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Pakistan will compete in the first edition of World Universities Boxing Championship to be held later this month at Antalia, Turkey. This was disclosed by chairman Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) Prof. Anwar Chowdhry on Thursday. “We will compete in the championship with strong team comprising of three pugilists, a manager, referee and coach. We are [...]

A week-long art exhibition titled ‘Unilever National Art Project 2004′ to display artwork by students from across Pakistan, concluded at Alhamra Hall-III on Friday. The artwork was themed ‘Connecting and Communicating’. Artists were divided in three age categories; from 5 to 10 years, 11 to 14, and 15 to 18. Over 200 works of art, [...]

Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, today announced the recipients of the world’s first-ever online music scholarship program. After reviewing applications and demos from talented musicians worldwide, five gifted musicians and future music industry leaders were selected that exhibited significant promise, achievement, and inspired life stories. Each recipient will receive a [...]

Fifty students and teachers from one of Kolkata’s premier institutions will carry this message to Pakistan in January next year, soon after students from Karachi land here on a peace mission. Bhowanipore Education Society has sought formal approval from the Union home ministry for the goodwill mission, and has even started groundwork with the Islamabad [...]

Pakistan’s women ministry has launched a new programme with the support of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for the education and training in political processes of female leaders and representatives of local bodies across the country. “The Women’s Political School [WPS] project will help in institutionalising the process of training of women political leaders, taking [...]

The Textile Department of the National College of Arts (NCA) is conducting a month-long workshop on the indigenous but endangered art of dyeing clothes with colours extracted from fruits and vegetables. The college has invited two craftsmen from Sindh to conduct the workshop participated in by second and third-year students. Sajida Vandal, the NCA principal, [...]

The Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) has decided to start subsidized diploma courses in civil, electrical, mechanical and computer technology with admission fee as low as Rs500 per semester. The subsidized courses are aimed at providing an opportunity to people belonging to lower middle and middle class to improve their skills as per the demands [...]

Around 56 children thrilled with their riding skills by taking part in various interesting events of the Lahore Polo Club (LPC) children riding school competition here on Sunday. In the over two-hour long competition under lights the children from 5 to 15 years of age demonstrated their brilliance and command in general ride, tent pegging, [...]

The National College of Arts (NCA) has started new of six-month courses in animation and video production in collaboration with French art institution Ecole-d’ Art. A German and an American teacher have been hired for the course. TV producer Shaukat Zainul Abidin, writer Asghar Nadeem Syed, former Ptv Lahore general manager SM Anwar and Faryal [...]

Insiyah Nomanbhoy, 17, a Pakistani-American teenager studying at Castilleja Girl’s High School (A-levels), in Palo Alto, CA, USA, was recently chosen by her school and Save The Children, an International Charitable Organization, to be a teen representative on their ’2004 Women’s Delegation to Ethiopia and Uganda.’ In March 2004, Insiyah and her fellow students at [...]