KARACHI – A Pakistani scientist, Safia Khatri, hailing from Karachi, has been selected for a scholarship to join a scientific meeting on regenerative medicine at Rostock University, Germany. The programme offers an opportunity to the young scientists to meet, listen to, discuss, and interact with the most prominent scientists in the field of stem cell […]
LAHORE – Information Technology ministers of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan will meet Federal Information Technology Minister Awais Leghari in Islamabad on June 10 to seek federal government help in development of a cyber technology base in different parts of the country. This was decided at an inter-provincial IT coordination meeting held here on June 9 […]
MITHI — A woman was killed by his son-in-law in Nathro Bheel village, Mithi taluka, on June 8. Chelo Bheel killed his mother-in-law, Maki Bai, and wounded wife, Hiru, with an axe and fled from the scene. The police after registering the case brought the body to the civil hospital for post mortem. Hiru was […]
LAHORE – All the four provincial governments have requested the federal government to entrust the programme of setting up IT labs in government schools to the provinces. This demand was made at first-ever moot of the Information Technology Ministers of Punjab, NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan held here on June 9. The meeting which was attended […]
KARACHI – Mohammad Saeed Shafiq, Senior Vice President of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), in a communication to the Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd, has regretted the poor performance of PTCL, Karachi. He said that the complaints of KCCI members referred to PTCL remain unattended and unresponded causing manifold hardships to trade and […]
ISLAMABAD – The government has set June 19 (Saturday) as last date for filing of applications by newspaper owners to Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) for acquiring electronic channel licenses. The decision was taken at a joint meeting of PEMRA, newspaper owners interested in ownership of electronic channels and the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, held […]
KARACHI – A large number of newspaper editors in the country have sent messages of felicitations to Majid Nizami, the Editor in Chief of the Nawa-i-Waqt, on having received the award as the best newspaper of Pakistan in the year 2004 from the Pakistan Advertising Association. It may be mentioned here that the award committee […]
KARACHI – The veteran journalist and former news editor of Business Recorder, Zamir Niazi, has been hospitalized after his condition deteriorated on Tuesday. The author of highly acclaimed books Press in Chains, Press Under Siege and Web of Censorship has been suffering from respiratory disorder. Niazi has been admitted to Patel Hospital in Gulshan-e-Iqbal where […]
PESHAWAR – Local police on June 8 arrested some students, including girls, and a local journalist from a cyber cafe on the Peshawar University campus. The campus police arrested the students and the newsman, Mujeeb Khan, when they were busy in their routine work. Later, they were released on the intervention of senior police officers. […]
LAHORE – An Inter-Provincial Conference of Information Technology Ministers of all the four provinces is being held here on June 9. Punjab IT Minister Abdul Aleem Khan will preside over the conference aims at devising a joint strategy for expansion of the IT sector in the country. According to Mr. Aleem Khan, through the conference, […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association (PAA) on June 7 announced the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004, for its member advertising agencies, for the period from January to December 2001-02. Synergy Advertising got the top position with seven awards, followed by Interflow Communication with four, and Paragon Advertising with three awards. Two special awards were also […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association has announced the Best Mass Media Excellence Awards-2004. Daily Nawa-i-Waqt won the award in the newspaper category for its best performance during the year 2004. PAA Chairman S.H. Hashmi, Award Committee Chairman Mahmood Paarekh and Vice Chairman Jamshed Qureshi announced the awards during a Press briefing held here at […]
KARACHI – The Geo television channel has won electronic media award of the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004. The award distribution ceremony would be held in the last week of this month. This was announced by Mahmood Parekh, Chairman, 18th PAA Excellence Award-2004, at a press conference at a local hotel on June 8. He said […]
KARACHI – The National Committee for Maternal Health and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is celebrating the International Day of the Midwife by holding a seminar on Midwifery and SafeMotherhood. Dr. Saeeda Malik, Minister for Women Development, Social Welfare and Special Education, Government of Sindh will be the chief guest. The National Committee for Maternal […]
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