ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court rejected on Thursday a set of petitions seeking review of its Dec 18, 2009, verdict which required pulling down of a huge commercial outlet built by a wholesale giant on 4...
9 acres of land reserved for a playground in the heart of Karachi...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Owners of local CNG filling stations announced here on Tuesday staging a protest demonstration on May 7 in Faisalabad against the government for not restoring gas supply to their outlets...
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, filling station owners association district president Rana Muhammad Khan and spokesman Haji Ashraf said gas supply was being denied to them for the last six months
BAHAWALPUR: A minor girl was burnt alive, while two persons suffered serious burns in a fire erupting at a petrol outlet that also gutted an oil tanker and seven shops at Adda Goth Mehrab on Bahawalpur –Ahmedpur East highway, about 30kms from here...
According to Rescue 1122 and police sources, an oil-tanker was filling the reservoir of a small petrol outlet owned by Sabir when a fire broke out there...
LAHORE: A Punjab Food Authority team raided a food outlet in Faisal Town and arrested its owner after spotting unhygienic conditions on Friday...
Though inconvenient parking, typical of shopping plaza’s, and an unassuming entrance into the building makes it an unlikely first choice for a high end fashion outlet, the crackdown on commercial outlets in residential areas has seen smaller markets and empty markaz spaces blossom...
The new Labels Islamabad outlet is no different...
KANSAS CITY (Missouri): The two uniformed jail guards argued angrily, cursed each other and then erupted into a nasty brawl with punches and furniture and bodies flying...
As the fight ended and the guards skulked away to lick their wounds, a breathless audience of about 100 people looked on
LAHORE: An enforcement team of the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) sealed on Saturday renowned fashion designer Hassan Sheheryar Yasin’s (HSY) outlet on Ali Zeb Road in Gulberg-III after an FBR officer allegedly manhandled a monitoring official and a journalist...
A day earlier, the PRA had deputed monitoring staff at the outlet after failing to receive tax returns from the designer...
SAHIWAL: As many as 110 people were injured, four of them critically, when a massive blast occurred at an LPG decanting outlet on Railway Road on Sunday...
According to sources, Rao Amanat Ali, the owner, had been illegally running the LPG decanting outlet for around five years...
An official of another food outlet also complained against PFA officials for imposing heavy fines on them leading to even closure of one of his company’s branches in Faisal Town over a minor issue that could have been settled through a warning...
ISLAMABAD: The Oxford University Press (OUP) opened a new shop at the Centaurus Mall on Wednesday...
The shop is the latest addition to OUP’s network of 18 bookshops across the country
The flow of funds from multi-billion charities to a few bigger institutions this Ramazan may be higher than last year despite their lacklustre donation collection campaigns...
However money transfer in the form of zakat, sadqa and khairat seem to be stable, same as last year’s level of Rs150bn; according to an estimate
KARACHI: The famous Kokan Ground in the city’s Bahadurabad area being the venue for quite an intriguing cricketing contests saw on Sunday a three-day long event namely Khelo Kricket come to an end...
During the holy month of Ramazan this year, Khelo Kricket organised its first night-cricket tournament for the women of Karachi...
RAWALPINDI: Against the backdrop of the Punjab government’s campaign against unhygienic food outlets, the business leaders have arranged a meeting of their (food outlets) owners and the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) officials at the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) on Tuesday...
The district coordination officer (DCO), Sajid Zafar Dall, assistant commissioner, Cantonment, Khalid Goraya and assistant...
Saddar Division SP (Operations) Rizwan Gondal said two gas cylinders exploded in the kitchen of a newly-established fast food outlet branch and it caught fire...
FAISALABAD: The city has lost yet another place of entertainment — Nishat Cinema — now a theatre hall, as it has been sold and the new owner has started demolishing the decades old building reportedly to erect a plaza there...
The cinema established decades ago had been screening Punjabi, Urdu and English movies and was later converted into theatre hall, showing stage dramas