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Dr. Salam is first Pakistani
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 1:07 pm | 0 Comment
In the country where the literacy rate is below any respectable threshold, there is no wonder that the sole Nobel laureate is not cherished and celebrated. But do you know that Dr. Abdus Salam still loves Pakistan and how decent and humble person he is? My father has the honour of exchanging few emails with the great man and I have also searched the Internet for his more...
Threat to ozone layer
By admin at February 21, 2012 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
The ozone layer is a gas which protects the earth from dangerous rays of the sun. Nowadays this gas is going to destroy the rays of artificial (man-made) gases. There are many causes for the decrease in the ozone layer gas. And all these are man-made compounds, and are known as chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, methyl bromide, halons, methyl chloroform and more...
Cellular networks and ethics
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:36 pm | 0 Comment
Although cellular companies in Pakistan are learning millions of rupees every day, yet they keep coming up with new methods of how to fleece the poor public. First, they don’t have any sense of time because our sound sleep is often disturbed when we receive their cruel messages at the dead of time. Secondly, of all the packages they offer, not even one is without a more...
Simple dimple solution
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:34 pm | 0 Comment
Visiting Karachi was a great experience. It was enlightened and great to know that people were still very cooperative and good. When I visited a cousin, I observed that they are the ones who need govt support and are parasitic to many of aid providers. Often officers not only in the government but in the public and private sectors also, the owners and dignitaries of the more...
New gas reserves
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:28 pm | 0 Comment
According to an official report, the gas shortage of one billion cubic feet (bcf) was recorded in 2011 alone, and currently it has increased to 1.8 bcf. Owing to this, the industrial sector, CNG and the power sector have been severely affected. The main reasons described for the peril are rapid surge in the demand and less exploration. According to a State Bank more...
Tidal power: solution to energy crisis
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:25 pm | 0 Comment
Presently, Pakistan is confronted with a power crisis due to reduction in conventional sources of energy. There is a wide gap between demand and supply of electricity. The need for exploring alternative environmental-friendly and renewable energy resources has, therefore, become more important. Tidal power is the clean and white energy technology, which is available at no more...
Computers and health
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:21 pm | 0 Comment
The girl who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine died recently. I don’t know if she had had it since childhood bu t it made me wonder if her epilepsy was caused by spending too much time on the computer. The effect of radiation emitted from computers has been studied and it has been linked to a variety of health more...
OLX Pakistan investing heavily in advertisement
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:20 pm | 0 Comment
OLX is a global online retailer and auction site. They have an impressive footprint in a little less than 100 countries, each with their own specific domain (like .pk for Pakistan and .in for India). In Pakistan they have been operating under olx.com.pk for some time with people using it to sell things online. Recently they have started advertising heavily on more...
Moving story of Arfa Karim
By admin at January 23, 2012 | 4:05 pm | 0 Comment
ARFA KARIM came, she did and she conquered. When everything was down in Pakistan, she stood and illuminated the national scene with her brilliance. Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, changed his opinion about Pakistan altogether after meeting with Arfa. Arfa Karim got the honor of World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional when she was only 9 years old in more...
Why Nokia Siemens has evaporated in Pakistan
By admin at January 23, 2012 | 4:03 pm | 0 Comment
PTA ALWAYS takes wrong steps at the wrong moment for the wrong reasons. The bubbling and budding telecom industry in Pakistan largely due to the fact that there is no monopoly and the competition is tough and fierce and the consumer base is huge and aware. Nokia Siemens was competing mainly with the ZTE, and both were having a fair chunk of the industry, but it was more...
Old textbooks in Balochistan
By admin at January 16, 2012 | 4:13 pm | 0 Comment
THE ISSUE of Balochistan’s old textbooks is very critical for Baloch students who are not able to get quality education because of obsolete syllabus. Textbooks, published in 1993, have never been revised, though there have been so many changes since then. Therefore, most of the students are unaware of many facts. Besides, all books from primary to matriculation are in more...
Steps needed to overcome energy crisis
By admin at January 16, 2012 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
IT SEEMS that the government has no short-and long-term solution to the shortage of natural gas. The shortage has paralysed life of the people. The delay in implementing the Pakistan Iran gas pipeline project, which was initiated 10 years ago, will take another four or five years to complete. Owing to the wrong policy of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources, more...
An appeal for free laptop
By admin at January 16, 2012 | 4:11 pm | 0 Comment
I AM doing MPhil in International Relations from the University of Sargodha. And also working at the university as an assistant (BPS 14). Being a university employee, I could not avail myself of the facility of a free laptop scheme launched by the Chief Minister of Punjab. Universities are autonomous bodies and owing to this they are not considered government more...
GM seed can solve world hunger problems or not?
