ISLAMABAD: Over 70 teaching and non-teaching staff in Federal Directorate of Education (FDE)-run schools and colleges have been vaccinated against Covid-19 after the Ministry of Federal Education directed the educational institutions to submit the certificates by June 11. An official of the FDE said 70.2pc teaching and non-teaching staff in the institutions had been vaccinated. A report has also been …

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government on Thursday did not allow the mayor of Rawalpindi and union council chairmen to enter Jinnah Hall to hold a meeting and forced them to convene a session of the Rawalpindi Metropolitan Corporation (RMC) in front of its main gate. But in a rare show of unity, the ruling PTI joined hands with the opposition PML-N …

LAHORE: The Textbook Publishers Association (TPA) on Thursday demanded the government to direct the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) to issue them no objection certificate and withdraw the “hefty fee” for publishing textbooks under the Single National Curriculum (SNC), claiming it will push the book prices up further. TPA President Fawaz Niaz said PCTB had imposed a hefty fee …

LAHORE: Pace of the Covid vaccination drive is ‘dead slow’ in Punjab as the government is vaccinating 51,667 people daily on average against adult population of 0.42m, a daily target set by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to inoculate all 67m ‘eligible’ people by the end of December. The provincial government had started Covid vaccination in the first …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Thursday disclosed that he had written to the president for summoning a joint sitting of parliament for a decision on Sindh’s objection over approval to release official results of the 2017 census by the Council of Common Interests (CCI). The revelation came when the issue of alleged undercounting of Sindh population was raised in …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said Pakistan was faring better than India economically, adding that the country was now on the path to progress. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for the upgradation of the Lodhran-Multan Highway, he said Pakistan and India had similar population density and climate conditions. “But look at the decisions they made and where they are. Compare …