BusinessLAHORE - The government should devote attention to real economic issues and come up with a comprehensive solution to the challenges that the business community is presently facing. These views were ex
LAHORELAHORE - Swine influenza seems on the loose again, as right after detecting a swine flu case in Karachi, 20 patients have appeared to be infected with influenza A in Lahore, Pakistan Today has learnt.
LAHORELAHORE - A number of University of Education (UoE) students held a demonstration on Thursday seeking the reinstatement of Dr Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Dr Shireen Pasha, who were sacked by the un
NATIONALRABAT - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive and in "excellent shape", its foreign minister said on Thursday after rumours about the king's health triggered a spike in the price of oil
LAHORELAHORE - The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) on Thursday threatened to launch an anti-Vice Chancellor (VC) Campaign and warned the VC that if he did not stop favouritism and remov
LAHORELAHORE - The USAID funded Pre-STEP program sponsored a Strategic Planning workshop, which concluded at Pearl Continental Hotel on Wednesday. The workshop was the first in a series of other related act
NATIONALISLAMABAD - During the past two years, 11 months and 21 days, the federal cabinet held 76 meetings and took 782 decisions out of which 605 were implemented. The number of decisions in the process of i
Pakistan is facing street begging at an alarming ratio. The country is suffering from poverty which has forced hundreds of people to commit suicide, forced women to sell out their children and forced youngsters to leave their homes and start begging. According to a latest survey, a large number of our people are living under poverty line earning less than Rs 4000 per month, which makes it very difficult for a person to live a reasonable life. On the contrary a street beggar is earning
NATIONALISLAMABAD - The government on Wednesday shared its plans for expenditure cuts with the PML-N team by disclosing that it planned to halve the increase in salaries of government employees in this year's
BusinessLAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained bearish with a further decline in the volume. The LSE 25-index lost 29.67 points to close at 3,723.53 against its opening at a level of 3,753.20. Out
BusinessISLAMABAD - The volume of messages will double to 10 trillion by 2013, around the world, as Short Message Service (SMS) being used by four billion mobile users, who send five trillion messages in 2009
ForeignCAIRO - Egypt's increasingly isolated regime, once disdainful of the media, has launched a charm offensive in a bid to sap the momentum of massive protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's overth
