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The letter, which may be listed as the largest card in the Guinness Book of World Records, has fast assumed the proportions of a massive campaign. The 86,400 square foot letter (360 feet by 249 feet) was first unveiled in Bangalore on January 16 and has since travelled throughout India, growing in both size and [...]

About 31 students from various schools, colleges and universities and 23 amateur singers enthralled performed during the session. As per the conference’s 50-year-old tradition, the first session featured students and amateurs. Lahore’s music enthusiasts saw excellent performances by talented amateurs amidst magical lights and the smell of paapars being made on red hot coal, during [...]

The collection of papers includes original theories of ‘New Relativity’ and ‘Rotational Theory of Light’ presented by Sir Sulaiman in British India. An exhibition of the research papers of Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman will start on Monday at the National Museum to commemorate the 65th death anniversary of the great Muslim scientist. Sir Shah Sulaiman [...]

While her school is simple – a tent and chalkboard – the smile it brings to the children attending is symbolic of a quiet revolution. Like Niaz, many girls from this valley near the quake’s epicenter used to spend afternoons working the fields, just as their mothers did before them. Cycles of poverty combined with [...]

A visiting scientist of Pakistani origin, US-based Dr Hameedullah, from the National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, presented his paper, “Genome to life project: the impact of the genetic revolution on our lives during the 21st century and beyond”, in the auditorium of DUHS organised by the Department of Community Medicine on Wednesday. The Dow [...]

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 held here on Monday under a new project, ‘online lecturing and net-meeting’ initiated by the HEC. A large number of professors, scholars and researchers from [...]

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 and porpoises, which are key marine mammals in the country’s marine biodiversity, will be undertaken under the British government-funded Darwin Initiative Project. The KU’s Centre [...]

The exchange student moderated a videoconference yesterday at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School connecting 11 students here to students in Karachi, Pakistan; Washington, D.C.; and Maize, Kan. The four-way conference lasted two hours and included questions on premarital sex (is it prevalent in Pakistan?), what students do for fun, how to cure homesickness if you [...]

The girls are among 120 participants of the Sabah Borneo Adventure Camp 2005 (Nov 11-14), organised by GGAM, Sabah Branch at Outward Bound Sabah (OBS), Kinarut to mark its 80th anniversary. Seema, a student of the College of BM, said she and her counterparts are from Karachi and on their maiden trip to Malaysia.Others are [...]

The Rev. Raushenbush was hooked, and, within five minutes of sending out an e-mail to Pakistani and Indian students on campus asking them if they’d heard of Salman Ahmad and would enjoy a performance, the Rev. Raushenbush had his answer: “The student response was like, ‘Have you heard of Bruce Springsteen?’” he said. When the [...]