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  The Government of Sindh has revoked the requirement of a B.Ed degree for all teachers at public primary schools to allow them to get promoted to the next grades. , more than 15,000 primary school teachers in the province will be promoted to BPS 15 and 16. Teachers who have served for 15 years will be promoted to BPS 16 and those with nine years of service will be promoted to BPS 15. ALSO READ Has Sindh Closed Down Schools and Cancelled Exams? Primary school teachers have welcomed the ruling, stating that they had long demanded the requirement of the B.Ed degree to be repealed to facilitate their promotions to higher grades. The Sindh Education and Literacy Department (SELD) had announced 40,000 job openings for primary and junior elementary school teachers in December 2020. Subsequently, 30,000 primary school teachers (PST) were inducted in the first stage and 10,000 junior elementary school teachers (JEST) are being recruited in the second phase of the hiring process. ALSO READ ...

        Every year, more than 100,000 students appear in the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) in Pakistan. Where on average, one-third of the total pass the exam. According to an article published in PMC on October 10th, 194,133 students took the MDCAT exam in Pakistan last year of whom 68,680 students passed the exam (with a national percentage of 35.4). The figures show that very few students succeed to study in medical colleges across the country. One of the major reasons for having such a low passing percentage is no access to good medical books. The majority of students don’t pass the exam because they can’t access useful and authentic medical books. They live in remote areas where book shops usually offer a limited and outdated edition of medical books, or even, they don’t offer required books sometimes. Therefore, access to quality and authentic medical books is the experts’ top suggestion. On the other hand, medical students are the cream of ...

  The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that an Islamic marriage ( nikkah ) done during  iddat  cannot be considered void and women who have done so cannot be tried for  zina. The ruling came from LHC Judge Justice Ali Zia Bajwa hearing a petition by a man who contended that his ex-wife had contracted another nikkah without observing  iddat.  He had urged the court to annul her marriage contract and try her and her new husband for the offense of  zina. ALSO READ Army Deployed in Murree As Dozens of Stranded Tourists Shiver to Death Due to Heavy Snowfall Justice Bajwa explained that the marriage of a woman who has not completed her  iddat  can be described as ‘irregular’ from an Islamic perspective but it would be harsh to declare such marriages ‘void’ because it would result in the couple being tried for adultery under the Islamic laws of Pakistan. Note:  Iddat  is a period of four months and ten days of seclusion and chastity presc...

  The spread of misinformation and fake news is increasing at the same rate as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, with the latter gaining a stronghold in Sindh in general and in Karachi in particular. While the Government of Sindh has not announced a lockdown restriction in the province on an official level, a fake notification started doing the rounds on Friday evening. ALSO READ Army Deployed in Murree As Dozens of Stranded Tourists Shiver to Death Due to Heavy Snowfall The fake statement detailed the “closure of all educational institutions, postponement of exams, organization of Pakistan Super League (PSL) behind closed doors, and the shut down of marriage halls, cinemas, and shrines.” Sindh’s Health and Population Welfare Department categorically refuted the bogus notice in an official statement and declared that no lockdown restrictions have been imposed anywhere in the province. ALSO READ Sinopharm’s New Booster Dose is Highly Effective Against Omicron The Health Depart...

  Dozens of tourists stranded in their cars due to heavy snowfall in Murree and surrounding areas have died. As per official numbers, 16 to 19 tourists have lost their lives as a result of the unrelenting snowfall Disturbing visuals shared by the local residents of the hill station show that the cars of the tourists first got stuck due to harsh weather conditions and later stopped working as they ran out of fuel. As per reports, the hill station received traffic of over 100,000 vehicles even though it can only contain 30,000. ALSO READ Sinopharm’s New Booster Dose is Highly Effective Against Omicron The unlucky tourists had nowhere to take shelter because of the continuous snowfall. Such was the extent of the snowfall that their cars got shrouded in the snow and they shivered to their death. Commenting on the unfortunate development, Federal Interior Minister, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, said that the Federal Government has decided to deploy Pakistan Army to assist the civil administrati...

