ISLAMABAD: The Board of Governors (BoG) of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) has approved a new policy under which two exams of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) will be conducted in a year. The exams will now be held in May as well as September. It was also decided that …

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday voiced its concern over a rise in the country’s Covid-19 disease trend and mortalities, adding that almost all major cities have crossed 5 per cent positivity. The country reported a total of 3,495 new coronavirus cases and 61 fatalities in the last 24 hours, translating into a national positivity rate of …

Seven Collin County jail employees were placed on administrative leave after a 26-year-old man died there Sunday afternoon, hours after his family says he was arrested for marijuana possession. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office released a statement Monday about the death of Marvin David Scott III, but has not yet detailed what led to his arrest. The Texas Rangers are investigating …

ter Dallas County reported 10 more COVID-19 deaths and 215 new coronavirus cases Wednesday. Eight of the latest victims were Dallas residents: a woman in her 30s, three men and two women in their 60s, a man in his 70s and a man in his 80s. The others were a DeSoto man in his 50s and a Seagoville man in …

AUSTIN — Nursing home residents could have loved ones visit during a public health emergency under a bill the Texas Senate passed Wednesday in response to facility closures at the start of the pandemic. “This guarantees that people will never be locked away again,” said Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham. The bill is the first piece of COVID-19 legislation to pass …

The patriarch of the Hugo’s Invitados “family” has left the hospital after months of battling COVID-19. Hugo Miranda left Methodist Richardson Medical Center on Monday surrounded by family, friends and well-wishers as he was wheeled through the hallways of the hospital. The owner of the Irving restaurant still has a road to recovery that will involve time in a rehabilitation …

Hours after President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart a “killer” who would “pay a price” for spreading lies aimed at keeping him out of the White House, Texan Trevor Reed’s parents said Wednesday that they worried that their imprisoned son had become collateral damage as U.S.-Russia relations deteriorate. “We’re concerned about the heightened rhetoric between our countries,” Joey Reed …

AUSTIN — Arm in arm, heels clicking down the marble floors of the Texas Capitol as they walked toward a hearing of the House Committee on Public Health, Shannon Dion and Cheryl Pangburn worried that the legislators wouldn’t hear their message. For years, they’ve tried to raise an alarm. For years, they said, no one has listened. Dion was always …

A man is behind bars in connection with a double slaying at a South Dallas warehouse last month. Gustavo Adolfo Gonzalez, 38, was arrested Tuesday by a U.S. Marshals task force, Dallas police said. He faces a capital murder charge in the deaths of Jose Dominguez and Kevin Smith. Officers were called early Feb. 14 to the 4900 block of …

Jin-Ya Huang was preparing a cultural art lesson for an Oak Cliff spring break camp when news of the Atlanta shootings broke Tuesday. She was devastated, she said, but not surprised. “It just made me hurt,” Huang said. “Like, deeply inside. But I have to turn that grief into action because we cannot continue to suffer in silence. So many …