Rawalpindi: Since the government started an investigation into the new alignment of the Rawalpindi Ring Road, progress on the Ring Road project has been delayed, according to a news source. An official of the Planning and Development department revealed that three ongoing projects in Rawalpindi are part of the annual development programme. Rs.50 million has been allocated for the ring road, Rs.50...
ISLAMABAD: The government reported on Wednesday that the economy grew 5.97 percent after rebasing national accounts, slightly faster than the 5.74 percent growth in the previous year, we reported earlier. For the current fiscal year 2021-22, the provisional GDP growth rate has been estimated at 5.97 percent, with the growth of the agricultural, industrial, and services sectors at 4.40 percent,...
Rawalpindi : As part of its rainwater harvesting project, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) is aiming to use millions of gallons of rainwater. Having received assistance from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, RDA began a project to harvest rainwater. According to him, the citizens of Rawalpindi were unaware of rainwater harvesting and its benefits for septic tanks, irrigation,...
Islamabad: Against encroachments in the National Park Hills area, the enforcement wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) conducted operations on Wednesday. At Saidpur Village in the foothills of Margalla, the enforcement staff and the Islamabad Police demolished a room and a 'chappar' hotel with police support. Two illegally constructed houses were razed in the Darah area of the...
LAHORE: A raid by Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Sheikhupura Road on Tuesday unearthed a factory producing fake carbonated drinks of different popular brands. 90 litres of carbonated drinks were discarded in the raid. The owner of the fake beverages factory has been charged with a criminal offence. In addition to 80,000 reels of fake labels, 12,000 lids, 12,000-liter empty bottles, and 50 kilograms of...
Rawalpindi: On Monday, the district administration directed WASA to de-silt and dredge Nullah Leh as part of its annual dredging program. In his view, the annual dredging and de-silting works of Nullah Leh have begun from the Gawalmandi Bridge, according to WASA Managing Director (MD) Raja Shoukat Mehmood. When inspecting the Nullah Leh cleaning work at Gawalmandi, the MD mentioned that the Punjab...
While the Lahore district management managed to reduce the prices in the official rates list after the change of government in order to demonstrate that they were controlling inflation, they completely failed to implement the reduced prices in Lahore. Except for the poultry meat prices, which increased with the start of the wedding season, nearly all vegetables and fruit prices dropped sharply...
Islamabad: A total of Rs80 million will be spent by the Capital Development Authority on the maintenance and rehabilitation of street lights to keep the city illuminated at night. CDA's Street Light Department will install new streetlights and repair faulty streetlights and transformers on numerous highways, intersections, link roads, markets, and streets throughout Islamabad, a CDA spokesman...
LAHORE: There could still be one-and-a-half months of delays in the completion of the mega Shahkam Chowk flyover as the Lahore Electric Supply Company and the National Transmission and Despatch Company are not ready to observe an off and on power shutdown to ensure the live wires of 66kV, 132kV and 220kV are dead. This deadlock will allow the construction workers and engineers to...