Daily Archives: December 16th, 2011
Child protection: Rs180m to be spent to combat hazardous work
Child protection: Rs180m to be spent to combat hazardous work December 16, 2011 LAHORE: The Department of Labour and Human Resource has announced the approval of a five-year project to combat the ‘worst forms of child labour’ in four districts of the Punjab. This, according to the Labour Welfare director, is the first provincial initiative to [...]
No action yet against school that cheated
No action yet against school that cheated December 16, 2011 NAROWAL: Almost a month after the allegations surfaced and despite directions from the district coordination officer for disciplinary action against the school that cheated in the chief minister’s debate and writing competition, the executive district officer (EDO) has still not taken any action against those involved. [...]
Public transport: ‘School / College Principals responsible for students behaviour’
Public transport: ‘School / College Principals responsible for students behaviour’ Published: December 16, 2011 LAHORE: Lahore Transport Company (LTC) chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassaan has constituted a team to interact with the heads of education institutions to generate awareness and identify elements among the student community responsible for disrupting public transport in the city. Committee members have [...]
Fight for rights: Health department bows down before nursing staff
Fight for rights: Health department bows down before nursing staff December 16, 2011 PESHAWAR/ABBOTTABAD: In the latest wave of protests, taking their cue from the successful struggle of young doctors in Punjab, nurses in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) took to the streets to fight for their rights, leaving the health department with no option but to fulfil their [...]
Protest: Nurses demand increase in allowances
Protest: Nurses demand increase in allowances PESHAWAR: To pressurise the government to fulfil their demands, nurses at Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) wore black armbands and chanted slogans, demanding their ‘lawful’ rights at a protest in front of the administrative block on Monday. Talking to The Express Tribune, District Nurses Association President Farrukh Jalil said the government [...]
Court order on school defied
Court order on school defied Friday, December 16, 2011 A court-appointed local commission on Thursday informed the Lahore High Court that the Revenue Department officials had demolished a huge portion of a charitable school for boys (Pakistan Foundation Technical Institute) despite stay order of the court. Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan had appointed a fact-finding commission [...]
Enraged students burn RBISE office over result delay
Enraged students burn RBISE office over result delay ISLAMABAD: Infuriated students, who appeared in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC-I) examination held under the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE), protested here on Thursday against the delay in results outside the board building. Round about 10 AM, students of different educational institutes gathered [...]
FUUAST announces annual examination date
FUUAST announces annual examination date KARACHI: Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technologies (FUUAST) announced its annual examination date for MA private and Homeopathic equivalent certificate courses on Thursday. FUUAST Controller of Examination Prof Waqarul Haq said that MA part-I private annual examination will start from Dec 23, MA part-II from Dec 28 and [...]
Put Your Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight
Put Your Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight More than 60,000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while their caregiver wasn’t looking. Always put every medicine and vitamin up and away every time you use it. Families take medications and vitamins to feel well and to stay [...]
New, Simpler Way to Treat Latent TB Infection
New, Simpler Way to Treat Latent TB Infection People with latent tuberculosis (TB) infection now have another option when it comes to treatment. A new regimen for the treatment of latent TB infection, called the 12-dose regimen, reduces the number of doses and shortens the duration of treatment. More than 11 million people living in [...]
CME (Continuing Medical Education lecture at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
CME (Continuing Medical Education lecture at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre December 16, 2011 LAHORE (PR) – Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is organizing a monthly CME (Continuing Medical Education) lecture on the topic of “Interpretation of thyroid function tests” for general medical practitioners on Friday, December 16, 2011. Dr Syed [...]
Free laptops for students soon
Free laptops for students soon December 16, 2011 LAHROE – The project of provision of free laptops to the male and female students of government colleges and universities on behalf of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been given final shape. According to this project, laptops will be given to 20 thousand children in the [...]
Angry students set Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education BISE Rawalpindi office on fire
Angry students set Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education BISE Rawalpindi office on fire Record, library gutted in arson Official spokesperson says revised results will be announced on December 24 Witnesses say policemen looked on as vandals continued rampage RAWALPINDI - Hundreds of angry students attacked the main building of Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) [...]
AIOU asks students to check results placed online for accuracy
AIOU asks students to check results placed online for accuracy ISLAMABAD - The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has placed the assignments’ results of its ATTC and PTC programmes for the Spring Semester 2011 on its website www.aiou.edu.pk . “The purpose of publishing the results online is to identify any discrepancy in them, before the announcement of [...]
