Punjab, India News

A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said.

With 80 new cases reported during the last 24 hours, the number of measles cases reported in the Punjab in the last five months has reached 12,570. According to health department officials, at least 87 deaths have been reported so far while most deaths occured in Lahore, Gujranwala, Rajanpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Kasur.

Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 seats.

FBR Chairman Ansar Javaid on Saturday directed all tax collectors to broaden the tax net and make all-out efforts to achieve the revenue targets.

Born Ashok Kumar Gulati on Sept. 20, 1942, in Gujranwala, India. Son of Jagjit Lal and Leela Wanti Gulati.

Girls outshone boys in the class XII examinations conducted by the Punjab School Education Board , the results of which were declared today.

Sitting Congress MLA from Bhaderwah M S Niaz has pitched a tent outside his house in his native Changa village to spend the night with his family.

A 28-year-old woman smuggler has been arrested by Ludhiana police. Kajal alias Lucky, who is popularly known as Didi, is a resident of Beri Gate, Amritsar, and had earlier been booked for drug smuggling by Nakodar police in July 2012 with a recovery of 70 gram heroin.

RAWALPINDI: In Pakistan, 480 people develop eye disorders every day and this worrisome increase in eye diseases has now reached to the proportions of epidemic raising new challenges, said Lieutenant General Hamid Javaid, president of the Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospitals at a seminar here yesterday.

Recently successful independent candidates of National Assembly, Awais Leghari and Jamal Leghari of Dera Ghazi Khan, have joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz . The sons of former president Farooq Leghari, Awais Leghari and Jamal Leghari along with other three independent candidates met the PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind.

While proposal was presented by F&CC last year, documentation for keeping two zonal offices as security is still not complete.

She walked into my study with a sort of aggressive authority that has become the hallmark of younger TV interviewers, custom made for shrill current affairs chat shows.

Chandigarh, May 15 : As many as 1,050 girl students of Punjab's government secondary and higher secondary schools are all set to get free hostel facility with completion of 21 girls' hostels in educationally backward blocks of eight districts of Bathinda, Ferozepur, Fazilka, Mansa, Muktsar, Patiala, Sangrur and Tarn Taran.

Ludhiana, May 16 : Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari today said the Akali-BJP government had pushed Punjab into a vicious debt trap and ridiculed the state government for describing it as a productive debt.

Chandigarh, May 16 : The Punjab Government has planned a special plantation drive for water-logged areas with the investment of Rs 90 crore.

The hydel plants, IPPs and thermal power plants are jointly generating 10000MW against the demand of more than 15000MW.

Ali Haider Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who was kidnapped during a pre-election meeting from the suburbs of Multan in a commando-style action on May 8, is suspected to be in the captivity of a new TTP group Tora Shpa , reliable source in law enforcement confirmed TheNation on Thursday.

Is Pakistan steadily moving towards democracy in search of greater prosperity for the welfare and advancement of the nation at large? The media has been loud about the completion of the full term mandate at last by a democratically elected government since the state was carved out of India in 1947 for a dedicated Islamic state, with the army ... (more)

More independents joined the PML-N on Wednesday, putting it in a comfortable position to form governments in the Centre, Punjab and Balochistan; and stand by in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in case the PTI-led coalition fails to set up government.

From the Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany ; Department of Radiology, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, India ; Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany ; and Department of Neurology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany .