Tuesday, November 24, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE In the second phase of Chief Minister's Speech & Essay Writing Competitions 2009, Urdu Speech Competitions of secondary level started at tehsil level throughout the province on Monday.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 'By Our Correspondent LAHORE PUNJAB Food Minister Malik Nadeem Kamran has said the federal government has allowed the Punjab government to procure rice crop in collaboration with the PASSCO for the first time and released Rs 500 million.

Prisoners are risked to contract skin diseases, tuberculosis and hepatitis. Reportedly, prisoners react aggressively when they are packed into cubicles, leading to violent behaviour and other psychological disorders.

Friday, November 20, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE IN the second stage of Chief Minister Punjab's Speech & Essay Writing Competitions 2009, Urdu Speech Competitions of middle level at tehsil level started on Thursday in which a total number of 2494 students took part.

LAHORE: Inspector General of Punjab Police Tariq Saleem Dogar has transferred and posted five officers on Saturday.

According to a handout issued on Wednesday, the CM issued these directions in a high-level meeting in Gujranwala.

At 1 a.m. on December 17, 1989, a family in the farming town of Thodupuzha in central Kerala welcomed the birth of their child.

Rain forced an early end to the first day's play at the Gaddafi Stadium but not before Karachi Whites dismissed Lahore Shalimar for 257.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Rawalpindi The month long dry spell broke in upper parts of the country late Sunday night after many areas received the first winter rainfall with thunders while snow fell over the hills.

Saturday, November 07, 2009 By Ali Raza LAHORE THE Punjab government has warned owners of two-stroke rickshaw to upgrade engines of their vehicles to four-stroke as two-stroke rickshaws will be banned in province's five major cities, including the provincial metropolis, after March 2010.

A special meeting of the federal cabinet on Wednesday decided that gas supply to industrial units and CNG stations would be shut down for two days a week in Punjab and NWFP alternately this winter.

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved the gas load-management plan under which gas supply to the industrial sector and CNG plants will be suspended for two days a week from November 15 till March 15 in order to save enough gas for domestic use.

Yet again, sugar lobby has exhibited audacious show of its strength by hitting the entire country hard with acute shortage of the commodity just a few days prior to the arrival of sugarcane crushing season.

LAHORE: Security agencies captured on Tuesday a Qari Ishtiaqa , a key a commandera of the Punjabi Tehrik-i-Taliban network, who allegedly masterminded the Oct 10 attack on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi.

The mastermind of the attack on Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Qari Ishtiaq, has been arrested near his home in Bahawalpur.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has ordered to accelerate the pace of construction of Lahore-Gujranwala dual carriageway N-5 and completion of the project within stipulated period.

Staff Report RAWALPINDI: A smartly turned out contingent of the Punjab police presented Guard of Honour to 27 girl students, the top position-holders in annual secondary school certificate examination 2009 in Murree on Tuesday.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE Farmers under the aegis of Kissan Board Pakistan held a protest demonstration against the ediscriminative attitudei of the government in marketing of paddy.

Sunday, October 11, 2009 By Mansoor Ahmad LAHORE: Women successfully running their businesses with the support of microfinance loans seldom develop into small or medium-sized entrepreneurs due not only to gender-specific impediments but also due to their inability to access institutions established to facilitate them.

Friday, October 09, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE PUNJAB Inspector General of Police Tariq Saleem Dogar taking action on public complaints has ordered suspension of SHO Inspector Muhammad Riaz Dar of the Motra police, besides issuing show-cause notice to Daska SDPO DSP Taufeeq Ahmad Khan.