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Worms track us down with the chemical trails
By Technology Times at August 6, 2012 | 11:55 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr. Asma Kausar and Dr. Muhammad Sohail Sajid PARASITIC WORMS infect millions of people in the developing world, by following chemical trails to their hosts. Isolating the substances that attract them is the key to finding cheap and practical ways of preventing infection. One might have observed smoky lines following the air jets in the sky. Some people in more...
Water resources allocation may down next fiscal year
By Technology Times at June 10, 2012 | 6:00 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Funds for developing the all-important water resources have shrunk to about 13 per cent of total development budget for 2012-13 and this comes at a time when the country is going to enter the ranks of water-scarce countries with a significant gap between demand and supply. According to statistics, over the past five years, allocation for water resources more...
GST on cellular services down in budget
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 4:04 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Due to uniform GST the earlier GST of 19.5 per cent on cellular services/mobile phone calls has been reduced to 16 per cent in the federal budget 2012-13. “It a sigh of relief for the telecom industry,” commented an official of a local cellular company. The cellular industry has long been asking for the reduction in GST and removal of activation more...
Farm credit release down by 15pc
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:17 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The agricultural credit disbursement by banks surged by 15.29 per cent on year-on-year basis to Rs 223.845 billion in the first ten months of the current fiscal year. In absolute terms, disbursement of credit to the agriculture sector increased by over Rs 29.688 billion in July-April, 2012 when compared with total disbursement of Rs 194.157 billion in more...
Wheat crop area down by 2.53pc in 2010-11
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 2:11 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The area of wheat crop under cultivation decreased by 2.53 per cent during 2010-2011 over the previous year largely due to problems faced by the farmers in terms of disposal of wheat produced in 2009-2010, shifting of area to cotton and sugarcane crops in irrigated tracts, late crushing by sugar mills, and considerable increase in potato crop. “The more...
InfoTech gets deals revised with SBL, HBL
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 2:10 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Samba Bank Limited (SBL) and Habib Bank Limited have recently renewed their Microsoft Enterprise Agreement deals for a 3-year period through InfoTech (Pvt.) Ltd, which is Microsoft’s direct large account reseller. Azfar Naqvi, CFO of SBL, signed the agreement, while Naseer Akhtar, President and CEO, signed on behalf of the InfoTech during a recently more...
Collectivism can down global warming
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 12:06 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh IN PAKISTAN, annual mean surface temperature has a consistent rising trend since the beginning of 20th century. Rise in mean temperature of 0.6-1.0°C in arid coastal areas, arid mountains and hyper arid plains, 10-15 per cent decrease in both winter and summer rainfall in coastal belt and hyper arid plains, 18-32 per cent increase in rainfall in monsoon more...
Farmers suffer as gur prices come down
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 3:44 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The ban on supply of gur to Afghanistan despite bumper sugarcane crop and the prolonged cold & dry weather have improved the cane supply situation for sugar mills. However, farmers in Khyber PakhtunKhwa remain adversely affected mainly on the price front. Along with fall in price of sugar, the price of gur has also come down to about Rs 8,000-9,000 more...
Agriculture sector growth slows down
By Technology Times at January 28, 2012 | 1:53 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD —The agriculture sector is widely considered the backbone of the countrys economy. But official data show the growth of this sector has slowed down in recent years, largely due to water related woes. Growth of the countrys agriculture sector slowed down to an average of just 2.7 percent in the first decade of this Century as compared to 4.4 percent in more...
