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Cell phone use banned in KP hospitals

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PESHAWAR – Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday banned use of smart phones and electronic equipments in healthcare facilities. In this connection, KP Minister for Health Dr Hisham Inamullah Khan notified a policy on use of smart phones and electronic equipments in the healthcare facilities, banning use of smart phones and tablets in all public health facilities […]


CINEPAX: A NEW YEAR QUEST

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After the successful completion of the spectacular holidays, Cinepax cinema has now come up with a New Year Quest-where cinemagoers across Pakistan watching any movie at Cinepax cinema will have a chance to win return tickets to Prague, Czech Republic, courtesy fly Dubai. With many exciting prizes, including smart phones, LEGO Merchandise, meal vouchers the […]


Not smart enough for smart phones?

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Smart phones are used in developed countries for the sake of convenience with a myriad of apps enabling users to run their lives ‘on fingertips’, as the cliché goes. But in Pakistan, despite their meteoric rise in demand, such gadgets are nothing more than fashion statements. With eight million or so (branded and unbranded) smart […]


Smart phones making us dumber

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Sir: “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots” — Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein pretty much hit the nail on the head with that one! We can blame, for the most part, technological advancements in the production of mobile phones for the exponential reduction […]


Easy Taxi: Smart phones, smarter cabs

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LAHORE: The new Lahore Metro is a well-deserved feather in PML-N’s cap, and a big reason for that is that for a city the size of Lahore, the public transport system has been less than satisfactory. Inner city Lahore’s dwindling number of tongas make rickshaws the most popular choice. Taxis are hardly seen on the […]