Fears Of Hacking Shut FBR Websites For 24 Hours
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has shut down its websites on the eve of the 75th Independence Day of
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China’s ByteDance Asks Short-Video App TikTok To Shut Down US Contingencies
China’s ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut
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Russia Will Not Follow US Move To Shut Out China’s Huawei
Russian FM says country will not follow US move to shut out China’s Huawei Russia has expressed interest in cooperating
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Earthjustice And South African Partners Shut Down 600 MW Coal Power Plant In Mpumalanga
Earthjustice and its South African partners shut down a proposed 600 MW coal power plant in the Mpumalanga province, sending
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Punjab Govt. Shut Down 3 Covid 19 Wards In Rawalpindi Hospitals
The Punjab government has closed down Covid-19 wards in three government-run hospitals in the city, leaving the Rawalpindi Institute of
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Will TikTok shut down or breath it’s last in 2020? Rumours Or Truth
Video-sharing social networking service TikTok took the internet by storm, giving users a platform to showcase their creativity through a 15 second short
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Uber decides to shut down its office
Uber Technologies is closing its office in downtown Los Angeles, where the ride-hailing company employs customer support staff, to focus
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HEC shut down 31 PhD and 26 MPhil programmes last year
HEC: The Higher Education Commission reviewed 293 PhD programmes and 57 MPhil programmes of 171 universities last year, of which 31 PhD and 26 MPhil programmes were shut down as they did not fulfil minimum quality standards, HEC officials told The News on Wednesday.
Sharing the performance of the HEC in 2016, the officials said the commission had also received 198 plagiarism complaints since 2006, of which 160 cases were finalised; 90 complaints proved to be false, and 38 faculty members
BlackBerry plans to shut operations in Pakistan over surveillance row
STAFF REPORT ISB: BlackBerry has announced to formally shut down its operations in Pakistan after the PTA sought the backdoor access to the company’s encrypted services.
"The company recognizes the need to co-operate with lawful government investigations of criminal activity, but it has never permitted wholesale access to BlackBerry servers," said BlackBerry operations chief Marty Beard in a blog post.
Reportedly, BlackBerry has in the past cooperated with information
BlackBerry plans to shut operations in Pakistan over surveillance row
STAFF REPORT ISB: BlackBerry has announced to formally shut down its operations in Pakistan after the PTA sought the backdoor access to the company’s encrypted services.
"The company recognizes the need to co-operate with lawful government investigations of criminal activity, but it has never permitted wholesale access to BlackBerry servers," said BlackBerry operations chief Marty Beard in a blog post.
Reportedly, BlackBerry has in the past cooperated with information
PTA directs cellular companies to shut immoral night packages
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed the mobile companies to discontinue night packages which are considered against the norms of social structure and moral values of the society.
"The issue of foreign SIMs has been referred to the provincial governments and the Ministry of Interior is also considering taking measures against them," said Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Shaikh Aftab Ahmad informing the National Assembly during
PTA order cellcos to shut chat services
STAFF REPORT IBD: PTA has issued orders to all cellular phone companies to end all chat room services with pressing effect as these services are not suitable to social norms and considered immoral in our society.According to PTA directives, Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act 1996 is obliged to regulate competition in the telecommunication sector and to protect consumer rights and to ensure that the interests of users of telephony services are duly watched over and protected.It has
Read morePower outages shut 300 industrial units in Lahore
STAFF REPORT LHR: The business community has warned the PPP government that annoyance and anger of the masses would swell if it does not ensure resolution of the loadshedding problem which has forced closure of majority of their industrial units."Over 20-hour loadshedding daily has forced more than 300 industrial units in the Lahore Township Industrial Area to close down their operations," said Acting Chairman PIAF Nadir Kamal Osman, Chairman Autoparts Manufacturers and Exporters
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