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Daily Archives: January 4, 2016

Woman among 3 nabbed after 4-hour shootout

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GUJRANWALA: The police arrested three suspects including a woman after four-hour-long shootout in Khiali area Sunday evening. Three persons including the cameraman of a private TV channel got bullet injuries in the shootout. According to police, acting of a tip-off, the police carried out a raid on a house in Faisal Colony of Khiali area. […]


AIOU opts for online courses to facilitate students

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Islamabad – Alama Iqbal Open University has opted for modern technology by offering online courses for domestic and foreign students. The AIOU, while ensuring its original character, will gradually emerge as Electronic Open University, offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to enhance and promote online academic programmes. This is aimed at facilitating thousands of students, […]


Paris climate change moot: Pakistan to get concrete dividends

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One of the rejoicing outcomes of the Paris Agreement on climate change is endowment of due and fair share to adaptation as a key policy instrument of the international climate change policy and as for Pakistan’s contribution in this global exercise, it merits mention that Pakistan played an instrumental role in Paris for securing adaptation […]


Eco-unfriendly: Only 918 Indus dolphins left

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SUKKUR: Initially, the Indus dolphins were not blind but muddy the water and pollution in the river proved hazardous, turning the mammal blind, said Indus Dolphin Conservation Centre Sukkur incharge, Mir Akhtar Talpur, while speaking at an Indus River dolphin awareness event on Sunday. After the dolphins lost their sight, Mother Nature’s gift of an […]


Sindh Literature and Culture Festival: ‘Only those nations thrive that revisit their history’

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KARACHI: Only those nations thrive that revisit their history and later on revive it accordingly, said the president of the Friends of Sindhu Civilisation, Khadim Hussain Soomro, during a talk organised on the second day of the Sindh Literature and Culture Festival on Sunday. The festival was organised by the Friends of Sindhu Civilization at […]


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Film on public toilets screened

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KARACHI: The kind of discourse surrounding gender and space is quite discomforting. There’s a falsity in the discourse when one hears people speak about bringing women to the public space. Women, be it from any class or caste, have always occupied public spaces, writer and documentary film-maker Promita Vohra said after the screening of her […]


Two Qatar royals allowed to import and export 80 falcons

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KARACHI: The federal government has issued special permits to two members of the ruling family of Qatar to import and export 80 falcons of endangered species for moulting purpose, it emerged here on Sunday. Moulting, a natural process during which falcons shed their feathers and regrow new feathers. Conservationists feared that as after the moulting […]


Climate changes hit honey production

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ISLAMABAD: Environ-mental and beekeeping experts have termed rising temperature and unseasonal rains as the major causes of destruction of honeybees and reduction in honey production. The Pallas valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohistan district is home to the bees. The honey harvested by the locals provides livelihood for the community but over the past few years […]


Contemporary Urdu poets: who is greatest of them all?

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WHAT makes a great verse? Is it theme, philosophy, imagery, precision, words or emotions? All of them, it seems. But there can hardly be any consensus about the ingredients of a great poem and everybody has his/ her own, personal criterion for great poetry. The choice of a favourite poet is, largely, a matter of […]


Knight Science Journalism Fellowships open

Midcareer journalists covering science, technology, the environment or medicine can apply for a fellowship at MIT. The Knight Science Journalism Fellowships host international and U.S. journalists for a nine months of personalized study, auditing courses at MIT and Harvard, attending lectures and interviewing faculty members. Fellows receive a US$70,000 stipend plus tuition. Additional benefits include […]