PESHAWAR: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar on August 4 declared the results of the annual Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, with around 30 per cent of 10th-grade students and nearly 60 per cent of 9th-grade students remaining unsuccessful. According to the exam result gazette issued by…
A PROJECTION that Pakistan’s population could reach 400m by 2040 should not be treated as another dramatic number to be quoted at ceremonies and forgotten by the next budget. It is a warning about the size of the state’s future obligations. Every additional child will need vaccination, nutrition, schooling, safe…
PARENTS want the very best for their children. That is never in question. But wanting the best and knowing what the best is are two different things, and in the early years of a child’s life, the impact of that difference can have consequences that are difficult to undo. In…
LAHORE: An alleged chronic drug addict was arrested after reportedly attacking and injuring his wife and three daughters in the Kahna area here on August 2. The police identified the suspect as Irfan and lodged a case against him. According to initial police reports, the suspect, on the day of…
TAXILA: The lives and safety of more than 80 children, most of them girls, enrolled at Government Boys Primary School on the outskirts of Taxila are said to be at risk due to excessive excavation around the school by a private housing society, cutting off safe access to the campus…
MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department has sought the help of the deputy commissioner and law-enforcement agencies to reopen schools forcibly shut by landowners who had applied for lower-grade posts but were not appointed across the district. “As educational institutions have reopened for the new academic session after summer vacation,…
KARACHI: International Breastfeeding Week 2026 commenced with an important discussion on the challenges faced by working mothers, especially journalist mothers who are breastfeeding, at a seminar organised by the Karachi Press Club in collaboration with Unicef on Saturday. One’s heart went out to the mothers who shared the challenges they…
BAHAWALNAGAR: The investigative committee, formed after the death of a five-year-old child at the Minchinabad THQ Hospital three days ago, has suspended two junior technicians for negligence under the Peeda Act, while the THQ’s medical superintendent (MS) has also been removed. The family of the child had claimed that on June 30…
LAHORE: Lahore DIG (Investigation) Zeeshan Raza claimed on July 31 that the police have solved the mystery surrounding the deaths of a US national woman and her three children in a house in a private housing society in Lahore. US national Aleena (40) and her three children — Rehan (16),…
RAWALPINDI: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rawalpindi (BISE) asked the marking officers to check the examination papers with honesty so that hard work of the students does not go in vain. BISE Rawalpindi Chairman Professor Dr Iqbal Mahmood paid a detailed visit to the marking centre for the Intermediate…
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