LAHORE
Punjab University (PU) teachers, staging a demonstration, blocked the main Canal Road for quite some time on Tuesday and also threatened with the boycott of classes if their concerns vis-à-vis Metro Orange Line were not addressed.
The demo was part of a rally organised by Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PU ASA) after its general body meeting in which teachers strongly criticised the Punjab government and reminded the government of its promise that it would not use PU Town 1 land for constructing the Orange Train project offices.
PUASA President Prof Dr Hasan Mobeen Alam, Vice-President Prof Dr Abid Hussain Chaudhry, Dr Faheem Aftab and Secretary Dr Mahboob Hussain led the rally. Talking to the media after blocking the road, the faculty members said they would stage a demo outside the Chinese consulate if their demands were not met as promised by the
government.
The PU faculty members said teachers were demanding their rights in a respectable way and the government must consider it. Earlier, in the general body meeting, the teachers had decided if their houses were demolished in Town 1, the teachers would boycott the classes and stage demo outside Chief Minister’s House. The ASA has summoned another general body meeting on Wednesday (today).
exam: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore on Tuesday announced the result of Intermediate (Supplementary) Examination 2015 according to which overall pass percentage was 24.51.
About 32,018 candidates have appeared in the exam out of whom only 7,847 were declared successful.
PU faculty honoured: Academics from ‘All India Universities’ warmly congratulate Pakistani geo-morphologist, and postdoctoral DRR female researcher, Prof Dr Khalida M Khan, who has been profiled as ‘ISDR Researcher of the Year’ at the National Postdoctoral Association (US) by the Inter-regional Directors’ Board of the SAARC-ASEAN Post-doc Academia.
Dame Prof Dr Meher Master Moos, who holds special consultative status at the UN, and the first Indian female laureate of Dag Hammarskjld Award, has paid warm congratulations on her benevolent accomplishment.
The extensive canvasser of community education, skill-empowering and equality-based civil rights for the neglected inhabitant populaces of mountains valleys, Khalida, 58, has now become an icon within the disciplinary spheres of relevance by receiving the 2016 s first post-doc scholarship for ‘DRR Strategies & New Research Horizons for ISDR in the United Nations SDGs Perspectives’ at NPA (US) under the UN-KAKHTAH DRR programme. High profile academics of cross-regional institutions, including Justice (R) Dr SS Paru LLD (Indonesia), Dr Faiser NM (Sri Lanka), Dr Madhulika (Malaysia), Dr Martin Haigh (Oxford), Dr Andrew Taber (Washington), Dr Takahi (Japan), Dr Wickrema Weerasooriya, Dr Salawal Salah (Sri Lanka), Prof Emeritus Dr Zaki, Dr Bareera NB and Dr Azam Sheikh paid their gratitude to Pak academia on the magnanimous triumph and wish for success in future to further the DRR goals in Pakistan and abroad. Dr Khalida Khan, is a former chair holder of UNESCO with a portfolio comprising of ‘Community Education Mountain Conservation and Watershed Management’.
She has contributed to the first Post-Disaster’s Epidemiological Susceptibility & Pandemic Outbreak (Post-DESPO) Assessment Appraisal that marked highest cross-referential impact factor (CRIF) on DRR perspectives of the United Nation’s Hyogo Framework of Action, 2014-2015 and distinctive annotation-notes on the “UN MDGs and Post-2015 Extension- scenario”. Dr Khalida M Khan is responsible for initiating the first “UN Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), Japan” at CIMR under the umbrella of Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan 2012.
Dr Khalida M. Khan, is currently serving as director of CIMR at PU. She has been serving Punjab University since 1-12-1987 to date. PU Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran congratulated PU faculty on the achievement.
BDS result: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Tuesday announced the result of Final Professional BDS annual examination 2015 which concluded on January 8. A total of 628 candidates from 11 affiliated dental colleges appeared in the exam out of which 549 passed and 79 failed. The overall pass percentage remained 87.42pc.
Hadia Arshad, daughter of Arshad Rafiq of Margalla Institute of Health Sciences, Rawalpindi got first position securing 674/800 marks.
Omer Masood Alam Shad, son of Masood Alam Shad of Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan and Amna Arshed, daughter of Arshed Mehmood of FMH, College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore got second and third positions securing 658/800 and 655/800 marks, respectively. The failed candidates can submit their admission forms on or before February 4. Supplementary examination will commence with effect from February 23.