Islamabad announces new school timings for Ramadan
Punjab School Education Minister Rana Mashhood says Bahria School is also being established in Gwadar. PHOTO: REUTERS
Listen to article
The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has officially announced new timings for educational institutions in Islamabad during the holy month of Ramadan 2025.
The revised timings will be implemented from the first day of Ramadan, with schools reverting to their usual schedule once the month ends.
According to the newly announced schedule, double-shift schools will operate from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm from Monday to Thursday, with Friday classes extending until 12:00 pm.
Evening shift schools are scheduled to function from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Single-shift schools, on the other hand, will run from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.
On the other hand, the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will meet in Peshawar today (Friday) for the Ramadan moon sighting. However, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has said there is little chance of sighting the Ramadan moon on Friday due to cloudy weather.
The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will meet in Peshawar at 6:30 pm on February 28 to determine the start of the holy month. The committee's chairman, Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad, will preside over the meeting after the Asr prayer.
According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, zonal committees across the country will also convene separately to assess moon sighting reports. Religious scholars from various schools of thought will participate in the central session.
The Met Office has forecast partly cloudy conditions across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including Peshawar, over the next 24 hours. "Due to cloudy weather, the chance of sighting the Ramadan moon is low," the department said.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Express Tribune
3 days ago
- Express Tribune
Pilgrims begin Hajj under blazing sun
Pilgrims make their way to Mina as Saudi authorities ratchet up heat protection measures. Photo: REUTERS More or less 1.6 million pilgrims from around the world, including 115,000 Pakistanis, on Wednesday converged on the vast tent city of Mina for the five-day communion with their Creator, Allah Almighty, invoking His divine mercy and seeking forgiveness for their sins. The sprawling tent city of Mina, situated just outside Makkah, marks the first stop for pilgrims undertaking Hajj. They will spend the night there before departing at dawn on Thursday for the plains of Arafat, where they will observe Waqoof-e-Arafat, the Rukn-e-Azm of Hajj, in deep prayer and reflection, seeking divine blessings. Pilgrims will listen to the Hajj sermon in their tents, with translations available in 35 languages. They will perform Zohr and Asr prayers together and spend the entire day engaged in prayers and Talbia. With temperatures expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), robed pilgrims slowly circled the holy Kaaba. Authorities have ratcheted up heat protection measures such as extra shade to avoid a repeat of last year, when 1,301 people died as temperatures hit 51.8C (125.2F). On Wednesday, pilgrims will perform the tawafwalking seven times around the holy Kaaba. Shaded areas have been enlarged by 50,000 square metres (12 acres), thousands of additional medics will be on standby and more than 400 cooling units will be deployed, Hajj Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah told AFP last week. Artificial intelligence technology will help process the deluge of data, including video from a new fleet of drones, to better manage the massive crowds.
Express Tribune
5 days ago
- Express Tribune
Floods in northeast India claim 34 lives as heavy rains continue
People carry a patient on a stretcher as they wait for a rescue boat to evacuate him from the flood-affected Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences hospital, following heavy rains in Imphal East, Manipur, India June 1, REUTERS Listen to article At least 34 people have died in India's northeastern region after heavy floods caused landslides over the last four days, authorities and media said on Monday, and the weather department predicted more heavy rain. More than a thousand tourists trapped in the Himalayan state of Sikkim were being evacuated on Monday, a government statement said, and army rescue teams were pressed into service in Meghalaya state to rescue more than 500 people stranded in flooded areas. In neighbouring Bangladesh, at least four members of a family were killed in a landslide in the northeastern district of Sylhet, while hundreds of shelters have been opened across the hilly districts of Rangamati, Bandarban, and Khagrachhari on Sunday. Authorities have warned of further landslides and flash floods, urging residents in vulnerable areas to remain alert. India's northeast and Bangladesh are prone to torrential rains that set off deadly landslides and flash floods, affecting millions of people every year. Roads and houses in Assam's Silchar city were flooded, visuals from news agency ANI showed, and fallen trees littered the roads. "We are facing a lot of challenges. I have a child, their bed is submerged in water. What will we do in such a situation? We keep ourselves awake throughout the night," Sonu Devi, a resident of Silchar, told ANI.
Business Recorder
29-05-2025
- Business Recorder
Mud and rock bury Swiss village after glacier collapse, one person missing
GENEVA: A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a rockslide, authorities said. One person is currently missing, officials said. Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the southwestern village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley. 'We've lost our village,' Matthias Bellwald, the mayor of Blatten told a press conference after the slide. 'The village is under rubble. We will rebuild.' Stephane Ganzer, an official in the canton of Valais where Blatten is located, told Swiss media that about 90% of the village was covered by the landslide. 'An unbelievable amount of material thundered down into the valley,' said Matthias Ebener, a spokesperson for local authorities. One person was missing, Ebener said. Officials gave no further details on the person during the press conference. Officials said millions of cubic metres of rock and soil have tumbled down since Blatten was first evacuated this month when part of the mountain behind the glacier began to crumble, sparking warnings it could bring the ice mass down with it. A video shared widely on social media showed the dramatic moment when the glacier partially collapsed, creating a huge cloud that covered part of the mountain as rock and debris came cascading down towards the village. Experts consulted by Reuters said it was difficult to assess the extent to which rising temperatures spurred by climate change had triggered the collapse because of the role the crumbling mountainside had played. Christian Huggel, a professor of environment and climate at the University of Zurich, said while various factors were at play in Blatten, it was known that local permafrost had been affected by warmer temperatures in the Alps. The loss of permafrost can negatively affect the stability of the mountain rock which is why climate change had likely played a part in the deluge, Huggel said. The extent of the damage to Blatten had no precedent in the Swiss Alps in the current or previous century, he added. The rubble of shattered wooden buildings could be seen on the flanks of the huge mass of earth in the drone footage. At least four killed and 17 trapped in China landslides: state media Buildings and infrastructure in Blatten, whose roughly 300 inhabitants were evacuated on May 19 after geologists identified the risk of an imminent avalanche of rock and ice from above, were battered by the rockslide, officials said. SRF said houses were destroyed in the village nestled in the Loetschental valley in southern Switzerland. Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter expressed her solidarity with the local population as emergency services warned people the area was hazardous and urged them to stay away, closing off the main road into the valley. 'It's terrible to lose your home,' Keller-Sutter said on X.
