* Industrial units stuck in residential areas causing land, air pollution * Factories also causing difficulties for city planners to provide basic facilities * Many rubber, steel industries discharging untreated effluent into River Ravi By Afnan Khan LAHORE: The cultural metropolis is being labeled the country’s most polluted city, as huge industrial units stuck in [...]
* Dealers’ cartel manipulating prices, causing artificial shortage * Non-genuine batteries flood market, add to consumers’ woes LAHORE: Prices of gadgets that provide electricity during power outages are skyrocketing in the provincial capital, in the face of government assurances to curtail load shedding. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]
LAHORE: Hundreds of people from across the city will take to the streets for the next four weeks in the largest ever campaign, ‘Tidy Lahore’, to clean up the streets and neighbourhoods of the metropolis. The campaign which is part of the Azm-e-Alishan movement was launched to coincide with the Earth Day, the annual day [...]
LAHORE: An exhibition – ‘Fiza Signature’ – opened at the Nairang Art Gallery on Wednesday. The exhibition showcased fashion model, Fiza Ali’s launch of her Kurti line. She has experimented with fabrics ranging from chiffon, pure synthetics and lawns for her spring/summer collection, which includes gowns and eastern clothes. This is her first show in [...]
The place where Dulla Bhatti rests pays no tributes to his brave deeds, a simple unadorned grave with no minaret marks his resting place Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
LAHORE: Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said completion of the Ring Road Package-6 in a record time proves that service of people and their welfare are the missions of the Punjab government. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
LAHORE: Amn Nasir, a brilliant Lahori student, earned two top positions in the world in Chemistry and Commerce, and topped in the best seven and eight As category in the O-Level International Examinations of Cambridge University. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
* Psychiatrists say intolerance, frustration and post-traumatic tensions cause street fights By Muhammad Aayan LAHORE: Walking on the streets, driving around or even hanging out with friends, hot-headed Lahoris got embroiled in more than 1200 street fights across the city during the year 2009, while 400 people were injured as a result of these brawls, [...]
* Madrassas, schools, public places all attacked by terrorists * Provincial govt adds to fear with over-the-top ‘security measures’ * All entry points into city monitored, vehicles checked * Defence analyst says govt’s measures adding to insecurity among masses * Psychologist says child trauma cases doubled in 2009 Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to [...]


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