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Out of 162,100 aspirants 27 students were selected for the national rounds after district and city rounds held at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad on different dates. The contest helped the aspirants to develop the habit of reading and ability to retain things as well as seriousness required towards studies. Students were given general rounds and [...]

Around 300 children of various schools and 100 volunteers of different companies participated in cleaning and washing of the 30-foot high facade of P&O Plaza (Bandookwala Building) under Karavan Chundrigar Road Heritage Fest and Karavan Heritage Cleaning Initiative here on Sunday. She said Karavan activities were held in order to foster a sense of identity [...]

A military leader is how the world views General Pervez Musharraf. But it is his taste for modern art that has begun to open up minds as well as drawing rooms in Pakistan. R.M. Naeem, a fine arts teacher at the National College of Art in Lahore, says the President’s interest in art has made [...]

The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore won the first prize in the three-day Asian Open Software Competition ‘Techfest 2005′ held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, from January 28 to 30. According to a press statement, over 200 teams from around the world participated in the competition. Renowned academia and industry giants, [...]

The National Engineering and Scientific Commission (Nescom) is developing a science city in the capital by establishing six centres of excellences in different disciplines for post-doctoral research. A National Centre for Physics is also being planned as another step towards providing younger physicists a chance to prepare for future challenges, he said. The machines installed [...]

UNLIKE many children their age, 12-year-old Tariq Hussain Bacha and Zeeshan, 11, have never heard of pop stars Britney Spears or Avril Lavigne. But the two boys from Pakistan`s tough, tribal badlands are now child stars themselves, after selling thousands of albums of traditional songs at home and abroad. And their lives could hardly be [...]

Book street has been designed by Sajjad Kasuar, a professor of architecture at the National College of Arts, Mr Zaheer said. The street will be paved with durable tiles and have wrought iron benches, specially designed wrought iron lights and reading stands and shelves. The street will be open only to pedestrians in the evenings. [...]

The event comprises a six-kilometre walk from ‘The Area 51‘ to the Golf Course. In around half-way during the walk, a family festival featuring stalls for children’s games, snacks and food, etc., has also being organized. This is the second festival of its series organized by the TCF. The previous event, held last year, earned [...]

According to a coordinator of Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Contest – 2005, as many as 1,569 students, including 864 students from Karachi, have been chosen after balloting from over 162,100 students belonging to 250 schools in the country. The competition for Karachi students will be held at Bahria Auditorium. The speller may ask the [...]

Over 500 delegates comprising leading psychiatrists, psychologists, intellectuals, physicians and young doctors are expected to participate in the three-day conference. The conference will deliberate on a wide range of issues concerning mental health. The moot court, a courtroom drama, projecting real psychiatric cases and a battle between prosecuting patients and defending psychiatrists, with a neutral [...]