Lahore: Former Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Tuesday got a big relief from the Lahore High Court (LHC) as his bail application in the case of recruitment in the Punjab Assembly was approved.

Justice Sultan Tanveer of LHC issued a protective decision. During the hearing, Parvez Elahi’s lawyer Amir Saeedran told the court that anti-corruption registered the case two years late.

Lawyer Amir said that Parvez Elahi did not receive any recruitment money from any candidate, he had nothing to do with this recruitment. The anti-corruption made a fake recovery from Elahi's residence.

On this, the anti-corruption lawyer stated that the case against Parvez Elahi has been registered according to law, he was arrested on October 25, 2023.

Later, the Lahore High Court reserved the decision.

It is pertinent to note that on March 27, 2024, the court rejected Parvez Elahi's bail application, after which he again filed the application in the court.

The court had reserved its decision on March 26 after the arguments of the lawyers were completed.

Later on April 28, the High Court fixed Pervez Elahi's petition for hearing in May.

Lahore: In view of fear of heat wave in Punjab, the working hours of colleges have been changed.

According to the Department of Higher Education Punjab, from May 21 to 31, the hours of colleges will be from 7:30am to 11:30am and on Fridays from 7:30am to 11:00am, while the second shift of colleges will be from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.

On the other hand, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Punjab has issued a heatwave alert from May 21 to 27 and the district administration has been directed to create awareness through helpline, announcements in mosques and media.

PDMA Punjab has directed the health department to set up special counters in hospitals, ensure availability of medicines and cancel the leave of doctors and paramedical staff.

Apart from this, along with reduction in school timings, it has also been directed to give holidays to students up to the age of five years.

Lahore: The Pakistan Railway authorities have reduced the train fares.

Railway authorities have issued a notification of reduction in train fares according to which the train fares have been reduced from one kilometer to 200 kilometers.

Apart from this, the train fares of all classes have been reduced. Economy class fares of some trains have been reduced by up to 54 percent and airconditioned class fares by up to 40 percent.

According to the notification, the minimum fare for economy class from Lahore to Rawalpindi was Rs250, which has been reduced to 100 rupees.

Similarly, the fare of Khyber Mail Train economy class from one kilometer to 130 km was Rs250 which has been reduced to Rs100. The decision has been made to facilitate passengers traveling in trains on short-duration routes. The new fares came into effect today i.e., May 21.