Hafiz M Arshad, Professor Abdul Ghani, Professor Abdul Majeed Qazi, Professor

KARACHI - Hundreds of students stormed the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) office on Saturday in a bid to submit their examination forms for the annual matriculation examination 2011.
On Friday, Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad - the controlling authority of examination boards in Sindh - had said that the students who failed to submit exam forms within the deadline will have no choice but to appear in the supplementary examinations.
Following the governor's

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Religious Affairs will hire 900 Pakistani students studying in Saudi Arabia as Khuddam-ul-Hujjaj for this year's pilgrimage.
Under the Hajj policy-2011, the number of local Khuddam has been increased from 250 to 900 whom's services will be hired at 100 Riyals per day, official sources told APP .
"For the welfare services, Medical Hajj Mission has been increased from 260 to 540, while 230 Khuddam will be drawn from Armed Forces, Civil Armed Forces

LAHORE - Alive Asia (Pvt) Ltd has introduced the International Student Identity Card (ISIC) in Pakistan, which allows students access to over 40,000 local and international benefits and services.
Alive Asia is the official licensed authority, appointed by the ISIC Association, for the development, distribution and provision of information of the ISIC within Pakistan. The ISIC is the only globally accepted identity card available in Pakistan which has been endorsed by the UNESCO

BERLIN - Libyan students are using mobile phones, an amateur video camera and YouTube to offer a glimpse of the war in the besieged city of Misrata where journalists are prevented from reporting freely. Braving sniper fire, indiscriminate shelling and advancing tanks, five students go out daily onto the rubble-strewn streets of Libya's third-biggest city to film the fighting between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels seeking his overthrow.
"We want people inside and

KARACHI - The students of Karachi must not allow themselves to be misguided on issue of Higher Education Commission's (HEC) devolution, PPP Sindh General Secretary Taj Haider said on Tuesday. He pointed out that all political parties in the Parliamentary Committee for reforming the Constitution had jointly brought about the landmark 18th Amendment, as a result of which education is now a provincial subject and the HEC is being devolved to the provinces.
"Dictators and their