High interest rates

High / best interest or deposit rates of Pakistani banks.

1. Habib bank limited:        10.25% for one year period on "HBL advantage account" with minimum account balance of Rs. 25,000.

2. Standard Chartered bank:    8.5% for one year period on "rupee term deposit".

3. Muslim commercial bank:     7.35%  for one year period on "PKR term deposit". 

4. KASB bank ltd:          6.0% per annum on daily balance basis paid every month on balance below 100,000 and 7% per annum on balance above 100,000 on "Mahana  khazana"

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Famous South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it had launched a super-size version of its Galaxy Note smartphone, the latest salvo in its battle with Apple for the multi-billion-dollar handheld market worldwide.

The smartphone Galaxy Note 10.1 which went on sale on Monday in Germany and the UAE is almost twice as wide as its predecessor and nearly the size of a tablet.

The release comes as Samsung tries to make inroads in the tablet pc market which is currently dominated by Apple’s iPad. The two technology giant companies are also engaged in a  court battle over patent infringements.

The firm said that the new Note would be officially released in the US on August 15,2012 and sometime next week in GB and South Korea.

This new Galaxy Note 10.10 – powered by Google’s Android software – features a touchscreen which is 10.10-inches measured diagonally, a lot wider than the 5.30-inch screen of the previous Note.

Like its predecessor, it comes with a stylus called the “S pen” to write notes or draw on the screen. The new version allows users to split the screen into half to view two programs at one time.

The new device is equipped with a quad-core processor that allows users to run multiple applications faster than the previous version, which had a dual-core processor.

“The advanced technology and features included in Galaxy Note 10.1 give users the power to produce, create and customise communications,” JK Shin, the chief of Samsung’s mobile unit said.

Samsung — the world’s largest smartphone maker by shipments – in November introduced the first version of its Galaxy Note, a device positioned between its flagship Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab tablet computers.

“The Note 10.1 is practically a new tablet PC that comes with a stylus pen, which the iPad doesn’t have,”.

LAHORE HIGH COURT

*Umar Atta Bandyal is currently the chief justice of LHC.

*Chief justice Lahore High Court : Sheikh Azmat Saeed. He has given his willingness to be appointed as judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan. Justice Umar Atta Bandyal will be the next chief justice of High Court.
*15-05-2012:  69631 cases are pending before LHC and among these 27828 are writ petitions while intra-court appeals are 942. 3486 are tax review cases while criminal cases are 11254.

*2116 contempt of court cases are also pending.
*13-05-2012:Five new judges have been made permanent and have taken oath.. These include Justice Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi, Justice Abdul-Satar Asghar, Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa, Justice Ameen-ud-Din Khan, Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti. After including these five now the number of permanent judges have reached 28.

*14-05-2012: Six judges among those who took oath 15 days ago have been posted at Multan while on at Rawalpindi bench. Those who have been posted at Multan include; Justice Sheikh Najmul Hassan, Justice Farukh Arfan Khan, Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu, Justice Kazin Raza Shamsi, Justice Abdus-Sameeh Khan and Justice Shahid Waheed.

*Additional registrar LHC: Arshad Ahmed Rana.
*Court building is situated at GPO chowk at Mall Road

LAHORE ON MAP

Punjab Pakistan:
Different maps of Lahore for better understanding of its different aspects.
1. Town wise administrative division.

2. Ring road plan map of Lahore that shows most of the city and its important areas to be covered by the project.

3. Map of Pakistan that shows the position and location of Lahore.

KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

* 12-05-2012: Convocation held at Patiala Block; 386 students got degrees. Among them 330 were MBBS students. Governor Punjab and Chancellor of the university Sardar Latif Khan Khosa was the chief guest .

*VC: Prof. Dr. Asad Aslam Khan.

*King Edward College has 151 years of remarkable history in health sciences education. t is rightly considered the best institution of the country imparting medical education.

*Situated near Neela Ghumbad and imparts post graduate medical education recognized globally as well.

*Advanced diagnostic lab has been set up at pathology department with amount of Rs. 50 million.

*All test are carried out on very less than market rates.

*Most modern tests facilty is available.

*Ten collection centres are being set up. One has been set up at the university.

*Lab got functional from May,2012.