Punjab News

BAHAWALPUR, Feb 22 (APP):Deputy Commissioner (DC) Bahawalpur, Zaheer Anwar Jappa on Wednesday presided over a meeting regarding Bahawalpur Literary and Cultural Festival in the Committee Room of his office here. The meeting reviewed the arrangements of the Bahawalpur Literary and Cultural Festival being organized under […]

LAHORE, Feb 21 (APP): Chief Secretary Punjab Zahid Akhter Zaman has directed all the divisional commissioners to provide full cooperation for conduct of national census. He issued this directive while presiding over a meeting of the Provincial Coordination Committee for Digital Census at the Civil […]

SARGODHA, Feb 18 (APP): Police claimed on Saturday to have arrested eleven criminals and recovered contraband from their possession. In a crackdown against criminals, the police arrested Naeem, Naseem, Waqas, Waleed, Munawar, Nadeem, Mansab, Muneer, Akram, Anwar and Akhtar and recovered 344litre liquor, 234 empty […]

BUREWALA, Feb 18 (APP): A notorious inter-district dacoit killed by his own accomplices during an exchange of firing with police at Village 53/WB here Saturday. According to police sources, police arrested Shan alias Shani, resident of Village 168/9-L a few days ago who was the […]

MULTAN, Feb 15 (APP): Agriculture experts have advised farmers to regularly inspect their wheat crops and apply suitable anti-fungus pesticides in case of crop attack by Rust disease. Agriculture spokesman said in an advisory here Wednesday that there was the likelihood of Rust disease attack […]

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (APP): The Punjab Emergency Service Department (Rescue 1122) has called to cap the speed limit of motorbikes at 50 kilometers per hour for a reduction in the number of road traffic accidents. Talking to APP here on Monday an official of the […]

NAROWAL, Feb 12 (APP): A man was booked for selling petrol illegally in Ganj Mandi Hassainabad and seized the machine. On the special direction of Deputy Commissioner Narowal Muhammed Ashraf, a team of Civil Defence headed by district Officer Asim Riaz Wahla raided and got […]

NAROWAL, Feb 11 (APP): Price control magistrate conducted 2046 inspections and imposed fine of Rs 196,500 on 52 shopkeepers in the city during the last two months. Price Magistrate Muhammed Aftab Ahmed said on Saturday that on the special direction of Deputy Commissioner Muhammed Ashraf, […]

LAHORE, Feb 09 (APP): The fourth provincial cabinet meeting, held under the chair of the caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi at his office on Thursday, approved one billion rupees for assistance of police martyrs’ heirs. It decided to include flour in the schedule of […]

SIALKOT, Feb 09 (APP):A youth was shot dead by an unidentified armed dacoit for putting resistance during a mugging late on last night. According to Rescue spokesperson, a youth namely Samson (24-year-old) was on his way when a dacoit intercepted him near Askari Petrol Pump […]