KARACHI: The official website of the University of Karachi set a record of most visited university website in the country with 90 million hits in the year 2012.The data transfer volume recorded during the year stood at a mammoth 3-TB (3100 GB). The busiest month was December 2012, during which 16 million hits were recorded […]
TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN: Police arrested two accused of gang-rape and produced them before the court. Accused Laiq Chandio and Hassan Chandio had kidnapped a 15-year-old girl Navi Kolhi from Tando Ghulam Haider in the limits of Moya police and gang-raped her. The police arrested both accused and challaned them in the court of Additional Magistrate-II […]
A division bench of Lahore High Court sought reply from the Federal government till February 24 in an Inter Court Appeal (ICA) of removed chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Farooq Awan against his suspension by a single bench. A single bench of the LHC on December 31, 2012 had declared his appointment unlawful by setting […]
Shehrbano Saiyid, an independent documentary film-maker & amateur mountain climber, will address a press conference on “empowering women to reach new heights” at the Karachi Press Club here on January 24. Members of Pakistan Women’s Expedition (PWE) – organised and led by Shehrbano Saiyid, an independent documentary film-maker from Karachi added a new chapter to […]
By: GULSHER PANHWER Female education is a vital plank for girls/women empowerment. Educational policies from the very inception of Pakistan were geared to focus on quality, i.e. emphasising on increasing enrolment and then, according to policies and plans, including gender equality in education, which was to automatically follow. However, that has not been the case. […]
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: The process of voter verification is in full swing in the city but one group – which had been led to believe that they would be standing in a separate line to put their thumb on ballot – is seething that this may not happen at all. The transgender people of […]
By: F. H. MUGHAL IN Pakistan, universities have no practice of creating building structures that aim at reducing energy consumption, increasing the use of renewable energy, and minimizing production of waste. The indoor air quality, generally, is not up to the mark. There is still a tendency in universities to go for conventional-type structures, which […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The Renaissance was not just a significant shift in the history of mankind in terms of the revival of knowledge (of Greek ideas, to be precise). It also marked an extraordinary confluence of art and religion. The paintings made in that era (not to mention plays, poems and essays) pulled out […]
PESHAWAR: At least three CD and music shops were blown up in two back-to-back blasts near the traffic police lines at Bacha Khan Chowk here on Tuesday evening. An official of Faqirabad police station said that dynamites were planted near the shops that went off one after another. However, the blast caused no casualty and […]
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