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‘Qeemat Punjab’ mobile app provides great relief to citizens in Ramadan with 30,000 plus downloads

  • Lahore, June 3, 2019 Commodities price checking and complaint registering mobile app ‘Qeemat Punjab’ developed and launched by Punjab Information Technology Board just before Ramadan has been proved worthwhile and valuable as more than 30,000 citizens downloaded till now, while out of 1324 registered complaints, 873 have been resolved and more than 1.3 million rupees […]

  • PITB launches Learning Management System for Punjab Judicial Academy

    PITB launches Learning Management System for Punjab Judicial Academy Lahore, May 29, 2019 Punjab Information Technology Board in collaboration with Punjab Judicial Academy has launched Learning Management System (LMS) through which two thousand Judicial officers and nearly Twenty thousand high court staff will be able to get online training via dedicated web portal while sitting […]

  • More than 40 per cent Indian MPs face criminal charges including rape, murder: study

    More than 40 per cent Indian MPs face criminal charges including rape, murder: study More than 40 per cent of lawmakers in India’s new parliament face criminal charges — some as serious as murder and rape — and the list is growing, an electoral reform group said on Saturday. One member of parliament for the […]

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    Stocks post decade-high weekly gains

    Stocks post decade-high weekly gains KARACHI: Investors heaved a sigh of relief as the stock market posted recovery after snapping the seven-successive-week selling spree that had seen the stocks plunge 14pc with the KSE-100 index settling at three-year low around 33,167 points. In the outgoing week, bulls returned with a vengeance to charge in all […]

  • Opposition divided on NAB chairman’s resignation demand

    Opposition divided on NAB chairman’s resignation demand ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: The country’s two major opposition parties — the PML-N and the PPP — which have been crying foul over the ongoing accountability process for the past couple of years and have not missed any opportunity to target the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) — have adopted […]

  • Govt likely to reverse tax concessions for salaried class

    Govt likely to reverse tax concessions for salaried class ISLAMABAD: The government looks set to reverse tax concessions extended by the PML-N government to benefit high-earning salaried and non-salaried individuals substantially more than the middle-class workforce. “We are considering reverting back to the income tax brackets applicable in the tax year 2017,” an official source […]