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3 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Umair Javed
KARACHI: Despite government efforts to improve immunisation status of children, an alarming situation over measles persists with at least 28 deaths reported in the first three months of this year at two tertiary-care hospitals in the city alone, it emerged on Friday.
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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Abbas Nasir
KARACHI: Mercury soared to 39.1 degrees Celsius in the metropolis on Saturday under the influence of weather systems prevailing over the Arabian Sea and upper Sindh. The Met Office data showed the city has been experiencing a persistent increase in temperature following a sudden dip three days ago. The maximum temperature recorded on Thursday and Friday was 35°C and 37.5°C, respectively. Relative humidity, however, has remained less than 20 per cent.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Jawed Naqvi
KARACHI: Academic activities at public sector universities across the province remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday amid a stand-off between teachers and the Sindh government over the latter’s plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellor. On Jan 16, university teachers began their strike in protest against recent government decisions, including a plan to hire teachers on a contractual basis.
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Jan 20, 2025 | dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Jawed Naqvi
KARACHI: Academic activities at public sector universities across the province remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday amid a stand-off between teachers and the Sindh government over the latter’s plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellor. On Jan 16, university teachers began their strike in protest against recent government decisions, including a plan to hire teachers on a contractual basis.
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Jan 20, 2025 | dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Jawed Naqvi
KARACHI: Academic activities at public sector universities across the province remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday amid a stand-off between teachers and the Sindh government over the latter’s plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellor. On Jan 16, university teachers began their strike in protest against recent government decisions, including a plan to hire teachers on a contractual basis.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas
KARACHI: Academic activities at most public-sector universities across the province came to a complete halt on Thursday as teachers went on a strike in protest against recent government decisions including a plan to appoint bureaucrats on the post of vice chancellors (VCs) and hire teachers on a contractual basis. The strike call was given by Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (Fapuasa) a day earlier.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Zahid Hussain
KARACHI: Elephant Sonia housed at the Safari Park suffered from multiple chronic illnesses, affecting almost all vital organs, that ultimately killed her, the postmortem report has shown, indicating prolonged neglect in her care and failure in timely diagnosis. The many illnesses the 19-year-old elephant suffered from included a severe blood stream bacterial infection, tuberculosis and respiratory failure.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Jawed Naqvi |Niaz Murtaza
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir
KARACHI: In compliance with the Sindh High Court’s orders, the retake of the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT)-2024 will be held on Sunday (today) at designated centres in six cities across the province. The test is being organised by SIBA Testing Services, a subsidiary of Sukkur IBA University. “We have taken the best possible measures to ensure that the test is held in a transparent and peaceful manner today.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Faiza Ilyas |Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
KARACHI: A day after the Sindh cabinet approved a proposal to amend a law that would allow a non-PhD ‘public sector official in grade-21 or above’ to become the vice chancellor of a public sector university, a teachers’ delegation met with three senior government officials on Thursday and warned them of what they called potential adverse consequences of the decision that could undermine the academic ethos of universities.
