30,000 government employees to get jobless
June 8, 2011 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
The government is going to shut the National Education Commission (NEC) and National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), leaving 30,000 people jobless.
No funds have been allocated in the annual budget for 2011/2012 for the National Education Commission and National Commission for Human Development as both the departments are supposed to be devolved to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.
The closing of both departments will leave 30,000 people jobless, besides jeopardising the future of one million children, who are getting education in the institution controlled by the departments.
Pakistan People’s Party Member National Assembly and head of both departments Nafeesa Shah told Dunay News that due to the non-issuance of funds, the departments would become dysfunctional.
The workers of the National Education Commission and National Commission for Human Development said that they would strongly protest, if they were not accommodated in some other department.
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May 23, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Colleen Colclough, a rising senior English major at Belmont Abbey College, has been accepted by St. Bede’s Hall at Oxford University for the fall semester.
St. Bede’s is a new Catholic college at Oxford.
Colclough will take courses in Old English, Middle English and Renaissance literature, among others this fall.
“I’m a huge Jane Austen fan,” she said in a release. “So I’ve always loved the thought of going to England. Now I’ve got my chance.”
Colclough credits her grandmother with motivating her to apply to Oxford and to study abroad.
“She sent me to Ireland while I was in high school, which gave me my first taste of traveling and studying abroad,” she said. “… She believes very strongly that studying abroad can help make one a more broad-minded and well-rounded person.”
Gaston College
Gaston College President Patricia Skinner will receive the second annual Wisdom of Solomon Award from historic synagogue Temple Emanuel at 6 p.m. June 3 at Rodi Restaurant at the Loft in Gastonia.
Throughout her 15-year tenure as president of Gaston College, Skinner has overseen growth of the institution from one campus to three. Under her leadership, Gaston College has added 11 new buildings, including nearly 331,000 square feet of educational space sorce by .charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/23/1448304/college-and-university-news.html#ixzz0olajNOQ2
CJ Wants Speedy Justice in Lower Courts
February 20, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
LAHORE, Pakistan News: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry 
said that people pin high hopes on independent judiciary. They will lose confidence in the institution if speedy justice is not imparted to them.
CJP was addressing a ceremony in Judicial Academy Lahore. He said that dates of cases should be changed into computerized ones. He said that corruption in judiciary has been eliminated. “The judges must do justice by seeing the law not the faces of people, as there is big responsibility now on the judges due to the expectations of the public on the present judiciary,” the CJ stressed. “Today people pin high hopes on the judiciary and the courts will have to live up to that by their conduct,” the CJ said.
CJ Wants Speedy Justice in Lower Courts was first posted on February 20, 2010 at 6:39 pm.
SC Spokesman Denies Meeting Between CM Punjab: CJP
Pakistan News: A spokesman of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday denied the media reports about the meeting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry with Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif while PML-N leader Senator Pervaiz Rashid said that federal government should stop its ministers from issuing derogatory statements.
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice of this report regarding a meeting between CJP and Punjab CM, which reportedly took place in Lahore last week. The meeting is meaningful in the present situation, especially when the detailed decision of Supreme Court on National Reconciliation Order (NRO) is still pending, he said adding that the court should “therefore take notice of the matter.”
The SC spokesman warned that strict action would be taken against those who were debating and making statements on the baseless report. It further said that some elements were debating on this report to achieve their vested interests.
“The report is baseless and uncalled for and is an attempt to affect the reputation of the institution, it said, adding that those issuing any statement in this regard will have to face serious consequences.
SC Spokesman Denies Meeting Between CM Punjab: CJP was first posted on January 13, 2010 at 12:02 pm.
