“The IMF must intensify analysis of and become more vocal on key issues that impact growth and stability of the global economic system,” US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement, citing currency exchange rates, current account imbalances and demand shortfalls...
“But vocal advocacy in the name of its core mandate is likely to make the IMF a more effective institution over the long term...
ISLAMABAD: Saturday night at Kuch Khaas had a different feel for the audience who got to hear a unique sound of music - fusion between Sufi folk and jazz...
IPAC has been organising such musical events to prevent traditional music from dying...
ISLAMABAD: The manicured green lawns of the National Art Gallery were the venue for the three-day Second Annual Music Mela that started on Friday night...
“The idea is to encourage live music, provide platform to talented musicians, and make the show bigger next year and the years to follow,” said Project Coordinator, FACE, Mehnaz Perveen explaining how this year a day-long Movie Festival had been included to promote films...
Music, music everywhere!”Falak has a special attachment with Simdh...
After a recent tour of Karachi and Hyderabad, he says, “I have a lot of fans in Sindh, it’s just that being a Lahore-based singer, we get more offers there...
Kicking off yesterday on a breezy evening, the I Am Karachi Music Festival saw thin attendance at the Music Dialogues...
These are two-day discussions that deal with copyright and recording issues as well as tracing the relationship between music and society, and are a lead up to I Am Karachi's live musical performances due to be held this weekend...
ISLAMABAD: The management of the Federal Medical and Dental College (FMDC) has finally called 100 students for admissions and decided to start double-shift classes from July 24 to compensate for the delay of almost four months...
There is already a delay of almost four months in the academic year so it has been decided that classes will be started from July 24...
KARACHI: The Karachi University Teachers’ Society (Kuts) has announced a boycott of classes on Thursday from 11am, according to a press release issued on Wednesday...
Classes will be boycotted” from 11am...
Due to non-availability of basic facilities, classes could not be commenced even after two years of inauguration of the school...
”Deputy Commissioner Rafaqat Ali Naswana, who is also the chairman of the District Education Authority, said: “We will do everything to ensure classes start at the school after June and will try to provide basic facilities...
Labour Day has been celebrated as a public holiday in most parts of the world to remind societies of workers' rights...
It is a culmination of what started off in the early 1800s as the 'Eight-Hour Day Movement', a campaign sought to stop the exploitation of workers who worked hard for long hours, which was eventually commemorated as an annual occasion to focus on broader labour rights
KARACHI: Venting their anger and dismay over the university administration at a general body meeting of their society on Tuesday, teachers at Karachi University (KU) announced that they would suspend classes for an indefinite period to protest over the non-payment of last month’s salaries...
“It’s unfortunate that teachers have to come out of their classes and labs to raise their voice for what is their basic right...
LAKKI MARWAT: The district education department here has asked the teachers of government schools to avoid using mobile phones in classrooms...
The directives were issued at a meeting of the principals and headmasters of the high and higher secondary schools at GHSS Tajazai on Saturday
RAWALPINDI: To accommodate students at overcrowded government primary schools, the Punjab government is considering starting a second shift of classes at schools...
SWABI: There is a long delay in the start of classes at the newly-built Government Girls’ Degree College, Yar Hussain, due to the failure of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company to provide the educational institution with electricity...
When contacted, project contractor Roedad Khan said he could hand over the building to the department within a week for the start of classes but doing so was not possible unless it had electric...
WASHINGTON: One of America’s 10 top universities cancelled all classes at its main campus on Monday after an online threat of gun violence...
“Based on the FBI’s assessment of this threat and recent tragic events at other campuses across the country, we have decided … to cancel all classes and activities on the Hyde Park campus through midnight on Monday,” the university announced...
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Medical and Dental College (FMDC) management finally started classes for the 100 medical students on Friday, but without an NOC from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC)...
So we have decided to start admission process and after completing the process we started classes,” he said...