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Pakistan: Cultivable waste land for agriculture graduates
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 4:16 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr Badaruddin Soomro via The Dawn ABOUT FOUR million acres of cultivable land in Sindh are not being brought under plough mainly due to various administrative and financial problems. These lands should be given to unemployed agriculture graduates, 50 acres each, on lease basis initially for five years. This will not only generate employment for almost 80,000 more...
Human Resource Department: A neglected area in cell companies
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 4:10 pm | 0 Comment
By Asad Ur Rehman THE HUMAN Resource Department has emerged as a vital platform for any organization as it plays an important role in objective setting, aligning mission and vision with the company strategy and setting performance standards for employees. Though all telecom companies have well established Human Resource Departments but still their functioning is not more...
Experience the hassle-free browsing with IE9
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 4:07 pm | 0 Comment
By Nazakat Hussain MICROSOFT TAKES browsing experience to a completely new level with IE 9 experience. Its feature list and minimal clicks make it easy for the user to browse the web hassle free. The browser now performs and feels like the native applications on the computer. Microsoft answered criticism with impressive introduction of Internet Explorer 9 and amazed more...
2012 AUN/SEED-Net Master’s Degree Program, Thailand Master’s Scholarship Program to Pursue Master’s in Engineering funded by AUN/SEED-Net Project 2012
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 4:05 pm | 0 Comment
Study Subject(s):Chemical ,Chemical , Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering,Information and Communication Technology, Manufacturing Engineering,Materials Engineering,Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Course Level:Master’s Scholarship Provider: AUN/SEED-Net Project Scholarship can be taken at: Respective Host more...
Understanding the Social Networking Architecture
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:37 pm | 1 Comments
By Azeema Sadia, Abdul Haseeb Khan, Sehrish Malik SOCIAL NETWORKING sites allow people to connect with others and share their feelings and opinions. The users of social networking can create their contents for their friends such as videos, pictures, and interesting links etc. users can also access the contents of their friends. Social networking is based on definite more...
Connecting rural-urban divide thru ICT for better life
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 0 Comment
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union has declared the 17th May, the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), as a day to raise awareness on the benefits of ICT tools such as the television, radio, mobile phones and the Internet and other means of bridging the digital divide. Last year the theme for World Telecommunication and Information Society more...
2nd one-day workshop on Young Researchers Skill Development
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:33 pm | 0 Comment
NATIONAL ACADEMY of young Scientists (NAYS) has followed its own tradition of making collaboration with science promoting institutes and doing something helpful for Young Researchers’ across the country. The collaboration with Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) helped in organization of 2nd one day workshop on young researchers skill development. 350 more...
Beware of E-waste
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:29 pm | 0 Comment
By Tariq Farid via Daily Times HAZARDOUS E-WASTE has become one of the biggest health risks of this century in Pakistan, with rising trend of bulk imports of used and obsolete computers and other electronic equipment from the West, taking full advantage of “yet to be enacted E-waste laws” in the country. The people, especially the youth, are buying ‘E-waste of more...
PTCL’s newly launched smart phone, IVIO Icon Pro: A welcome product
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:26 pm | 1 Comments
By Palwasha Qazi IN THE past, business people were easily identifiable — they carried large briefcases, binder planners and perhaps a brick cell phone. The scene has changed now and so has the way we conduct life and business. Smart phones store important data and documents, offer a calendar planner, provide instant access to the internet and email and keep more...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Fellowship for Pakistani Individuals, 2012/2013 USA
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:25 pm | 0 Comment
Research Fellowship for Pakistani individuals in academia, business, journalism, government, law, and related professions in the field of Public policy issues at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA – 2012/2013 Study Subject(s): Public policy issues facing Pakistan, research designed to bridge the gap between the academic and the policy making worlds more...
Telecom sector – anchoring Pakistan’s economy
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:38 pm | 2 Comments
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Via Profit Pakistan’s teledensity touched 68.39 per cent – a 6.7 per cent rise since 2010. Mobile subscribers at the tail-end of 2011 were estimated to be around 108.9 million – flaunting a growth rate of 10 per cent; which is twice as much as that of the previous year. Number of cell sites has also increased from 30,126 in June 2010 to more...
Life is only the consequence of complexity of particles
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:36 pm | 2 Comments
IT IS worth thinking about the origin of humans specially and all life generally. We are bound to a system having more than 100 elements, from Hydrogen which is lightest to Ununoctinum which is heaviest, and our bodies are made up of many of these. Life starts from complex molecules which are actually complex arrangement of atoms. For instance our DNA molecule which more...