By admin at January 7, 2012 | 1:14 pm | 0 Comment
THIS REFERS to the story published in Technology Times, titled “Genetically modified corn, maize damage Pak farming”. This is a good article; people both farmers and consumers need to know pros and cons of agriculture biotechnology rather adopting it without knowledge of its long term effects. Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta etc are pushing hard to sell its GMO or more...
Hydrogen cars: A suggestion
By admin at January 7, 2012 | 1:13 pm | 0 Comment
IT IS very encouraging to learn that students ofNEDUniversity,Karachi, are researching on renewable and pollution-free fuel for cars. I wish them success. However, I have the following comments: I guess the hydrogen gas would be stored in cylinders. If this is the case, there would be a risk of bursting as it is happening with CNG cylinders almost on a daily basis. more...
Thermal power
By admin at December 31, 2011 | 4:46 pm | 0 Comment
RECENTLY PAKISTANI scientists have experimented successfully to generate electricity by coal at Thar. The scientists have also claimed to generate 100-megawatt electricity in 2013, adding that they can get 100 million barrel diesel too. This is really a great achievement of Pakistani scientists andPakistan is proud of them. On the other hand, head of Thar coal project more...
Cellphone: A source of trouble
By admin at December 31, 2011 | 4:45 pm | 0 Comment
CELLPHONE HAS become a necessity these days, but is also a nuisance, especially for women because of anonymous and unwanted calls for harassment. There is a silent majority which is suffering from this menace. People, especially women, continuously receive obnoxious phone calls, forcing them to talk. In case of refusal, they receive threatening and vulgar text messages more...
Indus magnet as alternative energy
By admin at December 31, 2011 | 4:43 pm | 0 Comment
EXISTING ENERGY sources have many drawbacks like construction of large dams, as in the case of hydroelectric power generation, which is expensive. Nobody likes to construct such dams, especially in our country. We have to install an array of solar panels for solar energy, while energy generated through expensive windmills is not sufficient. The nuclear energy source is more...
Lack of PhDs: A worrisome scenario
By admin at December 24, 2011 | 12:46 pm | 0 Comment
GENERALLY, IT is learnt that after qualifying the academic qualifications required for becoming a teacher at school, tertiary or at any level, further advancement in receiving any higher education is no more seen in our teachers. The country does not have enough teachers with doctorates simply because there is a practice in our education system that only a teacher of a more...
Serious issues of pest management
By admin at December 24, 2011 | 12:45 pm | 0 Comment
REFERENCE THE article “Will genetically modified ‘Bt Cotton’ increase yields inPakistan?” Insertion of Bt. gene that synthesize toxin to kill the caterpillar only, has nothing to do with yield increase. Countries like Pakistan has all time very serious issue of pest management, as majority of the small famers could not recognize pests, they have financial more...
CNG ‘suicide bombers’
By admin at December 17, 2011 | 1:18 pm | 0 Comment
ALMOST 40 people have been killed and an equal number injured in just a fortnight in a series of blasts involving public transport buses and wagons using CNG as fuel. These are just alarm bells. In the beginning, the increase in gasoline costs prompted the public to go for CNG conversion of their vehicles. In the meantime, public transport buses, mini-buses, wagons and more...
Hazards of energy savers
By admin at December 17, 2011 | 1:17 pm | 0 Comment
THE ENERGY crisis in our country has taken us towards the energy conservation these days at the national level. The use of energy-saver bulbs instead of traditional bulbs and tube lights has increased throughout the country. As everyone knows that these energy-saver bulbs are economical in use but nobody knows that these energy savers can be a serious health more...
60 dams on our rivers?
By admin at December 17, 2011 | 1:16 pm | 0 Comment
IT HAS been repeatedly revealed by media that India is building 60 large and small dams on our three Western rivers in occupied Kashmir under the plea that Pakistan is wasting its waters into the sea. Pakistan is smugly laying its bets on Bhasha dam while ignoring the KBD, which could have been built in half the time of Bhasha dam to solve our chronic problem of energy more...
HEC and ‘absconding’ scholars
By admin at December 11, 2011 | 12:54 pm | 1 Comments
THIS IS apropos of the report about the Higher Education Commission penalising PhD absconders (published in media). It was a great shock that some of the PhD scholarship holders have disregarded their bond to serve their homeland after earning the academic title of ‘doctorate’.The PhD faculty is an important ingredient and indicator in gauging the academic worth of a more...
60 dams on our rivers?
By admin at December 11, 2011 | 12:52 pm | 0 Comment
IT HAS been repeatedly revealed by media that India is building 60 large and small dams on our three Western rivers in occupied Kashmir under the plea that Pakistan is wasting its waters into the sea. Pakistan is smugly laying its bets on Bhasha dam while ignoring the Kala Bagh Dam (KBD), which could have been built in half the time of Bhasha dam to solve our chronic more...
