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Daily Archives: February 6, 2017

Embracing climate change

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Welcome to the world in 2017: for many, scientific facts and measurements and their consequences seem remote. Some consider them complicated and boring, best left to others to worry about. Or so large-scale and terrifying that we’re paralysed, seeking solace in distraction. Perhaps progress has rendered scientific processes and complexity invisible, hidden behind a shiny […]


Foodies throng CokeFoodFest on 2nd day

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LAHORE-The second day of Lahore’s biggest food festival CokeFoodFest attracted over 10,000 visitors to sample the city’s culinary delights. Attendees witnessed chefs working their magic through cooking demonstrations and enjoyed live music featuring performances by byQuadrum The Percussionists, Sonu Dangerous and Arsalan Hassan along with various other fun-filled activities for the entire family. During the […]


Bano Qudsia laid to rest

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LAHORE – Acclaimed novelist, short story writer Bano Qudsia was laid to rest at Model Town graveyard yesterday. The funeral was attended by a large number of writers, artists, politicians and public figures included travelogue writer and novelist Mustansar Hussain Tarar, playwright Asgher Nadeem Syed, poet Majid Aslam Amjad, TV actor Noorul Hassan and others. […]


Teenage beauty parlour girl ‘raped, killed by cousin’

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KARACHI –  Surjani Town police claimed on Sunday to have arrested an alleged rapist and murderer of a teenage girl. Police investigators said they had solved the blind murder case and arrested the man allegedly involved in the murder of the young woman, who was found dead at an under-construction building in Surjani Town on […]