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Building Bhasha, Kurram Tangi, Munda, Dasu, Kohala, Golen Gol and Bunji dams
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 1:02 pm | 0 Comment
There is a dispute on the water coming from Kashmir. Under the Indus Water Treaty, the neutral expert’s role is to interpret the clauses of the treaty and decide if any party is violating it. That certainly does not delegate any authority to the neutral expert to nullify or inactivate any clause under the disguise of declaring it irrelevant. All the clauses in the more...
Biomedical Engineering – the neglected discipline
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 1:00 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12967" align="alignright" width="138" caption="Balach Hussain"][/caption] AS IT is said, this is the era is of specialization. Everywhere in the whole world science is expanding its boundaries by appropriate measures and so it’s the need of every nation. Each and every one is working for the advancement and development. In this regard, more...
Telemedicine – a cross-fertilisation of medicine & telecommunication
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 12:55 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12963" align="alignright" width="114" caption="Asad Ali Siyal"][/caption] OVER THE past couple of decades, advancements in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) have brought a revolution in the life of common people. More and more people have been able to avoid physically going into work and have preferred the telecommuting from more...
Ergonomics; common sense!
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 12:53 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12959" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Azeem Iqbal"][/caption] HAVING STUDIED the subject of ‘Human Factors engineering’ also known as “Ergonomics”, I was able to learn about many new things. I never thought before that environment and the workstation play an important role in quality and performance of the work that we all do. more...
New hopes for better climate in Pakistan
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 12:47 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh AS STATED, Pakistan is one of the lowest contributors to this global problem but, nevertheless, it has played a leading role in an attempt to formulate global consensus in addressing this issue demanding collective cooperation. Also, the country is cognizant of its development priorities and is actively seeking both, financial and technological more...
Saving energy, money need of the hour
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 12:44 pm | 0 Comment
By Usman Munawar AUTOMATION MEANS to operate something automatically. Talha Khan, Ali Hasan and I (Usman Munawar), the students of COMSATS University for Science and Technology, Lahore, electrical engineering 5th semester, have recently made it possible that there is no need of Microcontroller in every part of electronics project. Here our project is light and water tank more...
United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP): Fulbright Awards 2013
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 12:42 pm | 0 Comment
Fulbright is the flagship fellowship award program of the United States Department of State. Fulbright awards fund graduate study in the United States for a Master’s or PhD degree, including tuition, required textbooks, airfare, a living stipend, and health insurance. USEFP also assists with the visa process. Who Should Apply? For the Master’s degree program, eligible more...
Recycling of rechargeable batteries
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:53 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12701" align="alignright" width="118" caption="Engr. Saud Khan"][/caption] WE THE humans of 21st century are living in the electronic era, where electronic items are playing a vital role in our daily life. Today batteries are an integral part of our life; they are used to power electronic devices like watches, cell phones, power tools and more...
Survival threats to forests
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:48 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12696" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Zaka ud Din Ahmad"][/caption] WITH ONE of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, Pakistan’s forests are in urgent need of protection and conservation. The country is a semi arid country with less than 4 per cent of its area under forest cover. At the global level, WWF is lobbying more...
Mangroves – a non-edible bio-fuel in peril
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:44 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh THE ESCALATING and inelastic demand for energy to fuel economic activities exerts pressures on its limited supply. The skyrocketing prices of petroleum products result in the depletion of non-renewable energy sources and the continued investigation and use of renewable and innovation results. As authenticated research already has proved that the more...
Fuel efficient cars in Pakistan- a possibility?
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:43 pm | 0 Comment
By Mukarram Raza IT ALL started when a group of young lads launched an audacious effort to leave an impression on the face of Shell Eco Marathon having a history that nearly stretched over seventy years. And within these years, not a single Pakistani team had ever participated. But history is meant to be rewritten and records are meant to be broken that’s what more...
SEO outsourcing services help in saving money
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:41 pm | 0 Comment
By Bilal Sarwari Via Pakistan Telecom SEO OUTSOURCING services is an ideal alternative for enterprises targeting a boost-up of their website by saving a major amount of money. Having your website portal listed in the first page of the various search engines is a complicated process but it’s still a process that yields productive results both financially and more...
Islamia College Peshawar: Overseas PhD Scholarships for 2012
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:38 pm | 0 Comment
Islamia College Peshawar has invited applications for the award of overseas PhD scholarships under HEC funded project (Phase-II) titled “Strengthening/Up gradation of Islamia College, University Peshawar” in the following disciplines: Mathematics, Statistics, Pakistan Studies, LLB (Shariah). The scholarship will be awarded for the year 2012 in the HEC recognized more...