Lifeline of Pakistan is in severe danger
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:30 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh WE BELIEVE that electricity exists, because its life line of the country and the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, although we cannot consume it all 24 hours.Pakistan is in the grip of a serious energy crisis that is affecting all sectors of the economy and the various segments of the society. LuckilyPakistan has blessed by many types of more...
Policy risks to agriculture
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:29 pm | 0 Comment
By Ahmad Fraz Khan via Dawn IF FARMERS’ fears are to go by, the new year might not be any different for agriculture from the last one. They think that this year too, the terms of trade would be unfavourable for them, international recession would keep commodity prices down and an ever-expanding domestic tax regime would keep the cost of production high. Listing more...
Send all of Pakistan to MIT!
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:27 pm | 0 Comment
Via TechLahore SOMEDAY, SOMEONE in an appropriately empowered government position inPakistan needs to take a bold step forward and break through the bureaucracy and red tape government is despised for. There are so many incredibly high value, low cost initiatives to take up in areas as diverse as agriculture, education, energy and information technology that the more...
Institute of Biotechnology, BZU
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:23 pm | 1 Comments
BIOTECHNOLOGY IS defined as the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to produce goods and services. The completion of human genome and Arabidopsis genome projects in the year 2000 were great breakthroughs in the field of biotechnology. In the past twenty years, unprecedented progress in biotechnology has more...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Fellowship for Pakistani Individuals, 2012/2013 USA
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:18 pm | 0 Comment
Research Fellowship for Pakistani individuals in academia, business, journalism, government, law, and related professions in the field of Public policy issues at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA – 2012/2013 Study Subject(s): Public policy issues facing Pakistan, research designed to bridge the gap between the academic and the policy making worlds more...
Biosafety of foods derived by modern biotechnology
By Technology Times at December 31, 2011 | 4:55 pm | 1 Comments
FOOD ACQUISITION, production, modification, and processing technologies form a continuum of allied biotechnologies which trace back to the beginnings of agriculture. These technologies have made use of naturally-occurring genetic variation in an effort to create variety and expand the reach of food sources. Common know variation among and within agricultural commodities more...
Geo-informatics Technology in healthcare practice
By Technology Times at December 31, 2011 | 4:54 pm | 1 Comments
HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS represent hearty and demanding information environment that requires comprehensive infrastructure capable of addressing inadequacies in existing systems. Although several modern information, communication and geo-technologies have been available for over three decades, most healthcare systems and public health agencies have incorporated only a limited more...
Noise proves nothing, just problems
By Technology Times at December 31, 2011 | 4:52 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh NOISE HAS become a very important "stress factor" in the environment of human being. The term "noise pollution" has been recently used to signify the hazard of sounds which are consequence of modern day development, leading to health hazards of different type. Continuous exposure to high decibel (dB, the unit of loudness) noise can result in some more...
Climate change unknowns: Human psychology
By Technology Times at December 31, 2011 | 4:50 pm | 1 Comments
By Anusha Sherazi CLIMATE CHANGE debates can go amongst the experts for ages. But the question is, are the topics under discussion pertinent enough to be discussed? Probably, this is the point to ponder. Climate Change might give us questions which might influence our lives discreetly but we hardly dig out any time to realize their importance. One such missing link in more...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Fellowship for Pakistani Individuals, 2012/2013 USA
By Technology Times at December 31, 2011 | 4:47 pm | 0 Comment
Research Fellowship for Pakistani individuals in academia, business, journalism, government, law, and related professions in the field of Public policy issues at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA – 2012/2013 Study Subject(s): Public policy issues facing Pakistan, research designed to bridge the gap between the academic and the policy making worlds more...
Climate change, man and responsibilities!
By Technology Times at December 24, 2011 | 1:02 pm | 0 Comment
By Anusha Sherazi OUT OF all the concerns that our fragile Environment has around it, one of the major is Climate Change. But this change is not abrupt. Climate change is certainly anthropogenic and science had proved it through evidences. The most outstanding evidence was provided by report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007, which was written by more...
The wasted solar solution
By Technology Times at December 24, 2011 | 1:01 pm | 0 Comment
By Najma Sadeque via TET THE MOST embittering aspect of the mass misery over electricity is that the crippling shortages never had to happen.Pakistan could have adopted solar energy years ago if government priorities had focused less on protectionist privatisation and more on people. The number of solar-electrified homes inBangladesh recently numbered a million. This more...
Off season vegetable production
By Technology Times at December 24, 2011 | 12:57 pm | 1 Comments
By Muhammad Ramzan Rafique via AgriHunt OLERICULTURE IS a branch of horticulture that deals with production of vegetables. Importance of vegetables in human diet cannot be ignored these are major source of roughes that are helpful for digestion process. They also provide vitamins and minerals and also help to control cholesterol in our body. Many vegetables are more...
