KARACHI. The standing committees of a legislative assembly, which consist of elected members, monitor the administrative and financial affairs of their respective provincial departments in addition to guiding the elected assembly in matters of legislation related to specific sectors. Unfortunately, however, the
Textbooks are distributed free of cost to students from class one to ten. KOTRI: The employees and publishers have rejected the Sindh government’s decision to transform the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) Jamshoro into a corporate entity to run the operation of printing
Formula milk companies are lobbying to have breast milk substitutes or formula milk declared as ‘food’ to remove it from the purview of health and medicine authorities, enabling them to freely market their products without regulatory oversight, health experts warned on 25
girl ‘who married of her free will’ A local court on 24-January-2025 sent a teenage girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and later recovered from Naushehro Feroze, to a shelter home. The court also remanded a suspect arrested in
The provincial minister for education Syed Sardar Ali Shah and the minister for prisons Ali Hassan Zardari on 23-January-2025 in a meeting decided to empower convicted prisoners’ kids through education. Officials said that the Sindh government has decided to formulate a plan
KARACHI: Amid their ongoing province-wide boycott of academic activities, protesting university teachers took to the streets on 22nd January and demanded that the government withdraw its plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellors of public sector universities and notification regarding the hiring
The Government of Sindh has taken urgent measures to reduce the number of out-of-school children and is making possible the implementation of the Sindh Rights of Children’s Free Education Act, 2013. A spokesman for the Sindh government, Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, has said
A judicial magistrate on 22 January 2025 remanded a suspect in police custody for four days in a killing for ‘honour’ case. A girl and her 20-year-old friend were shot dead allegedly by her father Azhar in her home in Malir’s Rafa-e-Aam
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained the Sindh Health Department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) administrations; and the Sindh Human Rights Commission from making a final decision in inquiries initiated against the accused, Dr. Shehzad,
Despite being a low transmission season, around 10 children are currently admitted at the Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital (SIDH) at NIPA in Karachi with measles, while four children are undergoing treatment for diphtheria. Similar cases are being reported at other health facilities