SHANGLA: The district council here the other day passed unanimously the Rs2.331 billion non-development budget for the fiscal year 2019-20. Giving breakdown of the budget, district nazim Niaz Ahmed Khan said Rs2.984 billion had been allocated for payment of salaries, while Rs247 million had been set aside for non-salary component. He said education always remained on top of his priorities …

SHANGLA: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company has failed to energise the 132KV Shang grid station by the deadline of July 30 set by a local jirga. The grid station was announced by former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in 2012 and work on its installation was inaugurated by then PML-N MNA Ibadullah Khan, but it could not be made functional …

A nine-year-old girl drowned in Indus River at Shang Bisham on Tuesday. According to Saleem, father of the victim Saima, she had gone to Indus River with her cousins to beat the heat. He said local divers were making efforts to fish out the body.

SHANGLA: Bisham city and its surroundings badly hit by power outage, power supply has been suspended in the area for three days suffering the local people. Local people of Bisham city and its outskirts told reporters on Tuesday that the power supply was disrupted after a light rain lashed on Sunday night which could not be restored till Tuesday. They …

SHANGLA: The livestock department has launched a public awareness campaign against Congo fever saying the drive will continue until Eidul Azha. The launching ceremony was held in Alpuri area under the ADP scheme ‘control of the livestock diseases of economic importance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’. The ceremony was attended by Shangla livestock director Dr Hazrat Hadi, official Dr Shaukat Hayat and …