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The retreating Himalayas: Food security on the line
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 4:32 pm | 0 Comment
WHEN THE unparalleled rate of glacial retreat within the South Asian region isn’t checked, nations in the region will probably turn highly food-insecure. Pakistan’s latest Global Warming Policy clearly signifies that freshwater assets in Pakistan are determined by snow and glacial melting and monsoon rains each of which are highly responsive to the global more...
Montreal Protocol – The single most successful international agreement: Asif Khan
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:59 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16738" align="alignright" width="85" caption="Muhammad Asif Khan"][/caption] THE MONTREAL Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer ,is one of the most successful environmental treaties to be concluded. This September it will be 25 years since the Montreal Protocol was singed in 1987 and over these years has resulted in complete more...
The case for education in Balochistan
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 12:58 pm | 0 Comment
By Bushra Zulfiqar EDUCATION IS not only the path towards economic development and social progress but it essentially is also the push factor towards human excellence and intellectual liberation. Moral consciousness, human sensitivity, social justice, tolerance, pluralism and an equality of all beings are some of the seeds it sows, in the fertile and raw brains. Keeping more...
Burraq wins the Robian’12
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:35 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: Robian’12 had the participation of 40 robots out of which 34 were indigenous to the Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad Campus. The Winners of the Robian’12 was team BURRAQ with team members M. Bilal Aslam, Hamid Mehmood, Atif Nawaz, and Nauman Ahmed. Rs. 20000 was awarded as prize more...
The prospects of solar energy for power generation
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:15 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr. Noor Fatima THE COUNTRY is presently confronted by a severe energy crisis that has jeopardized the national industrial production on the one hand and made the lives of people miserable, especially students. There is a close link between energy security and overall development. The latter will continue to deteriorate if the major problem of power outages is not more...
The multipurpose Kalabagh Dam
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 12:20 pm | 0 Comment
Kalabagh Dam is called a multipurpose project as it will overcome power and water shortages and will boost industry and agriculture. It is only through the left-bank canal at Kalabagh dam that Indus, Jhelum and Chenab can be integrated into one single river basin for optimum use of all the stakeholders. It is only through the left-bank canal at Kalabagh dam that north more...
Dr Abdus Salam – the ‘mystic’ scientist
By Technology Times at February 22, 2012 | 11:29 am | 1 Comments
Zainab Mahmood Dr Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his research in ‘Grand unification theory’. This theory was inspired by his spiritual beliefs that all forces emanate from a single source IN 1925, a peasant belonging to Jhang had a prophetic dream. In response to his prayers, an infant was put in his lap. He inquired after his name and was told it more...
The next great war – we need to get ready
By Technology Times 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...
