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LAHORE: The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained bullish during the week with a decline in the turnover. The LSE 25-share index gained 45.75 points to close at 2,359.84 points as against its opening at 2,314.09 points. The volume of the market this Friday remained at 10.79 million shares, which was around 0.72 million shares lower[…]
LAHORE: Gowalmandi Food Street that had been contributing to promote the soft image of the country, particularly of Lahore, all over the world during the last one decade or so, finally fell prey to the culture of ‘political intolerance’ on Thursday.
LAHORE (August 09 2009): Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) sealed the head office of Zarco Money Exchange Company on Saturday for alleged illegal transfer of Rs 45 billion from the country and also arrested its acting Chief Operating Officer of the company. It may be noted that the owner of the Zarco Exchange, Lakht-e-Hussain, has been[…]
LAHORE: India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), is behind the recent terrorist activities in Punjab, Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez said, adding various American and Western organisations were trying to create “an Islamic brigade” in Pakistan, a private TV reported on Thursday. At a meeting of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry,[…]
LAHORE: The Clinton Foundation will create a solar park to generate more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity close to India’s border with Pakistan, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. Gujarat state’s energy minister Saurabh Patel told the paper that foundation officials had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the world’s largest solar power station[…]
LAHORE: Rachna Industrial Park, established on the Lahore-Sheikhupura road, will have its own five to 25-megawatt power plant which will produce low-cost electricity from waste and meet its entire energy needs.
LAHORE: A document supposedly detailing flaws of the local government system, circulated by the Punjab government among the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members, has failed to pinpoint any specific shortcomings in the law the provincial government wants changed.
LAHORE: There is hardly any project that has been completed within the given time frame during the last eight years and as a result the government has to bear additional expenditures of billions of rupees, which is a grave injustice to the people of Punjab, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has said.
FRONTIER Works Organisation (FWO) has completed almost 90 per cent road construction work under its Lahore Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II (LRRP-II) especially in various localities of North Lahore.
LAHORE – After Gawalmandi Food Street meets its tragic end, another food street known as Heritage Street in Anarkali is likely to be closed down sooner or later.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has to face another setback in attracting foreign investment as China has shelved the Coastal Oil Refinery Project at Gwadar in strategically located Balochistan province, and has deleted it from the list of Financial Development Programme 2009-10 agreed between the two countries.
LAHORE: The Consumer Court has summoned a local doctor on August 24 to reply to allegations against him by one Muhammad Anwer of Awan Town for an improper prescription, reported a private TV channel. According to the channel, Anwer visited Dr Ehsan at his clinic in Ichhra to get medicine for fever. The doctor gave[…]
THE Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) has asked the Federal Ministry for Environment to take immediate action against the National Highway Authority (NHA) for delay in completion of the Lahore-Gujranwala section of the GT Road, which is polluting the environment.
LAHORE: Small houses, apartments and plots are in great demand in the city due to the financial crunch, property dealers have told Daily Times.
LAHORE: All cities of northern Punjab will benefit from the timely completion of Sagian Interchange, Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has said. He praised the role of the departments concerned in the timely completion of the project and said it would prove a milestone in the progress of the province.
THE Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) will build two plazas for providing parking facilities to more than 460 vehicles in the busy commercial centre of Liberty Market, Gulberg.
LAHORE: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Sajjad Ahmad Bhutta has suspended the Model Town and Green Town market committee inspectors, Liaqat Ali and Mirza Nasir for not abiding by instructions and neglecting their duties at Sunday Bazaars.
LAHORE: The Food Department of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has purchased an Elisa milk-testing machine, which is the first such equipment in any food-testing laboratory across the country.
LAHORE: The Food Department of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has purchased an Elisa milk-testing machine, which is the first such equipment in any food-testing laboratory across the country.
LAHORE: 8,000 CNG buses will be introduced in nine cities with a Rs 0.7 million subsidy for each of them in order to improve the present environmental condition, Federal Environment Minister Hamidullah Jan Afridi said during the launching of the inception workshop of national stakeholders on “Management of Mercury and Mercury Containing Waste Project in[…]
As I dropped my wife off at Heathrow early this morning, I had a sudden rush of adrenalin and the overwhelming urge to join her through the departure gates. She was heading to Lahore and I desperately wanted to go with her to immerse myself in that jewel of a city. No matter how many[…]
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered nine cases against 38 people including three officials, and arrested two Revenue Department officials for illegally grabbing almost 4,100-kanal government land worth Rs one billion.
LAHORE: As many as 50 gangs of land grabbers are operating in the province, and are occupying commercial and agricultural land belonging to the state and citizens, sources told Daily Times.
The Traffic Engineering and Planning Department (TEPA) will construct a seven-storey parking plaza in the provincial capital with an estimated cost of Rs 499 million.
LAHORE: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) administration launched a gas pipeline installation project in Sector B of Phase-VI on Thursday. DHA Administrator Brigadier Muhammad Aslam said the DHA administration was trying its best to complete the development in the new phases as soon as possible to facilitate the residents of the area. He pointed out[…]
