World Environment Day: Call for preserving biodiversity

bit too late to save the heritage structures in Punjab which are crumbling, the Punjab Government on Wednesday decided to preserve its pre-Independence era buildings. The Government has now made it mandatory for all departments to seek permission ...

ISLAMABAD Research and restoration laboratories are integral to museums in order to preserve the archaeological findings, but the one in Taxila Museum itself needs to be saved from neglect. Not the vagaries of time, but rather human neglect has ...

In the spring of 1963, a French geologist set out from Kabul to carry out a survey in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan. His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak. But in the ...

ISLAMABAD: Rohtas Fort, the historical monument located near Jhelum, has undergone a new series of renovations, aimed to boost the site's tourism value. The 16th century garrison fort, commissioned by Sher Shah Suri to prevent advances of the ...

NEW DELHI: Most parts of north India reeled under intense heat Monday with no respite in sight Tuesday, with the temperature touching a scorching 46.2 degrees Celsius at Palam airport here. It was a hot start to the week in the national capital ...

LAHORE, May 20: Syed Babar Ali was on Monday elected the first president of the Lahore Heritage Foundation, set up to provide expertise to government and private bodies, and if need be also with funds, for conservation and promotion of the culture ...

The locks of martyr Sukhdev's ancestral house in Naughara Mohalla in Ludhiana will be opened on May 31. The deputy commissioner took the decision after a meeting here on Friday. The house, which has been declared a national property by the state ...

For Delhiites and connoisseurs of history, a visit to Qutubuddin Aibak's mausoleum in Lahore will prove to be a memorable experience, writes firoz bakht ahmedLIKE the late Margaret Thatcher once said, To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - Online/Our Staff Reporter - The final exams for CT and BEd programmes of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) for the Semester Autumn-2012 will be held on May 14 and 15. Earlier these exams scheduled to be held on April 24 and ...