Tag: Woes

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday directed chairmen of all boards of intermediate and secondary education (BISE) in Punjab to file their affidavits and inform the court as to when class 10 students were provided roll number slips and how many students failed to sit in the examinations. Earlier, BISE Lahore Chairman Muhammad Akram Kashmiri and BISE Faisalabad Chairman Mumtaz Hussain with their counsel Sheikh Shahid Waheed appeared in court and claimed

LAHORE - Students appearing in annual matriculation examinations 2011 faced problems in commuting to their examination centres, which have been set up far away from the city's centre. Students are suffering longer commuting time and transport unavailability, as Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has set up centres in private schools located far away from the candidates' residences instead of the nearby schools. A large number of students complained that BISE did not

LAHORE - Overburdened internet servers owing to Cricket World Cup 2011's online broadcasts are frustrating academics, whose research work relies mainly on online sources. Research scholars and students are finding it difficult to keep pace with their studies as many people watch cricket matches online, during the academic hours, which burdens the servers, disturbing the internet bandwidth. Research scholars said they were facing problems sometimes in opening a website, and their

DUBLIN - Irish voters on Friday look certain to oust their government in elections dominated by the collapse of the economy and a hated international bailout.
The widely expected defeat for the eurozone country's traditional party of government, Fianna Fail, would make the Irish government the first to fall victim to the eurozone debt crisis. "They're getting a good kicking, and they deserve it," said Brendan Buckley, a 47-year-old civil servant, at a polling station in north

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has voiced concern that the problems of the flood-hit population all over Pakistan seem to have come off the priority list even though the difficulties facing the affected people remain as challenging as ever and in some areas have even aggravated.
HRCP has been conducting damage and needs assessment in 33 flood-affected districts across the country and monitoring relief efforts there. In January and February the Commission held

KARACHI - The excruciatingly slow transfer of around $5.3 billion, pledged by the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) in Tokyo some two year ago, has compelled Pakistan to default on loans of millions of dollars owed to multinational lending agencies.
In April 2009, the supporters of democracy in Pakistan from some 26 nation states and multinational organisations meeting in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, had assured the provision of at least $5.3 billion over the next three

LAHORE - The Punjab government will abolish 550 posts including special secretaries and additional inspector generals to counter financial problems and strengthen governance in order to better serve the public, Senior Advisor to the Punjab CM Zulfiqar Khosa said on Sunday.
He was addressing a press conference after meeting of a government committee at the CM's Secretariat. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Punjab government spokesman Pervaiz Rashid were also present on the

LIVERPOOL - Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has denied he is to blame for the club's current problems, rejecting suggestions that successor Roy Hodgson inherited a mediocre squad.
Benitez, who left last summer after a disappointing league campaign which saw the Reds finish seventh and out of the Champions League reckoning, admitted not all his signings were a success.
But he insisted that his overall record during his six years at Anfield stood up to scrutiny. "I

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's crippling inflation rate has left trader Mohammad Farouk with a painful task at the end of each day - throwing out a large quantity of his fruits and vegetables because it's too expensive to sell. Soaring prices also mean he often has to purchase stocks on credit from wholesalers.
"We can't make money anymore because prices have been high for so long," said Farouk, sitting beside other idle merchants, warming their hands over a fire burning in a large can.

Lahore - While government schools are known to be unable to satisfy their teachers, private school teachers of the relatively lower-middle-class schools have also started to complain that their schools' administrations can not cater to their demands, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the teachers, administration of these schools exploits them, whereas nobody in the government was willing to take up the issue. They said that after retirement, there was no mechanism of

Darren Aronofsky was under pressure to "pull the plug" on Black Swan before the cameras rolled, because he struggled to win financial backing for the ballet movie. The director has won rave reviews and critical acclaim, as well as numerous awards nominations, for the dark new film, which stars Natalie Portman as a dancer who descends into madness after landing a leading role. Aronofsky admits 'Black Swan' almost didn't get made as numerous investors refused to fund the film, but he

LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods has once again ended a calendar year as golf's top earner, despite suffering a pay cut of $48 million after losing his swing and his marriage and failing to win a single tournament.
The American world number two, who celebrated his 35th birthday on Thursday, topped Golf Digest magazine's annual list for 2010 with overall earnings of $74.2 million. Of that, only $2.29 million came from tournament purses with the rest accumulated off-course through

LAHORE - From a wrong person wearing the king's crown to the untimely winter holidays for the Punjab University (PU) students, anything out of place gets to be the center of attention. One may ponder as to what may be the purpose of winter holidays.
It ranges from facilitating students to spend quality time with their family, probably on a hill station, to keeping them warm in their houses and relaxing them cold university hours during a bone chilling, literally, season.