  The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has launched a Halal Implementation Council (HIC) to ensure the enforcement of permissible Islamic food regulations and the prevention of impermissible Islamic practices in food businesses. The HIC will also organize training programs to build the capacity of food businesses operating in the province to enable them to adopt halal practices, and will certify food businesses as ‘Halal and Safe’. ALSO READ PSL 7 Mini-draft To Take Place Today Furthermore, it will enlist such food businesses on its website and mobile application to ensure that citizens are aware of the halal and safe food businesses in their areas. The HIC was launched at an event in the provincial capital on Friday in a ceremony was organized by the Halal Awareness and Research Council (HARC) in joint collaboration with the Halal and Safe Food Authority (HSFA) and Prime Foundation (PF). ALSO READ Woman Accuses Multan Police of Running a Pornographic Ring During the...

  The contemporary scholarship on Urban Planning has immensely focused on the need for walkable cities. Owing to the heavy costs associated with the contemporary designs of the cities and the increasing urban sprawl, the designs of the cities are reimagined. The time we spend in vehicles to reach our destinations grows day by day, and the cities’ centres are becoming distant. This concern can be found in the explanation that our cities are built for cars rather than giving walking and bicycle tracks a space. Graana.com , through this blog, highlights the concept of ‘Walkable Cities’, which are becoming a major focus of urban planning in the cities. The heavy reliance on vehicles does incur environmental costs in terms of carbon emission and health-related issues. Hence, the new thinking on cities gives special attention to the concept of walkable cities. Explaining Walkable Jeff Speck is the major proponent of Walkable Cities, who has proposed various urban designs for  making...

        Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has successfully tested a protein-based coronavirus vaccine against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The modified shot is administered as a booster after the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine that was originally manufactured by the Beijing-based firm. Sinopharm’s researchers claimed in a recently published study that the protein-based vaccine produces a stronger immune response against the Omicron strain than the third dose of the original two-dose COVID-19 vaccine. ALSO READ PSL 7 Mini-draft To Take Place Today The study is based on the analysis of the blood tests of 192 healthy individuals who had been vaccinated with the original two doses of the Sinopharm vaccine six or more months prior to the tests. For the booster dose, half of the study’s participants received the new protein-based vaccine while the remaining were administered the original inactivated virus-based vaccine. The analyses of their blood samples...

  A woman in Multan has accused the city’s police department of supporting a gang of criminals who are involved in making objectionable videos of young women. According to details, the woman has claimed that the ring lures unsuspecting young women on the pretense of jobs in high-paying professions and rapes them. ALSO READ Donald Trump is Launching a New Social Network to Take on Facebook and Twitter The criminals also film their victims and use it to extort money by threatening to expose them by uploading their videos on different pornographic websites. She added that high-ranking police officials of Multan are patronizing the gang as a handful of applicants who have approached the local police to file complaints against the offenders have been turned away from the police stations as they have been warned of dire consequences. ALSO READ PM Imran Terms His Tenure as an Economic Success Story The woman has appealed to Inspector General (IG) Punjab, Rao Sardar Ali Khan, Chief Ministe...

  Total PARCO Pakistan has inaugurated its first Miyawaki Forest with Park and Horticulture Authority. The forestation project along two canals, covering over 9,000 square meters, is being undertaken by Total PARCO Pakistan with the assistance of Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Gujranwala at Jinnah Park, Gujranwala. Miyawaki” is a forest regeneration technique that aims to recreate self-sustaining multi-layered indigenous forests on degraded land with little human intervention. The chosen indigenous species of plants grow 10 times faster and absorb 30 times more carbon dioxide, compared to conventional methods. The dense plantation also becomes 100 times more bio-diverse and provides great habitat for wildlife. Total PARCO Pakistan believes in sustainable initiatives that contribute towards the vision of a greener and cleaner future for Pakistan. ALSO READ ACE Money Transfer & Bank Alfalah to Distribute Daily Prizes & a Bumper Prize of One Crore State Bank of Pakista...