The court after hearing the arguments issued a notice to the concerned authority and sought a response. PESHAWAR: A writ petition has been filed in Peshawar High Court (PHC) to stop private schools in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) from collecting summer vacations fee in advance and various types of fees from the…
KARACHI: Students across the megalopolis took a significant step towards their academic goals as the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) launched the annual Intermediate examinations 2025 on May 5. The morning shift featured Mathematics Paper-I (for failures) for Pre-Engineering students. Chairman of BIEK Ghulam Hussain Sohoo, Secretary Muhammad Kashif…
Boy dies, parents sustain injuries when dumper crushes their bike KARACHI: A 10-year-old boy, Samamah, lost his life, while his father, Rizwan, 35, and mother, Laraib, 30, sustained injuries when a speeding dumper truck hit the motorcycle they were riding, under the Gulbai bridge, Shershah. According to the injured father,…
First-of-its-kind NCRC report offers evidence-based overview of situation of children ISLAMABAD: The National Commission on the Rights of the Child (NCRC) launched its inaugural State of Children in Pakistan Report 2024 at recently held a ceremony in Islamabad. Federal Minister for Human Rights, Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar, was the chief…
RAWALPINDI: Police have registered a case against a private school teacher for allegedly brutally beating and injuring two students in the Gujar Khan area on May 04. The school administration was also nominated in the case. According to the police, Saqib Mahmood, the victim’s father, reported that his 11-year-old and…
Teen’s final video reveals teacher’s threats; FIR registered LODHRAN: A 10th-grade student reportedly took her own life after alleged harassment, blackmail and threats by her schoolteacher in the Gogran area of Lodhran. As per the FIR registered under Section 316 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Qureshiwala Police Station, the…
Under Section 144, entry of unrelated persons into examination centres has been completely prohibited The annual FA and FSc examinations started across Punjab under the supervision of nine education boards, including the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi. Chairman BISE Rawalpindi, Muhammad Adnan Khan, along with Controller of…
Mianwali. A severe shortage of textbooks in government schools in Hafizabad district is affecting the education of students due to negligence on the part of the Punjab Textbook Board. Several weeks after the beginning of the new academic year, only 20 percent of the students in local schools have received…
DIJKOT: A 12-year-old girl died of a head injury after falling from a swing in an amusement park. A complaint was lodged with the police by the father of the victim, Ghulam Mustafa, a resident of Doctor City, blaming negligence of the staff for the incident. The complainant stated that…
Staff instructed to submit an affidavit confirming compliance with directive RAWALPINDI: In response to a decline in new admissions at government schools, the Education Department has made it mandatory for all public school teachers and non-teaching staff to enrol their children in government institutions. Teachers’ unions have rejected this directive…
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