Punjab

LAHORE: Police arrested on Saturday a school teacher for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student in the hostel of a Lahore cadet school in Lahore’s Garden Town area. The child’s parents registered a case against the school teacher, identified as Azhar Iqbal, and the police arrested the suspect. Azhar Iqbal is...

The general elections year 2018 is here, NADRA taking advantage of it, doubled the renewal fees. According to a NADRA notification, the revised fees are effective today (Wednesday). The fee for a normal ID card has been increased from Rs200 to Rs400. The charges for an executive card are now Rs2,500....

Tehrik Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR) continued with the tenth consecutive day of their sit-in protest outside Data Darbar Lahore. The protestors are demanding that the contentious Faizabad agreement be enforced. The TLYR chief Khadim Rizvi has already issued April 12 (1600 hrs) as the deadline for Government to respond...

An eight-year-old girl with mental disabilities succumbed to her wounds at the Jinnah Hospital on Tuesday after being burnt alive and allegedly raped in Chichawatni. On April 8, the minor had left her house to buy sweets from a nearby shop. After she failed to return home, her parents and...

GUJRAT: A man threw acid on a woman at her residence in Gujrat after she rejected his marriage proposal. The 45-year-old accused, Mujahid, had proposed marriage to his cousin Mehwish. Both, the family and woman, had refused to accept the proposal despite increasing pressure from the accused. Mujahid had then...

National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) slashed electricity price by up to Rs2.28 per unit for power consumers. However, the temporary relief in electric rates would not be applicable on K-Electric customers and consumers using up to 300 units of electricity per month. NEPRA- The production cost for per unit of...

Petrol Prices in Pakistan April 2018  - ISLAMABAD: The government has reduced the price of petrol by Rs 2.07 per litre in a reshuffle of rates of petroleum products, Earlier The regulator on Friday recommended in a summary to the Petroleum Division that the price of petrol shall be reduced by Rs5.26...

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has recommended a decrease of Rs5.26 per litre in the petrol prices with effect from April 1. The regulator on Friday recommended in a summary to the Petroleum Division that the price of petrol be reduced by Rs5.26 per litre bringing the rate down...

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) predicted that Hot weather will continue and the temperatures in the next three months would rise by two to three degrees than usual and below average rainfall would be observed. Experts warned that the country should gear up for an intense summer season this year with...

The National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) has developed an online reporting portal aimed at countering online extremism as well as abuse of internet and social media. "Surf safer" is an online portal which allows Pakistanis to report extremist content online freely, securely and anonymously. The responsive web portal also serves...

Watch Live Streaming of The 78th Pakistan Day being celebrated today (March 23rd 2018) with traditional zeal and enthusiasm to mark the passage of the Lahore Resolution that led to the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of South Asia in 1947. The historic resolution, known as the...

Police have arrested three suspects from Rawalpindi for the murder of a  Careem Captain' Sajawal Ameer, who was shot dead late Monday night. According to SSP operations Rawalpindi, the three suspects booked a ride from a marriage hall at Sambrial Road. They then tried to snatch the car near the Lakho...