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Modi's education record made public to halt 'fake degree row'

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party on Monday made public his university degree certificates, in a bid to disprove allegations by a political opponent that he had fabricated his qualifications...

Kejriwal has not said why Modi would want to claim a fake degree but the allegations, which set off frenzied speculation on social media, struck a nerve in the prime minister's Hindu nationalist party, upset about the risk...

Meeting of Senate committee witnesses heated debate over fake degree scam

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday witnessed a heated debate over the issue of fake degree scam involving the IT firm, Axact, as some senators assailed the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) for having failed to keep a check on the activities of companies registered with it...

He said the country was already facing an image problem and this fake degree scam had brought more...

Rain offers fair degree of relief

The Met office reported below 40 degree Celsius temperatures all over Punjab because of the westerly wave...

It forecast rain, thunderstorm with a dust storm at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Islamabad, upper Fata, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Sindh (Sukkur, Larkana, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and Karachi) and Balochistan (Quetta, Kalat and Sibbi) in the next...

US needs '360-degree' anti-terror strategy: Hillary Clinton

“This is a 360-degree strategy to keep America safe,” Clinton said...

Visual art degree show opens at NCA

LAHORE: The 15th MA ( Hons) Visual Art Degree Show opened at National College of Arts on Monday...

Govt Degree College, Bahauddin Zakariya University triumph

In the first match played at the Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, Govt Degree College beat ISRA University by seven wickets...

In reply, Govt Degree College reached the target in the 15th over for the loss of three wickets with Daniyal (58), Misbah (23) and Asif (21) batted well and never allowed the ISRA bowlers too dominate...

Ex-students protest unaccredited UAF degree programme

FAISALABAD: Dozens of former students of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the ex-vice chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmed for launching the FSC pre-agriculture degree without accreditation...

Talking to reporters, the protesters alleged Dr Ahmed had launched the degree programme only to mint money without even bothering to get it approved from the Inter-Board Committee of...

NYT accuses software firm of running fake degree empire

KARACHI: The parent company of an infant media conglomerate came under the spotlight on Monday when The New York Times accused it of selling fake diplomas and degrees online through “hundreds of fictitious schools” in the United States...

But when customers call, they are talking to Axact sales agents in Karachi...

Nisar vows transparent investigation of Axact fake degree scam

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan vowed Saturday that a probe into the Axact fake degree scandal would be transparent, and urged the media not to give into speculation...

The minister further said that FIA has written letter to Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the Pakistan Software Houses Association ([email protected]) to apprise...

Fake degree scandal worries HEC

“HEC has serious concerns over these allegations as Pakistan’s name is being tarnished...

Read: FIA raids Axact offices, takes records and employees into custody“I have called an internal meeting of officers from the degree-attesting wing of the HEC on Wednesday where we will discuss the issue in detail,” the HEC Chairman said...

Bilawal Bhutto graduates from Oxford with MA degree

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has graduated from Oxford University with a Master Degree...

In his tweet, former president and Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari congratulated his son for following in the footsteps of his grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother Benazir Bhutto and graduating with an MA degree from Oxford University...

Delhi law minister arrested for fake law degree

NEW DELHI: Police say they have arrested the New Delhi state law minister for allegedly holding a fake degree in law and registering as an attorney in the Indian capital...

According to Bhagat, Tomar says he obtained a law degree from a university in Bihar state, but police found it to be fake...

HEC gives itself clean chit in fake degree scandal

Members of the committee were briefed on the HEC’s requirements for degree recognition...

“We have strict procedures in place and there is absolutely no chance that anyone can get a degree that was purchased online attested from the HEC,” the spokesperson said...

PMDC: degree renewal

I WOULD like to ask the PMDC Islamabad as to why CME hours are included in the renewal of PMDC degree on the instructions of doctors working abroad (Oman and Saudi Arabia) who have dual nationality and cannot cast votes in the general elections of Pakistan? Why doesn’t the PMDC take decisions independently?This causes great hardship for doctors working in Pakistan, as there is nobody to guide them about the location and timings of the CME...

Only PhD degree holders can become vice-chancellors now

PESHAWAR: Only PhD degree holders can become vice-chancellors of public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now as provincial government has made major changes in the relevant law...

Although Higher Education Commission (HEC) had already fixed criteria for appointment of vice-chancellors under which they should be preferably PhD degree holders, yet several persons, who didn’t have PhD degrees, were appointed vice-chancellors in...