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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By: Shazia Mehboob RAWALPINDI: With more influence comes greater responsibility – something that the electronic media, which is long out of its infancy, now needs to work upon by setting a code of ethics for broadcasting. This was the crux of a discussion on “Towards Ethical Media in Pakistan” organised by Rozan-Pakistan Coalition for Ethical […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued a notice to top officials of the government in response to a contempt petition filed by Pemra chairman, who sought contempt proceedings against the officials for not complying with the court’s order. Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan, in the issued notice, sought replies from the secretary establishment, secretary ministry […]
KARACHI: A three-day exhibition of contemporary artists’ works commenced at the Arts Council on Thursday evening. The painters whose exhibits are on display range from some of the known names in Pakistani art to the relatively less known. The more than 60 artworks are done in different media and almost all of them try to […]
LAHORE: Cellular phone companies claimed on Friday to have met the Dec 20 deadline set by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to install at their outlets in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan and Faisalabad the biometric verification system meant for stopping the illegal sale of SIMs. The PTA had asked the companies to complete […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday set aside the single bench orders in which it allowed the Pakistan Television to recover three per cent commission its former managing director (MD) Yousaf Baig Mirza used to receive on its overall revenue. The commission was in addition to his monthly salary he used to draw […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday restrained the central censor board from issuing exhibition certificates to Indian films and sought reply from the secretary interior, secretary commerce, board of revenue and other respondents within a week. Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan passed the interim order on a petition filed by film directors, producers, distributors and […]
KARACHI: All media organizations should train both newsroom and field journalists for covering sensitive issues like minority and religious ones so as to avoid any harm. Media needs to give full training to reporters and cameramen on live courage of religious and other grave issues. It is must to be careful while using language in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Value Partners Management Consulting Limited (VPMCL) signed a formal contract at the PTA headquarters on Thursday for the provision of consultancy services for the auction of next generation services spectrum. After the completion of evaluation process for the selection of a consultant of international repute, under the directive of […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, (PTA), as part of its measures to curb misuse of SIMs, has disallowed those cellphones or smartphones which are being imported without any International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) or with fake IMEI number. A task force headed by Chairman PTA was formed by Supreme Court to look into matter of issuance […]
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