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ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Thursday, while announcing the judgment on cutting of trees for the Lahore Canal Bank Road widening project, said that the Bambawali-Ravi-Bedian (BRB) Canal and the greenbelt on both sides of it from Jallo Park to Thokar Niaz Baig is a Public Trust.
LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has given a conditional green signal to the Lahore Canal Road expansion project, Express 24/7 reported Thursday. A two-member bench of the court comprising Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Mian Saqib Nisar had earlier reserved the judgment of the case on August 15. In the court’s proceedings[…]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) will announce the reserved judgement in suo motu case regarding cutting of trees for canal widening project in Lahore on Thursday (tomorrow). A two-member bench comprising of Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Mian Saqib Nisar had reserved the judgement on August 15. During the hearing, Punjab Additional AG Khadim[…]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has given directions regarding completion of Multan Road project by September 15 so that better travelling facilities could be provided to the citizens at the earliest.
LAHORE, Aug 28: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will take a decision on devolution of various ministries to provinces under the 18th amendment if the federal government fails to resolve the issue soon. Punjab chief minister and PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif said this here on Sunday while talking to the media after inaugurating phase-II of the[…]
LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that all resources are being utilized for the maintenance of law and order in the province, however, there is always room for improvement and sincere efforts are being made for this purpose. Talking to media after inauguration of the Ring Road’s Ghazi Interchange here on Sunday, he[…]
LAHORE: Neither conservationists nor government officials are satisfied with a ‘compromise’ suggested by a mediation committee to their standoff over plans to widen Canal Road. The Supreme Court had set up the mediation committee, headed by lawyer Parvez Hassan, after the Lahore Bachao Tehreek (LBT) challenged the Punjab government’s plans to widen Canal Road, which[…]
LAHORE: The 10-metre road corridor beneath the Kalma Chowk flyover Lahore will be made into a one-way lane for motorists travelling to Model Town, even though it has been marked for use as a bus lane in plans for a citywide bus system. Workers have begun paving the road corridor, after which they will start[…]
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif approved the setting up of a fruit and vegetable market at Kacha, Ferozepur Road on Wednesday. The chief minister constituted a committee, under the chairmanship of Member of National Assembly (MNA) Afzal Khokhar, to look over the project and held a meeting to issue instructions to shift the[…]
Lahore – Green Valley is a high-end supermarket chain established by Bahria Town and the flagship store opened its door in the Mall of Lahore on 21st of August. The ribbon cutting ceremony was done by Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz Hussain. The event was attended by a large number of guests, dignitaries & other[…]
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to stop the development of an underpass at Kalma Chowk, days after Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced the project at the inauguration of the Kalma Chowk flyover on August 14. The government gave no official explanation for the suspension of the project.
LAHORE – Lahore Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Administrator Brig Muhammad Aslam Rana has visited the 2 X Relief Camps, which are established in DHA Lahore and an appeal has been made to public and humanitarians for deposit of goods I donation to help of more than 30,000 affected families of FATA. He also requested to[…]
CM inaugurates Kalma Chowk Flyover LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of flyover project at Kalma Chowk costing more than Rs 2.3 billion. The flyover, which will be the best of the country, will be completed by August 14. Two flyovers of three-lane each will also be constructed on[…]
City Govt. Lahore ask for suggestion to change the name of Fawara Chowk Shadman to Chaudhry Rehmat Ali Chowk.
LAHORE: More than a year since it was opened, decoration work still continues on parts of the Lahore Ring Road near the airport, posing an inconvenience and a hazard to commuters. The Ring Road’s so-called Package 6 was inaugurated last year when Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul visited Lahore. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took a special[…]
LAHORE: Concerns have been raised about corruption in a road project of the city district government, after the District Price Assessment Committee (DPAC) issued an assessment of the value of land needed for the project that is four times its previous estimate only two years ago. The chief engineer of the Traffic Engineering and Planning[…]
LAHORE, Aug 1: The governing body of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday approved the annual budget of the authority and its subsidiaries, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and the Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (Tepa), for the 2011-12 fiscal year.
DHA Lahore Tree Auction
Admission open for Dr. A. Q Khan Collage Sector A Bahria Town Lahore.
LAHORE: The National Engineering Services of Pakistan (NESPAK) has found major irregularities in renovation and repair work on Ferozepur Road in 2009, for which the city district government charged Rs242.732 million.
LAHORE – The provincial government is going to conserve the ‘Kalma Chowk Monument’ in Lahore Museum, which has been removed from the site safely under the supervision of expert engineers, sources informed TheNation.
LAHORE – The business community as well as the land developers of the provincial capital, while expressing their concerns over declaration of over 58 roads’ as ‘commercial’, have said the recently-developed southern parts of the city have once again been neglected.
LAHORE, July 16: The Punjab government is likely to launch civil works on various sections of 27-km long (Gajjumata to Shahdara) Lahore Rapid Mass Transit System (LRMTS) in collaboration with Chinese firm NORINCO by October, this year. “The Chinese firm will first prepare the project`s preliminary design within a month or so and the government,[…]
Dispute: The land where the plaza had been constructed belonged to the Parks and Horticulture Authority and was meant to be a park. LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has had to postpone the auction of shops at the Liberty Park and Ride Plaza as the auction on Tuesday attracted no buyers.
* Police arrests 148 protesters condemning shift of market from Kot Lakhpat to Gajumatta * Only a few ‘troublemakers’ against decision, says LDA spokesperson LAHORE: Police, on Monday, arrested more than 148 vegetable sellers, middlemen and daily wagers after their protest against shifting of city’s market turned violent on main Ferozepur Road and in addition[…]