LPT Certification Programme: A strategic initiative to securing cyber space
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr. Saad Zafar, CISA, CISM THE INCREASED national dependence on computer-based information systems has amplified the need for safety, security, and resilience of cyber space. However, due to the evolving threats and vulnerabilities of the cyber space, the effective protection of cyber space is a non-trivial task. This is evident from the following facts: (1) more...
Useless climate debate, lack of govt will and loss of biodiversity
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:19 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh THE UNITED Nations has launched the Decade on Biodiversity with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging the humanity to live in harmony with nature and to preserve and properly manage its riches for the prosperity of present and future generations. It is now widely recognized that climate change and biodiversity are interconnected. In fact, the latter more...
Freedom of information and e-governance
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:18 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12432" align="alignright" width="99" caption="Mirza Aleem Baig"][/caption] FREEDOM OF information is an internationally recognised human right. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly recognised that “Freedom of Information is a fundamental human right and the touchstone for all freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated”. more...
Pakistan – a heaven for industrial engineers!
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:14 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12428" align="alignright" width="85" caption="Azeem Iqbal"][/caption] IT HAS been a great journey till now and I got to observe the world from a new dimension. Industrial engineering (IE) is really a guru to me in a way that no other engineering discipline could have taught me so well. The characteristic is that it develops a technical and more...
Allay isunderstandings on 3G/4G spectrum auction
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:08 pm | 4 Comments
By Azhar Javed Mughal THE CELLULAR mobile sector of Pakistan has achieved an immense success since the government’s deregulation policy. Over the last four years, cellular mobile teledensity has increased from 40 per cent to the current level of 65 per cent and cellular subscribers have crossed the 112 million mark, which was just 65 million four years ago. more...
Lasbela University of Agriculture: Overseas PhD Scholarships for 2012
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:05 pm | 0 Comment
Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences (LUAWMS), Uthal, is seeking applications for overseas scholarships for Ph.D., under HEC approved project “Establishment of Undergraduate Marine Sciences Laboratories and Facilities at LUAWMS, Uthal,” from the eligible fresh applicants and existing faculty member through competitive procedure both male and more...
Media matters everywhere!
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:39 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12210" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Anusha Sherazi"][/caption] MEDIA AND mass communication is a factor which has rapidly become an integral part of everyone’s day to day life, no matter on which part of the earth you are. From entertainment to awareness, from information to advertisement, and from technology to household; media more...
Intensifying water scarcity in Pakistan
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:37 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh ASIA, LOCATED in the eastern and northern hemispheres, is the world’s largest and most populous continent with 3.8 billion population. It covers 8.6 per cent of the Earth’s total surface area (or 29.9 per cent of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60 per cent of the world’s current human population having only 36 more...
Network Engineering as a career in Pakistan
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment
By Ishtiaq Khan THE NETWORK Engineering is actually not only a Desktop Support job. This domain is extremely vast and offers very rewarding and challenging careers. I will try to cover most important aspects, skill setneeded to be on the Network Engineering track and differentiating factors – considering the fact that there are more than 2,000 plus students pass more...
Thar coal can energise Pakistan
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:31 pm | 0 Comment
By Rubab Mahboob ENERGY, BY all means, is considered as lifeline of a country’s socio-economic and human development but its scarcity certainly results in grinding halt to almost every sector of life. Pakistan like other Asian countries is also faced with acute energy shortage, especially of electricity, the main source of energy. The power crisis did not emerge more...
The next great war – we need to get ready
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:29 pm | 0 Comment
By Sarah Farid HOW WILL water shortage affect me? That is the silent thought that echoes through our heads. Or, it’s not your fault. Our brains have been programmed to think as such — the urge to do so is heightened by functioning in an increasingly globalised, competitive and cut-throat world. Remember the flood tax that had reduced your take-home income? How more...
Journal of Scientific Research
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:28 pm | 0 Comment
JOURNAL OF Scientific research (JSR) publishes original articles, reviews, commentaries, and proceedings of meetings, and editorials concerned with research in the fields of all the sciences. Manuscript for Journal of Scientific Research must be based on original, unpublished research; Reviews will be received by invitation of the editor and will be reviewed. The routine more...
