Daily Times Govt adamant to hold exams as per schedule
July 9, 2021
Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday demanded the government to delay the annual intermediate examinations, claiming that the students were not given proper time for preparation and teaching of courses due to Covid-19 restrictions .
Through a call of attention notice the PML-N legislators Ahsan Iqbal, Dr Darshan, Khawaja Saad Rafique raised the issue regarding announcement to take intermediate examinations on short notice, without completing the syllabus, which has caused grave concern amongst the public.
Above from politics, Ahsan Iqbal said that the United Kingdom has cancelled their examinations with a plea that equal opportunities were not provided to all students. Same is the case of Pakistan, where students from different areas were not given equal opportunities, Iqbal noted.
ACE summons Dawood University officials to investigate ‘illegal appointments’
July 9, 2021
The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Sindh has initiated an inquiry against the administration and employees of the Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) to investigate the alleged illegal appointments and irregularities in the varsity’s budget.
According to the available information, the ACE Karachi East Zone deputy director, Abdul Ghani, who has been inquiring into the matter, has written a letter to DUET Registrar Prof Dr Syed Ali Shah seeking details about the varsity’s vice chancellor (VC) and others.
The inquiry officer has written in the letter that he has been tasked with conducting an inquiry against the DUET VC and other employees regarding alleged illegal appointments and other irregularities.
July 6, 2021
ABBOTTABAD: A senior official on Monday said that 532 new vacancies had been created in the Works and Services Department for all cadres to strengthen the capacity of the department.
Speaking at the launching ceremony of the election campaign for the Pakistan Engineering Council here, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Secretary Works and Services Department Ijaz Hussain Ansari said that the department was divided into two separate entities so the issues being confronted by engineers could be resolved promptly.
He said that it would also, help increase employment opportunities for the engineers and others staff.Engineers from all the construction departments of Hazara division, Comsats University and retired engineers attended the ceremony. Ijaz Ansari that Pakistan Engineering Council was a regulatory authority, which was being restructured along modern lines.
WHEN it comes to doing some scientific research with practical application in mind, we lag far behind most of the world. Covid is a new virus and only six countries in the world have been working actively in developing and producing its vaccine. We are not part of that and there is nothing wrong on that count. But what about polio, malaria and influenza which are old diseases? Why haven’t we developed their vaccine to date? Why are we still importing polio drops?
But these questions answer themselves the moment we realise that it took us years to produce an oral rehydration solution of our own. On the other hand, India has a population of 1.39 billion and has far worse poverty than us, but it supplies 14 types of vaccines to the world. Besides, India is also producing two Covid vaccines and millions of its citizens have been vaccinated. Where do we stand? We are still dependent on other countries for vaccines.
Women engineers pledge to accelerate pace in field of engineering
July 4, 2021
Rawalpindi: Awareness seminar of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) Women Engineer Committee was held here on Friday at FJWU. Guests of the seminar were Engineer Javed Salim Qureshi, Chairman PEC, Engineer Suhail Aftab Qureshi and Dr. Saima Hamid, Vice Chancellor FJWU.
Basic purpose of the seminar is to give awareness to women engineers. Pakistan Engineering council under their Punjab chapter has formulated the first committee to speed up the regulatory process in the field. Message of this committee is to “Let’s do it together.”
Dr. Maryam Jalal, In-charge Electronic Engineering Department FJWU welcomed the honorable guests and said the PEC has constituted a Women Engineering Committee (Punjab) to encourage the interest and professional challenges faced by Women Engineering working in all fields to enhance their efficiency.