TAXILA: Despite Punjab government’s tall claims about the provision of healthcare facilities to the citizens, work on the Basic Health Unit (BHU) at Jand in the district of Attock could not be completed even after 10 years...
According to official data, former district nazim Attock Tahir Sadiq had initiated the establishment of the BHU at Dhak locality of Jand tehsil...
Ms Rafique said that though she had been visiting nearby villages to convince people to take their females to the BHU, they refused to do so...
Reports say the transformer installed to supply electricity to the BHU had gone out of order about three years back which could not be repaired so far...
In the absence of electricity, the BHU cannot run a refrigerator which is required to store vaccines and life-saving drugs...
MITHI: A newborn died soon after his mother’s delivery performed by a sympathiser outside the Chelhar basic health unit (BHU) on Saturday...
Her family and relatives alleged that the tragic episode happened to them after the BHU staff refused to handle the case and forced them to take the woman to the faraway Mithi Civil Hospital...
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly’s Special Committee has strongly recommended the provincial government to reduce weightage for entrance tests for medical and engineering colleges admission test (MCAT & ECAT) to 10 per cent – from the academic year 2018...
The committee did not touch the already held ECAT and re-scheduled MCAT entrance test for Oct 29 for admission to medical and engineering institutions this year...
HYDERABAD: Personnel of Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) defused five bombs planted on a roadside near the entrance to Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro, early on Wednesday morning...
MUET Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Aslam Uqaili said the criminals placed the bombs near the entrance as they must not have found an opportunity to plant them inside the university premises because of the internal security system... ...
LAHORE: A large number of electricity workers on Monday besieged headquarters of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) to block entry for a delegation of the Privatisation Commission and senior officers to the company...
BEIJING: Chinese students sat the annual make-or-break university entrance exams on Monday, with officials deploying drones or high-tech radio surveillance trucks at schools across the country to try and curb increasingly sophisticated cheating methods...
PESHAWAR: A total of 16,860 candidates appeared in the entrance test for academic session 2017-18 of the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, on Sunday...
The entrance test was simultaneously held at Peshawar, Abbottabad, Swat and Dera Ismail Khan which was conducted by the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA), according to a statement issued here...
OSLO: Norway is repairing the entrance of a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world’s food supplies...
The water, limited to the 15 metre (50 ft) entrance hall in the melt late last year, had no impact on millions of seeds of crops including rice, maize, potatoes and wheat that are stored more than 110 metres inside the...
LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore, declared on Friday the results of entrance test 2015 for admission to medical and dental colleges of Punjab...
A total of 46,885 candidates appeared in the entrance test held on Aug 30 and out of which 19,283 scored 60 per cent and above marks...
KARACHI: A new portal-like entrance gate to the National Museum of Pakistan with over three-century-old inscription was inaugurated on Wednesday afternoon...
The holy verse of Surah-i-Furqan on stone panel carving from Shah Jahan Mosque in Thatta is now part of the museum’s entrance, according to museum official M...
All attended Kota’s “coaching institutes,” whose sole purpose is to prepare high school students for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination...
Given this deeply entrenched culture of academic ambition, the planned administrative inquiry into conditions at the Kota coaching institutes is unlikely to result in remedial action...
LAHORE: Keeping in view the security flaws at Gulshan-i-Iqbal, the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to outsource security at main entry gates of all public parks it operates in the metropolis...
“We have reached a consensus that since the entrance to the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park becomes so crowded because of the parking area that exists near the main entry gate, situated at the road linking Dubai Chowk (Iqbal Town’s main...
LAHORE: The combined entrance test for admission to engineering institutions of Punjab for BSc Engineering and BS Technology will begin at 10am on Sunday (today) at 13 centres across the province...
Arrangements for holding the test were reviewed at a meeting presided over by University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid on Saturday...