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hostel

1. A place of accommodation, commonly for people hiking or traveling by bicycle.
2. (Brit.) A residence hall at some universities.
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'We only have one hostel, which is insufficient to accommodate female students.
He expressed the hope that after resolving the matter, the disabled working women will have their separate hostel in the capital.
The addition of Hostel Pisa takes the portfolio to 14 hostels and with the recent fund raising and pipeline of potential sites, the company is well placed to reach its shorter-term target of owning and operating 20 hostels.
Earlier, on complaints, the investigation agency initiated inquiry into the administrative affairs of Nusrat Working Women Hostel in Islamabad.
They said the college deliberately decided to do that in order to force them to see the reason for the planned increment in their hostel fee.
The hostel has seven twinbedded rooms, a triple, seven quads and four eight-bedded rooms.
A student from Mass Communication Department of the University, Salwa Iftikhar said that she had lived for more than three years at private hostels, saying that the charges of private rooms were out of reach of students.
The first hostel will open in Kemang, one of Jakarta's most iconic districts for both day and night entertainment.
Flanked by chief proctor Nadeem Azam, deputy director Gohar Rehman, deputy superintendent of police Fazal Rabi and station house police Saeed Khan, UoP provost informed about the hostel cleanup operations initiated against outsiders on 09 and 16 July, 2018 and saying the alleged persons had accommodated hundreds of students illegally in each room.
These student factions have a habit of maintaining and holding hostel cards to sell to prospective outsiders and illegal occupants to earn money, the varsity claimed.
WhenPakistan Todayhad reached Gandapur for comment, he explained that some of the varsity students insisted on going out after sunset which is a clear violation of the hostels rules.Every student has given it in writing that they will not go out of the hostel after sunset without the male escorts or family members, he added.
According to details, Hostel Incharge Sidra Ishaq allegedly submitted a fake affidavit that she has neither accommodation nor transport to avoid the cuttings of house rent allowance and car allowance but as a matter of fact she lives in the working women hostel and is using official car.

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