July 08, 2009 - CHITRAL (APP) – Four Chitrali passengers were shot dead when they were travelling from here to Peshawar on Monday night. According to police report, a Toyota coach carrying passengers was on its way to Peshawar from here on Monday night when some unknown armed persons signalled to stop the vehicle near Bajawar Agency, and on the pretext of search operation, they opened fire only at passengers. Those who killed were identified as Syed Hussain s/o Syed Ameeri, Syed Anwar Hussain s/o Syed Ameri residents of Gram (Karimabad) Tehsil Lutkoh, Jamshid Ahmad s/o Muhammad Khan resident of Shogram and Abdul Jalil s/o Qadi Khan resident of Kosht district Chitral. Meanwhile, the DCO Temergara said that the bodies of the ill-fated persons were dispatched to Chitral for autopsy. The reasons behind this gruesome incident could not be ascertained.
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- ‘Vocational education gets better job than mere degrees’ TNN 14 November 2009, 04:01am IST LUCKNOW: Does a degree guarantee a job? It doesn’t, unless the subject is one of the preferred ones or it has been obtained from a reputed premier college. So, a society poised to have a substantially large young population by 2020 just might end up with a “demographic disaster”. “The serious deficiency in vocational training and deficiency in the level of education, especially in the tertiary education, as compared to the other emerging BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries is well known,” said Prof Abad Ahmad, chairman, Aga Khan Foundation India. He was speaking at the convention `Leveraging demographic dividend through quality education — The way forward’, organised by LMA on Friday. Prof Ahmad pointed out that the number of employable graduates is a small percentage. The key to transform our education system lies in liberalisation of education, addressing its supply side matrix, enabling more choices to students and creating healthy competition among educational institutions to generate merit. This will require bold steps to dismantle “archaic regulations” that have generated artificial scarcity for quality education and spurred growth of shoddy institutions indulging in crass commercialisation, he said. Former director, IIT Madras, Prof P V Indiresan stressed upon improving the admission process. Referring to the recommendations of Yash Pal Committee on higher education and the National Knowledge Commission, he questioned the wisdom of increasing enrolment and instead suggested decrease in enrolments and matching the system to economic activity. Prof Indiresan suggested doing away with tests that lead to the need for coaching classes and instead considering value for school tradition and teachers’ recommendations as in premier global institutions like Harvard. He also stressed the need for job-oriented education and suggested a plan for better teachers, not just by offering higher salaries. In the session that was chaired by G B Pattanaik, principal secretary to the governor, the head of corporate affairs at Intel Corporation, Valsa Williams suggested a sharing of responsibility between stakeholders including government, private sector, academia and civil society. Earlier, delivering the keynote address, member, Planning Commission, Narendra Jadhav expressed concern over quality of education, which, he said, was much below expectations. While curriculum revision could be a step towards improving the quality, access to higher education also needed to be increased. Governor B L Joshi, delivering the inaugural address, stressed on human resource management, innovative modification in curriculum and a balanced regulatory system based on transparency and accountability. Chief secretary (UP) and chairman of LMA advisory council, Atul Gupta, maintaining that UP had committed itself for improving the education scenario, stressed upon public-private partnership. LMA president, Jayant Krishna was also present on the occasion. November 14, 2009 khansconcepts
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- 5 killed as Mandore Express to Delhi derails near Jaipur November 14, 2009The Delhi-bound Mandore Express derailed with some portion of the track piercing its AC compartment, leaving six passengers dead and 19 others injured in the wee hours in Bassi town near here today. ( Watch Video ) Eleven coaches of the train derailed at 1:30 am near Banshkov Railway station, 40 km from here, after the train [...]khansconcepts
- آئی ایس آئی کے دفتر کے باہر خود کش دھماکے میں 10 شہید اور70 زخمی ہوگئے۔۔۔ روزنامہ وقت لاہور November 14, 2009source – www.dailywaqt.com Posted in قومی خبریںkhansconcepts
- برف باری کے سبب چترال کے عوام محصور ہوگئے۔ روزنامہ امت November 14, 2009source – www.ummatpublications.com Posted in قومی خبریںkhansconcepts
- Three CRPF – Central Reserve Police Force personnel killed in IED blast in Orissa November 13, 2009 khansconcepts
- PAKISTAN: Military Vs Militancy Does Not Equal Peace – IPS ipsnews.net November 12, 2009PAKISTAN: Military Vs Militancy Does Not Equal Peace – IPS ipsnews.net Posted using ShareThis Posted in معاشیاتkhansconcepts
- Smooth polling continues in GB November 12, 2009GILGIT, Nov 12 (APP): Polling is in full swing for the Legislative Assembly elections of Gilgit-Baltistan. Total number of registered voters for the GB Legislative Assembly is 7,17,286. Over 250 candidates are taking part in the election on 23 seats out of 24. Polling has been postponed in GB-19 due to the death of MQM [...]khansconcepts
- ‘Tajikistan Road Project approved in principle’ November 12, 2009PESHAWAR (November 11 2009): NWFP Minister for Population Welfare Saleem Khan has said the federal government has approved the Tajikistan Road Project in principle to establish road link between Pakistan and Central Asian states via Chitral as this is the shortest and most feasible route in this regard. Addressing a public gathering in his native village [.. […]khansconcepts
- Free Clinics in Pakistan Promote Microinsurance for Healthcare November 12, 2009Microfinance Focus, Nov. 11, 2009: ‘First Microinsurance Agency (FMiA)’ in Karachi has offered several hundred clients basic outpatient care, along with information on health insurance. This is the part of a new programme designed to make poor people aware of microinsurance services and their benefits. The health clinics programme, which is expected to co […]khansconcepts
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