BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao called for strengthened cooperation with the United States as the two countries marked the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties on New Year’s Day. ..Read More..

Colombo;Sri Lanka’s military says soldiers have entered the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital Kilinochchi in the north for the first time in a decade. ..Read More..

Dhaka;The winner of the first parliamentary elections in Bangladesh for seven years has urged her defeated rival to accept the official results. ..Read More..

Burma; Burma’s military government has signed a deal with a consortium of four foreign firms to pipe natural gas into neighbouring China, state media report. ..Read More..

Delhi;The famous beards and moustaches of India - seen as representing a huge tradition to the outside world - are under threat, a new book says. ..Read More..

LATELY, people have raised questions regarding the independence and ideological tilt of Pakistans media. Some have even expressed surprise over the perspectives of a few seemingly liberal anchors. ..Read More..

STATE elections in Jammu and Kashmir may not have provided many answers but it has made one thing clear: the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference has been exaggerating its strength. ..Read More..

The next time you read that you can buy (actually buy) a suicide bomber from the Northern Areas, tar and feather the journalist. This happens in FATA and Swat and even in South Punjab. ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SANA): President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated the newly elected office bearers of Journalists Panel for their victory ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SANA): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani hosted lunch in honour of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State at the PM’s House today. ..Read More..

LAHORE (SANA): Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif met senior Teradata executives at the CM Secretariat about “Punjab Government Enterprise Data Warehouse” project.

The Punjab Government was automated on Teradata’s state of the art data warehousing and business intelligence solution under the E-Government initiative by the Information Technology Department since late 2007.

Teradata’s unified work environment directly enhances the efficient functioning between various departments and functions of the Punjab Government.

Mr. Khuram Rahat, managing director, Teradata Pakistan and the chief technology officer, Teradata, Mr. Stephen Brobst briefed the Chief Minister on the development and benefits of the Enterprise Data Warehouse project.

He elaborated on the productivity and efficient governance aspects of Teradata’s Business Intelligence solution. Teradata’s Data Warehousing unifies the data sources from various government departments and the Teradata Business Intelligence displays the related data across various departments in meaningful and decision supporting reports to the decision making officials of the Punjab Government.

The Enterprise Data Warehousing solution thus raises the inter-departmental efficiency and over productivity of the Punjab Government.

Teradata also highlighted the new initiatives undertaken under the EDW project and presented a project roadmap to meet growing and more sophisticated good governance needs of the Punjab Government.

The Managing Director Teradata Pakistan Mr. Khuram Rahat also shared that, “Teradata is the global leader in data warehousing solutions for better business intelligence that directly raise organization’s efficiency and productivity levels.

Teradata’s Enterprise Data Warehousing Solutions cut operational costs, accelerate processing, reduce duplication of efforts, support collaborative working and thus enhance productivity at all levels of the organization. Teradata Pakistan is honored to have been chosen as a strategic partner by the Punjab Government to meet its e-governance needs.”

Teradata Pakistan has been a partner of choice for major Government of Pakistan good governance initiatives including the Data Warehousing Solution deployed by the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) that is the national repository for National Identity Cards of Pakistani nationals.

This service is already benefiting many government departments like the traffic police, the passport office and others in faster and efficient public servicing needs of the Government.

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ISLAMABAD, Jan 0 1 (SANA): Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and Senator Mualana Rahat Hussain of JUI, called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at the PM’s House on Thursday .

They apprised the Prime Minister of various development activities in their respective areas.

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