Browsing Tag Pak
US announces $4m grant for Pak-US S&T coop
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:46 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The United States has announced a grant of $4 million for Pakistani and American researchers for collaboration on different projects in science and technology. US Charge d’ Affaires Ambassador Richard Hoagland revealed this urging the Pakistani researchers and scientists to apply for this Pak-US tech cooperation. “In fact, the US wants to more...
Pak young scientist attends world eco forum
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:34 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Aftab Ahmad Chattha, a PhD scholar, from the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, has recently participated as Young Scientist Member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2012. According to a message received here, the annual meeting of the New Champions-2012 titled “Creating the future Economy” was held in Tianjin, China last more...
Pak students fly national flag high at London science forum
By Technology Times at September 10, 2012 | 6:24 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Five Pakistani young scientists (science students) participated in the world fame science forum - “London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) 2012”. The two-week forum was organized at the Imperial College London in August last and has been organized in the UK for the last over 50 years. The Pakistani students had participated for the more...
HEC decides to establish Pak Technology Council
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 6:17 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: While taking an initiative towards regulating as well as promoting technological education in the country, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has at last decided to establish Pakistan Technology Council (PTC). “Pakistan needs to have more technological access and the country's universities need to develop their respective curriculum as per more...
Pak student’s research wins US award
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 6:14 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHAIRPUR: A hot sweet cup of tea will solve most problems. But it appears that more and more research is proving that tea can help clean water for human consumption. Shadab Rasool Abro, a student of matriculation and a resident of Khairpur, has been given an award as well as a scholarship worth 250,000 dollars by the US State University of New York for more...
Pak varsities ranked high with research publications
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 6:10 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Tremendous increase in research publications as QAU remains at top with 717 publications followed by UoA with 524 publications and AKU with 521 publications. “The number of publications by Pakistan’s higher education institutions has increased from about 800 in the year 2002 to more than 6,000 in the year 2011. In 2010, this number was 5,000,” more...
Water resources in Pak evaporating speedily
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 5:48 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: With the country slowly slipping down the scarcity benchmark, it will be facing a severe water crisis in coming years, which will also harm the agriculture sector. According to available statistics, the water availability, which stood at 5,300 cubic metres per person per year in 1950, dropped to almost 1,000 cubic metres in 2011, touching the globally more...
Tetra Pak acknowledges media role on food, environment
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:41 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company, has recently held a ceremony to celebrate winners of the “Tetra Pak Media Awards”. The awards aim to appreciate and encourage the media’s role in promoting environment and food safety related issues in Pakistan, said an official of the company while talking to more...
India’s water hegemony ruining Pak economy
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:27 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: Maintaining that “stoppage of water by India has a caused huge water shortage in Pakistan besides damaging its economy”, Chairman Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Maulana Fazlur Rahman urged India “not to stop water of different rivers flowing down from Kashmir into Pakistani territory.” “If India strangles our economy by more...
Pak govt’s murky initiatives dampening energy solutions
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:10 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Though the government of Pakistan is claiming to have shown its high level of seriousness in overcoming the persistent energy crisis in the country, yet the resolution of this endemic energy crisis seems a distant dream keeping in view the hollow initiatives taken by the authorities so far. While almost about two months have gone since new Prime more...
Pak students excel in science Olympiads, get scholarships
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:07 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistani students have won one silver and four bronze medals along with two honourable mentions in various events at the International Science Olympiads 2012, recently held in Singapore, United States, Argentina and Estonia. According to details, four to six-member teams from each country were selected out of over 6,000 students, requiring a minimum more...
Koreans set to import Pak mango from next year
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:01 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The importers have expressed keen interest in Pakistani mangoes as the fruit is considered the best among mangoes imported from the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. “South Korean importers have started visiting Pakistan following approval of Pakistan’s mango quality and hopes have emerged that thousands of tons could be exported to Korea from next more...
Hard times a blessing for Pak IT sector: Farooq Sikander
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:50 am | 0 Comment
Farooq Hasan Sikander carries with him 31 years of successful experience providing fiscal, strategic and operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations. Presently, he has been appointed as Chief Executive, Hascombe Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. He is dynamic results-oriented leader and possesses superior interpersonal skills and capable of resolving complex more...
