LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Finance and Planning & Development, Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that an effective mechanism would be introduced to monitor the development projects of the province for timely completion and to ensure appropriate use of public money.

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice Tuesday disposed of a suo moto notice against Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education for depriving a student of 3rd position in the recently announced inter exams. Chairman and Secretary of the board appeared before the court and submitted that the issue rose due to clerical mistake and[…]

LAHORE: After sugar crisis, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing have dropped another bomb shell on the poor consumers before the Holy Month of Ramzan as the gas price has been increased by Rs 4 per kg.

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Finance and Planning and Development Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has summoned the meeting of the Fiscal Monitoring Committee (FMC) on Wednesday (today) to review the financial matters of the province, said a handout issued here on Tuesday. Punjab Finance Secretary and other concerned officers would also attend the meeting. Source: The Post

LAHORE: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and Citi Foundation on Tuesday announced the launching of Citi-PPAF Micro entrepreneurship Awards (CMA) 2009 programme here on Tuesday.

LAHORE: The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) closed in the green zone on Tuesday. The LSE 25-share index finished at 2,418.54 points, addeding 31.58 points as against 2386.96 points witnessed a day earlier. The volume of market remained at 11.18 million shares, which was 1.84 million shares more than Monday’s turnover of 10.99 million shares. Al-Ghazi[…]

LAHORE: Prime Mininster Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has constituted a high level 53-members “Business Persons Council” to develop a commerce and trade sector strategy.Federal Mininster for Industries and Production, Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo told APP Wednesday that first time in history, President of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FPCCI), office bearers of its[…]

LAHORE: Ramazan Plan 2009 has been finalised by Directorate of Agriculture Marketing Punjab, Agriculture Department with coordination of District Governments to provide fruits & vegetables to the people on reasonable prices. 280 Green Channel Fair Price Shops will be opened where six basic commodities of daily use will be provided at 20% discount comparable with[…]

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif has disposed of a suo motu case against a blunder committed by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Lahore in preparing the Intermediate 2009 examination results, thereby depriving a student of his third position. On Tuesday, a board official informed the court that[…]

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting held at the CM’s Secretariat to review the pace of implementation of the land record computerisation project. The CM said the project had been pending since long and the government had promised its early completion to rid people of the existing archaic land record[…]