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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: The government’s proposed cybercrime legislation has met a stumbling block in the opposition-dominated upper house of parliament. Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has vaguely told the government the controversial bill will not be passed unless it is made acceptable to all stakeholders. Expressing reservations over the ‘very controversial’ draft of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes […]
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday arrested a hacker blackmailing a man. According to a spokesman, an FIA anti-cyber crime team arrested Muhammad Naeem on charges of hacking Facebook profile of a man, creating fake accounts in the name of the man’s family members and blackmailing him. “Naeem would create fake Facebook accounts […]
ISLAMABAD: After the passage of 21st constitutional amendment that allows establishment of military courts to try hardcore terrorists, legal experts have raised questions over the ‘denial of right to fair trial’ guaranteed by Article-10A of the Constitution. It has been learnt that most of the judicial reviews against the sentences awarded by the military courts […]
ISLAMABAD: The Press Information Department (PID) has removed 250 ‘dummy’ newspapers and periodicals from its central media list (CML), and plans to get rid of another 730 fake publications over January, according to a senior official from the information ministry. Following the purge, the number of periodicals on the CML will decrease from around 2,000 […]
HYDERABAD (India): Acclaimed singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was in for a rude shock when he touched down at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday. Within moments of landing in Hyderabad on an Emirates flight, he was barred entry and asked to return to Abu Dhabi. The singer had travelled to the […]
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