Sindh completes country’s largest hiring of teachers

[ad_1] KARACHI: The Sindh Education Department has completed Pakistan’s largest-ever recruitment process, hiring over 93,000 Primary School Teachers (PST) and Junior Elementary School Teachers (JEST). Sindh’s Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah congratulated the successful candidates, expressing hope that the teachers joining the department will perform their duties with dedication and honesty. In his statement, … Read more

Sindh’s largest mental health hospital struggles

[ad_1] HYDERABAD: The proper functioning of Sindh’s largest mental health care facility, which even serves patients from South Punjab and Balochistan, remains handicapped due to shortage of doctors and staff. Some other funding woes of Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, aka Giddu hospital in Hyderabad, also surfaced during the recent visit … Read more

Strike halts operations at Bangladesh’s largest port amid tax authority dispute

[ad_1] Operations at Bangladesh’s biggest port were suspended on Sunday as a strike by customs officials brought shipping activity to a halt. The shutdown at Chittagong Port is part of an ongoing dispute between tax authority employees and the government, which is trying to overhaul the body. “The port typically handles around 7,000 to 8,000 … Read more

Pakistan records largest drop in default risk among emerging markets

[ad_1] Listen to article Pakistan has achieved the world’s steepest decline in sovereign default risk over the past year, leading Bloomberg Intelligence’s Global Emerging Market (EM) Rankings for credit risk improvement, according to data released by the finance minister’s adviser on Saturday. Bloomberg, the international financial information and media firm, has described Pakistan as the most improved … Read more

World’s largest camera captures first images at Vera Rubin Observatory

[ad_1] Breathtaking, swirling, multicolored galaxies and star-forming regions were revealed Monday in the first images of deep space captured by the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. More than two decades in the making, the giant US-funded telescope sits perched at the summit of Cerro Pachon in central Chile, where dark skies and dry air provide … Read more

CM hails ‘largest development budget’

[ad_1] LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif asserts while addressing a provincial cabinet meeting on Monday, “We are not only giving a zero tax budget, but the largest development budget. The previous development budget was also a record, we will break all our own records. We not only gave a surplus budget of Rs740 … Read more