Forest land transfers, deforestation spiral out of control
Forest land transfers, deforestation spiral out of control Lahore - A study commissioned by the Scientific Committee of WWF Pakistan has revealed that a startling area of forest land has been transferred over for non-forest uses since 1947. This is most rampant in Sindh and Punjab. At the same time, the deforestation rate in Pakistan is [...]
CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif announces youth facilitation programmes
CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif announces youth facilitation programmes LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has said the youth of Pakistan is the guarantee of a prosperous future for the country; therefore, the Punjab government will implement a comprehensive programme for equipping the youth with modern education and training. He announced the upcoming project pertaining to the [...]
Yet another book fair to kindle interest in reading
Yet another book fair to kindle interest in reading KARACHI - In times when book-reading has become an insipid and bygone idea, a book fair was recently launched in the city at the Grace Hall. The fair, organised by Fareed Publishers and Bazme Farooghe Adab, was inaugurated by District Central Municipal Commissioner Nazir Lakhani and Intermediate Board [...]
‘Outsourcing polio vaccination campaigns to NGOs a bad idea’
‘Outsourcing polio vaccination campaigns to NGOs a bad idea’ KARACHI - The routine immunisation coverage of Sindh’s children against different vaccine-preventable diseases is currently restricted to 56 percent, provincial Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed said on Thursday. “This is due to the bifurcation in the primary and secondary healthcare services offered to the masses in the province,” [...]
KESC signs biogas project deal with dairy farmers
KESC signs biogas project deal with dairy farmers KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karachi Dairy Farmers Association that marks the completion of the testing phase of the ‘Bio-waste to Energy Project’ – a venture that aims to produce electricity from cattle manure produced from Landhi farms. [...]
Obesity rising slightly in primary school leavers in England
Obesity rising slightly in primary school leavers in England Obesity has risen slightly in children aged 10 and 11 in England, according to new data. NHS figures for the past year show 19% of children in their final year of primary school were classed as obese, compared with 18.7% the previous year. But obesity fell [...]
24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’
24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’ Up to 24,000 diabetes-related deaths could be avoided in England each year, if patients and doctors better managed the condition, a report concludes. The first-ever audit of patient deaths from the condition said basic health checks, a good diet and regular medication could prevent most of them. [...]
Test ‘improves cancer screening’
Test ‘improves cancer screening’ Smear tests designed to cut deaths from cervical cancer could be improved by adding a further test looking for signs of a virus which causes it. When smears from thousands of Dutch women were also checked for the human papillomavirus (HPV) doctors were able to find more cancers at an early [...]
Hairy limbs keep bed bugs at bay
Hairy limbs keep bed bugs at bay Hairier skin may be the key to avoiding being bitten by bed bugs, claim Sheffield academics. Hungry bugs placed on shaved arms were more likely to try to feed compared with those on unshaved arms, the journal Biology Letters reported. Researchers say the hair slows down the bed [...]
Internet emergency button to let German kids click their way to help
Internet emergency button to let German kids click their way to help German Family Minister Kristina Schröder announced plans for an online child protection center to prevent and help young victims of cyber-mobbing. She also suggested an Internet “emergency button” for kids. “The goal is to support children and young adults when they are using [...]
Cholesterol-Lowering Medication Accelerates Depletion of Plaque in Arteries
Cholesterol-Lowering Medication Accelerates Depletion of Plaque in Arteries New Study Reveals Molecular Mechanism Promoting the Breakdown of Plaque by Statins December 13, 2011 – 1:00pm In a new study, NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have discovered how cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins promote the breakdown of plaque in the arteries. The study was published online by the journal PLoS Oneon December [...]
Advice for Prospective International Students, with Bonus Two SAT Horror Stories
Advice for Prospective International Students, with Bonus Two SAT Horror Stories Yesterday we shared the first of two recent phone conversations we had to talk about studying and living in the U.S. If you didn’t have a chance to listen to that one, check it out. In this second conversation, we start out talking about [...]
3,663,626 children to be vaccinated in KP: Official
3,663,626 children to be vaccinated in KP: Official PESHAWAR: As many as 3,663,626 children under five-year of age would be vaccinated in three days polio eradication campaign, which will kick off simultaneously in 17 districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa from Monday. In Fata, anti-polio drops would be provided to 937,029 children during the period for which [...]
Flu related disease on rise due to dry spell
Flu related disease on rise due to dry spell ISLAMABAD: Flu related diseases including cough and soar throat, pneumonia and diarrhea are spreading everywhere due to ongoing long dry spell persists. Flu related diseases have caught a large number of people particularly children as patients with such complications were seen in high number at the [...]
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