Online Lecturing Project for Pakistan Universities
The new system would provide interactive and online lecturing services to all public sector universities.The first video conference among vice chancellors of various universities and the higher education commission was …
Continue reading »Cinema Reborns as Earthquake Relief Centre
The Melody Cinema had sat fallow for two years, ever since a mob of religious radicals set it on fire and reduced it to nothing more than a charred, trash-filled …
Continue reading »Karachi Pizza Woman Braves Working Environment
The 29-year-old is a customer coordinator at Pizza Hut, and is the only female in her branch which comprises forty. But the fact that she is a lone woman in …
Continue reading »Tattooing & Body Art En Vogue in Lahore
Tattoos and piercing have come into fashion among the young as tattoo parlours and piercing studios open in Lahore, despite rebuke by parents and ridicule by passers-by, learnt Daily Times. …
Continue reading »American Volunteers Find Pakistan Friendlier than Expected
“Like most Americans, I had the idea that this is a pretty dangerous place to be,” she says, adding that she had never known any Pakistanis. What she discovered, however, …
Continue reading »Pakistan Marine Mammals Conservation Project Launches
A three-year project for the conservation of endangered cetacean species in Pakistan’s territorial waters was formally launched at the University of Karachi on Tuesday. The conservation project for whales, dolphins …
Continue reading »Lahore’s World Performing Arts Festival in Full Swing
World Performing Arts Festival continues to draw spectators at the Alhamra Cultural Complex with its multi-coloured performances in dance, music, films, theatre and puppet shows. On the fourth day on …
Continue reading »New Undersea Internet Cable Near Karachi
With direct cable landings in Karachi , Fujairah (UAE) and Al Seeb (Oman), the TWA-1 undersea optic fibre network would offer end-to-end, direct broadband, high-speed connectivity to Pakistan’s growing number …
Continue reading »Pakistan Earthquake Geographic Info System Installed
GIS will help to provide the required information about the condition of roads, location and height of villages and population when linked with Nadra and satellite images. The system will …
Continue reading »Pakistani, British 4×4 Offroaders at Kohi-Taftan
The venue of the meeting will be Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation’s rest house in Taftan where a group of four enterprising young Britons who left England in August in two …
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