ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has launched several projects to ensure supply of drinking water to the residents. About Rs495 million have been earmarked for different projects, including repair and maintenance of water pipelines, tubewells, tankers as well as replacement and installation of pipelines. After the resignation of Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz, the CDA had decided to restore “Islamabad …

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has launched a beautification project worth Rs325 million. The ‘Shining Saddar’ project’s details were shared with members of the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) by the RCB officials at a briefing at the RCCI offices. Station Commander and Cantonment Board President Brigadier Ijaz Qamar Kayani, Rawalpindi Cantonment Board Cantonment Executive Officer (CEO) …

b KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday paid glowing tributes to his mother, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her 13th death anniversary and said though she was not physically with them she continued to be a unifying and binding force for democratic forces and a guiding light for the party leaders and workers. In a message …

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal demanded on Saturday that Prime Minister Imran Khan reverse the federal cabinet decision to approve the controversial National Census-2017 and hold local government elections across the country on the basis of the previous census results. He also asked the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan to part ways with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government and sit …

GWADAR: Two people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb blast in the Panjgur area of Makran on Saturday. Police said the blast occurred in the parking area of Aftab Shaheed Football ground soon after a match had ended. Panjgur Deputy Commissioner Abdul Razzaq Sasoli said two people were killed on the spot in the explosion. “It was …

ISLAMABAD: Regularisation of illegalities has become a norm in the federal capital and it must end “if rule of law has to be restored”, observed Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah in the judgement passed in a case pertaining to Punjab Senior Minister Aleem Khan’s private housing society. “It has been consistently observed and the same is the …

BAHAWALPUR: Seven precious spotted deer died mysteriously in their enclosure at the zoo on Friday night. It is learnt that the fatalities took place when the zoo had hardly any visitor. According to eyewitnesses and field staff members, the deer while having their food began to collapse one after another and expired after some time. They said they noticed that …

ISLAMABAD: There is a general perception among the opposition parties that after facing a revolt-like situation in Balochistan and Khy­ber Pakhtunkhwa, Jam­iat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Reh­man has considered it better to skip the PPP-hosted gathering of the Pakistan Dem­ocratic Movement (PDM) leaders at Larkana on Sun­day (today) to avoid a similar situation in Sindh. Though officially both the Pakistan Peoples …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two trucks racing each other in southeast Houston resulted in a crash on Christmas morning. Both vehicles fell into a bayou, leaving one of the drivers dead. According to Houston police, a 29-year-old man in a white GMC Sierra and a 24-year-old in a white Chevy Silverado were stopped at a light on Bellfort Avenue near …

Dallas County on Saturday reported 1,318 more coronavirus cases, all of them new. Ten COVID-19 deaths also were reported. Shingle Mountain removal begins Workers begin to remove shingles from what is known as Shingle Mountain, a pile Meanwhile, the state added over 1,000 cases to Collin County’s total, lifting the county’s case total above 45,000. With the addition of five …