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Daily Archives: April 5, 2016

KU to offer online French course

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Karachi: The University of Karachi’s International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) will start an extensive online course on “Basic French Language” from April 12 in collaboration with the Alliance Francaise. The language programme aims to enlighten students with cultural and socio-political norms in France and contribute to the academic and professional requirements of […]


Modern technology urged for seed development, farming

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Islamabad: To strengthen national food security, Pakistan will have to adopt modern agricultural technologies, especially in terms of seed development and farming, said agriculture experts while addressing a seminar on ‘Developing Seed in Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities’ at the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) here on Monday. Experts stressed upon enhancing knowledge sharing initiatives to […]


Sharif family decide to defend themselves in media

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ISLAMABAD – Although the Panama Papers leak, exposing some offshore companies of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s children, has no legal consequences, the Sharifs have decided to fight it out in media to save the family’s politics from its negative fallouts. Sources in the party said PM Nawaz was quite disturbed after the publishing of family’s […]


‘Govt needs to stop delaying passage of RTI bill over security concerns’

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Karachi: The government should not delay the passage of internationally acclaimed Right to Information (RTI) Bill 2014 merely on account of security concerns about sensitive information pertaining to defence and foraging relations, urged Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, who is the chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence. He said this while chairing a panel […]


Fisherman rescues rare ‘Rhomboid squid’

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A fisherman, who was trained to protect marine life, while hunting on the seas rescued a rare fish called ‘Rhomboid Squid’ last week off Ormara coast. Fisherman Hadayat Ullah successfully released a 45 centimetres long Rhomboid Squid 160 kilometres off south of Malan, near Ormara on Mach 30, 2016, the WWF-Pakistan said on Monday. “Rhomboid […]