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Daily Archives: December 22, 2013

Radio Pakistan Lahore’s 76th birthday celebrated

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LAHORE: After completing 76 years since its inception, Radio Pakistan Lahore celebrated its 76th birthday on Friday at Aiwan-e-Iqbal. Founded on December 16, 1937 in Lahore, Radio Pakistan Lahore has been airing its programs with different effects. Soon the station became a cultural and literary nerve centre of the country. On its 76th birthday celebration, […]


Hitting back: PTA steps up efforts to curb grey trafficking

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) seems to have emerged as a powerful and effective regulator in the past couple of months despite critics’ popular opinion about the body not performing up to the standards. From carefully handling the process of spectrum auction for high-speed mobile internet services to taking practical measures for solving complex […]


Journalist killing case

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SHIKARPUR: An anti-terrorism court in Kandhkot on Saturday adjourned the hearing of the Wali Babar murder case to Jan 4. Judge Mushtaq Ahmed Laghari of the ATC adjourned the hearing again due to the absence of the defence counsel. The counsel for the complainant, Murtaza Babar, a brother of the victim, remained present in the […]


Google search results declare Daily Jang as No 1

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KARACHI: Google has announced its annual Year End Zeitgeist, a look at 2013 through the collective eyes of the world on the web, offering a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted in Pakistan. According to Google Zeitgeist 2013, the Jang newspaper (the flagship newspaper of the Jang […]


Govt scraps strategically important IT project

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ISLAMABAD: After spending Rs310.8 million of taxpayers, the federal government has decided to scrap a strategically important project to interconnect 57 federal ministries/divisions. The project was aimed at providing basic IT infrastructure to all the federal divisions, ministries, and inter-connecting them through a secure data centre. The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) in […]