Latest Punjab Headlines and News updates

World Cancer Day: Experts stress need for setting up new hospitals to cater growing incidences

47 booked for aerial firing, violating marriage act

Avoid making pensioners, widows rolling stone, secretary finance orders accounts officials

15 food points,five milk carrying vehicles fined

PM chairs Apex Committee meeting to deliberate on law and order situation

Shafay calls on Balighur Rehman

60 IT companies attend PU job fair

CM directs PIMH to hold patient-audit

ECP to decide exact time frame for elections in KPK, Punjab: Rana Sanaullah

Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi directs PIMH to hold patient-audit

Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) will hold a patient-audit and health of patients will be examined and steps will be taken to discharge recovered patients to their homes

Students' role urged in fostering Pak-China ties

Speakers at a workshop have urged the students to play their role in bolstering friendly ties between Pakistan and China

60 IT companies attend PU job fair

The participant Information Technology (IT) companies conducted interviews and preliminary recruitment tests, collected CVs, presented technological trends and shared job descriptions during the 12th job fair of the Punjab University Faculty of Computing Information Technology (FCIT), here on Thursday

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) responsible to conduct transparent election: Coordinator to Prime Minister on Commerce and Industries Rana Ihsan Afzal Khan

Coordinator to Prime Minister on Commerce and Industries Rana Ihsan Afzal Khan on Thursday said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should organize transparent elections for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies

Current economic challenges result of poor policies of previous govt: Ahsan Iqbal

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said the economic crisis and terrorism challenges being faced by the country were created by the poor policies of the previous government

The Lahore High Court (LHC) summons CCPO Lahore on plea for recovery of Amir Saeed Rawn

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday summoned CCPO Lahore along with a report for February 3 on a petition filed for recovery of Amir Saeed Rawn, ex-advisor of former chief minister Punjab Parvez Elahi

Farmers must use Urea carefully for better yield of wheat

Punjab Agriculture department has advised the growers to use nitrogen fertilizer (Urea) carefully to obtain good quantity of wheat yield from per acre of land

Lahore High Court (LHC) forms larger bench for hearing of Ahmad Awais' plea

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti on Thursday constituted a larger bench for hearing a petition filed by Ahmad Awais against his removal as advocate general Punjab

Police prepared to fight terrorists, criminals: Additional IG South Punjab

Additional Inspector General Police (AIGP) South Punjab Maqsoodul Hassan on Thursday ordered all district police chiefs to step up security arrangements encompassing all important places and routes

Light rain, snowfall likely at isolated places in KP, GB, Kashmir

Light rain with light snowfall is expected at isolated places in Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan during the next 24 hours, Pakistan Meteorological Department said (PMD)

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar warns circle officers over delay in redressing people's complaints

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar has assigned the task of taking timely measures to all circle officers of province to address complaints of people without any delay

IT-based policing progressing with effective use of info-tech: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar has said the journey from traditional policing to IT-based policing is rapidly progressing with the effective use of information technology and modern practices in providing services to citizens, along with eradication of crimes

13 killed,1063 injured in 1032 RTCs in Punjab

At least thirteen persons were killed and 1063 injured in 1032 Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) in all 37 districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours

Round the clock facility of primary angioplasty being provided to common man: Minister

Punjab Caretaker Health Minister Dr Javed Akram on Thursday said that the facility of primary angioplasty to the common man was being provided 24/7 in the government hospitals on the direction of Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi

FAFEN urges reforms for fair geographical representation on seats reserved for women

Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Thursday called for introducing divisional quotas for seats reserved for women in the National and Provincial Assemblies to ensure the geographical representativeness of women as well as to incentivize their greater political role in the areas where women's participation is marginal