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Currently there are only a few national universities offering degree level courses in telecommunications and related engineering subjects. However, these universities were not producing engineers that could find jobs in telecom operations and other support functions. The sources said PTCL’s research and development fund was providing financial assistance to carry out research and development activity [...]

After bus diplomacy, it is bonding time for B-schools across the border. And with a cricketing icon of the subcontinent throwing his weight behind the initiative, the endeavour can only pick up pace. To explore Pakistan beyond the campus, the team trooped into the famed Food Street and Anarkali of Lahore and visited some historical [...]

Thesis displays by fourth year students from the Fine Arts, Design and Architecture departments of the National College of Arts (NCA) concluded on Tuesday. The college was a hub of activity as students, their relatives, teachers and other art connoisseurs turned up in great numbers for the last day of the show.

The U.S. administration has earmarked 75 million dollars under the Full Bright Scholarship Scheme exclusively for the Pakistani students to get state-of-the art exposure and higher educational credentials at the renowned universities of the United States in the field of advanced science and technical education. The ambassador further said that US would further provide the [...]

This would be a unique opportunity of interaction for talented students and young scientists of the country with 40 Nobel laureates and about 600 fellow participants from over 30 countries in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine. The facility would be provided only to Pakistani nationals, studying or working in public and private [...]

Lok Virsa has launched the first volume of the ‘Cultural Encyclopaedia of Pakistan’ focusing on the country’s heritage, ethnology and folklore, said Uxi Mufti, executive director of Lok Virsa, on Sunday. The first volume ‘Northern Areas – Karakurrum, Himalayas and Hindukush’ written in Urdu was the maiden step towards the 12-volume, the rest of which [...]

Now Karla Howard and Gail Jones, of Northants Police, will spend 10 days in Karachi holding training seminars. It is part of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office project aimed at building links with South Asian countries. There is a huge amount of interest in this in Pakistan at the moment – even the president himself [...]

he VC told the delegation that the university had over 20,000 Persian manuscripts and would like Iranian universities to help preserve them. He said the university would also like to cooperate with Iranian universities in improving curriculum, teaching methods and faculty training facilities. The Punjab University, during the VC’s recent visit to Iran, signed an [...]

Pakistan will host the Second South Asian Conference on Sanitation-SACOSAN in 2005 and Ministry of Environment has taken responsibility for organizing this conference. Hinting at the gravity of the issues he disclosed that 35% still lack proper sanitary facilities which results in contamination of water leading to wide incidence of water borne diseases. He informed [...]

The Provincial Science Olympiad opened on Wednesday in Lahore. One hundred research-based projects in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics and physics are being displayed at the Olympiad. Intel Pakistan Corporation and the Punjab Education Department’s second science education project are jointly organising the Olympiad in which students will be selected for the [...]