Tough procedures hamper Pak mango export
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:40 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT MTN: The mango growers have expressed concern over “tough export procedures and formalities” which are hindering the mango export to US and demanded the higher authorities to ease the process which would help obtaining $30 million orders. “US has allowed mango export after 64 years and USAID is working to promote the mango industry in Pakistan,” more...
Pak students get pride at Physics Olympiad
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:36 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: A Student of second year of Rangers Public School & College, Mandi Bahauddin, Taimour Iftikhar, has secured third position in the 43rd International Physics Olympiad. According to details, as many as 81 countries around the world had taken part in the competition. The student of Rangers School of Pakistan got third position and highlighted the more...
6 Pak varsities ranked among world’s top 300 institutes
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:14 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan will be among the top 30 countries of the world in terms its education quality as well as research. Scimago, an independent research organization and an international evaluation and ranking platform, has projected in its recent publication how the world will perform in research by 2018 based on their past performance. The expected output more...
Oil mafia held responsible for Pak energy crisis
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:13 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The oil refineries are reluctant to produce clean energy petroleum products according to minimum international standard Euro-II, which has shifted the entire burden on the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. A crucial meeting of oil refineries, officials of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and Ministry of Climate Change has more...
Pak IT policy drafter awarded degree
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 8:53 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Dr S. M. Junaid Zaidi, who drafted Pakistan’s first IT policy, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, says a press release received here. Dr Zaidi, awarded the prestigious Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2007, is the founding rector of the Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), which was more...
Pak student secures medal at world math contest
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 3:23 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: A Pakistani student, Syed WaqarAli Shah, has won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad recently held in Argentinean town, Mar del Plata. Waqar Ali Shah, an A-level student of the Pak-Turk International School, Karachi, who competed with about 550 students from 96 countries of the world. Pakistan had sent a batch of five students more...
Pak bike industry flourishing
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 2:58 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: The local motorcycle industry sector is vibrant, flourishing and exemplary, as about 95 per cent manufacturing is being done in Pakistan through latest technology transfer with billion of rupees and hundred employing thousands of skilled workers. The sector progressed tremendously so far due to consistent policy of the government, while it gave a more...
Pak teacher develops water-run rocket missile
By Technology Times at July 18, 2012 | 1:31 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: A Pakistani mechanical engineer and a school science teacher has developed a rocket missile, with an initial capability of flying up to 320 feet high, which uses water as its fuel. “I had to cut water bottle and to install air compressor to develop this missile,” says Muhammad Faisal, a teacher in Government Model School, Karachi, which is more...
Asian states taking Pak higher edu as role model
By Technology Times at July 18, 2012 | 12:56 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Due to revolutionary reforms in the higher education sector, the Pakistani universities have been included among the top world and Asian universities and Pakistani higher education model is being followed by other Asian countries. These remarks were expressed by HEC Executive Director, Professor Dr S. Sohail H. Naqvi during a meeting with the meeting more...
WWF to boost Pak cotton exports
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 11:51 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: WWF – Pakistan’s Sustainable Agriculture Programme, has signed an MoU with Pakistan Cotton Standards Institute (PCSI). Purpose of this partnership is to introduce standardisation of cotton among the participating ginning SMEs and bring it at par with the internationally accepted standards for improving the competitiveness of Pakistan’s raw cotton more...
Pak cell phone users cross 120m mark
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 5:45 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan’s cellular industry registered almost 120m subscribers by the end of May 2012, reveal the fresh statistics of PTA. It said that teledensity of cellular mobile subscribers in the country reached 68.8 per cent, up from 68.2 per cent. Mobilink stood at top with 36,048,127 subscribers at the end of May 2012, followed by Telenor with more...
27 Pak scientists’ research leads to Higgs boson discovery
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:54 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: As many as 27 Pakistani scientists working at CERN made a visible contribution in the flawless research that has finally led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, also nicknamed the “God particle”, that travels faster than light; this experiment will help in re-enacting the first moments of the universe. These participating scientists included Dr more...
